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Back to the Slope for another GOTD submission…

This is a 17×50-footer on Carroll at 5th Ave. The yard was mostly concrete and weeds when we started, and we had a designer create a ground plan and plant plot. Included in that was the replacement of the rental-level concrete patio with a small steel deck and stairs to the garden. This proved way too expensive and we did not change it; sometime we may paint the concrete wall or something. After the paving and beds were laid out, we did the rest ourselves.

This is a quite shady garden (north side, and the white building to the rear is 6 stories) so there’s not too many bright colors; but the hydrangea and the autumn clematis provide lots of flowers later in the season.

We spent about a couple of thou for the design fees, materials/sand/topsoil $3k, plants $2k, labor $6k. There’s been a few deaths (no-shows, actually,) in the family each year, and we have a long term plan to fill out the plants as we figure out what thrives. What’s doing well now is the clematis, hydrangea, geraniums, various ferns, sedums, hostas (yes!) various lilies and a climbing rose. The two small trees are a Redbud and a Japanese maple.

Though barely visible, there’s an automatic watering device called Accurain which is a highly entertaining computerized device that can water beds of any shape by altering the direction and pressure of its water jet. Wonderful when it works, but it’s been of spotty reliability, back to the shop once every year the last three. But much easier to setup than regular sprinklers or drip hoses.
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