Red's world in pics

[Carol Dee]

You have a lovely brick home. And the yard and gardens are so pretty. The must keep you busy. (Such a big yard, mine is rather small.)

 

[Smart Red]

These are more photos in the area north of the house. These 5 Golden Juniper form a semi-circle around the Golden Cushion False Cypress.
It was a rough winter as the browning leaves show here in early spring. They are much taller now and back to green and gold. Not Packer colors!

Behind the shrubs is my old asparagus bed, rhubarb, and Egyptian onions lined on the west by a boxwood hedge. Just a bit further north are the Bing Cherries and lilacs. To the far right rear is one of two Butternut trees (now fallen prey to a blight) and to the left, the bistro table and chairs are set amid the formal rose garden.

Here is the "carnation" bed trimmed with a hedge of 9 different sedums. DH's carnations never did take to the bed so he is waiting for me to clean it out and plant the space with Asian lilies. Rose garden lays to the right, north of the roses is my circular iris bed, and behind the iris is a daylily bed.

Wish I could find a photo of the rose garden in bloom. If I do I will post it. These 25' arborvitae at the top border the whole property to the north along the road. We have a path down the middle of the large trees where, hidden by foliage, the grands can run nearly the whole north end of the property.

I have a 6' X 8' greenhouse. Right now it is full of gardening things rather than plants. It has no heat or light and will be moved closer to the garden shed and coop this spring. It sits west of the boxwood hedge and south of the rose garden. It is sided by crocus to the south,

Hyacinth to the east on either side of the door -- I have a pic, but can't get it to upload so I put this one of just the blue ones --,

To the north are half a dozen various evergreen trees I had planned to bonzi and never got around to doing anything with...still in their pots, and a row of peonies to the west of the greenhouse including this yellow tree peony.

A bit north of the greenhouse but south of the sedum bed is a small fish pond.

The final north-side specimen is the weeping cherry to the west of a barberry hedge.

There is a hedge of 4 Rose of Sharon separated by 3 burning bushes north of the sedum bed and a green and a red smoke bush also closer to the arborvitae.

That about covers the area north of the house. We will walk to the west side next.

 

[seedcorn]

Man, do I feel LAZY. The work some of you do, I'm impressed!

 

[Smart Red]

I forgot the plant nursery. There is an area east of the rose garden, west of the lilacs, behind the greenhouse used to start plants because I can get to it with the hose in dry years. All the trees and shrubs were moved in the past two years, but I have 7 varieties of small berries in holding until I have a forever home for them -- hopefully this summer.

 

[Smart Red]

No need to feel lazy, seedcorn. DH and I both worked on these beds together. We have no life, go nowhere, are both retired and do next to nothing aside from working here. If you want a life, you let something go. We are happy playing here.

 

[Smart Red]

You have a lovely brick home. And the yard and gardens are so pretty. The must keep you busy. (Such a big yard, mine is rather small.)

Thank you, Carol. I love this house. DH and I built it together from the footings to each and every brick inside and out. I am lucky in that DH likes working outside in the yard and gardens, too. Remember, we are both retired. We used to spend every Saturday racing around the yard. Now we have a routine each morning (during the growing season) that takes less than 45 minutes and allows us to work in every flower bed during the course of a week. Very few weeds are interested in taunting us once the perennials get growing.

 

[Carol Dee]

Smart Red, AMAZING place you have there.

 

[Lavender2]

WOW! just WOW!
I am enjoying the tour!

(if your DH gets bored can I borrow him? please )

 

[journey11]

I grow things. My DH specializes in killing things. You know, that whole yin yang thing. Unfortunately, on only one acre he quickly runs out of things to destroy.

You two must work very well together. I'm really enjoying your tour! Especially the springtime pics!

 

[catjac1975]

Beautiful! Thanks for the photos. Is it just me or is this the slowest January ever? So nice to see the warm weather.