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

Also, Delphiniumdiva - You yard is beautiful too. One of these days I will have a large yard again where I can put in larger perennials. Right now, I am so limited that if I want a large selection, I have to choose stuff that takes up less room. Your grass looks great. I hate our bermuda so much and would love to have St. Augustine again.

Not if you had to cut it! It is beautiful but it grows about an inch a day in the summer! That's why my hubby doesn't mind me extending the garden - every new bed is less to cut!

I was going to thin out the cm after it blooms, but we tried that with our other Natchez White and the sucker is now about 30 feet tall and shades half the yard! Its so tall its almost impossible to trim b/c the canopy is too high! I don't want this to turn into a total shade bed. I may try to simply cut out lots of branches and just leave three or four. I have a gorgeous Van Houtii salvia under there but no blooms this year. Sigh, guess its just time to lose more grass...

I really enjoy looking at all the wonderful yards/gardens, so I am going to post a few myself! The path around this garden is rock and I think I may have finally solved the slug problem by putting this barrier around the gardens. We live on the edge of a forest and the slugs just keep coming and coming and coming!

The southeast side of the house is designated for a vegetable garden because we get way too much shade from the forested side. I really enjoy the raised beds; we have fairly clay-like soil and drainage is always a problem. The grape vines on the arbor are used for making wine, as are the blackberries and rhubarb.

By the way, the path around the gardens pictured above are about 12" of rock - that seemed to solve the drainage problem because it is really low in the backyard.

Last post is a small garden in the front of the house. We put a old piece of wrought iron fence and plant on both sides of it. Got the idea from a garden walk and decided could use it in this area.

We had St. Augustine at our previous house that we were in for 5 years. We actually had close to three times as much to mow there and still would trade for it in a heartbeat. Bermuda is so ugly and is the WORST weed in my beds. Once it invades, it is there to stay. We will probably be in this house another 10 years (until all the kids are gone), so hopefully in the next few years we will put in St. Augustine when we put in a sprinkler system.

Myhres - your yard is beautiful and I love the wrought iron fence in your bed!

myhres, LOVE the iron fence in the middle of the front bed. ALL your yard looks wonderfully inviting.

EEEEKKkkk!
..................How about a "before" picture ? Early this spring where a new flower garden will soon be.
* Note the designer touch * , old handtowel hanging from the plum tree stump. This is all the rage around here and you will soon see this fashion statement across the country ... LOL

Scooter dawlin' ah jess LOVE that white plastic hanging basket! I'm sure they'll be back in soon and we can say you were there first!!! (LOL) The trowel is just tres chic...so realistic! As if its actually been used to garden with - imagine! Must contact my editor at Snooty Garden Mag...camera crew will be out Monday at 10!

myhers what are those edgings made of - can't tell from the pics. Can we get a close up? Really like them!

I have shown some of these in DG some where else but maybe you missed it. I wish I could show you my old garden of more than 50 years but it belongs to someone else now. This is my new garden of 2 1/2 years in the front yard alog the drive way.

It looks great Aria. Sometimes it's nice to start over, because you get buy lots of new things. :) I like the hummingbird feeders and bird bath in there. Did you build the bed out yourself or was it already there?

Made a mistake before here is another one

And another one

There was nothing there but rocks and clay. You probably know what it looks like when a new House has been built, you ask yourself, where has all the loam gone. I worked very hard getting rid of that miserable stuff. I still have problems, drainage is not very good and find I still dig up stones, rocks actually, plus the sun beats on it all day.
In my old house, the gardens were beautiful working on for more than50 years.

aria, I lovew the grasses and the large stones in the beds. I imaghime 2-1/2 years is short, but they wil no doubt grow to your exoectations!

(((dd))) *snickers*
Love it ................" Snooty Garden Mag " ..... ain't that the truth ? ? ?

aria, I know what you mean missing our old gardens. i lived at my other place 50 years also, and soil was so great. Didn't realize how much difference the good soil made until I tried to garden here where nothing but sage and grass had grown. I am making headway but it is slow. I am doing it all myself no trucked in soil, actually in this area I doubt if i could find really good soil to buy. I have 6 compost piles going, all are the slow method except my tumbler, and i sure can't make it as fast as I use it. Donna

I want you to know, Darius, these boulders are natural. When I have a chance I'll take some pictures, if you are interested, they are all over the yard, typical New Enland, that is why we have so many stone walls, way back the farmers used them as fences as they dug them up. What a job that must have been.

Well scooter, somebody must be buying those $50 baby goat-skin organically dyed garden gloves, not to mention the all natural oatmeal bee pollen skin balm, cause it sure ain't me!

Aria your garden looks like a painting! It should BE in one of those snooty garden magazines! Looks like my dream of a northern garden! Not a canna in sight! Love it!

Nothing against cannas, just I love that northern perennial look which I will NEVER achieve down here in Hell Zone. I feel 10 degrees cooler just looking at it! Thanks so much for posting.

Aria, I love your gardens! Your old ones must be spectacular. You've obviously worked really hard where you are now. I, too, like the ornamental grasses you have in with the perennials.

Aria - you obviously have a way with your plants and tools and soil (not matter how bad!). Lovely, lovely, lovely. To see it in another 2 yrs will be spectacular! Love the touch of Lilies!

Binoculars are always by my side when I am in the Yard because I love to watch our feathered friends flitting from on place to another.

What is the name of birds you have in your Yard? I know what we have in New Englad and they are generally in the mid atlantic area also.

Thanks for your wonderful compliments about my garden.

'A garden is not made in a year, indeed it is never made in the sense of finality. It grows, and with labour of love should go on growing'


Frederick Eden

"Unless of course you are a seasoned DG member- then every twig you plant flourishes into a forest over night."
-Jocelyn Bourke. LOL

dd .....Heheheheh !


A Northern Garden in Southern Wisconsin ....C A N N A !

Bwaaahhhahahaha *evil laugh *

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Sorry scooter - those all look pretty nice but I notice they're mostly in POTS? Send em to me and we'll see what they can really do!!!! I'll put em out in my yard and they'll be 6 feet tall in December!

BTW scooter, um, I hate to ask this, but what are those cannas exactly, because, well, I kinda (don't tell anybody) like em (whisper).

Thanks crim - my sentiments exactly! None of my plants ever develop root rot overnight and drop dead. Nope, never...;-)

Aria, you should start a thread: "favorite garden sayings" If you don't maybe I will.

Hi Delphi, you are right about starting a new thread. I thought I did with the birds and with the sayings but being very new I did not at first understand how to start which is actually very simple if you know how, LOL
I also thought Public Gardens would be a good one but had only two responses, guess people don't travel much to see such places.

Please go ahead with Favorite sayings as a new thread, in the meantime I'll be looking up new ones.

dd..... it's like this =( I'M A BAAAD Canna Mamma. I bought 6 different packs of seeds from alice .......aka abutilon ........aka Karchesky canna. The tray got dumped by my cat doing the "Midnight Crazies" So all I can say is I picked them but which one s they are ???? For sure it's NOT the Red Stripe Canna. I'll look and see , maybe can narrow it down =))

Looked .... I think it's Canna Indica Purpurea

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Thanks scooter. I guess I'm doomed now to be sucked into the canna frenzy. I've never really liked the flowers, guess because they're just SO common round here and all you see are the older types, usually with a bad case of mildew to boot. But the ones I've been seeing lately on DG are, well, awesome! Guess its like the diff. b/w your average HD rose-in-a-plastic-bag and a fab J&P patented!

New thread starting under Garden Talk! Dig up your favorite quotes!

Totally off topic now...sigh

Anymore yards anyone?

Scooter, great pics. You've actually got a ~bird~ interested in your birdhouse. And did you build them? love the dutch barn.
One last quest - where d'ju find the globe pedestal with the delightful faces around it and could you post a closeup of it please.?

Blooms, The weathered bird house has had Chickadees in it for 3 years now. I love the way they perch on the tree branch and scold while I'm in the garden.

I picked up the barn bird house and the Angels pedestal at Big Lots . There is a new bird here in the barn house that I don't know what it is yet. Very tiny and a BIG beautiful voice when calling thier mates.

This Malanga wasn't eaten ...lol

scooterbug...where the heck *IS* Twin Lakes, Wisconsin? (I'm in the SW corner of the state 50 W of Madison.)

Now, I can't believe that there's another Canna "nut" this far north. I lost of lot of mine to wet weather this year, next years, I'm thinking POTS!!! But some of mine are too big for that.

Great pics everyone!

~julie~

julie, I'm more S.E. 30 miles West of Lake Michigan. TL is south of Lake Geneva right on the Il. State line (Richmond, Il.)

Thanks Scooterbug...I know Lake Geneva quite well. Dh's family used to have a cabin there. Thanks for the info.

~julie~

I used to go to Twin Lakes with my father sometimes; he and some other people in a hunt club had a cabin they rented up there. We lived in Northbrook, IL. I went to Lake Geneva Youth Camp one summer, too. It's pretty up there.

Wow, there sure are lots of talented folks out there. I posted photos of my first garden on a separate thread, not noticing this one. Its a good thing, because if I'd seen all these pics first, I may not have posted mine. lol

Love all the yards.

this is my back yard.

this is the pathway through the garden.

WOW! And you're just a hop, skip and a jump from us, Marlatt8. If you're ever open to visitors, my mom and I would love a tour.