Hello and welcome to the Michigan forum on Daves Garden...Come here often..meet your Michigander friends..Ask questions...we can help...there are a lot of us..for sure..lol...
again welcome..tell us about your gardens...
smiles..Diana...
Lets have a big welcome...."""thanatologist"" Redford, Mi.
Welcome to Daves and to the Michigan forum. We're glad you made it here. Tell us about your garden.
Brenda
welcome to Daves I haven't been on as much as I used to ITS VENISON SEASON so I'm working a lot more and the rest of my time is a new puppie and getting the beds ready for winter besides getting the last few things in the ground hope you are ready for winter!!! ;0)
Gloria
Thanks for your warm welcomes. I live in a ring suburb west of Detroit. We're in process of large landscaping revision in front of house, which I hope to complete next spring. Removed 50-year-old bushes and shrubs. Put in raised beds. Some cement work on sidewalks and driveway approach. Will spend winter planning what will go into raised beds. (Naturally, I hired the heavy work.)
Backyard is rather large with butterfly bushes, rose of sharon, red-stick dogwood, columbine, lupine, dalia, zinnia, cone flowers, black-eyed susans, shasta and blanket daisies, hibiscus, a lilly bed as well as stella dora lillies here and there, hostas, sedum, and raised beds of strawberries, asparagus, and thornless blackberries.
We gave a large fountain to a daughter and her husband, replacing it with much smaller one that I can maintain easier. A humungous magnolia tree affords a gracious canopy covering two swings and a park bench with plenty of space for lawn chairs and a fire pit. I took out the grass a few years ago and we keep the ground in that area covered in bark mulch over landscape material to keep down weeds.
My favorite thing are the large chimes with a deep sound that we hang from the magnolia tree. Sitting under the chimes as they vibrate is almost healing. Had them taken down and put away in the garage yesterday.
It's a pretty yard, but certainly nothing that you'd see in a magazine. We like it, and enjoy having folks over for cookouts and other gatherings. As I get older, I find it takes me three times as long to do things. Fortunately, I'm semi-retired, working part-time with some volunteer work. This does free me up to work outside during the week instead of only on weekends.
Working outside is my hobby and my "prayer time" when I can just rest in the presence of the Creator of all this beauty. It helps to relax, refresh, and ground me although I often come in "dog tired!" Despite the current economy and aging, LIFE IS GOOD!
welcome to the site! this is a great garden group here in the Michigan forum and there is
lots of things to find here-like the co-ops!!!
Sounds like you have a very nice yard n gardens
Myself i went overboard years ago --i have acres to maintain now!! DAH!! So it keeps me
busy during the growing season,,,,,now i can slow down a tad for winter!!
big welcome
dori
oh ya i lived in clawson for like 7months when i was 10yrs old-we moved back to the farm and out of
the city