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Maintaining the pathway edges

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The Cotula groundcover would easily overgrow the tobi-ishi step stones. It may take a while before the path has disappeared but far before that point the characteristic beauty will have gone. The first photo shows the path as we like to see it after the edges where just cut. This is an activity without […]

September 28th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Bottom surface maintenance, Garden activities, Lessons learned, Miscellaneous activities, Tools | Comments are closed

Tsukiyama, the edges in the front-garden

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Most of the Tsukiyama surface is covered by the same species of a low growing ground covering plant. Like in our previous post about the Turtle Island groundcover, we also want to keep these edges, that is the Tsukiyama (land) gravel (sea) junction, razor-sharp. This is far more difficult as the Leptinella (aka Cotula) grows […]

June 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Bottom surface maintenance, Flora, Garden activities | Comments are closed