landscaping

Wow, it has been months since my last post. We have had a busy spring planting 17 fruit trees, one walnut tree, and many drought tolerant, deer resistant, perennial, California native plants. We can't say enough about the UCSC Farm and Garden for their plant sales, pruning classes and CSA. Here is a pic of trees on the east side of the home with some of the plants in the foreground (summer is the time for brown dead grass here in California). In the pic you see 2 avocados, 2 persimmons, 2 pomegranites and a cherry tree. Each tree is surrounded by a small deer fence to keep our most frequent four legged visitors from eating all those tender leaves. The cherry tree has 4 kinds grafted onto one rootstock. Having 4 kinds on one tree saves space and spreads out the harvest. Our apple, plum and asian pear trees are also multi-graft.

Remember the rock wall Trevor built last December? We acquired about 500 square feet of salvaged red brick from Whole House Building Supply & Salvage. Our first small project was to pave the space between the porch slab and rock wall - pic below. We set the bricks in a basket weave pattern and are very pleased with the results. The remainder of the bricks will be used someday for the south patio. Thanks for reading!