2013
As part of weeding/mulching, we decided to intensify our efforts to rid the Tuscany Garden of the large crabgrass infestation: I’m sure you have seen the successive sets of landscape fabric over the southern face of that garden. At the same time we were contacted by Charles Brenton who was volunteering his time and expertise to us to improve the garden. So in consultation with Charles Brenton, we have come up with a multi-season plan to improve that garden. We hope to add new native perennial plants such as giant onion, hydrangea, bluestar, sideoats gramma and coneflowers. We are also aiming to relocate some of the plants that are there now. In the end, we intend that the garden will need no additional watering, other than the natural rainfall. We hope to do some of the planting this fall, and then work on the crabgrass area next spring: giving us a full year to hopefully kill all the crabgrass. Obviously, we will need water to get these gardens installed and underway, but we hope that will take less than one season. We are extremely fortunate that an adjacent homeowner is willing for us to share their garden hose. We could not install these garden improvements without their generosity, and I wish to thank them publicly. (John and Kirsten Held).
