I have taken some pictures of my backyard. My wife and I just love summer and the countless hours of enjoyment the yard brings us. We have many annuals, perennials, a mixture of trees, and a water garden. The water garden is my favorite. We also have a swimming pool. In one of the photos you can see a bench near the pond. We spend time there reading and just listening to the water fall over the waterfall. I uploaded the pictures to Flickr, created a set, asked for a slide show. Here is that slide show. Hope you enjoy it.
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BEAUTIFUL! I'm afraid to show my wife though, because she's wanted a water garden for a long time! We have bee balm, butterfly bushes (they are multiplying on their own), a lot of ornamental grasses, hostas, some milkweed, trumpet vine, and a wide variety of lillies. My wife is constantly weeding! We also have some vegetables. This year could be the bumper crop of tomatoes! I just take care of the lawn mostly.
ReplyDeleteI have really enjoyed watching the hummingbirds and butterflies. What great therapy!
Hi Otto,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your slide show. Your landscaping is gorgeous! I can only imagine the enormous time invested over several years. We've been in our house for almost three years with no landscaping until we began working on it this spring. We rented a sod stripper and took out about 1800 square feet of sod before we dug about 150 holes for everything including trees (weeping mulberry, clump birch, Cleveland pear, dwarf Alberta spruce, Japanese maple, serviceberry), shrubs (boxwoods, lilac, holly, hinoki cypress, golden cypress, hydrangeas, purple winebacks, spirea) grasses, lots of hostas, daylilies, Maynight sage, coral bells, creeping junipers, annuals, etc. Then my husband put in the fabric and hooked in a drip hose to our existing sprinkler system before putting in 20 tons of Glacier stone with a front loader. He's currently finishing a 30 X 3 foot long path of slate along the back side of the garage to the gas and electric meters. As he was digging out preparing for the gravel type stuff that had to go underneath it, we realized we needed to put in some underground electrical wire if we want electricity to our future out-building or pool pump so we bought 240 feet of wire to bury. All of this adds up fast, I'm guessing we've spent at least $10,000 this summer. I can't imagine how much you've invested over time, but it looks awesome and is so worth the payback of tranquility. :)
P.S. I didn't realize you were now an AP at MHS. Best wishes for the new school year!
Kelly Haines
Your yard is going to be fabulous. And you will get many years of enjoyment. As I said my favorite part is the water garden. I have been an AP at MHS for 3 years, starting my 4th year in August. It is different than teaching however it is still education just not content specific. I enjoy it immensely but could not have done 20 years ago.
ReplyDeleteYour yard/gardens are gorgeous!!! I am "green" with envy! Dornberg is right...gardening is very much therapy! Great job and good lcuk in year number 4 as AP. tina
ReplyDeleteP.S. I have enjoyed reading your comments and seeing what you have done with the 23 things class.
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