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SPedigrees
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A much belated thank you to everyone for the kind welcome messages! So Lucky, yes the turf mat in some places (drier, rocky areas) was difficult. I have 3 perennial beds in such a place that took both the hubby and me days of digging/hacking with a shovel to plant, but in wetter areas the ground is more forgiving. I think I have planted my last trees and perennial plants, but I have said that before!
Haha seedcorn! I love the northeast but not the long winters, and I'm envious of all the plants that my southern neighbors are able to grow.
Nice to have international members in this group, Thejenx. I always feel like I'm travelling without leaving home when I view photos from afar.
Truer words were never spoken than yours, Flowerbug! Everything is always a work in progress, and Mother Nature has had a large say in much of the evolution here. I started out trying to control everything, and then realized the futility of that. Now I grow what seems to be happy here. Also I have come to appreciate the wildlife that our new partially wooded landscape has attracted. I avoid the use of almost all toxic chemicals (except for hornet killer - I co-exist with the bumble bees but the wasps have to go! Shudder!).
Thistlebloom, from your profile picture it looks like you have horses. I miss ours. :-(
Ridgerunner, I will try to post a few photos. Basically I think I am done, but the look of everything will change as the trees grow up. Here goes nothing with the photos. This may be a learning curve for me!
Our barn and part of our old pasture fence that we left in place for nostalgic purposes. This rugosa rose growing along the fence would have been eaten by horses back in the day. This is part of our pasture behind the house and the young trees bordering the neighbors' land are some that we are growing.
My "orange garden" which started out to be multi-colored, but only orange flowers would grow, so I just went with the flow. The birdhouse sits atop an old utility pole (turned into a bottle tree) that the marble company sawed off when they gave up their right-of-way that ran over our property. Birdhouse needs a paint touch-up, but it's currently home to a pair of tree swallows, so that will have to wait until the little ones have flown.
This whimsical garden borders on our brook and wetland area, and is home to my two garden gnomes. It is transitioning from a sunny garden to a shade one because of a grove of quaking aspens that have grown up behind it.
And lastly, these are the perennial beds that we had such difficulty digging in the rocky, hard packed surface. Behind these beds on the slope is our young pine and hardwood forest.
Haha seedcorn! I love the northeast but not the long winters, and I'm envious of all the plants that my southern neighbors are able to grow.
Nice to have international members in this group, Thejenx. I always feel like I'm travelling without leaving home when I view photos from afar.
Truer words were never spoken than yours, Flowerbug! Everything is always a work in progress, and Mother Nature has had a large say in much of the evolution here. I started out trying to control everything, and then realized the futility of that. Now I grow what seems to be happy here. Also I have come to appreciate the wildlife that our new partially wooded landscape has attracted. I avoid the use of almost all toxic chemicals (except for hornet killer - I co-exist with the bumble bees but the wasps have to go! Shudder!).
Thistlebloom, from your profile picture it looks like you have horses. I miss ours. :-(
Ridgerunner, I will try to post a few photos. Basically I think I am done, but the look of everything will change as the trees grow up. Here goes nothing with the photos. This may be a learning curve for me!
Our barn and part of our old pasture fence that we left in place for nostalgic purposes. This rugosa rose growing along the fence would have been eaten by horses back in the day. This is part of our pasture behind the house and the young trees bordering the neighbors' land are some that we are growing.
My "orange garden" which started out to be multi-colored, but only orange flowers would grow, so I just went with the flow. The birdhouse sits atop an old utility pole (turned into a bottle tree) that the marble company sawed off when they gave up their right-of-way that ran over our property. Birdhouse needs a paint touch-up, but it's currently home to a pair of tree swallows, so that will have to wait until the little ones have flown.
This whimsical garden borders on our brook and wetland area, and is home to my two garden gnomes. It is transitioning from a sunny garden to a shade one because of a grove of quaking aspens that have grown up behind it.
And lastly, these are the perennial beds that we had such difficulty digging in the rocky, hard packed surface. Behind these beds on the slope is our young pine and hardwood forest.
