Grass is not green. In October 2020, we tore out all the lawn and worked with contractors to put in hardscape, including stone pathways, a circle of raised beds and a pad for my greenhouse. I had been thinking about a design for many months prior and had the idea of a donut of beds in the center of the lawn with irregular paths branching out. Our landscape designer loved the idea and produced some outstanding drawings for us.
Our intent is to fill the raised beds every year with an assortment of annuals, both veggies and flowers. And for all the land that isn’t a raised bed or hardscape to be covered in perennial native plants that will benefit the critters in our little slice of the northwest.
