My Reno'd Gardens, Lots of Pics - Low Maintenance is my name

sensibullmastiffs

14 years ago

Part of Front Garden (right side of sidewalk)

Other part of Front Garden on left side of sidewalk

This piece is attached to the left side of sidewalk garden

My main hosta garden in front yard - I will have to take an updated pic of this one this weekend as I reno'd it after I reno'd it if you know what I mean

Now onto the backyard at end of deck Part 1

Same Garden as above just the second piece of it

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Backyard Garden #2 Part 1

Same garden as above, Part 2

Fenced in Tree garden...

This is the yet to be finished reno....mini ties are going by by, need more dirt and rocks to finish, but this is how it stands right now, minus the unpruned my dog thought my lilac topiary tree was a chew toy, and not the doggie that is sitting pretty in this pic either....the other blonde wild child did it!!! It has since been wacked back (grrrr). This garden is attached to the one that runs beside the deck

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conel946
14 years ago
I am a rock freak---where did you get them? They compliment your gardens nicely! Thanks for sharing.
conel946 aka Connie
sensibullmastiffs
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14 years ago
Thanks...I got them from a farmer who picked them out of his fields. I drove around the area I live in scouting for piles and just went up and asked if he wanted any $$ and I said I would like some of them. I still laugh when I remember him saying "us farmers hate rocks and you silly girls fill your gardens up with them" Take em away they are FREE

Lots and lots of trips loading up the back of my jeep...lol
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Yes do contact your extension office and they will gladly send you information. Also drive around your area and see what you like. If you don't know the name take a picture and ask someone what it is. Natives are great but don't miss out on some great plants that are not native. Flax lily is a great one and I don't think anything bothers it not even the cold. Walter's Viburnum is a great small shrub and native too. I love my beauty berry but it has two problems...it froze to the ground this year (it came back and looks great) but it doesn't easily fit into conventional plans...IMHO. I have it planted in the back. Love pentas...generally a perinnial but can be killed by the cold. Oh, Coonties are another great native. They are a slow grower so they can be pricey but they hang tough in they yard year after year. I love crepe myrtles too...small tree. Although they can get rather large depending on the variety...are blooming this time of year. My zone 9 firebush and passion vine froze to the ground. The firebush came back the passion vine (non native var.) did not. I have replaced the passion vine with a native variety and have been warned that it suckers badly! But it won't die! OH! bla bla bla ... on and on I go! hehe. If you want low maintenance stay away from those things that freeze. I should know what freezes because all those things are in my freaking yard! What a disaster.
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Janice
14 years ago
GASP--free rocks!!! I LOVE ROCKS!!! Very nice designs, especially using the rocks--rocks--rocks!!!

Seems like you have some very nice areas, out front, for MORE HOSTA!!!! Enable, enable, enable!

Oh, and nice 'little' doggie you got there--being a Bull Mastiff and all!!! ;o)
sensibullmastiffs
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14 years ago
thanks....roflol got to like FREE, I would have hated to have had to pay for them from a garden centre, I could imagine that would have been a small FORTUNE...more money for hosta's then right!! I told myself I'm DONE outfront so you behave yourself ;>() Full sun from 11am to about 5pm in that big garden if you really feel the need to attempt to enable me some more with some ideas for scorching hot sun lovers, but I didn't just say that did I....oops
newhostaaddict
14 years ago
your garden looks GREAT...

i also love rocks...the FREE ones...lol...

jill...
mary52zn8tx
14 years ago
Love how clean and neat your edges are. I also love rocks. Limestone is all there is around here--if you are lucky. There is a place about eighty miles up the road with some beautiful rock. I have never been able to find out if it is legal to pick up rocks on Texas roadways.
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alyciaadamo
14 years ago
Nice gardens!

Yeah we have the same thing here with the rock problem if you drive down some really old farm roads there will be piles upon piles of rocks sitting in the middle of fields!But alot of our rocks we got off the side of a dirt road they grade about once a day in the spring for almost the entire month of April! Some just came from our basement
jodikay
14 years ago
Very nice. Love the dog. Hope its better behaved than my devil puppy (love my puppy, just not this age 4months). Anyway, love what you are doing.

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sensibullmastiffs
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14 years ago
Thanks everyone. I was literally sitting down in my front yard staring at the mowed down perennial garden with paper in hand thinking....what am I going to do with this!?!?!?!?! (i'm sure all the neighbours wondering what I was doing just sitting there staring....roflol) Then it HIT ME...ROCKS. Then I was off and running once I had the vision!! I was looking for a way to create interest in the gardens as I knew that I wanted to go with a simple planting structure. Heck when it sat empty with no plants I loved it. Love when the rocks get wet to show all their pretty colors.

Up in Northern Ontario I heard that they can fine you for taking rocks. I'm not from there, but have been up that way before and its absolutely gorgeous, lots and lots of rock. I'm pretty sure most of our rock in garden centres here gets shipped from up north. Lots of quarries up that way.

I have two bullmastiffs and the other one that is not in the picture is the devil and she's 5 years old!!!!! Big ole brat she is...don't know how many times I've told her OUTTA MY GARDENS...she is nosey nosey nosey and I've given up hope that she is ever going to calm down you'd sware she was only 4 months old!!!!! She recently chewed into a milion tiny pieces 5 out of my 12 plastic solar lights.
hostasformez4
14 years ago
I really enjoy seeing what others have done to their gardens and LOVE the rocks. That's one way of keeping your dog from digging !!!!! LOL

Thanks for posting.

Connie

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