Future Spring Picture

Last week I bought home three truckloads of gravel, as if I need more. I saw the gravel on freecycle and because I can't pass up a good deal I said yes. We piled it all up beside the shed, to be spread out next spring on the site of the yet to be built firewood storage shed.

Two weeks ago a friend gave me about fifty daffodil bulbs she no longer had room for in her garden. This afternoon I dug two big holes, about six feet long by two and a half feet wide and around eight inches deep, beneath my apple trees. I layered about two inches of this gravel in the bottom of each hole. I was thinking how nice it would be to naturalize the daffodil bulbs beneath the trees. So in the Spring when the trees are flowering, in their pink and white blossoms, the daffodils would also be up making a yellow and white carpet underneath.

I put the gravel down because in my heavy clay soil, bulbs have a better chance of rotting. Hopefully the gravel will keep the soil draining.