I ordered 5 yards of bank run gravel for the base of my lower seating area this weekend. Once it was spread, I was finally able to get a feel for the area. It's one thing to visualize it, it's entirely another to experience it. It was thankfully a fairly easy job to spread this load using Reputa and my little york rake, with some hand raking in between. There was a much larger area to work in with no fear of driving over a cliff edge, like with the upper seating area.
A few people have asked why I don't use some kind of edging along the rest of the area, and my idea is that I want this to be a part of the landscape, not apart from the landscape. I want the edges to blur, to feel as though this has been there for years, and that any moment the yard might take it over. It's part of my grand scheme...
Once that was spread, I headed down to the landscape company and ordered 4 yards of round pea stone to top it. Well, that was about 2 yards too much. Once I had half of it spread and realized my error, I had to figure out what to do with the excess. I put some in the low areas of the upper path, some in the water feature and around the rock edges, and quite a bit on the lumpy little road my tractor guy and I had carved out of the brush behind the two houses.
And still...
I barely put a dent in the pile.
I'm going to create a little off-shoot area for my iron fireplace insert that I'll be using as a fire pit, so I can lose some in that. I may end up putting in a little edging and making a path that leads to the upper area, I'm not quite sure yet. These are the times I wish we had a little tractor with a loader to make moving this sort of material easier! Someday...
In any event, this is the last thing I needed to complete before the final push, which is the cat fence. Next year I'll concentrate on establishing my perennials in the lower area and getting some trees and bushes planted. I have other projects I'd like to get to before snow flies, if possible.
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