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

I am getting all these great ideas too, but I have no where to implement them. boohoo.
Hmmm.... maybe I should be happy the 30 photinia bushes around the back yard are struggling with black spot.

Just found this thread, some gorgeous settings. Here is our back (part of it). This is the tropical isle between the sun and shade garden. Complete with palms, musa, pineapple, lobster trap (Larry lobster going in), coral reef, conch shells, ship wheel and my infamous "treasure chest"!

beautiful beautiful yards! min is nowhere near as nice. I'm feeling the urge to invest in a second house (vacation rental?) just so I can make some new beds :)

I'm so impressed (and more than a little envious).

Don't be turtle, just take some of the ideas in all these posts and get out there and get to work! LOL

Indeed, be sure to dig up every boring blade of grass you have and replace it with something that brings you joy at some time of the year or other.
Haighr--what a great idea, a tropical isle in the middle of Maryland. I had to scroll back up to take a second gander at where you are to make sure you weren't in California! I just love it! Now there's an idea.

You outta come see it sometime earth, it is really a pleasant place to get away to LOL!

As usual all your yards are enviable. I started at the top and it's like going thru an expensive gardening book. Wonderful.

Think I'm going to put a beach next to part o my stream bed thanks for the idea Haighr... I have to translate these ideas to my imagined desert garden in the dream stage.

Darius what do you do with that really scarey looking driveway come winter? Park at the top and slide down?

LOL, I bet Darius parks at the bottom out in his location, or 4-wheel drive I bet!
Bye the way Darius, what is the background view? Looks like you are on top of a mountain overlooking a lake?

Here's a pic of the hottub garden in partial bloom.

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Candee, is that the same palm from last year ? If so congrats on your endeavor =))

Haigr - LOVE the beach!!!!! Want one! Want one! How, dare I ask, do you keep the sand in and the cats out?

Lost the trees from last year, I tried, but uncovered them in March, they were still green but a couple more frosts hit them and so we needed to replace all.

Cats haven't been a problem, I just dug a bit of a trench around the edge so the pebbles and sand stay in. The cats spend most of their time in the gardens and haven't discovered it is the world's largest litterbox! LOL

scooterbug...I'm new at this chat room thing and that little symbol =)) looks like someone with a rather prominent double chin! I guess I should go to a site with all the symbols and vocabulary and acronyms. It's like a language that I need to learn, people here are always coaching me. I thought I was clever the first time I used LOL in the appropriate way. I have a way to go ;) See--the winkie dink, I can do that one too.

=)) :)) is a laughing face.

=) :) Smiling

=P :P Sticking tongue out

=O :O Shocked face

lol Laughing out loud.

LOLRF Laughing out loud rolling on the floor.

DD Dear Daughter or Dearest Daughter

DS Dear Son, Dearest Son

DH Dear Husband, Dearest Husband

LMK Let me know.

MIL Mother in Law

FIL Father in Law

DW Dear wife, Dearest Wife.

There's a whole bunch more too,lol.

I think there is a link to all the logo somewhere, bet GW can find it!
Here's a pic of the isle from the shade garden.

You know that dh, dd, and ds can have all kinds of meanings, depending on the mood I'm in. (grin)

LOL pins!

My tabs didn't format correctly, but here's a list I compiled from several threads here at DG: http://davesgarden.com/j/viewentry/45326/

Haighr, I bet that island bed would be nice for starting seeds in containers outside, even early in the season; the rocks and sand would absorb sunlight and warm the trays.

Here's a shot of our front yard, taken this afternoon from the front porch.

GW thanks for the link - gotta stay up on the cybertalk or I won't be able to communicate with the offspring.

BTW waht is that blue ball looking flower in you loverly pic? (Prob some perennial that won't grow here...)

It's echinops ritro, or globe thistle.
http://plantsdatabase.com/go/634/index.html

It might do okay for you, actually!

Thanks GW - I may try some from seeds and see...not too many perennials make it through our summer deluge. Love those little spike balls.

Thanks for the link GW, and the gardens are looking great. The thistle is lovely, I don't seem to have much blue in the garden here. And looks like your butterfly bush is in bloom, not here yet, soon I hope.

Wow--gardenwife, I love your gardens, all your outbuildings make a dear little getaway. Are there ever chickens in the coop? Your garden out front is fabulous. The colors are wonderful together. I also am a fan of the blue globe thistle you have chosen to go with your butterfly bush. Nifty combo. Haighr, can't believe you have no butterfly bush blooming yet. Hmph. Mine are going at it and I'm only 20 minutes south of you. Different varieties or different microclimates I suppose.

Here are pictures of three of my garden paths. There are more paths, do you suppose I'm a pathoholic? Donna

Beautiful Donna. How about being "patha-logical"

diva,is the pretty little blue house really your chicken coop?
Would love to see pictures of the inside. Lucky chickens to have such a lovely little home.

Donna that is stunning, on the path in the last pic, what is lining it? Looks like that steel border that they use along walks? I've wanted to get some for around the isle, but in Gardener's it is quite expensive. All the pics are so inviting, would love to hike your trails!

Hey, about the paths...one must walk somewhere. Better not to tromp the beds.

I have paths through the sun and shade gardens, but nothing quite as exquisite as Donna has designed.

rutholive, I want my yard to look like tha! Gorgeous!

I WANT PATHS TOO. Oh how I wish I could do that. DH wont let me do that and neither will the kids. For that matter the dogs would give me looks for that one. Ond day we will move and have alot more property than .16 of an acre and then I can go a little more haywire. Or path-a-logical. heehee

Don't know about you, but this thread's taking long to load even on broadband. I started a continuation thread: http://davesgarden.com/t/444979/

I have some pics of my new yard I would like to show everyone. We moved our house to this area 080103. We moved into on 030104. This is what my DH and I have been working since. It is all brand new beds so they don't have much growth yet. I will show a before pic first and then post after pics

here's an after pic

here is another one from a different view. this one shows the pond that I am working on.

Very nice GIjane
Did you gather all the rocks from the fields around you?

Wow gijane - can tell you are in blue sky country! What a view! LOts of potential!

RuthOlive your clematis is to die for...I LOVE paths, guess I'm path-alogical too, but I think we all knew that ;}

Thanks Gardenwife - we have dsl extreme...so I don't notice load times - you can hate me, its OK. :P Actually dh works for phone company so we get deep discounts - to reconcile us to the lack of pay raises I guess...

Thanks starzz, yes, I take the tractor with loader/skip and go out into the pasture and pick them up. Was out today and when I stepped off the tractor, twisted my ankle but good. Have a goose egg on the side of it. So now I am sitting with it up and icing it. :(
Thanks delphiniumdiva, I also think we have a great view. I have plans drawn up for the whole yard-----It will take me years to get it like I want it. DH helps alot, he has hauled a lot of dirt and rock also.

We have cable, and it was taking long enough for me, I knew the dialup users (the vast majority, most likely) were biting their fingernails waiting for this thread to load.

Your house looks so neat -- it amazes me that people can move whole houses!

;) GW

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How are you feeling Liz? I know you had caught whatever DS had and was under-the-weather for a couple of days.