Garden much?

[beeper*71]

Thought I'd share with you another hobby of mine. My gal has gotten me interested in gardening/landscaping in the last few years and this year with the move to the new digs we had a marathon run of digging and planting and digging and planting and on and on and on...and on.

When we bought the house it already had the raised beds in place but they where empty. We transported and transplanted hundreds (yes, hundreds) of plants from the old place plus added some new ones.

Here is a sampling of some of the fruits of our labors.


View to the east from the deck. Check out the mystery melon at the bottom left, it was a leftover from the previous owner and only started growing in late June...and then quickly overtook the entire bed.

Those big ones are Dahlia's and they require lots of support as they get too heavy to stand on there own, even with tree trunk like stems. The blooms can get big as your head. The huge vine is a morning glory.

View towards the west. That reddish colored small tree is a Newport Plum, I spent alot of time finding and purchasing that one and it's one of my favorites. It blooms in the early spring and stays a dark shade of red all summer then turns bright red in the fall.

This raised bed I added for the shade garden. Several varieties of Fern and Hosta reside there.

 

[mopar_man]

Not really one for doing that stuff myself but it looks good Beep.

 

[71ChargerRT]

Yup I'm with Mopar Man, don't do it myself, too much time away from the car, but it looks good

 

[71Satcloned2runner]

Where is the "personal" garden?? Send those pics.

On a more proper note, looks great, and will appreciate the value of your home. CONGRATS!!!

V,.

 

[beeper*71]

After working on cars 8 hours a day I've found this hobby quite relaxing. Winter time will find me tinkering on the hot rod.

We have dropped in several variety of shrubs and such around roughly half the perimeter of the property, when they mature we will have our own little private forest.

 

[BB71Challenger]

Cool garden Beep. I found myself straining to see other more "rare and valuable" varieties of plants lol.

 

[68R/T]

I nurtured two kids to full growth, does that count?:huh:

 

[BootHead]

"The huge vine is a morning glory"

what ya doing in a couple years?

 

[beeper*71]

Cool garden Beep. I found myself straining to see other more "rare and valuable" varieties of plants lol.

Here is some more. Z made the pyramid trellis constructed of copper and 2X2's all on her own.
Although you can't see them in this shot there are 2 "specimen" trees under that big Maple. One is a Japanese Maple that is dark reddish green combo and it remains small in size, the other is a Pagoda Dogwood and also is a small variety. I will get a shot of those tomorrow....

 

[Not A Duster]

I actually enjoy making plants grow as well beeper - but my work schedule during the summer does not allow me to do my share of mowing the lawn, much less gardening.

And then I have the monster creature living in the back yard who digs/pisses anything we plant to death anyway:

 

[Jamies440]

Nice garden there! I'm not much into it but my Dad is. For some reason these past couple years he hasnt planted corn on the other side of the raised strawberry beds and therefore some Cars have ended up there :toot: . Oh yeah, when he moved the Garden over there from beside the storage shed and left the other lot empty, somehow an Aspen R/T ended up in the old garden spot as well as a stepside bed and a Dodge 4x4 longbed chassis :toot: :shifty:

 

[Fishy]

Nice garden there! I'm not much into it but my Dad is. For some reason these past couple years he hasnt planted corn on the other side of the raised strawberry beds and therefore some Cars have ended up there :toot: . Oh yeah, when he moved the Garden over there from beside the storage shed and left the other lot empty, somehow an Aspen R/T ended up in the old garden spot as well as a stepside bed and a Dodge 4x4 longbed chassis :toot: :shifty:

If you mow your lawn and find a car....(need I really say it?! :dgt

 

[a12bee]

No pics showing. I can appreciate a nice yard. I've tried planting but the only thing I can seem to grow is older. I have some roses but they do worse when I try to work them.

 

[mopar_man]

Nice garden there! I'm not much into it but my Dad is. For some reason these past couple years he hasnt planted corn on the other side of the raised strawberry beds and therefore some Cars have ended up there :toot: . Oh yeah, when he moved the Garden over there from beside the storage shed and left the other lot empty, somehow an Aspen R/T ended up in the old garden spot as well as a stepside bed and a Dodge 4x4 longbed chassis :toot: :shifty:

Did you ASK to put cars there or just assume since it was empty that it was yours for the taking? Either way, if I were your parents, I would be some kind of pissed off at you.

 

[BootHead]

Glad to see you having fun with the new digs.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

No, I don't garden much. The garden is my wife's domain and she keeps it nicely..

We were lucky in that there was a nice perennial garden here when we moved. The biggest challenge has been figuring out what all the plants are. While she still tries to figure some out, she just thins out those she doesn't like and tends to those that she does like.

She adds some annuals each year, but other than a honeysuckle, we haven't added much to it. It's pretty nice as it is.

Here's some pictures of some of the flowers. I took these in July.
This first picture is of some lilies. There's 3 stalks there and they are almost 8 feet tall.

Edit - This is me "gardening":

 

[beeper*71]

Looks great dcf. We have a Honeysuckle as well and I just got a really neat iron trellis to put behind it. I'll get a pic once I get it installed.

Here is a shot of the specimen trees with the Dogwood in the foreground followed with the Japanese Maple and off in the distance a Purple Sandcherry next to the garage.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Trellis? Our's is growing a lot like a low shrub.
Can you train them onto a trellis?

That'd be cool, because ours is planted at the side of our shed. I could fix a trellis against that... :hmmm:

 

[mopar_man]

This is me "gardening"

 

[beeper*71]

Trellis? Our's is growing a lot like a low shrub.
Can you train them onto a trellis?

Yes. They will grasp onto a trellis, ours is currently trying to climb the nieghbors chain link fence...:shifty:
At the old place it did not grow very well, here it is growing like crazy.