Breaking Ground

Exciting news!! The rain/erosion garden has begun planting! Pictured above is our group with our finished garden (though it will never really be finished). We planted all of our plants for our first garden! Currently, in this garden, we have blood root (Sanguinaria canadensis) and violet (Viola reichenbachiana) growing and we cannot wait to see how beautiful it turns out!

Pictured above is Zach, Lloyd, Viking and I working (though lets be real here, Viking doesnt work haha).

We started by marking out our 8'x3' garden with surveyors tape. Then we got to work raking out the moss and dirt that was originally there. We started by planting blood root and lavender (blood root pictured), the blood root is really cool because on the inside of the stem where it would usually be green, the plant is blood red almost like it is bleeding!

While planting we ran into a few tree roots but we avoided them It was fun planting and watering because we had to take water from the brook and Alyssa, Zach and I (I being Michaela) risked getting wet to fill buckets of water to bring to our plants.