Morning Bird Feeder Pic

[sleigh]

The birds were making a HUGE mess at the bottom of the feeder with seed shells, so we decided we needed some planting underneath so it wouldn't be quite so visible (and ugly). It started out as a rough circle around the bottom, but we decided to just get rid of the grass entirely in that area. We've planted some ground cover plants (and will plant more) so that hopefully in a few months we'll be seeing less mulch and more plants. BTW, the brick-ish looking stones edging the sidewalk are cobblestones from old downtown Cincinnati streets. My grandfather grabbed a bunch (back in the 1930s, I believe) when they were initially tearing up come of the older streets and re-paving them; my dad ended up with many of them and used them for planters and such. When my parents moved out of their house into a retirement community, I took a dozen or so of those he had left. History!

Comments

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

supposedly the seeds are sterile, but, you might come to find they arent, I have lots of greenery under my feeding stations that I haven never planted.

I have scrounged quite a lot of old cobbles myself, and edged my yard in them too. But Portland OR cobbles..

[maiac.livejournal.com]

Eh, I just let the sunflower seed shells pile up until they kill off all the plants underneath. I sweep up the shells that land on the nearby driveway and add them to the mulch in the flowerbed. I figure if sunflower seeds sprout in the garden, that's a bonus.

It's very cool that you have those cobblestones.