Front Slope 2025

The Plan: Fewer Different Plants, Large swaths of color

Things to Remember: 

• The plan is a full border of plants
• Large areas of color, covering the ground for weed suppression
• Easy to maintain, because it is difficult to access are on the slope

Chores:

• Fill in the top center with two more Coreopsis Beyond midnight- will these shrubs cover the ground? should I plant something underneath to prevent weeds?

• If you have money, try a few new species of Veronica in deeper colors. Purchase bare roots or plants online, divide after three years.

• Try again with the Phlox. Cage individual plants and try to save them from the squirrels. If they don't come back, purchase three more blue ones and cage them.

• Divide catmint in the spring. Dig up the parent plant and make a vertical cut to shear through the root ball. Make sure each division has a nice clump of roots and at least three or four stems on it. Once you have divided the plant, replant divisions about a foot apart at the top of the new front slop planting bed.

• Decide what to to along the top of the front slope. Should look uniform all the way across. Decide if you will get rid of daylily. Maybe remove small lilac tree to make room for continuing comfrey along right side.

• Perhaps use Comfrey across the top border. Again, protect it from squirrels in the spring and see if it gets re-established. Would it be weird to grow it inside the fenced garden?

• Plant two more hydrangea (Mother's Day). Continue to fill in the bare middle section with this plant. This is really the focus of this slope.

• Use wood chips to mulch the front slope after planting.

• Finish cutting down tree next to shed on the front slope. Cut the last overarching branch over front slope.

• Remove rest of mulberry stump on front slope. Plant grass seed in empty spot.

• If necessary, reapply vine killer to vine on front slope behind shed.