Jobs With Some Progress

Mom's ferns are planted on the north side of the farm house.  I have cared for them since '99.  Every year I wonder if I've killed them and they always surprise me.  The old sets may not leaf out but there's always plants.  Never as beautiful as when Mom cared for them but hey, I should get some points for not killing them.  This is my before...

and after.  Less green in the second shot but I only removed the spring weeds.  I left the leaves to help mulch and feed the ferns.  They do like it better when it feels like a forest floor.

The plumbing and rocks, of course, are my addition.  Mom would laugh and say I had trashed her fern bed.  The broken water pipe holds a solar lamp.  The sink holds my Southwest rocks and the down spout water runs into the sink, over them and into the fern bed.  The white rocks, to keep dogs from digging, are my Mt Ida rocks.  The ferns will grow larger as the season progresses as will the House Leak plant at the front of the sink.

As I pull the grass around the spring fronds, I can't help but wonder why the grass was soooo wet in one spot.  Having two male dogs, I quickly skipped to morning dew, yep, that's it, morning dew.

Mom's snowball bush is doing well. 

Then I see my next job!

 I see the beauty that is

and can be 

as I look at the small spot that's cleaned.

Fern Bed Finished!

I actually ashamed of the before.  The rains have been good and I have been inattentive.   The Before

and the after.

I do like junk so now it's yard art.

The white crystal rocks came from Mt. Ida.

My vacation rocks from the South West.

Yep, that's where we went.

There were signs everywhere

"Do not take the rocks"

Yo comprenda English!

Yes, Alex, I have a sink in my fern bed!

 I have an entire bathroom in my yard.

The spout runs water over more great rocks

in the sink

then sends the water to my ferns..

 Acabado!