Leave the Leaves? Yes or No. There are a few headlines on leave the leaves yes or no. It seems a bit late to me as most people have sent them away. They ruin the "greenscape" or the garden of conifer bushes that make for the winter sculpture garden.
We've created a difficult situation with our suburban yards. With excessive amounts of grass, we are stuck raking leaves from the lawns.
Moving leaves about and getting my leaves to stay in garden areas is a difficult circumstance. The wind likes to move small things about. Our entrance door is a swirly wind area that accumulates leaves and when the door is opened, they move right into the house.
The reward of leaves left in the garden occurs In the spring in the places where leaves are in nice piles, I usually find a toad underneath. Raking should be done carefully in the spring - there is a lot of wildlife within.
Leaves also provide winter protection for garden plants keeping the roots insulated from the changing temperatures, and then in spring they are nutrients to the garden - the way mulch is.
Our idea of mulch, though, is much more uniform that all those different shapes of leaves. We like cedar mulch with its even texture and uniform colour. It creates artistic landscapes.
I notice that there are lots of headlines about the movement to 'leave the leaves.' I think it is a distraction - the moment before the snow headlines.
Our picture today is the brilliance of locust trees in the Autumn. These locust leaves won't need any raking. Tiny little things, they just disappear into the lawn.
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