Beginner Gardening: How old is your garden?, 1 by lupinelover

lupinelover wrote:
My "garden" was started in 1969 by my dad when they bought the land. He did all the work until a few years ago when I started to take over from him. Now I do almost all of the garden work while he mows the grass -- what little there is left.

He is the one who instructed the builder to leave 50 trees on the property. The land had never been cleared, it was primary woodland forest. Grass sod was installed, but only survived in the back a couple years, with all the trees, so 6 English ivy plants were installed. I have been ripping it out the last few years (horrible stuff), and replacing it with less voracious groundcovers and gardens.

It is impossible to get a comprehensive photo of our gardens, so I will show a few, like others have done. This first one shows part of the backyard in winter, so you get an idea of the trees.