Street View of Wazoo Farmhouse; see the red tulips? Also a forsythia hedge will hopefully take root from the cuttings I stuck into the ground. . .Someday: picket fence.
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Wazoo Farmhouse's breezy porch. In the summer, happyhour or supper is out back on the deck (more snaps of that later, after our ugly pool is removed and our potager planted in its place!) looking down the hill; but this is a nice spot for tea.
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Down the front steps, please note the brave jonny jumpups
and the rhodondendron, which I planted last fall. It will someday grow huge.
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So now, trip down the path and you'll find my rose garden, mostly still dormant. Creeping thyme, rosemary, and lots of roses; in the beds in back you see, among other things, the peonies and lilacs almost ready to bloom.
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Down the driveway and gaze at the side yard: a path in construction, lined with a bed filled with soil from the hill and planted with red and yellow floribunda roses as well as lavendar; a strawberry bed (finally planted); and other beds under construction. See also the teeny-tiny little trees: quaking aspens, scarlet maples, and red oaks.
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More of the sideyard as well as the grand maple, strung up with Elspea's swing. The genius of this swing: you can sit on the maple tree bench and push with one hand. Perfect after mowing 1 foot grass with a manual mower with Elspeth strapped on my back!
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Side view of Wazoo Farmhouse.
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Looking down the hill: see the firepit (Martin built last fall), the forsythia with beds in progress, the tire swing hanging from the Locust. What you can't see: the puny but fast-growing hybrid elm; to the right is a huge slope used in winter for sledding and now planted with more trees.
Some day we'll have wild grasses and native plants there, as well as a children's garden and hideaway. Good, rich, moist soil; lots of deer venturing from the hill by the creek.
In the foreground you can see my first attempts at step-terracing. Whew!
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Hoorah for spring!
