Hello everyone, started getting into planting a few months ago and I’m slowly transforming my yard. This area looked terrible months ago but I cleared it from all the debris from my step dad’s old landscaping company, and I’m trying to plan out my yard for the upcoming spring.
Kind of hard to see but I have a little gate I’m planning on putting a fence on either side of. Gonna make a small pathway (not sure what it will be made of) leading from the main yard part to that gate.
Thinking of splitting the main yard from this back section using the end of the garage as my marker.
So I’d have two nice sized beds along that pathway, looking for some taller natives along the edge to enclose the property, then some nice shady ground cover (maybe wild strawberry) along the tree edges, definitely looking to throw in some little bluestem and other native grasses, love the look of columbine and I’ve read that’s good in shade, open to ideas, I’m sure there’s much better creativity than me, thanks!
Mostly partial shade, full sun towards the south eastern side of the pic
by Better-Landscape-391
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The shady treeline spring ephemerals like trillium, Virginia bluebells, Jack in the pulpit, shooting star, trout Lily, etc etc would do well.
The quick way to get this going would be to maybe flip the sod, cardboard, mulch, cut out circles, fill with soil, for specific species of plants, either seeded in each spot by December or preordered/purchased as plugs/1 qt pots for the spring. Allowing the mulch and cardboard to settle in and fully kill the grass underneath and block any weed seeds in the spring time.
A mulch pathway down the middle or whatever would be good.
“Chip drop” (look it up) give you 10-20yds of mulch for free…
But they’ll dump it on your driveway whenever it shows up. Now, in 1 mo, in the spring… It’s not really scheduled once you sign up. Just whatever is available after local companies do tree trimming.
Start with a strolling path and then fill in the remaining area with small shrubs and wildflowers. A few ferns probably wouldn’t hurt either.
I’d do some native fruit trees!
American persimmon towards the back, American and Chickasaw plums towards the front for spring blooms and fall color too.
and of course paw paws!