Colorful leaves raked together into small mounds, ready to be relocated as a winterizing mulch layer into flower & garden beds, form a perimeter ‘ring’ around trees & shrubs, provide a natural habitat to small animals & insects, or added to a compost pile to decompose into soil amending nutrients (courtesy: ugaloo.com).
Perhaps I’m going out on a ‘limb’ (cheesy pun but I couldn’t help myself) though my guess is most of you fellow gardening enthusiasts have a differing opinion regarding fallen leaves than I do! It is astounding how a few fallen leaves quickly amass, blanketing lawns, becoming makeshift dunes piled in curious places. Mother nature provides us with this bounty and we as ‘good’ gardene...
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