The Endzone Garden Thread

#551
#551
It all looks fantastic. Did you build the stand for the bucket garden? I need to do something similar for my clay pot herbs.
 
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VolNExile said:
It all looks fantastic. Did you build the stand for the bucket garden? I need to do something similar for my clay pot herbs.
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Yeah, hubby built it last year. Its really convenient, since the only area with great sun is at the end the driveway. If we have to get into the backyard with a vehicle, we can move it.

The change in color on those buckets drives me berserk though.
 
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vollygirl said:
Yeah, hubby built it last year. Its really convenient, since the only area with great sun is at the end the driveway. If we have to get into the backyard with a vehicle, we can move it.

The change in color on those buckets drives me berserk though.
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Oh, I like the colors though! Wild and raucous, just like nature.
 
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#565
I'll take a few picks to post. I've got some tiger lily, I think, that I moved up from mom and dad's house. They had a big mound of them. I planted them loosely. Anyways, I noticed this morning one of them is close to, if not taller, than me.
 
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There is also a house down around the bend from us that has an entire shaded roadside bank covered with Lily of the Valley. In early spring it's one beautiful shady curve. I stopped and dug some up and planted them around the bird bath.
 
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GVF said:
I'll take a few picks to post. I've got some tiger lily, I think, that I moved up from mom and dad's house. They had a big mound of them. I planted them loosely. Anyways, I noticed this morning one of them is close to, if not taller, than me.
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For some reason, the daylilies scattered around have gone berserk, and now we need to build a flower bed to park them in. Nice problem to have, but geeze, let me come up for air! I’m still fine-tuning the vegetable garden!
 
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GVF said:
There is also a house down around the bend from us that has an entire shaded roadside bank covered with Lily of the Valley. In early spring it's one beautiful shady curve. I stopped and dug some up and planted them around the bird bath.
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I love spring shade gardens. Flowers are so much more delicate than in-yo-face zinnias and other summer bloomers.
 
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VolNExile said:
For some reason, the daylilies scattered around have gone berserk, and now we need to build a flower bed to park them in. Nice problem to have, but geeze, let me come up for air! I’m still fine-tuning the vegetable garden!
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Inside the dog pen, we have about a 15 foot solid circle of day lilies. And in the springs when they come up, all along the woods around the house, we have literal carpets of white and yellow buttercup. And where ever else the birds have dropped them. The white comes in as the yellow are fading. Then a blue/white wildflower kicks in that is carpeted about 10-20 feet back into the woods in places. Also have a small patch of creeping flox that comes up out in the middle of the yard in early spring that has been there since I was a kid and much longer. I really hope it hasn't died, but my mom dug up white peony's from this house and moved to their house when they retired and moved up. My grandma had planted them, so the mound is quite old. My sister has their house now. I may go dig them up and move them back "home" up the road. I notice they were a little thin. I think they got mowed. Hopefully the mound is healthy. We get a good early spring show with no effort.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
When I planted fruit trees in my backyard about nine years ago, I never imagined the yields would be this plentiful. My daughter and I plucked around 70 plums yesterday. Good times as always. Truly blessed to have this orchard.
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I've tried to get an orchard started. Little at a time. I moved my blueberries up here with me. But a buy cutting some firewood drop a tree on them. Then I restarted with two apple trees. 3 years old and never got over reaching height, One died, and I just rammed the other with the lawn mower to bring it down. Never got a mature apple off them. Got a 60 year old plus pear tree out back that is in it's waning years. It bears alot of pears but drops them all at about golf ball size. Got a good bit of hollow trunk to it. So, I still go down to my brothers for blueberries. Dad planted a dozen. They haven't been kept pruned down. About 8' high. But, they supply alot of people. I'd love to do a crabapple. We used to raid the one at church growing up. the elderly ladies would pick off it and make crabapple jelly.
 
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