Raised bed project

We decided to plant rhododendron shrubs in our raised beds. We cleaned it up last year in hopes to get some veggies to grow inside, but quickly realized the deer would eat almost anything we put there. So we let the grass grow back, pretty messy and unappealing..... But no more!!


We drove down to the rhododendron nursery by waldport and bought 7 (apparently you are supposed to plant odd numbers??) different kinds of rhodies. We spaced them a few feet apart, and it looked pretty good.


We laid down weed barrier; I have hope this project will be low maintenance in the future, but we'll see.


Then we cut holes in the weed barrier and stuck them in the ground.


A few days later we brought home a load of bark nuggets to put around the shrubs, and cover the weed barrier.

It looks great, and a few of the shrubs are actually blooming. It will take years for these slow growing plants to cover the rock wall, but we are in no hurry, I actually really like the look of the smaller plants.


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