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Who Am I?

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You are never too old to get well grounded!

— MEM

Welcome to the new world of Merry Fox! I’m starting my Gardens and Design business and will share my various journeys, education and products here as we develop further. My first plan will be to share the new, protected area, garden plans and progress. Later we will explore the building and planting season as well as some of the other landscape work.

Thanks for joining me in this new adventure! As you can see from the photo, It’s winter time here and a great time for preparation and planning. So, let’s start with a little introduction …….

Who Am I?

I’m a gardening lover who lives in the Pacific Northwest on the West side of the Washington Cascade range. I love this region, it’s climate, the views and the lifestyle. As you can tell, I am certainly here by choice!

I’m doing this to share my experiences as I turn more of my time to my gardens and helping others develop their spaces. I will post projects with plans and blog the progress. My goal is to educate others and help them understand that nobody really lacks a green thumb, it’s really just that we all try with a combination of various successes and failures.

Project: Protected Garden Area

The start of this project will be the blank canvas of our side yard off the garage. You’ll see from the picture below that the area is currently just grass. We will first remove one more Douglas Fir tree to provide the needed space. This will be on the North side of the picture (right). Once that is gone, a piece of equipment will be used to level the selected area and we will then allow the winter rains to settle the ground work area.

The overall plan for the garden space is a 40′ x 60′ rectangle that will run the long way North to South, basically following the gravel drive you see at the forefront. I have to have water dragged to the spot but that’s a bit down the road.