what do your neighbors see?

ssham, I have been tempted by those barley bales... They work good? Where do you get yours?
Tell your sweetie, Way to go!
Abigail

Here's more current views from the south, east, and west. this is from our neighbors south, they can also see the backyard. This is sloping down to the lower garages.

This is one of the north side gardens , and can be seen from below us on the west...but not much by anyone else

This is the farthest west/south corner, and hardly anyone can see it which may be a good thing because it's been my biggest challenge from the crab grass to the black walnut juglone, I've lost many perennials here. It's finally starting to fill in but it's been a war from the start.

meezer - They are all beautiful, but that rock garden is AWESOME!!!!!!!

And this is from the far northeast corner, from the road you see the side of the garage, and the deck, where all the vents and mechanicals are located,and what we've planted along this to make the hardware less noticeable.

Thanks, I have to give a lot of credit to my DH, who is willing to dig, haul, move, and water at the drop of a hat. I couldn't do it without him. Although our one point of disagreement is he likes everything planted in nice tidy rows, and I'm more inclined just to fill up every empty space I see. I don't care to see dirt or mulch between the plants, I love English gardens and hopefully I'm making progress. We've had to move some mums and rudbeckia and daisies that outgrew their original locations...but they are thriving in the new spots.

This is a more recent shot of the back, more lattice, more flowers, and uhhhh more work. LOL

meez, you obviously saved the best for last. beautiful shots! there isnt one part of your yard i dont like! love the rock going up the stone steps. its all just beautiful. guess i have to stroll over to sheyland and see whats up with the crazies.

What fun to get a peek at your gardens from your neighbors' viewpoint. Lovely, lovely! Thought I'd share one of my own. This is from the property line on the south side of my house, just a few feet from my neighbor's porch.

The rock wall and the stone steps are my favorite too, all the alyssum and snaps are volunteers from the first year, so I hardly do anything there which is my kinda gardening.The three rose bushes are the "carpet of flowers" which have done well. Lovely hosta...Azure, .mine are burning up in this heat wave....under the trees they are ok but in the sun, ow! Gettin' crispy. 30% chance of rain tonight.

Sheyland needs batteries, Track, hope you are taking some along.

Ditto on the AWESOME rock garden and the lovely hostas in both of your yards.

BTW, what is Sheyland?

Leslie

Lamb - take a left at Pets, go three cornfields and turn left onto the one-way street ( warning - its a long, busy street with no turn arounds, oh and take your hip boots 'cause its getting kinda deep in there.) Have fun. Hey proof-readers - did I get that right?

Go to Pets, and see The Picture Dog, start reading the thread and join us in confusion.

azurebloom, what a lovely cottage setting! its looks like the kind of neighborhood you see in the movies about small town america. youre hostas are breathtaking and its so clean and picture perfect. just lovely.
i just went back and looked at your address-no wonder, Topeka, Kansas. cant get much more american than that!


meezer, i emailed chops and told her about sheyland too! truthfully, ive been staying away from it for awhile. im worn out with it! LOL. i cant think of anything else to say about the bad veta and her ghost dog. ROFLOL.

Meezer... Mine will probably succumb to the sun soon, too, if this heatwave doesn't cool down soon. That big hosta in the photo gets some shade after 3:00 pm, but by then it's really taken a beating on days like today. I'm jealous of the lovely contours of your property. Mine's flat as the rest of Kansas!

LOL I remember driving through Kansas years ago, you could spot a tree ten miles up the road!!! We call Illinois folks flatlanders.....we searched for a building site that had some slope to it on purpose, we have a two and a half car garage on the main level, and another 2 car under the house taking up half the basement. And DH has another under construction.........sigh...well he doesn't drink or gamble or chase women, what can I say..........

meez, you're a stitch!

What's going on here ? Nobody has weeds!
Lovely yards. I would like to be able to keep mine that clean, but the veggies come first around here. We are also in the country, but do get a lot of traffic by here. I get lots of comments on our yard, maybe the weeds don't show so much from the road.
This picture was taken earlier this spring as your nearing our place. On the left side are our vegetable gardens.
Bernie

I didn't realize this was so early in the year. I will get a new shot in the morning.
Bernie

Bernie... fabulous, wide open spaces! It'd be great to see a summer shot, too.

Abigail - he orders the barley from a farm somewhere in Nebraska. They were pricey, but they're cheaper than umpteen treatments of copper. They don't elmintate the growth, but they do help keep it down. He made some big "bags" out of that stretch black plastic construction fecning, and then filled them with a loosened bale. They're anchored with concrete filled coffee cans to keep them from wandering. They look a little wierd until they get waterlogged and sink a bit below the surface. The funny thing is that some of the barley sprouts - the ducks and geese eat it.

meezers - I love the rocks! The last shot with your back deck is great - perfect for that after gardening glass of wine. LOL on the "flatlanders". When I moved here I was amazed at how the terrain changes when you cross the state line into Wisconsin. The rolling hills are pretty, though, especially in the spring and the fall.

Bernie - that huge spot is your veggie patch? Wow! I was doing well this year to get in two tomato plants. I have weeds galore, which I usually notice when I take a pitcure to post and find out when I take a closer look that there's a clover or something in my shot. ugh!

Thanks for the info on the barley. Bringing the geese in would be a plus, except for their mess. LOL

Our property is fenced in, but back in June we replaced a section of fence. This is looking west from the neighbors yard.

And this is our neighbor's yard (beyond the fence post). Isn't this horrible? I sure wish a gardener would move in next door....LOL

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Front of the house

Brinda,

Love all the pots of bright flowers... beautiful!

~AB

Your neighbors sure have the better half of that deal! Your potted plants are beautiful, and I love the plantings under the tree in front. You could try throwing wildflower seeds over the fence, since he doesn't seem to cut the grass at all!!!

Thanks for the compliments!!! LOL meezers! You have no idea what I've thrown over the fence! It just makes me laugh to hear someone say that. I've tossed many things over there hoping they would grow. I've even tossed Chameleon ground cover over the fence. And it's very invasive here! But I really think the only thing that will grow there are weeds. Somewhere I have pics from last year where his weeds were taller than the 6' stockade fence. As you can see.....I'm really not impressed with my neighbor! LOL I have called the city on him many times for not mowing. And there was once where the city came out and mowed for him. Wow, I bet that cost him a pretty penny!

Well, I got pictures, but there are not very clear. Vegetables are hard to take, to much green.
This first one is from the same spot as the earlier pic.
Bernie

Hit the wrong button!

This one is more to the left. Tractor is sitting at the end of our property. Past the tractor are soybeans. This side of the tractor is a patch of Gladiolus.

This is the Gladiolus patch I have been weeding. These flowers were cut right after I took the picture.

This is what greets you as you turn into our drive.

Your veggie garden is HUGE!!! And, thanks for the reminder, I need to go pick beans, and swiss chard before it dries up and blows away in this heat. All my veggies are stuck in between the flowers, so I have to compete with the bees in order to pick. They don't seem to mind me. I'm sure they are buzzing, "oh, here comes old garlic and onions, again."

None of the neighbors can see this spot !!

I only have one neighbor to the SE of me. A year ago they had the backside of some old overgrown azealeas to look at.
I had them dug and a friend took them and recycled them.
Here is what they see now.

Well, I added to the post above and went to preview again and it was cyber-ate.
I have really enjoyed all of your yards and anyone is lucky to have a DGer as a neighbor.
sidney

what i like best about this thread is obviously everyone is proud of their garden settings, but knows or feels there is much work to be done. for the record, i think everyone has a beautiful place and it is really fun to see the different parts of the country! thanks, debi

my neighbors say they dont need to plant they can just look at mine

Nice, did you do the rockwork yourself ?
Looks real good.
Bernie

There was an article in the newspaper last winter about a couple who have been putting up Christmas lights and decorations in their 'backyard' for at least 20 years (can't remember exactly what it said). They do this because the Nursing Home faces their back yard and it makes the view nice for the patients. Can you get any better than this?