Redo of REDO of Garden Pathway : Part 2

Okay, here we are again at my first redo of my garden path. I did an entry yesterday about the whole scenario.

Quick summary:

First..

How I want my back path, with mulch...The Good

  This is what happens everytime we have a heavy rain, washes down the driveway to the left, and whoosh...all my mulch goes to live in the back of the yard : The Bad

Here was my solution after weeks of debating what I should do. I know what I wanted to do, but could not keep either mulch or pebbles there. Fact of life, " How's that that workin' for ya ?" Wait, that's a question...but usually a fact of life comes out of the answer to that question.

So Mrs. Bright Idea, moved these bushes here, with monkey grass ( lirope ), stood back ...and was whammed in the head by my own stupidity.

The DUMB.

Here was my problem. How in the HECK was anyone supposed to walk back there, step over the bushes ? Or how was I supposed to mow my green weeds that look like grass back there...I couldn't get the lawnmower through there ! I could go around the entire garden, but then I would have to go across another barricade of railroad ties and bushes from the bigger pathway.

Dumb bunny here...but, I sat and pondered a bit with Maxine, and came up with an idea.

This is where I sit the most to look at my garden. Maxine always tries to lick me to death up here. I love her, but I don't like to be loved to death with dog drool.
That does not stop her ever.

Back to my solution. 

Redo of the redo.

I removed the middle bush and monkey grass, and moved the middle bush to the front of my seashell pavers. Then I took my planter from my husband's workshop that he does not notice and does not appreciate, and placed it to the left side. I also got some beige cement wavy edgers and laid them flat to finish it a bit.

Little bush in corner here with monkey grass.

Maxine got through the center just fine. See the black metal ironwork to the left ? That is from  a Charleston home, it was a window guard that I need to do something with. It just leans over there, calling to me to do something with it most days.

Better.

My view to the back from my kitchen window.

Mulch is still what I want back there, and on the larger adjoining pathway, but it was an effort in futility.

Whatever becomes a perpetual effort in futility in our lives needs to be removed , to make ways for new creativity to emerge.

So kick something to the curb today that you have been trying , and trying to make work...that cannot work....maybe for years, maybe decades !
Make room in  your life.

My best, more later,

Gina

" Therefore be imitators of God , as dear children. And walk in love..." Ephesians 5:1-2