Gosh, I must be some kind of lucky guy.
My wife helped me dig up our lawn years ago.
There isn’t a blade of grass on the place.
I love Mancos Station - it’s a beauty!
John, it didn’t have anything to do with you not cutting the grass?
I take the fifth…
John Le Forestier said:
I love Mancos Station - it’s a beauty!
Thanx John, appreciated! I think you can say the “Fat Ladys” singing… planted some dwarf conifers and ground covers…
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Ordered a bunch of stuff from “Miniforest by Skye”…nice stuff…
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Haven’t run a train on it yet, too busy with other yard work, but maybe tomorrow …
That’s going to be a busy place. Looks great.
Nice looking work Ken.
Wow. No matter how nice it looks inside, it always looks better outside in place. Very nice trackwork, as well.
Yup, the trackwork looks great!
Looks great.
You’re dwarf plants are much smaller than the dwarfs sold at the hardware superstores 
Do you have a link for Miniforest by Skye? My Google didn’t come up with a direct match.
Ralph
ken?? what they all said… Looks great… Wonderful lil area…
Ken i always enjoy looking at your layout. I hope you run tomorrow so we can see more great pictures of your layout.
Shawn said:.
Ken i always enjoy looking at your layout.
Ralph Berg said:A lot of this stuff you won't find in those places either and they're hard to find in garden centers, too. Here ya go............
Looks great. You're dwarf plants are much smaller than the dwarfs sold at the hardware superstores :) Do you have a link for Miniforest by Skye? My Google didn't come up with a direct match. Ralph
Looks good Ken. I hope my ground covers come back. We got ours from High Country Greenhouses. Thyme and something else.
Most of mine do. Some of them wander all over the place. Plant them in one spot and the next year they pop up somewhere else. The Blue Star Creeper shows up far from where I first planted it. Forget-Me-Nots are all over the place now.
Ken Brunt said:Ken: Your description reminds me of something that I have been meaning to share here.
Forget-Me-Nots are all over the place now.
Since I started my garden railroad seven years ago, Forget-Me-Nots have been the second key element, after rocks, in my war against weeds in the yard.
They create a formidable barrier to unwanted plants, but they are attractive and easy to control. During the spring my garden is a sea of blue, with the tracks meandering through. I allow the Forget-me-nots to flourish and run rampant in any places where my final landscaping has not been completed. Then, wherever the landscaping has been done, I simply pull the Forget-Me-Nots out in those places.
Forget-Me-Nots seed themselves, or you can cut them when they are dry, and shake the seeds out of them wherever you want them to grow instead of weeds next year.
I developed a systematic approach to grass and weed control, eliminating one species of weed at a time, being able to eliminate maybe three or four species each year and ignoring the other species until I’d get to them in subsequent years. Now I reap the benefit, as nowadays I have little weeding to do other than pinching up the occasional wild seedling.
The Forget-Me-Nots form a great, easily controlled defensive shield over otherwise unplanted areas which would normally be places that weeds would quickly overrun…
My systematic approach is a good dose of Round-Up…