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The right fence border |
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The strip of lawn down the right side of our house is
narrow – only about eight feet between the wall and the privacy fence.
It is home to the air conditioning units (around which I array various garden
supplies) as well as the brick-built compost
bins and a plastic shed, so it has a decidedly utilitarian air. Mowing is
very difficult around the concrete pad supporting the AC units, so it's also
usually overgrown with lush tall grass – better not to talk about that part of the garden
too much.
From aforementioned shed backwards toward the back fence, the lawn area
becomes a little wider, before opening up to the backyard. This area is a
little more usable for gardening, so here the fence has a continuous garden
border as its companion. The stretch alongside the house is still rather
utilitarian – it is a nursery area where I grow on seedlings that
prefer a bit more shade (sun-loving seedlings go into the nursery areas in
the left fence border). I've come to learn
that this is also the drainage superhighway for the right side of the house,
so despite my attempts to build up the soil level and add sand for better
drainage, these nursery areas still get too wet for many plants to thrive. So
I'll continue to work on that...
The nursery areas terminate about where the strip opens up to the
backyard, where a jujube tree and an unruly
patch of thornless blackberry dominate the
picture. The border continues with mixed shrub and perennial plantings, up
to the point where the rigth fence meets up with the back fence, at a corner
where a live oak reigns supreme. At that point, the border seemlessly
blends into the back fence border. For the
purpose of keeping track of what lives where, everything planted to
the right of our rock garden is assigned to
the right fence border (yes, I'm very serious about my garden organization,
even if Amy wishes I were more serious about managing its inhabitants).
So in all, the right fence border isn't the most exciting part of the garden,
but it completes the picture, and has some interesting plants (a list of which
you'll find below).
Currently growing in our right fence border
Currently growing in the right fence nursery area - zone A
Currently growing in the right fence nursery area - zone B
Currently growing in the right fence nursery area - zone C
Currently growing in the right fence nursery area - zone D
Currently growing in the right fence nursery area - zone E
Last modified:
May 03, 2022
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