Garden photos of '09.....#11

Your other place definitely sounds quite manageable! It also sounds as if you did a great job of it! I bet it was nice.
You and DD definitely have your work cut out for you with that much space! I like how you have it divided. Alhough that coud look rather interesting if one of you choose a formal, japanese style garden and the other a cottage style. But, the garden would have a lot of personality!

I was interested in your fall pictures of trees with color, it seemed as though your property is endless.

I wish that most of what I show pictures of was my property! that would be nice. Actually no, that would be a rediculus amount of land for me to manage. There's an acre here for me to do stuff with. Definitely not endless! There's several display gardens around Eugene that I go visit often as well as I have several friends with extensive gardens, and I take pictures when I'm going through those places. If there was a river in it, powerlines or poles, or quite a few large trees in it, then it was taken here.

As long as there are no fences you can claim what you see as yours.
Thats OK by me.

ahhhh ok, that sounds great to me! lol

Amazing pics. I didn't have time to take any yesterday, but things are popping like crazy around here. Enjoyed seeing all of yours.

No idea on how to keep the wasps out of the birdhouse. What about the moths?

DH cleaned out the bird houses yesterday. No wasps, but lots of bunny fur. I need to start looking at the buds on the plants as Victor sure gets some great shots of things I just walk by. I finally am getting some patches of color. Here is 'Early Harvest' which is kaufmanniana so it should return. I will order a few more for next year and see if I can get a big clump going.

I need an edger too. What kind do you use Wha, as yours are really good. I just use a shovel, but that isn't effective. I think I have one in VT that was in a pile of tools we inherited, but I have never used it. Dumb. Patti

patti i use one i got from HD - i think it is called husky something or other - it is green and pretty heavy - with all the rocks i hit it has stood up no problem. I also use a shovel i got at sears that has a long kinda of thin straight blade to pick up the edged dirt. the straight edge helps keep the nice deep edge - only down side is beware moving the lawn as you could twist and ankle it your not careful. it will be a while till i get to edging the beds this spring.

Patti that early harvest is beautiful! I have a cheapo edger I got at sears. I find myself using my shovel mostly and just using the actual edger tool to neaten it up. : ) My mom has a nice gas or electric one -can't remember which but she loves it.

I plan on using a flat edged spade.

Thanks, I think I will try the one in Vt or buy a flat edged shovel, which I no longer own. Mine disappeared years ago. I think it was accidentally picked up by the mowing guys, thinking it was theirs. They once took a wheel barrel, but brought it back when they realized it wasn't theirs, when they were helping me mulch the beds. My shovel was a cheap one, so no big loss. Patti

Wow, 'Edward' has the color I'm looking for---now to find a good spot! Shelley, my 2yr old GD may look sweet, but she's not---pretty defiant! Hope to have photos soon of what's blooming---too rainy today!

Are those returning hyacinth, Victor? Mine are only a few inches out of the soil. Put in quite a few multiflowering hyacinths this year. Coming strong but it looks like they won't flower until the end of the month.

Don't recall mixing all these bulbs up close together in the lawn but I must have:

Yes, David. Planted them over five years ago.

Yes, Victor, ask away about the toilet. I plan to use it as a planter for some of the many coleus I'm getting in the co-op. He, heeee!!!!! BTW, I don't know which hazel that is. It may be a native variety. It's flowers are very small. It was too windy to get a close-up shot of the flowers. They kept moving around too much.

Nice pics, as usual, Victor!

You have some great shots from your yard, too, Patti!

Jo Anne and Shelly, there are no fences here, and neighbors aren't real close, so I pretend what's out in the woods is ours. We have 1.25 acres, and it does seem like a lot. It is really too much for me and my sister to take care of ourselves, but we can't afford to hire help, so we do what we can. You know how the gardening books all say never to put in more than you can take care of? Well, I was never good at listening to that advice.

Karen

I'll take 1/2 acre off your hands, Karen!

This guy was on the heater in my porch yesterday.

Wow! He's a biggie, Victor!

I don't know how you're gonna move that half acre to NY!

Karen

Yes, I had to show it to my kids who are afraid of spiders! Hee hee.

LOL!

something chomped the tops of my hyacinths.... ggggggrrrrr... I sprayed everything yesterday

That's awful, Allison! I hate when that happens. Maybe the rain washed all the spray off? Did you get a lot of rain like we did?

Karen

I sprayed between the rain... it had a chance to dry... it should stick around for a few days... we are getting more rain today... I will go spray again tomorrow even though they say it doesn't wash off

Oh - bummer. Never had any damage on mine. One of the few plants I can say that about.

DP do you think the hyacinth foliage will die down as fast as the crocus?

my hyacinth foliage stays up a little bit longer than crocus, but not much. Sorry to hear about your hyacinths Allison! maybe that got sick from them and will back off for a bit now!

Thanks redchic. Allison as hyacinths are poisonous if a red-blooded critter ate them I don't think you will have to worry anymore.

Dahlianut....nope. Going to have to wait to mow this year. Those white flowers are Puschkinia libanotica alba but I do have some multi-flowering hyacinth, bulbocodium conspicuus daffies and Red Robin tulips in the front lawn. Our lawn guy was over the other day chomping at the bit to mow everything down in two weeks. He's a swamp yankee right out of a Steven King novel...great guy, very concerned about what he does, very consciousness but a little put off by the unusual...by someone putting things in a lawn which aren't traditionally there. I think it upsets him.

That's way too funny DP about the lawnguy. I can picture him telling storys to other lawnguys about your lawn shenanigans. It will be interesting to see what my DH says next spring when I have crocii popping up in the lawn (tee hee).

My hyacinths have been coming up for quite a few years, David, so they should be hardy for you---the foliage does take awhile to die off.

Robindog, back to your picture of the fence, did you build that raised bed yourself? Where did you get the stones? Just around your property, or did you buy them somewhere?

David_Paul, do you perchance use Dale Larson?? I think that's his last name.

Drumlin....no....Lester does the snow plowing and mowing. He used to have crews but he's scaled back to doing it mostly alone.

Robindog...got some pastel hyacinths at Lowe's last year and they did come back but they are very sorry looking. Perhaps because the foliage was cut too soon?

That's really funny DP. However, I know that if I were to put bulbs in any of the places that I landscape, the lawn mowing person would be greatly disturbed by it! lol.

So, I finally have a few pictures to put here. It has been quite a ________ (whatever comes to your mind) to get photos going after my photo editing and viewing programs crashed. I started the process of downloading all photos off of the computer on thursday or fri. and finally got a program that it would run. Although it's really, really slow, it does work. I don't quite have the resizing figured out yet, so I don't know if these are huge or small.

close up of a seedling of rasberry splash pulmonaria

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the actual rasberry splash plant.

a couple parent pulmonarias and all the little seedlings. I think that dicentra gold heart can be spotted in the background too.

erythronium

and one last pulmonaria. they are in the only part of the yard that gets much light for pictures right now.

very pretty RC