We’ve still a long list of things to do to settle in to our new home. (An album of photos of the empty place the day we signed the lease is HERE.) The container garden on the patio is far towards the end of the list, in some ways — not in the least that there’s shelving & furniture out there that still need staining. It seems fair to do a “before” photo series so that i can see how things unfold, so last week i took a number of photos of outside.
The north end of the patio is where i’ve put the baker’s rack we had in our San Francisco kitchen. The pine will warp and weather with time, but since the other option was donating it to Goodwill, i’m quite pleased. We have another unit that actually fits between the Baker’s rack and the wall — it was moved because GreyBeard kept escaping to the patio of our neighbor. I moved it to the south wall, under the Green Man — and as i moved it GreyBeard escaped again.
I had thought of making that southern interior corner the shady glade. It’s not working that well at the moment — it is a well lit corner and the plants have all been sunburned. Once i have another tree or two — i’m wishing for Meyer lemons and or a Mission fig — I think that corner will be shady. We have a storage closet on the north end of the deck and our dining area. We’re enjoying that already.
