Before and Current

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Aug 30, 2005 5:25 pm

Some more

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Aug 30, 2005 5:27 pm

and a few more...

kHT · Post by **kHT** » Aug 30, 2005 11:09 pm

Great start Brad, each year just add a little more and in no time you will have a full yard blooming!

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » Aug 30, 2005 11:51 pm

Nice Brad!!

I say on that last picture, just make it bigger and add daylilies, maybe a butterfly bush...(love mine.....lots of hummers and butterflies)....maybe some sedum.....mums.....Heck if I know....but then, if you listen to me, you will have a little bit of everything in there...

....I call it *Cottage Style*

Thanks for sharing all your hard work!!

wild4flowers · Post by **wild4flowers** » Aug 31, 2005 8:02 am

As long as this bed is by itself, you need to define the edges with either an edging, or a small low growing perennial, and either put a tall piece of garden art in the center or a decorative tree that has a tall trunk with airy leaves. It needs to look like there was a plan, then you can fill in the spaces with 'stuff'. CHAR

Mary Ann · Post by **Mary Ann** » Aug 31, 2005 8:14 am

With all that rolling grass and sun, I'd add a tree too.

newtohosta-no more · Post by **newtohosta-no more** » Aug 31, 2005 9:56 am

I can't add anything to what's already been suggested. The others have given you some great ideas. I do want to say that your pics are wonderful. You've done a fantastic job creating those garden areas.

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Aug 31, 2005 1:45 pm

Looks good everyone. I don't have any digi pics of my place before or I would post some.

Brad you are doing good. All my stuff did not turn out as planned, but over time I have managed to make it turn out even better than I planned. Definatley define the beds, I think that makes all the difference in the world. And some type of whimsey like mentioned and then you will see how to build on it each year.

Tim, if you are doing all this yourself in Pauls Valley, and you need some help, give me a holler. I can help anytime after November 1 and Pauls Valley is only about an hour and a half from me. We can do some labor trade!! Fall is the time for planting trees and shrubs

Ginger

vintagedude · Post by **vintagedude** » Sep 01, 2005 10:51 pm

Thanks Ginger that's a great offer, I might have to take you up on that! At the very least it's easier to work outside during the cooler months. My mom does a lot during her visits, but mostly I'm working alone on this formidable project. I've done almost all I have the time and money to do right now but I still have visions of planting a flowering hedge on either side of the property, a natural-wood picket fence across the front and I want to grow an arching vine of some kind around the front door.
I have updated pics of the front and back, but I'll have to dig them up so it'll be a day or so before I can post them. The grass has gone nuts under just a little simple care (and heavy overseeding) and I've finally gotten the flower beds mulched, giving it a finished look.
I love everyone elses transformations, they're so much fun to look at. We're beautifying the world one yard at a time!
Tim

PS: I forgot that you live in Luther Ginger. The company I do photography for is located near Tulsa on route 66, so I pass by or through Luther at least once a week right now.

vintagedude · Post by **vintagedude** » Sep 04, 2005 2:42 pm

The progress seems slow at times until I remember that the place was a sea of peeling paint, weeds and clay.

vintagedude · Post by **vintagedude** » Sep 04, 2005 2:45 pm

more...

vintagedude · Post by **vintagedude** » Sep 04, 2005 2:54 pm

Some of you may remember what a nightmare the grass was when I started. Here's before, and current on the grass. Not bad for just over 3 months.
PS: It sucks having to post such teeny-tiny pics, which were once loaded with detail, but this is as big as the website will let me post!

Tim

kHT · Post by **kHT** » Sep 04, 2005 10:38 pm

Tim looks like you have been very busy and it's looking great! Keep it up and lets see what you can get done in the next few weeks.

vintagedude · Post by **vintagedude** » Sep 05, 2005 9:49 am

Thanks Karma! What I can do from this point is at the mercy of the dwindling availability of plant choices. Next season I'll have a head start and go nuts.

That back flower bed has started from scratch again with the mums, the Peony and the Turk's Cap (love the TC, I hope it comes back next year). When I started, that bed was just a weedy junk pile, literally, and I cleaned it up and planted zinnias, Bachelor's Button, Spiderflowers, Rudbeckia, Speedwell, Purple Coneflower, Aster, and Gaillardia. Unfortunately we had the rainiest season in OK history and it turns out this bed retains more water than the Hoover Dam. Everything rotted except for the Zinnias which simply lost most of their leaves to mildew.
Now I'm trying to figure out what will work there. Hmmm, it has to love extreme heat and drought, full sun to mostly shade (depending on time of day), be mildew resistant, and be able to handle extended soggy periods without rotting. Yeah, this'll be easy!!

Tim

kHT · Post by **kHT** » Sep 05, 2005 9:57 am

Tim are you looking for seeds? Fall is a great time to get seeds planted. We here are gathering!!

vintagedude · Post by **vintagedude** » Sep 05, 2005 12:15 pm

Partially. I've just about decided to plant good old red cannas in the wet corner since heat and moisture isn't a problem with them, but otherwise seeds will make up most of the rest. I'm doing my roadside-pararie-wildflower seed collecting thing right now myself.

Cap'n Marvy (or you can just keep callin' me Tim!)

vintagedude · Post by **vintagedude** » Sep 05, 2005 12:38 pm

By the way, this is how the back yard started out...

Hallson Gardens

Before and Current

Some updated pics.....