what does your yard look like (inspired by Dawn,CT and her pink flamingos)

[poohtown]

I've been busy in my yard, and like some other posters, worry if I'm going overboard. I try to space my yard decorations and have to decide on certain ones year to year. So give me a brief description of your yard and maybe you can inspire me.

My front yard:

several bushes in front of house with lavender, columbine, iris, tulips, and violets mixed between. A large hanging plant out front. A very small metal welcome sign in my daughters little garden. Several terra cotta pots of different size and shape, some planted others tipped over.

side yard #1:

a semi big flower garden outlined with stone. A few ornaments in the garden but none too big. (a small frog, a glass humingbird feeder, a toad house, small pool, and a wire trellis for clemantis) Off to side a flowering shrub garden with a stone birdbath in the center. Alongside the house is a planters box filled with flowers and hosta.

side yard #2:

as of now nothing but weeds but I'm thinking of planting a small vegetable garden. Tried a couple years ago on the flower side but we had too many deer at the time. Now that there are more houses around, less deer. This is where my small pink flamingo is peeking out of. Maybe he can watch over my tomatos.

back yard:

pool, stone, table, chairs, swingset. Only plants are the trees and some flowers coming down from the stone wall.

 

[Cruisin]

sounds like you have a very nice yard poohtown

I have as much no maintenance stuff as I can get.

I do have a fish pond in the backyard. With lots of golfish in it, they were very busy today making little goldfishies

I have tons and tons of weeds that need to be pulled.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Seeing as I am a busy retail salesperson (and DH is too), we don't really decorate the yard, except at Christmas when we string tons of icicle lights on the house. We have a flower bed that's actualy a flower-and-escaped-grass-from-the-yard bed at the moment. It's got some lilies we planted last year as well as a few 'butterfly bushes'. Not sure what they are..but they have gorgeous pink flowers when they come in bloom. The house came with some ugly bushes that produce white flowers in the spring as well as one bush we're not sure what it is..only that it's ALL ove the place. Next to the office windows are two tiny evergreen thingies that DH planted the first spring after we moved here as the two ugly-bushes-with-white-flowers that had been there up and died on us.

Oh..and we're so suburban. We have a Bradford Pear tree in the middle of the front yard.

TOV

 

[WDWAurora]

Well...It currently looks like someone got shot outside of a Mexican restaurant's bar...Let me explain. I live in a townhouse in a college area and my neighbors two doors down had a large party Saturday night, complete with a double "Corona" banner straight from a Mexican restaurant...and then there was the jello wrestling. A jello covered sports bra WAS in my yard, but luckily that got claimed. The red jello got dumped on the sidewalk, which baked in the 90 degree heat since then and now looks like dried blood, which is why I say it looks like someone got shot. Add that to the horrendous job they did mowing yesterday and I look like I live in a strange horror movie...Edward Scissorhands combined with CSI: Miami maybe?

 

[Harley Chick]

Our yard is "au natural". Lots of scrub and wildflowers. Most of the front yard is gravel, the walkway to the house is octagonal shaped red bricks, on either side is a rock garden with purple sage bushes. At the beginning of the walkway are 2 huge wagon wheels, each with a pinion pine tree next to it. Very rustic.

 

[monkeyboy]

gravel

 

[poohtown]

see i'm already getting inspired!

Cruisin'Kroezes - i would LOVE a pond but i think my dogs would love it more.


TheOtherVillainess - butterfly bushes are my favorite. I actually wrote a book based on one.


WDWAurora - wow! i here you. I always lived in apartments growing up (i think that's why i'm obsessed with a yard now) and some of the trash that people would throw in their yards and in front of my place was disgusting.

Harley Chick - purple sage! thanks I saw some last year and wanted to get it but couldn't remember what it was. I think it's beautiful.


monkeyboy - lol I thought it said a GRAVE at first and was thinking that's weird. But in NE we have alot of little houses with small graveyards so I thought that's what you were talking about.
Maybe you could put out some container plants?

 

[FroggyinArk]

hmm let s see,, rose garden with bird bath along side driveway on right,, flower bed with a large climbing rose to center it and arow of rose of sharon bushes, with a few trees on left,,, right of rose garden is abrick lined bed wrapping around 2 large magnolia trees home to three flats on impatients , several azaleas, a snow ball bush,, also in this beed is a waterfall, stream bed and fish pond,, small brick patio at end of bed along fenec to back yard,, fence around large deck and future pool area, between patio and house is a brick wal;kway and a bed of assorted bulbs, then a few daisys and a small area of garlic, a clematis planted to climb fencing, along front of house is a sidewalk to a concrete patio, or car pad, walled and walls are covered in english ivy, along edge of the sidewalk is a bed of mini-roses and dianthus from patio along fence out to yard is another brick lined bed containiung ferns and bulbs, a few impatientrs and some calla lilllys, not sure what else anymore know there are a few cedar trees, three large pecan trees there s enough landsxcaping that when i mulched this year we used 10 yards ,, bought by the dump truck load instead of by the bag,,lol

 

[Stepharoonie!]

LOL...I have no yard. I live in an apartment!!

 

[Danauk]

I have been working on my back garden too. It is grassed with stepping stones in that lead to a swing seat in the back corner which is hanging from a pergola. This has 2 vines growing up each side and over the top. We have a fish pond with a waterfall that goes into it in the corner opposite the swing seat. In the other back corner we have a raised bed which is held back by a stone wall which is actually a bunny run and hutch for my 3 rabbits. Along the side fences are flower beds which have shrubs, grasses and trees in and along the back fence there is a cobbled bed which has 2 bamboo plants at each end, a green japanease maple in a blue pot and a red maple in another blue pot which are placed either side of a water feature. The water feature is really cool. It is a person kneeling down and the water comes out of the top causing the ball which is the head to spin!! The water falls down on to the cobbles and then gets pumped back up. My fences are all painted blue. Behind the pond is a wooden shed which has ivy growing around it.

My front garden is a lot smaller and very simple just grass with a flower bed by the front door and one under the window. I have some flowers in baskets on the front of the house too.

 

[poohtown]

boy I'm jealous of all these ponds!

Danauk - I would LOVE to see a picture of the head spinning water statue

Stepharoonie! - been there done that!

FroggyinArk - wow sounds beautiful. I've never had luck with roses or the rose of sharon. The japanese beetles flock to my yard with those.

 

[FroggyinArk]

its in serious need of attention at the moment, after my accident , and all the surgeries, i am not able to do upkeep right now,, dw is tryingto find time to get it all done but all shes managed to do so far is get the annualls out, shes trying slowly to get it all weeded and mulched,,, we still haveabout 50 sq ft to mulch in,, need to rework stream bed too,, the cats got in it during the winter, we had to unhook the pump bcause i wasnt able to keep the leaves out of it,,lol.. we even losted all the gold fishies but giving dw all the credit, shes doing a great job since she now r uns our bizz and is keepingup all the out side stuff, does all the dsrriving, and all i get to do is teh cooking will share garden with anyone willing to come pull weeds..lol.. have to go pick up about 250 more bricks and a cpl wheeel barrow loads of rocks afriend has gotten for me,,and any one willing to help set up pool.. has a nice 25 ft above ground pool in boxes,, and stored,, all we have been able to do is partialy get the area leveled and ready,, still have to set the sand and teh pool..lol.. any takers????? know my honey would love to hgave it yup..lol.. but hopefully she can start working on it again in a few weks.

 

[Cruisin]

poohtown, you could still have a pond even with the dogs.

I have seen in a book that you can build a raised up pond. You build a frame out of wood, like railroad ties etc. or bricks etc and you line it with the pond liner or some kind of prefab thing, maybe like a horse water trough covered with pond liner. You can make it about 30 inches tall or so in whatever shape you like, rectangle, square etc. Then the dogs wouldn't be able to get in so easily. You can build a sitting ledge around the top of your pond so you can sit and watch the fish and waterfall or fountain whatever you put in it.

I bet it wouldn't be too hard and it would look really neat!!

 

[#1 Disney Fan]

Right now? Right now it is SNOW SNOW SNOW and SNOW!

We just had a huge storm yesterday (yes, in the middle of MAY!) and I haven't seen a total but it would be well over 8 inches of WET snow. It looks like February outside!

 

[Jeanny]

well, I just moved from a huge house with a huge yard and lots of yardwork to a townhouse with a small garden in the front, so I've planted sweet william, columbine, daisies, catmint, daylillies which I really love!! and some pansy window boxes. I'll plant a lot of tulips in the fall so I'll have them for next year.

I miss my tulip garden at my old house, I had planted over 400 tulips, iris, daffodils, and really miss that part! I did speak with my "old" neighbor and she said my tulips look beautiful, the new owners didn't rip them out (yet), but they did take down all the bushes and daylillies in the front along with the Burning Bush I had given to my Dad for his birthday 10 years ago, I wish I had thought to dig that up and take some of it with me.

 

[CyranoJones]

We have 5+ acres of yard, so we've divided it into sections that are easier to deal with. I have 5 beds in the front of the house with some perennials, some annuals. Haven't gotten them planted yet this year, just cleaned. The baby bunnies have been hiding out there, so I'll let them be for a while.

We fenced in about 1/4 acre for the "back yard" when we got our late greyhound so he could go out on business without a leash. Now I have 3 beds back there, one herb, one with lilies, poppies, and various other perennials, and one vegetable patch.

Other than that, we don't do a lot of planned stuff. We have a good deal of upkeep around the streams that border 2 sides, and we also have a 3/4 acre pond, but the critters keep that pretty clean for us. The trees pretty much take care of themselves and someone mows and trims for us, so I only have to deal with the fun stuff.