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

Marlatt!!!! It is perrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect! Wow. Just like a Thomas Kinkade painting!!! *Drools*

OMG, Belinda!! That's paradise. Close up pics!!!! Let's see what all those gorgeous flowers are! Daylilies and some lilies for sure.....what else???

It does look like a painting or two paintings I guess should say, Marlatt8 - that's a beautiful place you live. And the garden is straight out of 'Secret Garden'. my favorite garden story.

Oh marlatt!!!!!!! (kissing you feet) I am swooning!!!! The effort it takes to keep that looking wild yet weeded is beyond my limited comprehension. I love the natural look but so does the torpedo grass, so I gave up and went to semiformal and heavily mulched. Walking back there must be like walking through Eden!!! Please post more pics (starting group chant: "More! More! We want More!")

PS what is that yellow and green stuff on the path? Thymes?

Marlatt ... O U T S T A N D I N G ! ! !

That is my kinda garden =)

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Marlatt, I completely agree with everyone else... your garden's are beautiful! What a joy to have the porch and cute little bench to sit there and enjoy the beauty. What a wonderful day I would have if I could have a cup of tea there every morning.

THANKS EVERYONE! this has been a labor of love. my dad and i built the deck.dad built the birdhouses and the deck furniture for me. my mom comes on the weekends and like to putter in my garden. the hubby does the laundry for me.

gardenwife: you're welcome anytime, work during the week but i'm in the garden on the weekends. email me and we will set up a date.

delphiniumdiva: the pathway is filled with steppables. creeping jenny, creeping charlie, blue star creeper, woolly thyme, purple brass buttons fern, mazus reptans purple.

Rutholive, I envy you your Apricot tree. I pay close $3.00 a pound (from the state of Washington)to bake my mother recipe for a Marillen Kuchen (Apricot Coffee cake) She was a fantastic cook in Vienna, Austria where I was brought up. Apricots are plentyful in Austria, she also made jam and preserves and dumplings filled with them for dessert.

Yum! I want an apricot dumpling. lol

Belinda -- MORE! MORE!! MORE!! Close-ups so we can see each area and what's in it!! What part of OH is Coschocton in? I swear one of these days I'm gonna take a 2 week vacation and just do Ohio DG-style!!!

I'll go langbr!!!!!!!

BTW anybody from down south here do a steppable path? So many things just can't take the bad drainage, constant rain, high humidity situation. I'd like to find a way to do one. Also concerned about weeds - is there a way to keep weeds under control without damaging your plants too much? Or do you get down on hands and knees and tough it out?

If it weren't for weeds, I wouldn't HAVE a garden.... LOL.

langr, i live east of columbus, oh; it takes about 90 minutes from there. here's more closeups.

Marlatt I think you need more daylilies. Other than that its perfect. LOL :)

My friend Tom says that if he used Weed and Feed, there'd be nothing left to feed in his lawn.

Hahahaha!!! I noticed the other day they were SELLING dichondra in a tropical plant catalog! My whole LAWN is one big dichondra plant, interspersed with bits of desperate grass.

They sell dichondra seed in 1lb cans in HD here for $11.99

want some?

Well, if I just seeded my lawn it would at least be even! Course, can you say, "invasive"????

That's good if it kills torpedo grass, right?

Belinda - what's the tall Lily in the center of the pic - look cream or yellow? Love the birdhouse in the left front of the pic.

LOL daisy!!!:) My dh however is not amused. He gets to cut the grass.

Admitt it guys.
Were all jealous of Marlas yard. :-((
So pretty...sigh. hehehe

Our lots are very small in urban Northern CA but I console myself by reminding myself that I barely have time to take care of what we have! We put in a cottage garden two years ago after having nothing -- really, no landscaping at all, so we desperately needed some curb appeal.

Being a confirmed houseplant murderer, I was surprised to find I enjoy gardening, and that plants were a lot easier to grow outside the house. We installed the garden in phases, but here's a composite of the front yard, from our start in 2002 to what it looks like this week, two years later:

jkom-Your yard is fantastic!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much for including the before and after shots-it really shows just how much you've accomplished. I know you must look at those two pictures with a lot of pride. Thanks for sharing it with all us DG folks!!

delp-diva, i think i need more daylilies, too. lol

jkom51, your yard is beautiful!

langr, you're are always welcome to come and visit. the lily was cream with black spots and i got it at walmart, several years ago - didn't have a name.

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jkom! Fantastic job! (Of course you bought all those plants fully grown, right? ;-) )

I'll be lucky to have my newly started yard and garden looking "established" before my funeral!

~julie~

jkmom -- what a transformation! Lovely! And such a sweet little house. Looks like one of those makeovers you see on HGTV. Really nice job!

I had to laugh at "A confirmed houseplant murderer." I just say that the plants were depressed and committed suicide. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Jean (aka "The Black Thumb")

Wonderful fill in i[n two years time!]. Is that a row of Iris? in the back? It all looks so cottagey and established. Congrats.
I too, can grow stuff outside and every houseplant that enters my home is on terminal watch.

Without the poppies in bloom the back walk is lacking a lot of color, but the second blooming on the wisteria helps.

This part of the backyard is a comforting place.Covered by the veichambleau (sp?) rose and ginko on one end and the big wisteria over little Mackie's gravesite on the other, it is nice to just sit and enjoy the serenity.

Everyone's gardens are so beautiful. This is a really great thread. Thanks for starting it DelphiniumDiva. I agree with you about the whole view. That's where we get our really great ideas from each other. Whether we know what mood we want to create or not, the best way to get there is to take bits and pieces of ideas from many sources and then make it our own. Here are a couple of shots of mine that I had posted on the photo forum. Hope you all can get something from them ;)

And this one is from the upstairs window.

And this is a view from the throne.

Your yard looks beautiful, earth.. I'd like to sit right down in that chair with a cup of coffee in the morning and look at all those plants very carefully. Thanks for sharing!

Gee with a view like that from the throne, who needs magazines? Your pond and its landscaping is gorgeous!

jkom51, I love your cottage garden. I'd love our front yard to be mostly plants eventually. Sometimes, though, it's easier to keep up with mowing than it is to keep up with weeding mulched beds. Pthbt!

Sheesh- that is beautiful. *stares*. Look at those lilies and that castor!

hey 'worm, the bird's eye view is terrific. wish any part of my yard had that lovely finished look. great yard and pics. Thanks for sharing. I'm constantly going over these to steal ideas... I can't copy plants but I can steal placement ideas.

My pond won't have water and it'll be a dry wash, but around here that'll look natural. If it ever gets done. that is..
I maintain it's too hot to garden/landscape right now.

Just really enjoying this thread every night!!! Thanks everyone! Now I've got homework to do.....wheels are churning here!

EWL, that's my kind of "throne room" view! :-)
And talk about ideas...you gave me bunches of those. I just love what you've done there, especially the pond. And your choice of plants is terrific...I like the arrangement of foliage textures and for me it has a sense of anticipation.

Very nice job!
~julie~