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Post by Cindy on Jun 2, 2015 13:46:52 GMT -5
It's finally spring here...kind of anyway  and the flowers are starting to bloom, so I thought I'd start us another garden thread. I'm finally really happy with this part of the garden I made. It's finally looking really nice, for the first time. I still have some more work to do there, but at least you can tell it's a garden now. I love how the flowers have come up in a pattern too...yellow, purple, yellow, purple, etc because I just planted the bulbs and had no idea what colors they were going to be. I always pray before I do anything in the garden though and ask the Lord to grow everything so it will look good. I just love the pattern He chose for me!
  
  
(sorry, these last ones you see were already fading out, but are a different color of purple and ivory mixed together. Next is another view of the flowers as I didn't get any of the hostas in the first ones, at least not much of them; it'll be awhile before they bloom:
 
those 3 small plants toward the right side of the second picture that are separating the purple flowers are violets, and they already bloomed. I'm hoping they'll bloom again soon and will try to get a picture of them next time they do as they're so pretty.
 
Above you can see our strawberries starting already! This isn't all of them but it's most of them anyway.
Oh the pretty yellow flowers on the porch were my mothers day gift from my daughter Michelle this year. I just love them! I plan on planting them into the garden next to the house, but have to wait till it warms up some again.
I didn't know till just now when I uploaded the pictures that someone snuck pictures of me and Gracie working in the garden the other day! I do remember giving Elijah the camera to take inside for me.... so it was probably him
 
So that's half of that part of my garden. I'll have to get pictures of the part that's against the house still as I forgot to do that. Maybe I'll do that after I plant my peonies.....
Gracie wanted me to take their picture by our baby tree. She's all excited about being able to watch it grow up with them and wants us to keep measruing how big it gets compared to how big they're growing each year. So here they are:
Hope you liked the pictures. It was fun taking them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 14:07:17 GMT -5
 Wow, Cindy, your yard has really come along VERY nicely!!! It just keeps getting better! Isn't it fun? |
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Post by Cindy on Jun 4, 2015 10:17:33 GMT -5
It's really nice to look at now, and I'm very glad it's just about done so I don't have to worry about it anymore. The only thing I have to do to it now is keep the weeds out, and thankfully I have the kids to help me with that. But even that little bit I did the day those pictures were taken, kept me in agony for the rest of that day and all the next day as well. So I only weed them about once a week as I just can't handle the pain it causes. The front garden is being overrun by the tiger lilies and I've got to get in there and dig out a bunch of them. I got a few out at the start of our spring, but by the time I'd gotten over the pain from that, it was too late to get anymore out easily. But it has to be done. I'm just waiting till I think my back will hold out long enough for me to do some of it. My oldest daughter said she'd take some of them so that'll help. I'll have to find places to replant the rest. Probably over where our baby tree is... I don't know, but I'll come up with something :garden:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2015 20:54:12 GMT -5
your yard is beautiful Cindy! love all the color...  |
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Post by catt on Jun 5, 2015 14:24:41 GMT -5
You know the prettiest flowers in the garden are Grace and Elijah.
He has red hair!
I remember when the tiger lilies were planted.
You had dug up the juniper bushes and needed something hardy
in their place.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2015 15:33:59 GMT -5
Cindy, I fully understand that agony part. I've managed to mess myself up pretty bad in this last few weeks, trying to do what I've been doing. The Lord gave us several rainy days, and although it didn't rain yesterday and Wednesday, I was working, so couldn't get out there. The Lord's timing is everything. lol
So, I will wait until HE says I can do some more. 
I know this is a silly question, because I think I know the answer, but checking first.
Is this thread for everyone to post their gardening work?
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Post by Cindy on Jun 6, 2015 10:44:04 GMT -5
your yard is beautiful Cindy! love all the color...
You know the prettiest flowers in the garden are Grace and Elijah. He has red hair! I remember when the tiger lilies were planted. You had dug up the juniper bushes and needed something hardy in their place.
Cindy, I fully understand that agony part. I've managed to mess myself up pretty bad in this last few weeks, trying to do what I've been doing. The Lord gave us several rainy days, and although it didn't rain yesterday and Wednesday, I was working, so couldn't get out there. The Lord's timing is everything. lol
So, I will wait until HE says I can do some more.
I know this is a silly question, because I think I know the answer, but checking first.
Is this thread for everyone to post their gardening work?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2015 10:55:27 GMT -5
your yard is beautiful Cindy! love all the color...
You know the prettiest flowers in the garden are Grace and Elijah. He has red hair! I remember when the tiger lilies were planted. You had dug up the juniper bushes and needed something hardy in their place.
Cindy, I fully understand that agony part. I've managed to mess myself up pretty bad in this last few weeks, trying to do what I've been doing. The Lord gave us several rainy days, and although it didn't rain yesterday and Wednesday, I was working, so couldn't get out there. The Lord's timing is everything. lol
So, I will wait until HE says I can do some more.
I know this is a silly question, because I think I know the answer, but checking first.
Is this thread for everyone to post their gardening work?
 I have a few bulbs, planted out back by my garden. They were freebies that came with an order a couple years ago, I think. I just stuck them in the ground, not expecting much out of them and one of the lily plants is just amazing me every day, with its beauty! So far, it has 4 blooms on it. I'm waiting for those other two to open, and will get pics of that too, lol. I hope they open while the others are still there.
My tomato plants are growing like gangbusters, and are covered with blossums, and several tomatoes already growing. And my pepper plants are doing nicely too, and I have a few baby peppers.
 
My salad cukes are growing over the wall, already, and Ed spotted a couple of teenie tiny cukes starting. Lots of blossoms too.
And this is the other box, with the pickling cukes and more tomato plants. I can't even tell, now where one plant stops and the other one starts, on the tomatoes. LOL
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2015 12:03:59 GMT -5
OK, Cindy, you said we can all share, so I am sharing. 
That last post was most of my back yard work.
These pics are part of my front yard.
This is the rock garden we are creating in front of the deck on the front of the house.
As you can see from the second picture, I have a LOT more work yet to do. I'm doing this part of the labor, myself, because Ed's pain level is just too severe. I have to dig out all the rest of that clover, add more borders around the plants and then lay the plastic and finish rocking it in. Ed is in the garage, making me more border as I write this.
Yes, Cindy, I'm weeding, believe it or not.
 
These are closeups of the driftwood, with the Hens & Chicks transplanted into them. Lulu calls them Desert Roses, and I actually love that name for them better. They don't turn colors like hers do, though, but they have their own charm as well. Especially inside driftwood. This was my sister's (Jackie) design, and she suggested it for me, and I went with it. I will be looking for some more driftwood because I have several more plants to move over here.
 
And Ed and I went rock hunting in this last while. And yesterday, we hit the jackpot. We were able to get 50 rocks for real cheap. The expensive part was the physical labor and the pain, but it was worth it. But, these two rocks are so pretty. I couldn't get the true beauty in the picture, but along with the marbling they sparkle in the sun.
 
My Hibiscus transplant it taking off like I hoped it would. I actually thought it was dead and would not come back, but it did, so I moved it here. Needs water though. It's too hot to give it now, but this evening, I'm going to give everyone a good cool drink. LOL
This is a closeup of what we are doing with two of our rose trees. The lilac colored one and the yellow/pink one that we had last year, didn't get enough time in the ground and didn't survive the winter, so these are my two replacement warranty trees. I'm doing it a bit differently. They have their spot in the garden, but I've potted them, to give them a chance to get a good root system going. This winter they will be in the garage, and then next spring, I will put them in the ground, right here. I did it this way, because I want to get this all rocked in this year. (note: that small border section is another Hibiscus that I started from seed, this year)
These are the rest of the rocks we snagged. I'm so excited, because now I can get started, building my flower box. It's going to go right there in front of the garden, to the left of the door. I've got the foundation already put down. Then I'm going to reset those paving stones to butt up right against the box. You'll see later, when I'm "under construction". It's just too hot out there right now. I think this is going to be an evening project.
OK, that's enough boredom for now. lol As you can see, I've pretty much got my work cut out for me. My hands are in agony, my back is inflamed, I can't walk on my left leg, and my arms feel like they want to drop off, but I want to finish this before I completely fall apart. lol
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2015 13:54:35 GMT -5
 Congratulations Cindy and Cheryl for having such beautiful yards, flowers and gardens to look at. I am waiting to also see Lulu's garden, I know that will be pretty to look at also.
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Post by Cindy on Jun 8, 2015 9:56:46 GMT -5
Wow Cheryl! Your gardens and yard get better every year and I swear they could easily be on the cover of a magazine like House Beautiful or Country Gardens! It looks fantastic! I want to get some rocks like you did too, only I don't pay for them lol. Instead I just wander around the area picking them up and throwing them into my little cart and hauling them back to the house. Here in NH there's tons of rocks of all sizes everywhere so you don't have to look too hard. That's how I got the rocks to outline the borders of my gardens I showed the pictures of already. I want more now so I can outline the one where our baby tree is. The whole area needs to be weeded again before I can plant the flowers in it too. I just haven't been up to doing that yet or to getting the rocks. Hopefully I'll be able to soon though....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2015 10:18:26 GMT -5
Congratulations Cindy and Cheryl for having such beautiful yards, flowers and gardens to look at. I am waiting to also see Lulu's garden, I know that will be pretty to look at also. Wow Cheryl! Your gardens and yard get better every year and I swear they could easily be on the cover of a magazine like House Beautiful or Country Gardens! It looks fantastic! I want to get some rocks like you did too, only I don't pay for them lol. Instead I just wander around the area picking them up and throwing them into my little cart and hauling them back to the house. Here in NH there's tons of rocks of all sizes everywhere so you don't have to look too hard. That's how I got the rocks to outline the borders of my gardens I showed the pictures of already. I want more now so I can outline the one where our baby tree is. The whole area needs to be weeded again before I can plant the flowers in it too. I just haven't been up to doing that yet or to getting the rocks. Hopefully I'll be able to soon though....
But, around here, no one gives anything away. I found about twenty or so nice rocks in the wooded trails near here, where the rain washed them up, but I found a place where a woman used to sell landscaping rocks, but has since closed the store and is selling the building. She sold us the rocks, but for WAY less than she would have normally.
It totally amazes me that we don't have rocks just sitting around too. This area is a VERY rocky terrain. You'd think that people would be begging someone to remove rocks, but we don't. We add them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2015 15:40:21 GMT -5
It's finally spring here...kind of anyway and the flowers are starting to bloom, so I thought I'd start us another garden thread. I'm finally really happy with this part of the garden I made. It's finally looking really nice, for the first time. I still have some more work to do there, but at least you can tell it's a garden now. I love how the flowers have come up in a pattern too...yellow, purple, yellow, purple, etc because I just planted the bulbs and had no idea what colors they were going to be. I always pray before I do anything in the garden though and ask the Lord to grow everything so it will look good. I just love the pattern He chose for me!
(sorry, these last ones you see were already fading out, but are a different color of purple and ivory mixed together. Next is another view of the flowers as I didn't get any of the hostas in the first ones, at least not much of them; it'll be awhile before they bloom:
those 3 small plants toward the right side of the second picture that are separating the purple flowers are violets, and they already bloomed. I'm hoping they'll bloom again soon and will try to get a picture of them next time they do as they're so pretty.
Above you can see our strawberries starting already! This isn't all of them but it's most of them anyway.
Oh the pretty yellow flowers on the porch were my mothers day gift from my daughter Michelle this year. I just love them! I plan on planting them into the garden next to the house, but have to wait till it warms up some again.
I didn't know till just now when I uploaded the pictures that someone snuck pictures of me and Gracie working in the garden the other day! I do remember giving Elijah the camera to take inside for me.... so it was probably him
So that's half of that part of my garden. I'll have to get pictures of the part that's against the house still as I forgot to do that. Maybe I'll do that after I plant my peonies.....
Gracie wanted me to take their picture by our baby tree. She's all excited about being able to watch it grow up with them and wants us to keep measruing how big it gets compared to how big they're growing each year. So here they are:
Hope you liked the pictures. It was fun taking them.
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Post by Cindy on Jun 11, 2015 14:02:21 GMT -5
Sorry, I just haven't gotten to it yet. But yesterday we picked our first dozen strawberries and made it an even two dozen today! I can't wait to eat them, but will save them till the kids come over. There should be plenty more for them to pick that day too as it seems like we're getting about a dozen a day. Thank you for the compliment though. I like it, but it's nothing compared to yours. Mine is pretty and I appreciate all the Lord's done for me, but yours is a work of art. That's the difference though between someone who knows what they're doing and someone who doesn't have a clue
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2015 5:18:46 GMT -5
Sorry, I just haven't gotten to it yet. But yesterday we picked our first dozen strawberries and made it an even two dozen today! I can't wait to eat them, but will save them till the kids come over. There should be plenty more for them to pick that day too as it seems like we're getting about a dozen a day. Thank you for the compliment though. I like it, but it's nothing compared to yours. Mine is pretty and I appreciate all the Lord's done for me, but yours is a work of art. That's the difference though between someone who knows what they're doing and someone who doesn't have a clue
This year, I keep stopping in to check their clearance shelves and no roses. So, I decided to ask when they would be putting them out for clearance. She called the manager over and he told me that some of them are on clearance, but he had so many of them, he put them all outside. Then he asked me how many I was interested in buying. I just threw a number out there (I actually need more than 10, for my newest project, but I said 10) He said, "If you buy all 10 today, I'll mark them down 75%."  I got 10 rose bushes for $37.50! That was still too much to spend, but these roses are full priced at $15 each. (double knock out roses)
They're not red, and not pink. They're somewhere in between red and pink. lol
I am building a privacy fence/rose hedge on two sides of the property. Lorrie, I'm working on that "curb appeal"! LOL
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Post by Cindy on Jun 14, 2015 9:28:39 GMT -5
That's wonderful Cheryl! Sounds like a great price! I bet that will look really beautiful too!
I've got to brag on our strawberry plants. they produced enough strawberries yesterday for each of the kids to harvest a dozen each! We got a total of just under 5 dozen strawberries in 4 days from our little strawberry patch! And there's more to be had today and for days to come yet! We have to start over now though, because the kids and I ate all 5 dozen yesterday!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 11:22:51 GMT -5
That's wonderful Cheryl! Sounds like a great price! I bet that will look really beautiful too!
I've got to brag on our strawberry plants. they produced enough strawberries yesterday for each of the kids to harvest a dozen each! We got a total of just under 5 dozen strawberries in 4 days from our little strawberry patch! And there's more to be had today and for days to come yet! We have to start over now though, because the kids and I ate all 5 dozen yesterday!
Cindy, I'm so happy about your strawberries!! That is so cool that you have such a good yield! I'm sorry to say that I gave in and pulled up all my strawberry plants. Man those things were expensive, but they were not doing well. Several times, I caught squirrels in the box, and figured that we won't get any berries, but we did, and they had not touched any of them. Just dug huge holes to bury their pecans.  And in the process, did dig up some of the plants and I had to re-cover the roots on my tomato plants. But, it kinda says something, when an animal who will swipe and eat ANYTHING in there, and didn't touch one berry. lol But, since they were so miniscule and should have been flourishing nicely, by now, I got bored with them and replaced those plants with pickling cukes, so I don't have to buy my cukes, this year, to make pickles.
And there are certain plants that compliment each other and give nutrients. I know that planting herbs with tomato plants, gives tomatoes a boost, but I tried that with parsley and found out that the parsley plant has WAY too much of a root system. So, I experimented with the pickles and tomatoes, together. There must be something to it, because my tomato plants are HUGE. Ron and Lulu huge. LOL Yes, I compare my garden to yours, Ron and Lulu. I can't have the beauty you have worked so hard for, because I container garden, but I take pointers from ya'll. And I didn't go out there and check, yesterday, but the day before, I spotted the pickles and they are taller than the fence I gave them to climb on. So, I've got some chicken wire in the shed, and am going to drape it off the fence, toward the ground, so they go that way, instead of attaching to my tomato plants. I hope it works. Otherwise, I'll grab for a tomato and get a pickle instead. 
I will try to get new pics, today. I still haven't put my rose bushes in the ground. I was hurting too much, still, and then it got extremely hot out there. But, today has a nice breeze, so I'm hoping to get them in the ground today. Speaking of that. LOL, while I was still sleeping, yesterday morning, Ed got out there, just after sun-up and dug 5 spots out where HE wanted the rose bushes. I went over and checked his work and was quite surprised that he finally gets it, that I have to have a wide hole in this clay rocky ground, to put good soil around the roots, to give them and nice bed. The spots aren't where I had planned on putting these, but eventually I do need them there, so that's where 5 of them will go. lol The rest are to be on the back half of the roadside, where I need them the most, for privacy. My neighbors are not going to be pleased, next year, because if they get as big as the ones up by the house, they won't be able to watch us in the back yard.
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Post by Cindy on Jun 15, 2015 11:32:42 GMT -5
that sounds like they're doing amazingly well! Congratulations! I'm sorry your strawberries didn't work out. I just love them! I got another 2 dozen yesterday and saw there'd be a lot more ready by today and a ton were just starting. I'm just thrilled with it. I'm still in my pj's too and need to go get dressed and get going
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and the flowers are starting to bloom, so I thought I'd start us another garden thread. I'm finally really happy with this part of the garden I made. It's finally looking really nice, for the first time. I still have some more work to do there, but at least you can tell it's a garden now. I love how the flowers have come up in a pattern too...yellow, purple, yellow, purple, etc because I just planted the bulbs and had no idea what colors they were going to be. I always pray before I do anything in the garden though and ask the Lord to grow everything so it will look good. I just love the pattern He chose for me!
I have a few bulbs, planted out back by my garden. They were freebies that came with an order a couple years ago, I think. I just stuck them in the ground, not expecting much out of them and one of the lily plants is just amazing me every day, with its beauty! So far, it has 4 blooms on it. I'm waiting for those other two to open, and will get pics of that too, lol. I hope they open while the others are still there.
Congratulations Cindy and Cheryl for having such beautiful yards, flowers and gardens to look at. I am waiting to also see Lulu's garden, I know that will be pretty to look at also.
I got 10 rose bushes for $37.50! That was still too much to spend, but these roses are full priced at $15 each. (double knock out roses)
And in the process, did dig up some of the plants and I had to re-cover the roots on my tomato plants. But, it kinda says something, when an animal who will swipe and eat ANYTHING in there, and didn't touch one berry. lol But, since they were so miniscule and should have been flourishing nicely, by now, I got bored with them and replaced those plants with pickling cukes, so I don't have to buy my cukes, this year, to make pickles. 
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