Garden Pic Wednesday: The Tree Root Cover-up!
Since I'm going to talk about rocks today, it seems appropriate to mention this item that was in last weeks Police Blotter from our local paper: "On August 22, Niceville Police received a report from a woman who said someone had stolen her painted pet rock." I'm still laughing about that one. For today's Garden Pics I have a "before" & "after" of a project to "hide" the big root that got tilted up out of the ground when a big windstorm blew over our Aspen tree. Before : That root is like a huge elbow sticking out of the ground with a big hole under it. It's in the front yard next to our large Gardenia. Very visible. No way to push the elbow back down and I didn't want to have it ground-out because of all the Shamrocks and bulbs and lilies in the vicinity. After: We purchased 10 flagstones. My plan was to layer the stones in around the root and blend it back into the landscape in such a way it would l...