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Happy Spring Everyone Pics

Posted by calicocat1967 4 NW Iowa (My Page) on
Tue, Mar 24, 09 at 10:18

Love to look at other gardens. Especially ones in my own state. This summer my garden will be on a garden tour. So I am already starting to think about new things to do. My back yard is my main focal point. My best buddy, my dad passed away a month ago so I want to make a special memorial garden in honor of him. he was one of the few men that acutally commented on my garden. Of course he probably did it because he is my dad :-). Here are a couple of shots from last year. I will need to step it up for the tour HeeHee. Any feed back ??

Life's a Garden......Dig It !!
Kim


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Back bed looking west
Back bed looking NW
Back bed looking east


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RE: Happy Spring Everyone Pics

Oh, you confused me for a minute! I thought you were suggesting that this is what your garden looked like right now, and as an Iowa Citian, I was quite incredulous ;)

Very attractive garden! I mostly garden for functionality, not aesthetics, so I'm probably not one to give advice (the only ones who would give my garden awards would be the insects, spiders, and birds ;) ). I'm hoping it'll be more aesthetically pleasing this year, though -- I'm planning to train all of my vining plants (even the pumpkins) to strings, encouraging them to fruit high off the ground. Should look nicer, as well as shade out the weeds better, get better airflow to the leaves, capture more light, and make harvest easier.

Are you busy starting seeds? I've been going crazy with mine. I made an elaborate LED grow rig this year to help de-leggify them. :)


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RE: Happy Spring Everyone Pics

Happy Spring right back to ya!

It looks like you have a lovely property with beautiful mature trees. I like how you've focused on foliage as opposed to color. But a few more little color splashes from flowers here and there might be nice but all the shades of hostaa that you have, I would never say flowers would be a necessity in your garden.
We do not have any mature trees here so I've focused mostly on perennials and grasses outside of the veggie garden.

Just a couple pics from last summer, 2 1/2 years after we began landscaping the back yard. The second is of the veggie garden which ended up doing pretty well last year.

View Through Back Gate
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RE: Happy Spring Everyone Pics

I can't post pictures here. Have tried many times. But after last years flooding glad to have flowers coming back.And dividing some to share with a flood victim who lost all Her's.


 
 

 

 


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