Rocky Mountain Gardening: My new place, 1 by Kylaluaz

Kylaluaz wrote:
Turning back around toward the back, this is the other side of the back yard. Bricks around each tree like a too tight girdle! The one that has irises around its base, Paj, you would have things to say here I am sure. Badly need to be thinned! And the ones in that earlier photo, in the back corner of the yard? They are not only covered with leaf fall from that tree (which I finally got around to raking some away today) but they have that bark mulch on there too! I wonder if they will even bloom....... but the owners seem to have felt successful with their iris and the rest of it.

Anyway, I am glad to have this nice shed, and while the compost right next to it is okay, I honestly can't find a really good place in this yard! without major redesign...... so I put it there. The photinia hedge is a good thing, not exciting, but it does provide some sense of sanctuary in what is otherwise a fairly open terrain. I like the privacy here.