Share your flowerbeds??

[peach]

Is anyone into gardening at all?? We should post yard/flowerbed pictures!

We just moved and there was nothing but grass -we cut a nice flowerbed and filled it up with plants in the front this week, and we want to do another in the back and build some raised garden beds next year.

[tarheels]

I landscaped my grandparents' house in Florida last week while I was there and posted about it: pandce.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=homegarden&action=display&thread=6590

Here's mine at this house:

I noticed when we were in BC how incredibly different gardening styles are by region. I'm not talking just about plants, but the aesthetics of how beds are designed are really different.

[heartmama]

Ooh, I don't have any pictures from last year, but I would love to share mine when I get home tonight. They are just getting started now, but they are way way nicer than they were when we bought our house.

[ssmjlm]

Here's an old pic of the front of our house.

[wineenthusiast]

I will post some later after I have a chance to take some. I was mostly a lurker on this board on TN but am getting more into gardening now that I think I figured out how to keep stuff alive! I've lived in my house 9 years and basically needed to landscape from scratch because the previous owners did a TERRIBLE job so we've done a little each year.

[InBetweenDays]

Here are some photos of our front beds. We put most of the plants in two years ago, and some just last year. So eventually there will be more variety in height. And forgive the fact that we desperately need to mow our grass...




This bed is still a work in progress. Problem is the dogs run through it a lot.

[Deleted]

I can't stand grass! We have small front yards in my neighborhood, but this is ours in the early spring:

[InBetweenDays]

Juno, that is gorgeous! I'd love to get rid of some of our grass someday, but right now the kids and dogs love it.

[Deleted]

Thanks!

[sugardumpling]

this is our home Sassafrass.

[FoxInFiji]

Oh I have a lot to share I just need to take some new pictures with this year's plants! Our front flower beds are looking so good this year. The tiered rock wall beds look decent but I wish I had amended the soil better when we redid those beds from scratch. The moss is filling it between the stones in our flagstone path but so are the weeds. The long fence flowerbed we put in last year is looking really nice in some areas and sparse in others (but yay I still have more space to fill in next year!). We're going to create a new shrub only flowerbed in the back and I have half of it filled in already.

I try to get most of my perennials at plant sales which all just finished up last weekend for us. I have all but a couple things in the ground already. All (5) of my dwarf conifers for the year are bought and planted. I have 4 yards of white cedar mulch to put down in the front beds and a little more weeding to do before everything looks good. Oh and I have a container to plant...I have most of the annuals and just got the soil so that should be done soon.

[Ramz-ee]

I will take some after the weekend. The H is putting out mulch over the weekend, so everything will be nice and pretty then.

I love seeing what everyone has, especially tarheels, you never disappoint.

[peach]

Everyone does mulch, hey?

No one really does that around here. We just plant the flowers in the dirt.....Some people use mulch, but not many and it's usually businesses and public areas where they are trying to limit the amount of weeding they have to do.

I like the look of mulch, but I like my flowerbeds to be really full so you'd never see the mulch anyway once everything fills in. Plus, what do you do when you want to move plants around ( I like to re-arrange once things get bigger) or add more..? Just curious?

[Deleted]

Around here no does mulch either. I think it just rots/erodes away/fades with the weather extremes. Most people I have know have rocks with landscape fabric under it.

I just redid one of mine today. Off the corner of our house I planted it all with lilies and gladiolas when we first moved in. The soil wasn't right for it (too much gravel underneath yet), the wind wrecked it all and it was a pain in the ass to weed.

H and I just dug it up as my Mother's Day gift. I have an antique wagon in it now with some baskets of flowers, a milk can with a flower basket and some engraved rocks people have given me. It looks good but need rock yet..it's all black dirt.

The rest of our house is native landscaping/bushes. Pretty, hardy, cost a fortune but not exactly show worthy either..pretty normal.

I'm not much into flower gardening. I can mow lawn and weed trim all day, but flowers are something I don't have the patience for. It's also too windy here for me to care/worry about them.

[gingerlecoeur]

hmm... I would like to share my pics, but I don't know how... : (

[tarheels]

May 23, 2012 19:33:31 GMT -5 peach said:

Everyone does mulch, hey?

No one really does that around here. We just plant the flowers in the dirt.....Some people use mulch, but not many and it's usually businesses and public areas where they are trying to limit the amount of weeding they have to do.

I like the look of mulch, but I like my flowerbeds to be really full so you'd never see the mulch anyway once everything fills in. Plus, what do you do when you want to move plants around ( I like to re-arrange once things get bigger) or add more..? Just curious?

You have to reapply mulch 2-3 times a year because it decomposes and fertilizes the soil. And yep, you just scoot it to the side when you want to plant something. One of the main reasons we use it here is because it helps prevent evaporation and keeps the soil more moist when it's 100* for 3 months straight.

The full flowerbeds were the thing I noticed most in BC. I don't know where you are, but the gardens there all had a very organic style, no matching, no repeating, every inch just chock full of every different type of plant that grows there. The local style here is very ordered with repetition and symmetry being big.

[tarheels]

May 23, 2012 20:41:44 GMT -5 gingerlecoeur said:

hmm... I would like to share my pics, but I don't know how... : (

Ginger! Thrilled you made it

It's just like before on the nest. In the compose box, look up by the smiley faces - above the big smiley and the frown is a picture button. Click on it and it'll give you the image code. Insert your URL in between the brackets.

[peach]

tar heels, yup!

I love the more organic, wild, natural look and that is what is commonly seen around here.

I think if someone here planted a few flowers spaced wide apart with mulch inbetween people would scratch their heads. haha

[tarheels]

May 23, 2012 21:29:26 GMT -5 peach said:

tar heels, yup!

I love the more organic, wild, natural look and that is what is commonly seen around here.

I think if someone here planted a few flowers spaced wide apart with mulch inbetween people would scratch their heads. haha

That's one of the main differences maybe? We account for full size and plant once. My impression is that you guys plant for its present size and move it when it gets bigger, meaning you're rearranging your beds every year? No thank you - I plant once and you won't see me in my beds again for 20 years except to weed or put out annuals There's only lots of mulch visible in the beginning when plants are new.

[treedimensional]

A piece of my fence.

[boiler717]

Our azaleas went nuts this year!