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Pics of my yard!!! not done yet!! im going to do moooorrreee buttttt heeerrreee isss whhhhaaat I haaaavevveee TAAAAHHHHH DAHHHHHHHH lol

Okay in this lil corner by the drive way we have what i belive is a Ti plant and then i have mother inlaws tounge (going to plant more in there dont worry)




then there is this by the end of my hedges i dont know what it is called....

The last looks like moses-in-the-cradle or purple heart.

How can i make these pics smalleR?

I don't think they are too large, Scott.

OKAY IM FIXXING THE PROBLEM YALL PHOTOBUCKET IS FINALLY GIVING ME PROBLEM!

well first they were then i made them smaller then they were too small then to large so now im fixing it, lol

okay i figured out the right size! yay me time for more pics!, lol

okay now these are the hedges that i trimmed i guess they werent low enough but i wanted to get them higher but i guess my brother didn't want it like that and neither did my parents so this is wat they look like when my bro got through...



this is the front of the house, its dark outside because we were expecting rain but didn't get it...sweet peas are sprouting up their going up the treelliss when they get bigger...



a part of a bush... I have no clue what its called but i know my grandmas are really big and nice


another part of the yard connected to te trellis area

( i know the bushes look crappy ive treid diff things but nothings worked...)

then theres this i have no clue what the green leave things are called... i know the bush i think is a plemaria or plumeria idk how its spelled but it gets small danty blue flowers....




???????????? what is it idk

this is the bush



this is another part of my yard it is called a Bauhinia from my research its going to get bigger and it gets red flowers... all the leaves blew off the other day but they sprout new ones quickly which is good...

I know it looks like i have a lot of rocks in the yard BUT I DON'T ITS CLUMPS OF SAND BECAUSE I CHECKED! HAHA
a close up of the bauhinia by the back porch



okay this is the circle with a bauhinia start in the middle its off the other it already had roots, the leaves died off i guess from transplant shock but i think it will sprout soon
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and it is a perfect circle its just that i dont have the edging in yet and theres dirt on some of the grass which made it looks non perfect, lol
and all that other stuff is ant killer i dug up this around a huge ant hill and my toes are really bit


a close up of the stick, lol i have bearded iris bulbs around it...

okay thats enough pictures!, i know i was snaphappy!!!! but i am going to do more digging...

How do you add the pics to your post? Please give me help on that one.

Carol

Carol, you have to sign up to a photo storage first. We use photobucket, flickr....Then you just upload to there than copy and paste here.

Great pics of your yard Toposh.

Is the grey ground from clay? We don't have clay here.

Great pictures. I don't know what the plants are but someone will show up with that info. I think sandy soil is good. I have red clay and everyone says to "add sand." I'll bet no one ever says "add clay."

I agree it is so nice to see more and more young people enjoying the dirt. Great job with the yard.

Well yes and now believe it or not this sandy soil here actually does hold alot of water becuase when you dig down a ways it will be really moist... Ive only watred 2wice since ive put the things in and thats good.... and today it rained so im mad because i did water yesterday so i hope they don't get too muchh.... but yea its sandy soild, not clay just the top of the dirst gets dry and looks clumpy like rocks beneath it stays moist.... Then in a couple weeks when i take the plants from their try and plant them outside ill put mulch or rocks around them all, but i don't know so much with the rocks if ahurricane comes i dont want them to fly around and go through peoples windows and hurt someone.... so i think ill go with mulch...

Scottie ...........

Good start.......Keep going.

Thanks for showin us the stuff.

HAHA cute cindy! lol ive actually never heard that one before!

that's 'cause you are too young! but i do like your yard, you have great ideas and plans.

OMG - you have NEVER heard that - WOW!

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, Lynne--your showing "our" ages.

Okay i got more plants put done mulch and eveyrthing is looking good!

tulips my mom got me, i repootted them today the wind knocked em over..


a new area i made for the hydrangea (hydrangea is in place.



heres a vegetable patch i created for my parents it has tomatoes and a hot pepper plant in it already then i planted seeds for cabbage more tomatoes and bell pepers..

hees a fire and ice hibiscus i guess ita a new varity?



the bahunia bush (ididnt spell that right oh well)



my olympiad rose which i love and it smells so good!

my plubago the new one



some kind of bulbs to the left to the right is another plubago i got it from my grammas yard its actually starting to do better


out front you can see a pineapple in the back and then a type of vegetable growing i didn't plant it it just came up nbyy itself so im leaving it there...

my amazon lily repotted



another veiw of the front with the trelis whats that in front yes those are my growing sweet peas! in front of that snowy mountain bushes (or snow on the moutain)



close up of the sweet peas

added red mulch around everything around the purple corwn?



then in the corner by the drive way whats that? yes hats mother of thousands!



this is the full corner view i have the ti plant in ther mothe rinlaws tounge then we got mother of thousands and aloe

Looking good Scott!

Do your parents do any gardening too or is it all up to you?

gosh you've done a lot of work. Looks good.

nope its all up to me loz and my grandma when she wants to help! im the only one that lives here that loves and knows how to do it... My mom she loves the flowers but she kills em... so she leave it to me.. but i dont mind

You have gone beyond the call of duty......Boy the red mulch is awesome.. Bet it cost a bundle..
Do you put weed guard under that?

YOur doing great..........Your smart to plant away from the grass.
Question now......How do you cut out the shapes of the beds? I do them with a shovel, but yours is veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy accurate.

WOw.

Thanks for all the photos.

dodge the best thing to use for cutting out shapes i learned is using a axe! just throw it in the ground and drag it like u would a plow! also i learned this from my dad take a hose and make the shape u wante and just dig behind the hose or take the hose and spray paint where it was then dig it up.. But i like the axe... And thank you so much! i did not put weed guard under neeth it because when i pulled up the grass i went pretty deep and pulled everything up... and put a fertilizer down from mircle grow hat has weed preventer in it but u cant use it around seeds so i only done it in the front... the red mulch we got is timberline brand eucolyptus... all together for like 15 bags of muclch, fertilizer, rose bush tulips, and some other things it all came out to be like 120 dollars... But the red mulch does last and keep its colr weell my gramma uses it... im just glad i didnt have to pay for it! haha... oh doge i sent those things out today

That is a good tip about the Axe. I never thought of that. I will be using that tip this summer. Thanks.

Very nicely done, Scott!

I just love plumbago - I finally had to let mine go this fall - I just didn't have room to bring in the 2 large pots anymore - I had overwintered them indoors the past 3 winters. The blue of the flowers is sooooooooooooooo pretty, isn't it?

The red mulch really sets the gardens off - very nice.
Just a little fact... the man across the street from us manufactures red mulch! He is doing quite well in the business - also owns a landscaping company. He winters in Florida and summers up here in NY. His gardeners are at his house 3 times a week in the warmer months here - they have a very nice piece of property.

And... all of his trucks have bumper stickers on them that say...

GOT MULCH?

Some of the trucks even have that painted largely on the sides.
Guess he knew a good thing when he saw it, huh?

yea he did! hey maybe if u ask him hell give u a discount on the mulch? im so sorry bout ur plumbago they are gorgeous! when we move im taking mine with me no matter how much i have to dig! If i had money to hire gardeners i wouldn't i like the satisfaction of doing it myself and taking care of it, but he does have a business to run... but still... yes i agree about setting the colors off.. i was going to put regular mulch down i bout some and i compared it.. good thing i only put it in one lil area i just covered it up with the red...

Scott

Your creating like a first class pro.............and we cant..
That's wonderful........

They will look great when their all bushy.

wow

I feel the same way, Scott - I have to get my hands into the soil and plant the plants myself - there's so much satisfaction in seeing them take off and grow in all their splendor.

thank you all so much for yourlls such nice comments! they just make me smile so much!

Were enjoyin your young wisdom on here......
YOu got it man ..keep going.