Garden Pic Wednesday: The Retaining Wall Project
With night-time temps are headed for the mid to upper 40's, that's might signal to bring the houseplants in! So that's what I was doing today as well as moving another layer and a half of blocks to the project area. I actually did two rows yesterday. (18 blocks per layer.) So today's Garden pics are of our retaining wall project: The pallet of red castle wall blocks in our driveway: (The flowers in the background, zinnias and vincas, are looking nice!) Next photo is the project area: The house next door is was built on higher ground because there is a septic tank system under it, but a city sewer line was installed before the completion of the house, so they hooked up to that instead. That was like 30 odd years ago. This area in the photo used to have a decorative retaining wall of landscape timber that we put in, which you can still see remnants of, but termites have nibbled it away over the past 24 years. The side walk to our front door runs past t...