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Japanese Gardening Part II
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Just outside our front door, there is a patch of ground under the stairs which gets no direct sun at all. It's where the gas meters are, and it's basically an ignored area. Up until now, it has been occupied by some ivy.
After completing the backyard garden, I asked out landlords if they'd mind if I did something with it. They're very nice people, and very flexible as long as they don't have to spend any money. Thus, they said what amounted to "Well, we weren't doing anything with it. Knock yourself out."
So here's what I did.
Here is the view from our front door:
And here's what you see as you come toward it from the entry path to our part of the building:
The stones are various sorts of cobblestones and a coarse white gravel, as well as one good-sized lava rock, purchased (total cost about $60, not including the black beach pebbles which were left over from the other garden) from a local landscape supplier. The plants are moss (harvested from nearby dirt), a few hardy ferns, some Japanese mondo grass, this neat ground cover whose name I can't remember, and a Japanese Aucuba (the gold-dust bush in the back corner). Total cost of the plants was about $65.
I'm pretty happy with it. I'm looking forward to doing another, once I find another bit of ground nobody is using.
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