Shade Gardening: April Shade Garden, 1 by postmandug

postmandug wrote:
Semp and Doss, actually it is just a few bags of compost and manure from Lowes. I was adding it to the holes I was digging for the hostas and ferns and thought it looked so good I'd just do it all over while amending the soil over time. But you are right it is against the trunk so I will pull it back some. Thanks for the hint. The funny thing is just about all the rock I've used in my yard for beds and walls came off my hillside behind the house. Every Spring a few more poke up through the ground and I just keep pickin' them up, although some of them take two good sized men to move into my little garden trailer. But hey it's free landscaping stone! Attached is a photo of my back bed with the arbor I made last Easter in the bed I did several years ago.