New Garden Projects This Year #3

Holly's?

Yes.

JoAnn, I don't work Mon or Thurs, so maybe I'd run into you then.

the patio is done! added the walkway today - looks like it is small - trust me it was a pain - had to dig down a foot through hard clay and stone - and then take down the whole blue stone wall i left up last year to find two good pieces - now all that i need to do is build the lattice screen for the foundation - and then get back to the great wall project - after spreading mulch,lots of mulch - hopefully not as much as patti

Looks awesome!

Way to go Bill!

What huge changes youve brought to your property in the past year,Bill.

Bill, the patio is just gorgeous. It doesn't look small when you see the number of bricks that you laid, never mind all the stones in the border. A labor of love for sure.

As for me...no new projects, no new projects, NO NEW PROJECTS ( talking to self), but I would like to use my pile of leftover stone from my garden walls to make a raised bed for some nice hardy succulents and maybe a cactus or 2

Nice job on the patio Bill!

This is one of my spring projects - bluestone staircase (leftover from last year's patio) up the back side of the pond. I'm going to shift all that sweet woodruff on the right closer to the stairs and hopefully it will fill in the crevices nicely. To the left of the stairs I have hemlocks, ferns and bleeding hearts which you can't really see in the picture.

The next big project is tacking the last "wild" section of yard. I started yesterday with stump and scrubby growth removal.

that's a pretty yard!

Onewish1, if you haven't seen SongsofJoy's garden before, just wire your mouth shut now! Those new step to the pump house look great. That sweet woodruff will shift on it's own lickity split if it is like mine.

Wha, another great job, and finished. I have that trouble with my projects never quite being really done before I move on to another. I especially like the melding of the stone as steps with the brick walk and then the terrace of brick with the stone wall. Clever. Patti

I think I remember seeing a photo like that one in the contest .... if my memory is right

Well Patti is a little too generous since, compared to hers, my garden is still in it's awkward adolescent stage! But, yes I submitted a few in the contest. The one you're probably thinking of was the astilbe along the pond edge with the shed in the background. The stairs are new within the last week.

I love the patio Bill.

Songs of Joy your stairs and everything surrounding them are beautiful. I remember that photo as well.It was one of the best! : )

Meredith, thank you. We might be neighbors; I'm in Southeast NH too!

SoJ i guess you did have some bluestone left over - very nice walk way.

don't like the stone landing in my patio - going to dig them out if i can find some bluestone rock that will lock in the bricks and have only a two blue stone steps there instead.

Oh cool! Maybe we can checkout each others gardens in person sometime! : )

Looking great, Bill and Christina!

My project

Goofy causing a racket again?!

Dave, was the tour you were disappointed with a tour of the Flower Show, or the Gardens of the World tour??

wow love the stone steps

Songs- your yard IS beautiful. One of my fav pics of your yard in the DG calendar.

Well, I have a nice little pond with no fish, and I just love it. I have nice plants in it and a nice garden around it, and I always get frogs moving in.

Karen

Victor, you will need a big pond if you want to feed your deer carcass to your piranha!

Karen

Bill, fantastic job on the patio! Looks great!

Songs, I love your new stone steps.

Karen

These are the plants that will be in my new blue and yellow(some white) garden.

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Great combo Jen!

I totally agree, Jen.

nice Jen.... you people are way too organized... I could never be that good

Thanks all for the compliments on the stairs.

Jen - I love the blues and yellows. Should look great!

Victor - I've just gone the opposite direction with my pond/fish. Up till now I've had only comets and shubunkins. Last weekend I finally succumbed after three years of debating and got 3 koi. I hope I don't regret it. I don't like to mess with my water either; in fact I never even test it and I like the simplicity of that. So if they survive, great. If not, well then I'll stick with what I know.

Christina - watch the plants. Koi have an insatiable appetite. They even pulled 3 gallon pots off the surrounding stones into the pond and ate the plants!

Oh no! That's really the primary reason I had been staying away from koi! I want my pond as a water garden more than anything else! Cross my fingers. I only got 3 so maybe they won't be too destructive.

wow I had no idea

When they're small they are not. But they grow pretty fast. Tripling in size in one year is typical.

amazing

Patio and stairs look wonderful! Lovely combo flowerjen. What is the one in the middle on the right? Thanks.

columbine winky series blue and white

Thanks. That's a true blue! Definitely MUST HAVE.

Nice, Jen.

Thanks, all. Now if everything will cooperate and grow, it'll be good