Garden Paths

Sometimes project ideas come over me like a tidal wave that can't be stopped. Such as this April when I felt the frantic need to put down hardscape garden paths in my vegetable garden so I wouldn't have to weed anymore and so in the winter it would look nice in a geometrical sort of way.
Originally, I had woodchip mulch on the paths. I shoveled in into the beds and used pavers to edge the beds. I had to shift some of the beds over to get the rows even.The rocks that I had around the beds were all moved to make borders for the long beds I have on the edges.

I had thought about moving this pond because I wanted the space for strawberries, but in the end, I didn't have the heart. Or the energy. So I raised one end a little so the water didn't seep out and I restacked the rocks.

Later in the spring.





Later in the summer.










This is the tulip tree I planted before I went to Kazakhstan to get my kids. It almost died that summer from lack of watering, but it seems to have recovered now.