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TK you wanted to see my yard--so here is a few pics--I will warn you though, my camera is not the best.

The back yard--Rock garden, as my SIL calls it.


a quick view of my veggie garden. It is only like 10 x 8.


My 4 x 14 flower bed that is located about 15 ft, or so, off of the back deck.
My yard goes to the end of the cut grass there to the back.
We have 1/2 acre

Here is the front.

in the back next to the house is what I guess is the Commelina Erecta ??
\In front is my wild violets and 4 pots of flowers.

hey..me too

Very nice Carol..everything looks so neat and clean as well as pretty.

You really made the most of your veggie garden. You wouldn't want to come down here next spring would you? I know I'm going to make a botch of my veggie garden. I never manage to use space wisely.

Did you put the sunflowers there to attract bees?

ok, inquiring minds need to know. What's in the flower bed? Coneflowers, ornamental grass, mexican hat?

The picture on the second post I can't get to come in clear. I don't know if it's my eyes or my computer.

I'm loving the pictures they are great.

The pics are clear on my computer TK.

I am in a rush here--I will explain later though---

nope---Sheri & I decided to grow some to see if we could grow bigger ones than Dodge has in the past. a few others have joined in as well. There is a thread & everything



Thanks for the compliments.
here is a list of flowers in that one bed.--well I think that is everything--this list is from memory, sorry.

Wildflower mix
Double delight Echinacea
Joseph's coat
Stokes Aster
Annebella Anemone
2 Gaillardia that came back from last year
a Burgundy gaillardia
Russian sage
arizona sun gaillardia
Bachelor Buttons
Gaura
Globe Amaranth
2 varigated Lirope
Copper Amethyst osteospermum
light purple osteospermum
Cuphea ignea-- Cigarette Plant
Babys breath
Pink bea balm

you got all of that in the one bed? You definitely have to come show me how to arrange things in a flower bed. I am hopeless.

Hey my motto is..just plant it all. See how it grows than start moving plants

yep I did--and I forgot to mention :

Purslane---Portulaca oleracea---
and some curly varigated Hosta that Dodge sent me.


what I do is I draw it out on paper & decide what I want & balance it out, height wise.
Then when I am done, I fill in---keeping in mind how tall & wide something will grow.
each year I "adjust" the arragement of the plants.

I started out with half annuals & half perennials--I am going to eventually (hopefully) have all perennials. I figure in the end, it will be cheaper that way.

if I could come & show you , I certainly would---

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Pretty much how it goes here too.

Maybe I can make a chart of what I have and you can rearrange it for me.

I would/could sure give it a shot--
you can always change up my ideas after all.

I don't think I can pm a chart to you. So can you pm your address so I can send them to you?

yes,um I can & will do that.

I got your address so I'll start work on the charts today. At least until it rains lol.

It's soooooo muggy out there it's miserable.

OK then--it is a good day to work indoors on charts

Well I have the first chart done (sort of). And I printed out my list of garden plants with height, bloom time and that kind of information but the print is small. If your like me you'll need your reading glasses to make it out.

That and I'm running out of black ink and I keep forgetting because I hardly ever print.

np--DH even has magnifying head gear thingyies--I'll be fine---

I'm excited that you are willing to help.