The before garden

This is our frontage a year ago, we had moved into the new house afew months earlier and all I had managed to plant was a little area under the front windows. As I don't know how to post two pictures at the same time, the after pic will follow.i

Hey ferrymead, please don't forget to post the "after" picture. I love seeing transformations.

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/665541/

Equilibrium, I posted the 'after garden separately in the Garden Talk forum. I think. (I hope) I have posted the link it is on. Yahhh! it has worked.
Tess

Ah ha! I see the photos! You did a remarkable job. New construction is a lot like having a fresh new canvas to paint on.

Hi Equilibrium, thanks for that. I actually bought a couple of blank canvases a week ago and never having dabbled in oil painting before I bet the garden will be a clear winner on the completion of those. LOL

Painting is so hard. I tired it a long time ago and figured I best stick to gardening. Based on your gardening style as opposed to mine... I suspect you will do much better with your blank canvases than me. You'll have to share what you create. Do you miss your old house at all?

Equilibrium, I have no idea of what I am going to put on the blank canvases yet and when they are done I don't think they will be showable. LOL>
Do I miss my old house..... no way! It is much better being in a brand new house and as for the old garden, well, the ground was full of stones, big ones, mediumsized ones and lots of little ones. The land was originally a river bed and it was really hard to garden there. I could not put a spade in that went down more than a couple of inches. One garden along the side of the house was mulcjed with stones. I had to get rid of that one and the stones went down about 8 inches. Clearing it out was a hot and sweaty job but I eventually got it back to my sort of garden.

I remember when you first joined DG. If the photos you shared were of your old home, I had no idea that land had originally been a river bed with all that you had created there. You did a bang up job over there and I can see you're going for the big bang here at your new home.

You do realize I'd love to see your canvasses once you painted on them even if you show them in a D-Mail?

Gosh no, all the photos are of our new home. I did take photos of the old place but they were all taken on my old camera and I have not scanned any of those to this computer, don't know if I will ever get around to doing that but I will be looking at some of the old photos soon as I intend to do up some scrapbooks for the daughters for Christmas presents. I did one for our son last Christmas. All those old photos brought back many memories of when he was growing up. He is 36 years old now and came to visit us last weekend. he is into medieval life and makes all his own armour and weapons. He and his girlfriend are going to a victorian meeting nex week and he has been making himself an army uniform from those times. He is very creative and enjoys all his mediaval club is involved in. See photo attached.

Will do when the paintings are done. Tess

All of those photos must have been of your new back yard then? I remember your Robinia. Guess you've moved out front this year. Whatever you are doing, it looks great. You should probably re-post some of the backyard photos because my memory may be bad but it isn't that bad and what you did back there was what made me ask if you missed your old home.

We can't compete in the armour department but our boys did make a huge trebuchet last year and they won some sort of a division catapulting a watermelon the farthest. They beat out High School students and they were so excited that they won that they all started hugging each other instead of shaking hands with the other teams. Oops. Tess, half of our kids were only in upper elementary school at the time not even Junior High yet. Needless to say the High School students thought for sure their first toss was nothing but luck. It wasn't until they repeatedly were able to catapult a watermelon the distance that the older kids started getting nervous. I will send you a photo to your regular e-mail address for a few good chuckles. Time to go digging for that photo and here's hoping I find it easily. Remember, these are just little kids with very big dreams and all of them are geeks who really got into designing the trebuchet and they did an incredible amount of work researching how best to construct their final design for maximum fire power. Finally, the geeks win something! Our kids never win anything that is athletic but they sure nail the science and math competitions. The newspapers published their photographs and their ages. Their trebuchet was magnificent. It weighed in at several hundred pounds and had to be flat bedded to the site. They never thought of having to get it to the competition site when they built it- another oops. That's ok, we paid to have it delivered and would do it all over again. All they would have needed was real armour to complete the picture. You'll see what I mean about having a need for real armour once you see the costumes they made to wear that day. I think the event is every three years and they already have their design for '08. Their new trebuchet will blow away their old one and it's being improved upon regularly. Can you send your son our way to outfit our kids for '08? Just kidding.

I will do some photos of my back yard but it is a work in progess. MDH finished a pergola out there about 6 weeks ago and I only have the garden there partly planted, I intend to do another before and after picture later on once some growth is evident.
Well, I did find your info about your boys trebochet interesting. However, i thought I knew what it looked like but googled it to make sure. Your boys have done great to make such a great structure, will wait in anticipation for your pics of it. I tried to work my way through the website to send you a a dmail but could not work out how to get it done. I have received some but have never sent one. Isn't it wonderful when the children do well, it is so great to see their efforts succeed so well. Our boy was a geek at school too, he is now a principal systems engineer working with air traffic contol of New Zea;and aorcraft amd has worked in New York training air traffic controllers in the systems used here and has this year spent many months in mainland China installing the system there. Your boys obviously think outside the sqwuare and have a bright future. Waiting for that dmail.
Tess

Still looking for the photos. I've only got 10,000 in my files. Ugh.

Was it this picture?

oops, I don't think so, I will try agaiin, my eyesight is pretty poor so I don't know if this is the one. Please don'e spend time trawling through all your photos, too, too many to search through.

Yes to the first photo, no to the second. You had also posted a photo of an area by the fence up closer to your home that looked heavenly.

I found the photos. I knew they were from last year and I got the month by looking at the newspaper article. You have mail. Don't laugh too loud that I hear it over in this Country. They were very proud of their "armour".

All sorted out now, the second pic is of the back yard, it looks rather different now but i will do a before and after pic of this area once I have a bit more growth on the plantings I have done so far. Got your dmail and have replied to that, so interesting, thanks for that.
Tess