we live on top of a hill i like to call 'mount doom'.
it's solid clay, it's almost always windier than the rest of the suburb, and i struggle to learn how to garden here.
five years ago my lovely and talented sister taught me a bit about gardening, and she helped us lay some pavers down. the carpet thyme hasn't spread between the pavers as we'd hoped, but it slowly moves... sadly not as fast as the clover and other weeds.
i found a solution: take broken/ugly garden pots or kitchen plates, give your kids some tools, and permission to smash, and voila! you can have some colourful fillers inbetween the pavers while the plants take their sweet time to grow. they still blow around or away in really powerful wind, but i'm not losing nearly as much soil. and it looks purdy!
