Wordless Wednesday: Flower Garden
Friday Fun Video: A “WOW” Garden
This is amazing!
Wordless Wednesday: Stylish Back Yard
A Front Yard
Growing Bamboo Can be Tricky
While there are no panda bears living in my neighborhood, the prospect of growing bamboo seems interesting. Perhaps along a fence line or to hide an ugly old building in your backyard? However, growing bamboo can be tricky. There are good kinds and there are bad kinds. From Outdoors blog,
Wanting shelter from the W/ N/W winds which whistle across open fields at the back of the house, I enthusiastically planted this thug ! Yes it did a first class job for a few years,but now I’m constantly chopping the stuff & boy has it spread. I
According to one website, if running bamboo were that bad it could take over the world. (I have often wondered that about Kudzu too). Here’s a link to some bamboo info you might find useful. Me? I’m sticking to my dreams of a raised garden for potatoes, tomatoes, and maybe squash.
Long Road to Spring
This post at The Lonely Walkers Blog perfectly captured my mood today.
For much that I like snow, cold and my coat, I long for spring and the rebirth she will bring along, but winter just seems to be longer and colder. So I go back to this verse, to its great hope and power of change and regeneration. Seasons comes and go. Death will be followed by life again.
Though I see some blooms coming up, the weather report reminds me that we’re still some distance from spring.
Thank you Marta Favro.
Wordless Wednesday: Stunning Garden
Landscaping Begins with a Sketch
One of these days I’m going to sit down with my husband and come up with a viable landscaping plan for the front of our house. Right now we have river stone right next to the house and a couple of rose bushes. We’ve cut down our little landscaping cedar trees because they were looking gross and dead.
I’d like to put in a some more bushes and maybe spider grass. Definitely a Japanese Maple! As you can see, we really do need to come up with some design ideas! Theology & Geometry has already started her dream plan,
My idea, if the sketch is truly undecipherable, is this: Push back the perimeter of the front yard a couple of feet, placing a row or two of nice-looking pavers flush with the street so that the parking that will inevitably be done there won’t continue to rip up my grass and create muddy tire tracks. Install a retaining wall (texture, color, material, and pattern are up for debate) and build up the lawn to level off at the top of the wall. That won’t be too tough since there is already a decent slope to the yard, and I’m not necessarily talking about a very tall retaining wall.
That’s a home owner with a plan!
Wordless Wednesday: Snow Beauty
Friday Video Fun: Mulching in the Fall
Time to enjoy the cooler temperatures by catching up on some outdoor work! Mulching in the Fall definitely has benefits for a gardener, including protection for plants from temperature extremes. Here’s a quick How-To about mulching as we walk into the weekend!