Grass Pavers

 The first project that needed to be done was to make the driveway less of a mud pit. Because of the adjacent wetland, our driveway could not be a solid surface, all concrete affair. Actually, turns out there was a way to do this, but it required some more engineering that was not done. Our driveway was made with "holes" that could not be filled with gravel which, as it turns out, is not considered a pervious surface. It quickly became obvious that we needed to install something other than just dirt and plants (creeping thyme). Jeff did some research and came up with "grass pavers". They are molded plastic rectangles with cells designed to hold dirt in place and while growing grass or another sort of creeping plant. Again, Jeff did some research and found this place in Alabama (CV Supply) that said they could ship them to us as opposed to our having to pick them up. Turns out they could get them as close as Kent (where we used to live). So we went to pick them up about 5 minutes from our old house. We fit about 1/2 the pallate in the Honda and I had to go back and pick up the rest another day. They smelled like burning plastic.

The first picture shows excavating out the "holes" so the pavers would fit flush with the driveway.
 Here is Jeff cutting and installing a paver.
 Here is the driveway mostly installed.
 Finally here we are planting creeping thyme after filling the pavers with dirt. We used woolly thyme (Thymus pseudolanuginosus) in two holes and red thyme (Thymus serpyllum 'Coccineus') in the other two. The holes closest to the garage have filled in pretty well. The other two are having more trouble, especially the red thyme. I added some Thymus doerfleri 'Bressingham' to beef them up. The holes toward the top of the driveway are at more of an angle and are more exposed to the sun as we usually park our cars next to the garage. They have been a qualified success. If they fill in more this year, they will be a success.