Your yard is amazing!!! You have worked very hard and it shows,I can't wait to see more pictures,very impessive!
Begging for Brugs.....
Thank you sir. Probably wouldn't be kosher to post individual shots here that's not brugs but they're coming! I've got a Tropical Sunset that's opening tonight in the hoophouse, is lemon yellow now and smells like lemony. Drug Larry in awhile ago and "..whoooh, that's powerful!" he says. Can't wait till I've got a bunch blooming this summer outside like all the wonderful pics everyone posts.
What a yard...boy, you can tell your house from the rest of the street.... Does anyone talk to you in the summer? I bet they are all jealous..Tell them it's easy...just work yourself 24/7......LOLOL
Please take some time to enjoy....they fade fast..
Hap
Blaine, your yard looks great.
heh, heh... Some don't talk at all, others say "..you ain't got no grass! ?" and usually it's just the men.
But my constant putzing around in the yard has been vindicated a couple of times. I'm the only one in this subdivision that I know of. This was the last one in 2003 but the front has changed since then...
I love it.....let them eat their hearts out......
have a great day
Hap
I love it. Wish I had an area of my yard that looked just a little bit like that.
Blaine,
Your yard is gorgeous! Can't wait to see more pictures this summer. :-)
With a yard like that... you can never coming visiting here. You would grab the tools and start to work, you wouldn't be able to help yourself because everything is so disorganized here. lol lol
You should be real proud of what you've accomplished.
Judy
Nice pictures Blaine........very beautiful! And it was a very enjoyable experience visiting with you and Larry over the weekend at the 'Roundup'......Look forward to seeing both of you again.....Jay and Alice
I agree with all of the above comments!!!!!! Amazing!!
ZONE ENVY!!! I have it, too!! Just wasn't diagnosed until now!! (:>) My ZE kicks in when I want to plant all those beautiful plants that are for you Southern folks!
Tks Brugie/Trunnels - having visited or seen pics, I know you both have great! yardens.
Judy I love to visit all plantings... as long as I can get close enough for details on each plant and flower. Well, unless you've got volcanoes around your trees and lava beds around your bushes made with that red dyed mulch thats so popular now. Something about that color is like biting on aluminum foil.
The pleasure's mine Jay and Alice and USPS will visit you soon.
Hi stoni!! I hope you are rested up after the weekend. Hey, we can plant those same kinds of plants, we just have to find someone who wants to pay for the greenhouse and the fuel to heat it.
Tropical Sunset smells leomony?? ruhroh.. I already wanted one.. now I am going to have to get one..sigh..
Blaine,
I just got a Tropical Sunset off of ebay and it immediately lost all of its leaves and infected all the nearby plants with spider mite so obviously it is going to be a long time before it will be blooming, So I hope you will please, please post pictures.
Love your yard btw. It's a lot of work isn't it? Jeanete
Your pictures just get better Blaine. I can't quite make out that sign in front of your house. What does it say? House of the month?? You won a prize? You know Root has also. You guys are putting us gals to shame.
Kell's right!! It does say that. I hadn't noticed, was too busy looking at the flowers and plants. That is really nice. Makes it all worth it doesn't it?
Congrats!! Jeanette
That's the sign alrighty. A little nose thumbin' for the detractors and nay-sayers and a 25$ gift certificate for me!! The first one resupplied the idea fridge in the garage. The 2nd one got an oscillating sprinkler with a timer which has saved a few dollars.
I should've snuck out and grabbed TS shot last night when it fully opened. Instead I just looked, sniffed and came back in. 42 air temp, wind chill in 30's with 20-30mph NE winds.
This is what she looks like this morning but there's another one on a taller version that will bloom in the next week I think.
I think that first photo is absolutely gorgeous! The grass is beautiful and lush and so green!! You have done a really nice job!
Speaking of spider mites. I guess that's what I discovered on a plant in the back of the HH when I did a little rearranging Monday. Fine! I decided it would be my sacrificial lamb to see how brugs stood up to weather. Tue a.m. thunderstorms and rainnnnn. Then the cold front moved in and it's been buffeted by wind. Will the rain and cold eliminate the mites as well?
No branches have snapped and no leafs have blown off. Kind of seems like the brug foliage goes limp in response to high winds as a defense mechanism. SWAG on my part but sounded logical.
Blaine, WOW, and I guess that's the only word to describe your place and what you've done. So talented you are! Every square inch of your place is a fantasy land, and it's no wonder you received the 'Yard of the Month'!!! You seize to amaze me...Pure talent :-)
Hugs
Julie
Here's another angle from the last award in 8-2003. It's a sunrise shot about from the same angle as the pic at the top of this thread. I don't think I'l have any volunteer sunflowers or love lies bleeding this year as I've been keeping bed borders clear hoping I'll have big brugs here and there. (Well.. big for a season's growth in this zone (ggg) )
Jazz - I noticed I have a basal shoot (sucker) big enough to pull on the other TS. Send me an addy if you're interested.
whoops - I see no pic attached. re-do this evening.
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EEP!! EMailing!
Blaine,
How big is that basal shoot? I have noticed a lot of them (haralding spring) on my plants in the last month. So, how tall do I let them get when I take them off?
Jeanette
Don't know the official word but I've yanked off 3 when they were about 6". Immediately plunked them into a jar with an airline and they nubbed up within the week.
wow! gorgeous, gorgeous garden.
Its just not fair
its just not right
NOBODY'S yard should be that neat and tidy
If I could, I'd go in there and change something,just enough to drive you nuts trying to figure out whats out of place,move a paver,turn something sideways.....
Its like walking into someones house thats picture perfect and tilting one of their pictures when they're not looking...LOL
ya know I'm just kiddin...well kinda
I just have to face it
my yard and gardens will never look that good
Everything I do the chickens and peacocks undo
so,yard envy.......big time
Wow Blaine that is one incredible yard. Don't know how I missed this post
I was shocked to see this come back up.
Things have changed dramatically since then although only a month.
Which is what I like and strive for... something new kicking in each day, each week, each month.
Not to prolong this thread but here's one thing I discovered when starting to water the west side this afternoon.
A climbing red but I forget if it's Blaze or Don Juan, over the French Lace weigela
Boy...you really should be glad you didn't marry ME!
Carol
My hubby doesn't complain about any of my projects, in fact he likes all this, and my Goldens cost more for a weekend than I've spent on brugs my entire first year, but, I cannot imagine how I would react if he was the one with the brug fetish, hmmm. We were discussing it yesterday - it's almost impossible to believe that until about this time last year I only had one brug and a tiny garden, very tiny, which makes me realize that I have done way more with brugs already, than I ever dreamed, growing the seeds is what sent me over the edge...
splain yourself Carol... I'm thinking it might have been a marriage made in heaven. Just think of all the stuff I could grow over there and with a wife that wouldn't give me grief because I was outside playing all the time...
Hey Blaine, show us more pics. I bet everything has really grown in a month.
I took some more yesterday and this morning. I'll put them up this evening.
Not all brugs... I guess I should do it in a different forum??
we won't mind, won't we? (if it's posted here). if in another forum, we'll just have to follow you around. lol.
You never did show us your compost heap (you show me yours, and I'll show you mine - (LOL)
Blaine, it is just the opposite at my house. DH absolutely hates yard work of any kind and complains when I go outside to do anything. If it didn't get so darn hot here in South Texas this time of year, I would be outside doing something all day. In fact, when I was younger, and before DH retired, I pretty much lived outside. I inherited that from my Dad. We had a showstopper yard when I was growing up. Just about all his waking hours when he wasn't at work were spent working in the yard. My Mom never stuck her head outside. She spent all her time in the kitchen cooking.
I would love to have a yard as beautiful and neat as yours. It is really hard to keep anything looking good here in the Summer though because of the heat. I'd try the beer thing, but at my age, it would just put me to sleep. LOL
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some days I wonder why I didn't end up with someone who shared things I did. Oh well, maybe that's why it'll be 25 years soon. Comparatively little of that was actually spent together. She can cook though!! It's what she 'has to' do I think. I've never been able to stop her from bringing a plate to the bedroom when I come in for the evening and I can't refuse it.
Ok Polly... here's a shot of the compost pile. It's already settled by half and a Dr.Seuss and Herrenhausen Garten that had poor attitudes after hanging around some mite-ridden suavs got planted here the other day. I told them they were heading this direction anyway, so.....
For the poor reviews I kept getting for Peaches and Cream, she has been the star since I got that floppy little cutting. She had 1 bloom open when I planted her in ground. 6 have come and gone and I think theres 5 fully open now with a couple more extending and new buds at every fork. I just wish she had fragrance like butterfly or something.
what was originally sold to me as Autumn Damask but turned out to be something different. I moved 3 out to this curb last year as a deterrent for the basketball playing neighbor kids. They're realllly thorny. They're taking their turn in the flower parade now
