Monday, October 30, 2006

Welcome to my house!! Some friends from Memphis have been asking me to post pics of my house, not just my plants....
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Front of my house. Seems like I haven't done anything...! I have planted about 100 bulbs in this space. The way the windows are bumped out is silly, to me. I will plant that Hinoki Cypress in front of those...
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Looking right off the back deck. That's facing west. That mess is my lasagna veggie garden for next year!
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Looking left and down off the deck. I am really starting to get discouraged because we have spent so much and yet we have so little....
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The Bird Garden, looking left-straight off the deck. Those two trees are the crabapples we put in last summer.
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Looking right-straight off the deck. Those are nice neighbors! He keeps an immaculate farm. Tomorrow, the guy comes to aerate the lawn so we can have better grass. I am so anxious to get it all done.
So frustrating! What was I doing when the weather was nice? Painting the basement. Today it is windy and 70*, so I finished planting the bulbs, I chopped up the leaves for the lasagna garden, pulled grass out of the flower garden, and planted some Happy Returns Daylily

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I have written away for SASE seeds, where folks will send you free seeds in an envelope you send them with postage on it. But it's structure I am missing....the big trees or shrubs that give a landscape it's "bones", as they say. Those are the big ticket items...
Slowly but surely, I guess.

8 comments:

  1. You have such a beautiful house and a nice big yard!! You will get the yard the way you want it eventually...lots of flowers and trees:-)I ended up carving 7 pumpkins! lol

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  2. Beautiful house.
    Does your 'backdoor' neighbor have any 'natural' fertilizer? Boy, that would help grow Anything!

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  3. You have a lovely home, sissy, it looks so warm and welcoming and given a year or two to mature and your garden will look wonderful.

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  4. But you have a gorgeous house and yard! Why not try Winter Sowing this year? You'd be over-run with seedling come spring. Always a good thing! Don't get discouraged, you'll get there!

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  5. Tina,
    Would it be Ok for me to put your blog on mine? I keep forgetting the name of yours!!

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  6. Sissy, that'd be fine! My wacko blog name just goes to show what happens when you can't think of anything good. lol. I'll add you to mine as well, if you don't mind :)

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  7. Your home is beautiful and will make a nice backdrop for your garden. Starting from scratch is the pits but at least you seem to know what you're doing and what you want. To me it looks like you've gotten quite a bit planted and I bet it fills in fast.

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  8. I love your new home, Sissy. It looks like you have a lot of space to garden. It all takes time, which can be frustrating.
    I bet those crabapple trees will be pretty this spring. Just keep plugging away at it. It will eventually be finished.

    I love the view of the barn. And they are nice to boot. Can't beat that.

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