We’ve been slow to start getting our park strips in order, but with summer feeling like its turning into fall, its time to start getting plants in the ground. Read the rest of this entry »
Ecoroof Update: Entry
Just a quick update, nodding onions, self heal and yarrow are in full bloom on our entry ecoroof. Read the rest of this entry »
Sedums and Trim
We went up to our upper ecoroof for the first time in two months over the weekend. This roof is entirely sedums in an attempt to make it as low maintenance as possible and they were planted by throwing piles of cuttings around and then waiting to let them root. So now coming back up two months later, we’ve found everything thriving and surprisingly red. Read the rest of this entry »
Ecoroof Planting Party
Thanks to the help of a crew of a bunch of really hard working friends and family members, this weekend was wildly productive. Read the rest of this entry »
Plants and Railings
Today we got a delivery of all our ecoroof plants that we’re going to plant this weekend. Most of what we unloaded from the delivery van were flats of plants in pots… Our licorice ferns, coastal strawberries, camas, Oregon iris… But in terms of area covered, we got 35 pounds of assorted sedum cuttings (image above) that came in a couple of wet boxes. Read the rest of this entry »
Fence!
We finally have some tangible progress happening with the house construction. Yesterday I went out and met with the excavator with our contractor. Most of our conversation had to do with organic gardening, but the exciting new thing to show off is that our contractor and excavator marked out where the footprint of our house is going to be. Its small, but pretty wonderful to be able to go out and have a much better sense of where everything is. The big realization though is the deck location… The first floor is actually five feet above the height of our lot and because of where our deck sticks out, it pokes right in to the canopy of our Tulip Tree and will be a nice little leafy perch. Earlier in the week was the first little step though, our contractor put up the orange fence you can see on the side of our lot. Its a protection fence around the giant tulip tree that is just off the corner of our lot. When the land division was finally approved in February, one of the provisions of that is that we need to protect that tree during construction. So a few weeks ago our contractor and I met with the city’s urban forester to discuss tree protection and decided that putting up that fence roughly 20 feet from the tree (underneath the edge of the canopy) was the way to go. Read the rest of this entry »
