Backyard Curvilinear Landscape Beds - Cut into Final Form - April 2021
Here I was...thinking I'm writing a post that is going to knock a HUGE item off my 2021 to-do list in the yard. But, when I went to go look up what number "cutting new, larger curvilinear beds" was on the list...imagine my disappointment that it isn't one of the 25 things. Womp, womp. But, it is still a big deal for me and a big milestone for the yard. First, a review of a few things: Starting with curvilinear bed design . I covered where I wanted to go with our bed layout and how we had a bunch of "little" curves/bumps in our current beds - while the ideal state is very few, larger, swooping edges. As Sue from Not Another Gardening Blog pointed out, these big, swooping curves are hard to pull off . I went through three colors of spray paint trying to get the curves right. And, I think I got them like 90% there - with just a little bit of cleanup having to come in the next few seasons. Second: a note about the "order of operations" I