Day 27 - My House in August: Leaves
Indoor or outdoor, fabric, or real: Let's see your leaves! I guess you could even include tables with leaves? Here's some tomato and green bean leaves from earlier this summer. This is the sunniest are of our yard, so we keep the raised beds around the deck.
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Bonnie
6 years agoWe live in a leafy yard and enjoy it until Fall when it's time to rake!
Path to an old stone wall
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI have the same situation as bonnie_ann, and I'm in on a brief break from yard work. I have two 200 year old oak trees that overhang the house. The acorns are prolific this year, and working in the yard is like walking on marbles - already. I get several wheelbarrow loads full of them just from the puppy pen on a 'good acorn year'.
This one below is part of the 'puppy pen' before the cedar fencing was replaced. My dogs access it via doggie doors. Those large trees in the puppy pen are also oaks. The red against one is a bird feeder on a post.
Lawn between shed and the river - trees everywhere!
gsciencechick
6 years agoThanks, anniecat! We got the raised beds on Amazon since we are not handy, then the brick edging pavers at Lowe's and had some crushed stone delivered. We've joked that it's a lot of investment to grow vegetables. The stone is not under the beds to allow for drainage. Still, we pull a lot of weeds even with the stone. The area the other side of the stairs has one more bed and then an area for larger containers.
We do have fairly shady yard with mature trees (going with the leaf theme) so that area around the deck is the best place for a garden because it gets the sun.
Here is the view from the deck from last summer. Time to plant some more lettuce and try some kale. It is too hot here for lettuce in the summer.
Jak Perth
6 years agoThis is an unnamed banana plant I received from a friend. I have two huge ones also but their leaves are plain green.
We also have raised beds for our vegetables..on of the best garden decisions we ever made!
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoLoving everyone's lush leaves! I'm truly envious of your huge gardens/yards - we only have about a fifth of an acre here, having moved from a house with twice as much garden space three years ago. We're now planning to move again, this time we're planning to buy somewhere with acreage and preferably some woodland as we both love trees :)
Here's a few from our garden today.
The gunnera with its ginormous leaves......
Delicate lavender foliage.......
A dainty mallow leaf......
Ligularia.......
Phormium and bamboo......
......and finally the view from the balcony towards our mini woodland, with a rampant kiwi vine in the foreground ;)
czarinalex
6 years agoLeaves from my deck container herb garden... the parsley really took over
Water hyacinth in the fountain container garden
My little meyer lemon tree
And this closeup of a leaf I found on my deck this week. Some insect made it look like spun gold.
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caroline94535
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoHere's a pot of English Ivy. It was started from cuttings from the arrangement on the alter at our 1992 wedding.
It's snuggled up to the Christmas cactus that decided to bloom. There's no rhyme or reason as to when it blooms. It has bloomed for Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, St. Patrick's Day...just whenever the spirt moves it.
Lars
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoBromeliad leaves (these are the most decorative I have, I think):
These are all bromeliads that I grow for their leaves - others I grow for their flowers. This one I grow for both:
but the flowers do not last as long as other bromeliad flowers, but I do grow it most for its leaves.
Almost forgot this one; it's called Vriesea Mint Julip, or at least that's how it was labeled when I bought it.
One more - in my front yard; Agave Furcraea macdougalii
This agave is already over 20' high, and it is quite a bit larger than I was led to believe it would get. I've had it since May 2010, and it is supposed to take 20-25 years to bloom. I may not still be in this house by that time. The flower will double the height of the plant as it is now. This is supposed to be the tallest agave in existence, and it is native to Oaxaca. I do not see many of these around, possibly because they take up so much space.
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6 years agoAn art project our garden club did for our September meeting -- pretty nifty methinks for something made out of a leaf, aluminum foil and black paint!
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