2026 Priority Project #3: Finish the Pizza Oven Bed "Garden Edit" - March 2026
We're moving on to my #3 Priority project for 2026. First one was to stop fighting nature (nature finds a way) with Oakleaf Hydrangeas . Second was to re-cut the edges of the front yard island bed . Today, I'm posting the details of #3: finishing a project that I started two years ago: A Garden edit. I wrote about this earlier this year and talked about how I relocated a colony of All Gold Hakonechloa Japanese Forest Grasses from around the tree swing tree and moved them to the other side of the yard. I moved them right before I began excavation for the backyard pizza oven. Now that the oven foundation is built out, I had the bed extended around it last year, creating a long empty border. My plan has been to fill that border with a series of Hakonechloa Macra (straight variety) grasses . Both from the Oak tree 'backwards' and 'forward'. Here below is the area that needs to be populated: And here, b...