My Life, My Organic Garden

Today I purchased some irregular flagstones–and a cool geode that I could not resist, 50% off–from May’s Greenhouse. Upon returning home I laid out the four to five flagstones along the south facing side of our house, which I am designing to be a sunny, butterfly garden. In order to hold the stones in place I used my trowel to hug some soil against their sides. Vola! Instant path that is 1) not permanent or 2) difficult. At one time I thought about laying a path by digging the area out, pouring materials to make it flat, etc., and this just seemed like too much work and expensive! I still need to get more stones to finish the walkway, but it is a good start. Over the spring and summer I will plant some ground cover plants in-between the stones to reduce weeds and erosion, and to introduce different textures. This will provide contrast to the hard stone.

Here is a picture now in spring. It looks so bare, but there is some stuff growing! When we moved in there was not much there but grass: