Show us your yard!!!!!!!!!!!

April in Maryland

Another view

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those last two pictures didn't come out right......

Try this
http://davesgarden.com/t/383057/
and this
http://davesgarden.com/t/383059/

Here's my yard, where I'm staying anyway. This is a first year garden where there have been only weeds and tree seedlings, and no amendments until a pitiful few now. I imagine next year it will look like a garden, LOL.

Here's the approach to the house/driveway, with just a narrow band of hostas.

Steep, narrow driveway (and lot) so not much area to plant.

I do have a small patch next to the entryway planted. Lots of annuals this year because all the perennials I planted are so small. About 50 lupines, 50 foxglove, etc. will look wonderful next year.

These are my own hostas, in pots, rimming the bottom of the driveway. They will go with me when I move.

Darius, It looks like a lovely spot! And no mowing!!

Thanks, it is lovely except for going down the driveway... with Fear and Trepidition every time, LOL!

Darius at least you have that thing so rare for those of use who dare to live below sea level - DRAINAGE!!!!!!

I'd like to post photos of another house... where I have been house-sitting/dog-sitting.... because I think it is a great house and has a great yard.

Back yard view of the house,

Wonderful viburnum hedge behind a sitting area in the back yard.

Plus, lots of unique specimen plants dotted here and there...

OK I'm ready to move now...sob!

LOL, you are too funny, DD...

Seriously - you are torturing me!

Yeah, well you will feel better when it snows here this winter!

egad darius, that's my style to a tee.Multi story,multi rooflines and multi everything.Think there's much chance of moving it to the great northwest? What a wonderful site.

balvenie, It's laid out on the Japanese dimensions for tatami mats, and actually a very small house. 900 square feet of heated space, 2 BR, 1-1.2 baths, plus porches on both sides and some storage. I'd build one very much like it myself!

Very true about the snow - I'll remember that in December when my tropicals are still going strong and my brugs are loaded with blooms!!!

K guys here's my yard!

LOL kidding-
This is Lindas yard- she was having trouble uploading pictures to DG.

My lord it's like a magazine- simply perfect!
Edited to say Linda is LGW728
I'm still amazed at how pretty it is!


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It is just great to see all your interesting yards. Wish i could come and visit each and everyone of you. Donna

Linda I bow before you...you are a yard master! From now one I think you should change your tag to YardQueen.

Delph-
I saw your yard too and it's beautiful -thanks for the compliment-as you know it takes a lot of work to make things pretty, but the rewards are great. This was a great idea for a thread, and I intend to look at it often enough to memorize everyone's yards. You're a sweetie to call me the yard queen-that gave me a good laugh!!! I have a torn rotator cuff and a "frozen shoulder" and am having to have physical therapy almost everyday. It hurts so bad while they're doing it that I can hardly keep from screaming-so I like to have things to concentrate on instead of the pain, and nice words like yours help me through. Thanks again!!!

I thought I had the same thing! Was in auto accident year ago - turns out to be pinched nerve. Flares up sometimes for no reason. Whole past year has been, well, not fun. Thank God for DG = when I can't garden I can always type!

Anymore great yards out there? Or even ok yards? You don't have to be a YardQueen like LGW to post ya know! We wanna see!

After having lived, all of my life, in absolutely-flat, coastal Louisiana, and after seeing the pictures of Darisus' driveway, I realize I would have to do some serious "adjusting" if I were ever to move away from here.

I'm getting nosebleed just looking at the picture! LOL. How do kids roller-skate around there? I can imagine them zipping dow that driveway and sailing off the edge of a cliff! :D Seriously, though, that area has some major potential for some eye-popping plantings.

I am enjoying following this thread -- everyone has such lovely gardens. And no, I am not posting a picture of my junky garden until it is cleaned up!

Well, maybe one.... this is the first gazebo that we put up not too long ago. It was totally destroyed one week later in a severe wind/rain storm.

DH is building a more permanent structure for me, which is almost finished -- a little more nagging should get it done. LOL.

LSP... the first year in my house in Asheville, I built a "pavillion" as a trial in a shady corner of the back yard out of pvc pipe and a tarp cover. Needless to say it didn't make it through the winter snows!

What it DID, however, was to convince me it was a good spot for a pavillion so the next summer I built a "real one" with 4x4's in cement for posts, a roof of 2x8 rafters and even a wood deck floor over floor joists before I screened it.

It was 12x 16 and we had many a good party there, plus more mosquito-free evenings than I could count.

I suspect you will have the same satisfaction out of your new gazebo!!!

Here's mine. Started with laying out lasagna bed last fall. I am posting before and after photo collage. (My apologies to any who have already seen me post these photos in the before and after thread started by Cici.) I have had a blast picking out plant material for this new bed.

Before this bed was put in, which is about 225 feet long and 8 to 10 feet wide, my backyard was just an ocean of lawn. I mowed it and mowed it every week and that was pretty much the only time I was on it. Now, with this new bed, I spend hours every week out there. Usually drink a cup of coffee out there each morning and when I get home from the office, I always take a walk through the garden.

Kelly

Okay, Kelly, jigs up. Which park did you take your "after" snaps in? lol Kidding aside, you have done such a wonderful job with your yard. The planning, detail, and composition, have all come together just beautifully. Thanks for sharing!

Oh, Kelly, how wonderful! I remember the pictures last fall when you were concerned about the tree roots but I hadn't seen any after photos. It's lovely and you did a great job!

Wonderful job Kelly! What a lot of work, but it paid off!

You're right, Darius. We started the new one with 4x4's set in concrete, a floor with joists underneath, and what will be a tiled or shingled roof. This is still very much a work-in-progress.

Now about those roller-skating kids.... Really, how DO kids skate and ride bikes in hilly terrain?

WOW!! Kelly, I was wondering about this project just a few days ago, it really turned out beautifully! Sweetpea, I'm here as living proof that roller skating and bike riding can both be done in hilly country but having brakes on the bike was lots safer than those "go for broke" rides down grandpa's driveway on the skates. The neighbor had a patch of lawn to the side of the driveway and when things got out of hand we could head for that, but didn't always make it! Grandpa's rock garden was on the other side and we didn't wanna go there!

Thanks everyone! I had not gotten around to posting any progress photos because I had been so busy getting it planted. Hours and hours of planting, but, oh, so worth it. Some of the out of the ordinary (at least for me) plants that went in to it are:

Gold Bleeding Heart
Japanese Butter Bar (huge umbrella-like leaves to die for)
Endless Summer Hydrangea
Jack Frost Brunnera
Variegated Jacob's Ladder
Sweet Kate Spiderwort (gold in color -- fabulous)
Brugmansias (yes, I am trying my hand at these in Zone 5)
Musa Bajoo

When I qualified as a "frequent buyer" at the highest level (qualifying me for 15% discount for the rest of the year) at a local greenhouse, I was told that they had never had an individual qualify at that level. Only professional landscapers. Well, I don't know about whether I was professional in my selection, but one thing is for sure -- I know how to spend like the pro's!!! LOL.

Here is photo of the water feature in my garden. The base is a cast iron hog kettle. It is antique and was given to me by my father. Isn't it perfect?

Kelly

Kelly... WHY is it called a 'Hog Kettle'? Surely a hog would NOT fit in that kettle unless chopped into parts to cook in sequence. (It's lovely, though, and a nice thing to have inherited!)

LSP... As one gets closer to the town around here, one sees more of the mountans that have been bulldozed level and someday this whole mountain area may be as flat as LA, LOL!

The kids NEVER skate nearby, but only at the school track fields or such, but skating is becoming passé these days, even inline skates. They'd rather do video games.

Frankly (about bikes) the kids seem to go from bikes with training wheels to full-fledged motorized dirt bikes or 4-wheelers by the time they are 8-10 or so. Scares me a bit but they don't get on the roads much.

A good many of the kids here never even finish high school so they learn early either to work hard or be wiley.

Beardtongue, I just love the way you've divided up the yard. I have a immense yard that needs the same treatment. So you did the lasagne layers, I was thinking of doing the same.

Great looking yard!

I will take some more pictures tomorrow...I swear that I am careful about the angle of my shots..I am careful to avoid some things..Let me look, and see what I have.
This is a portion of the 'garden'

This is a part of the front, and the sidewalk to the front door...I was thinking of putting an arbor at the end of the walk and planting roses and clematis on it..