Guerrilla Tactics

I was definitely feeling guerrilla-ish today: We had 9 mid-sized boxwoods donated to us on Sunday and since decent-sized plants tend to go missing (notably a Camelia and a Hydrangea in the past 6 mos.) I decided to wire them to the fence! I felt like I was employing some serious warfare tactics, burrying wire cable under the ground. Usually I think of guerrilla gardening as an offensive technique, but today's was definitely defensive.

The garden path

A few months ago we were discussing the dream of having a path through the CN triangle. Someone mentioned they had just biked by a pile of bricks in a Downtown Eastide back alley. We picked up the bricks and within a few hours we had this great path built! Even came with its own moss!It's done wonders for the garden, it gives it boundaries and a focal point and shape... it even looks nice without plants!
I'm hopeful for this next year, we dug up almost everything in this garden last year and replaced the plants with more drought-tolerant plants. The last few years this garden hasn't looked too hot in the summer months as it's under a large tree and the rain doesn't get through. It does looks great in the spring months, however. Already the Crocuses have bloomed and now the Daffodils and Hyacinths are blooming. The Tulips and Spanish Bluebells are well on their way.

Hopefully with the new path and new plants 2009 will be a good year for this garden!