Lately I've been dreaming up what I want to do with our back slope, in addition to the three garden-bed terraces for vegetables. It really needs some shrubs for wind-break for the terraces, and something other than that course grass to hold up the slope would be nice, too.
My current plan is to do at least one lilac bush to help with wind break, up between the aspens, maybe. Some shrub roses would be nice, as well, to help filter the wind. Violas around the base of the apple trees (coming in seed order). At the top of the slope I'm thinking about doing either a hedge of some sort to help with privacy (all we currently have is a chain-link fence), or possibly a planting of sunflowers all the way across.
I want to leave the small mountain ash that's to the side of the garden.
Starting next fall, I'm going to plant little pockets of daffodils, crocuses, and other spring bulbs scattered across the "wild" part of the slope. I think it would be so cheering to look out and see little patches of color here and there amidst the drab brown late-winter grass. Before I do that, though, the whole slope needs some serious pooper-scooping. {sigh} At least it's not on the lawn as much, right?
I need to find a place for some grape vines and more raspberries, but haven't decided where the best placement of those would be. Blueberries would be a bonus too, but they might have to wait a year.
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