Can this jungle be tamed?

I don't often share any pictures from this part of the garden for a reason.  This is what ivy does when left unchecked in the PNW.  Mixed with blackberries and some other weeds that die off and look horrendous in the summer sun, something needs to be done.  If you've been following my recent nursery escapades, I've been considering taming the jungle for a nice dry garden bed.  With all that green it's hard to believe but this area is actually quite dry and bakes in the summer sun (if it decides to show up this year).

I would love to add a couple of nice yucca rostrata, a few agaves that deserve more sun than they are currently getting, dasylirion wheeleri (?), maybe a chamaerops humilis cerifera, sedums, and other drought tolerant plants.  It will have to be done in stages.  But it's time for phase 1.

weekend project

So a few days ago I decided I was going to build a succulent wreath.  I had long wanted one but when I saw them selling for $100 dollars at a local nursery, I decided I needed to make my own!!!  So in the midst of a torrential downpour and what felt like freezing cold, I got to work.

Lots of the sempervivums came straight from the garden and from a variety pack of eight happy sempervivums I got just the other day for only $10!!!

The wire frame $4, the moss $3.50 and bam!  All in I was under $20... does that justify buying the agave parryi I have been lusting over?!!?  Now I just have to be patient enough to let everything settle into place.

Happy monday and april 2nd!!!! pray for sunshine everyone!!