Andrew and I have been talking. This area stumps us a little:
It doesn't have sprinklers. I don't know why the original owners did the rest of the yard but not this area.
As a result, we mainly grow weeds and saplings here. The options as I see them are:
- Put down drought resistant ground cover.
- Plant drought resistance shade plants. We visited the Austin shade demonstration garden and liked the Persimmon, Cast iron, Yarrow, Tropical sage, and Red yucca .
- Add stones, mulch, etc. - don't try to grow anything there.
- Add sprinkers and try to grow grass.
Future Plans:
My thoughts right now are to incorporate most of the ideas above. However, we'll avoid ground cover. Because we live next to a field, we already have to be pretty vigilant about mice and snakes. From what I understand, ground cover only encourages them, and I'm not really fond of how it looks. #4 might be a long term plan, even if we do everything else.
I'd like to split this long, narrow area into "zones." Right now I'm thinking they would look like this:
I saw this a few days ago and I love the idea. I think it would be so much fun to have a play area for Grayson. The thing that hooked me was the tunnel for the cars. If we did this, the main change I would make is to figure out how to incorporate a cover for the sand box.
But I'm thinking that would go great near our big old tree!
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