Bricks

Pathways to Green -  click on image to read more

Another great green project - these bricks were weeks away from ending up in a dumpster. Timing was on our side.

Googling gives me waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many ideas.  Last summer I came across all kinds of photos of rustic garden pathways made of reclaimed bricks.  I also fell in love with a brick garden edging plan.  I had to get my hands on some free bricks. 

When I asked the hubby where we could find some rustic bricks for our own path, he remembered the redundant "masonry" room in his building.  Many years back, he volunteered to move his office to the old Tech high school when the Board Office became over crowded.  Now it's become trendy to move to this building, more and more rooms are being re-purposed and the "masonry" room was slated to be revamped for yet another office space.  The bricks were going to end up in the skip!

The hubby brought home car load of after car load of bricks and we managed to use almost every single one.  Just two remain.  With the brick edging, the wheels of the mower can glide over the bricks ensuring all the edges are clipped. Admittedly, I didn't help at all with the edging, that was all the hubby, but we did work together this past wet and rainy Sunday to put in pathway together.

I'm hoping the Hens and Chicks border fills in quickly.  I'm thinking maybe 3 summer's. I planted 4 different kind.

 My Hosta garden, it's so lovely now that it's matured.

The Hosta's at night.

Here's the peonies before the rain battered them.