One Photo, Only!!

kHT · Post by **kHT** » May 26, 2008 1:23 pm

Walk out into your garden and find one photo that you want to share. Yep only one photo!!

doublemom2 · Post by **doublemom2** » May 27, 2008 2:24 am

this one is from a couple of years ago, but this is the one!

Astilbeblu · Post by **Astilbeblu** » May 27, 2008 9:34 am

Here is my one pic....oops...did that wrong...I'll try again...

kHT · Post by **kHT** » May 27, 2008 10:01 am

Wow Andi, that looks so peaceful!

Spider · Post by **Spider** » May 27, 2008 7:20 pm

How's about this?

kHT · Post by **kHT** » May 27, 2008 7:43 pm

Spider, that is so peaceful!

JaneG · Post by **JaneG** » May 28, 2008 5:11 pm

Wow Spider, is that the view from your garden?!

NICE!!!

Karma, if I had pick just one picture of my favorite place, it would be hard.

Instead, I had to go out and take a few pictures of the house before the roofers come tomorrow to replace the roof, so I'll use one of those! This is a typical picture of the front. By next week, as those iris continue to come into bloom, there will be a huge blast of purple in the front yard. We always get lots of comments when they are in full bloom. There's another big patch of them out of photo range on the left.

The front of our place is kind of bland because DH doesn't want it to look like the crazy garden lady lives here.

So he let's me do all the fun stuff in the back yard and we keep a neat-n-tidy look in the front. (Although you will notice I was able to sneak in a few hostas in front of the porch)

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » May 28, 2008 9:37 pm

Great shots everyone!!

Jane, my DH is kinda like that......he won't let me just get rid of ALL the grass for daylilies in front.....

Here is a cool one that is recent of the long hosta bed.....

Tracy_Zone5 · Post by **Tracy_Zone5** » May 29, 2008 10:21 am

This is the spot I chose to post, because it was such an eyesore when we moved here. That is a "hump" because there is a dozer pile of fence posts and wire under there that was covered with manure. The soil is fantastic, but it is a mess under it. When we moved here it was covered with hemlock about 8 feet tall. We got it bush hogged down and tried to mow it, but that was impossible, so we covered it with thick black plastic and gravel, then we started adding the larger rocks and it just sort of evolved.

Tracy

kHT · Post by **kHT** » May 29, 2008 7:08 pm

Oh my what beautiful spots to stop and enjoy!! I just love seeing what everyone has done, keep them coming!

JaneG · Post by **JaneG** » May 30, 2008 9:58 am

Tracy, I love your "hump"

you've turned an eyesore into a lovely spot.

In the back corner of my lot is a pile of rolls of old rusted fencing, posts, and concrete chunks. I've been wondering how to get it out of here. Perhaps the answer is just to cover it all up and plant things on it!!

Lucy, I love your loooooong hosta border along there!

Beautiful pond, Andi!!

Thanks for starting this thread, Karma . . . I love looking at pictures!

caliloo · Post by **caliloo** » May 30, 2008 11:19 am

Beautiful photos everyone! I love the creativity of using the "hump"!

Andi - that is just gorgeous! Someday I really do want a pond like that - so serene.

Here is my fav today....

Thanks for the idea of this thread KHT!

kHT · Post by **kHT** » Jun 01, 2008 9:51 am

Your welcome caliloo, what a peaceful setting you shared.

Gardentoad · Post by **Gardentoad** » Jun 03, 2008 9:10 am

This is the walk leading to my front door. It was taken in April this year. It's kind of dark. I should have taken it in the morning before the house shaded it.

kHT · Post by **kHT** » Jun 03, 2008 10:09 am

Gardentoad, what a great shot!! I took it and lightened it up some to I could check out what you had growing in this great area. Is that a Harry Lawler Walking Stick/Contorta Hazelnut to the right?

Gardentoad · Post by **Gardentoad** » Jun 03, 2008 4:40 pm

Thanks, Yes that's a contorted filbert.
It was just budding out. I didn't realise it would get so large, almost too big for the area. I cut branches from it for my small parrots to perch on.

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » Jun 03, 2008 7:32 pm

Love all of the beautiful pics!

Here's a view from the front porch taken today.

JaneG · Post by **JaneG** » Jun 03, 2008 11:02 pm

Wow, what an entry, GT. Love it!

Hey Patrushka, it's all wet!!

You must have gotten the rain and storms this morning after they blew through here! That's a lovely flower border!

Don't you love the garden after a rain when it's still wet?

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » Jun 03, 2008 11:54 pm

Thanks Jane. It was raining while I stood on the porch and used the zoom to take the pic. Yes, I do love the garden after a rain when it's still wet. Everything looks so fresh and clean then.

kHT · Post by **kHT** » Jun 04, 2008 10:32 am

Nice view out your front door Pat, so fresh looking. I love the rain look too.

Okay I had to look up the difference in filbert vs hazelnut as they both are listed in the Sunset book under corylus. She sure is pretty GT!