Echinacea

Eureka, we have found Echinacea growing in our yard!!!

I found a few strange looking flowers when clearing out the future tea garden, and upon my wife's extensive taxonomy, we have found out that it is the echinacea plant.

We don't have the species down yet, but the root of echinacea has long been thought to be a natural form of medicine to boost your immune system. Certain species of echinacea are supposed to be more powerful or act differently than others, so once we get the species identified, we can find out if these flowers are useful or simply pretty.

Either way, we're saving all of the echinacea flowers we can, in hopes that we can grow them reliably in our tea garden.

I'll post a picture maybe some herbologists can save myself or my wife the time of identifying the species.

Anyway, still some more work getting done on the tea garden. Right now I'm starting to clear the creek and move the brush piles toward our fire pit. You might be able to see my fire from 45,000 feet next weekend...I have clear a LOT of brush.

Some more clearing

Got a lot more area cleared this weekend. All of the tall weeds on my side of the creek are gone.

We also decided that the 2 Cedar trees front and center have to go. The vines attacked them way too hard and now they look terrible. Will update with pics after we knock these 2 trees down.

Need Help With Design

We need some help designing our tea garden. Does anyone have suggestions on plants, ground cover, etc.? We're looking for something creative to build in Northern Kentucky, low maintenance, lots of perennials, lots of colors. There is already a great wood pavilion overlooking a creek into the woods. Please submit your design or planting ideas. We'd love to hear from you!

Our Tea Garden

Welcome to our blog, follow us as we turn our weed infested overgrown front yard into a beautiful Japanese Tea Garden.

We hope to turn an overgrown forest into a harmonious garden, a place of peace and relaxation. We hope you have as much fun following our progress as we have creating this place of harmony.