And while I'm picture-ing

[zoethe]

Quick shot of me and misia in our back yard when she was visiting. Just look at how everything has grown! I need to get out there with a machete!

Misia and Gini

Comments

[emturtle.livejournal.com]

What a nice picture!

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

You should be proud of your garden, darling. It is the nature of wisteria to take over, also mint and various other green things. Just let it go, sweetie. As long as it's not strangling the other plants, it will be fine. :)

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

It will completely engulf the pergola, though, and I don't want it to do that.

I need to repair my swing. The facing board cracked, and we can't sit on it. It's one of those "round-tuit" projects....

[infowidget.livejournal.com]

Wow.. I haven't heard many people use the phrase "round-tuit".
I had a professor say if anyone ever says, "I'll get to that when I get around to it."
He then drew a circle and put the words to-it inside and said, "Hand the person this then and say 'Here you go. You now have a round to-it."

:)

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

I used to have a couple wooden ones. Little disc that said "tuit" - I have no idea where they've gone off to.

[gypsydove.livejournal.com]

now that is the kinda garden I could wish for...

Sigh...

*day dreams*.....

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

4 summers ago it was nothing but flat grass. It's a dream that can be fulfilled!

[mamaursula.livejournal.com]

Look how your plants don't creep across the yard to talk to each other, I need a yard like that.

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, this was taken after a serious battle with the wisteria creepers that had grown up over the summer. That's the only thing I've managed to accomplish back there this year, though.

[mamaursula.livejournal.com]

*nods* I can appreciate that. We've taken out some strange "bush" (read full grown tree without a trunk) and several "ornamental" honeysuckle in the past year or so. Once the sod was down we actually more than doubled our backyard space. Sadly, it's only about a third of our whole backyard, but most of it's covered in more honeysuckle, "wildflowers" (I took a sample to the nursery to identify my weed and they told me it was a "wildflower", I said "I have 3 million of them in my backyard, they're a weed") and the hill makes it nearly impossible to get up and down safely with the mower. I think we'll just throw up a fence and live with what we've got. You are an inspiration.

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

Hey, call your wildflowers a "natural preserve," put a split-rail fence around it, stick a rustic bench into it, and you have landscaping! (I'm totally serious here.) If you have more space than you need, letting some of it go wild is actually very environmentally friendly.

[mamaursula.livejournal.com]

We could roll down the hill to the bench :-) I wish I could figure out how to post photos of this disaster. Someone in the past planted about a dozen daffodil bulbs at the back of the lot (and at the bottom of the hill, so the only way to enjoy them is to wade down to them). The back drops off into a little creek ravine and has something like two tiers to it and the second tier fades to the drop off. There is a VW Bug sized lilac monstrosity, at the edge of the first to second tier, that I would love to salvage, so I cut back on it some every year in hopes that it will recover. The very top is a respectable little back yard, so I'm not sure why someone tried to reclaim all of it, none of the other neighbors have as deep of yards as we do. I am seriously considering digging up the Daffodils and replanting them and letting the Honey Locust and Honeysuckle have their way with the back. We don't have any large wildlife because of the fencing on either side and lack of back yard neighbors. I'd love to put in butterfly/hummingbird flowers rather than the "wildweed". We'll see what the spring holds for my scary backyard.

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

At some point I should make a trip down there, just to see this yard of yours. I'm jealous of anyone who has a creek!

[mamaursula.livejournal.com]

You could, but to say I have a creek in my backyard is more like saying "I have this cliff at the back edge of my property that drops about 20-30 feet and then there's a creek at the bottom". In order to enjoy it I'd have to hang from one of the trees that's outside of the fenced off part to see it. I need a tree house...

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

Sounds like all kinds of possibilities! All you need is oodles of money! ;-)

[mamaursula.livejournal.com]

Isn't that all we really need? Then I could watch the hawk and the owl that live in the back. It was very cool when the hawk perched on the dead tree branch that was framed by the honeylocust tree, my daughter was completely mesmerized.

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

It's great having that access to wildlife. We aren't really far from a nature preserve, but we don't get there nearly enough.

[ldy.livejournal.com]

Hee. Great photo! I like your yard, killer wisteria and all :)

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

I love my yard, but it's a bit out of control just now!

[mollyblack.livejournal.com]

We just found out from our back neighbors (ie the ones on the fence directly behind us) that our soil is fubar so we need to do what they did which is go and basically resoil the whole damn thing. not redo the grass or the trees, but put soil down to cover the mess of pesticides and deficiencies that the farmer(s) who owned the land before selling it to the developers killed their own land with.

It's ugly out there and it's going to take a LOT more work than we originally thought to make it something attractive.

Yours looks great and I love the nook and the water garden. Some day we too shall have those!

... I hope.

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

We're actually lucky because it's a tiny space. Just big enough to be enjoyable.

[call-me-harmony.livejournal.com]

Your yard is beautiful, sure worth all the work.

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I do dearly love it.

[crystalvh.livejournal.com]

Hee! "Killer wisteria." I love it! :-)

That is a wonderful picture, too! You look great!!

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ponygirl118.livejournal.com]

Dude, making me wish I had a yard, instead of my little terrace. Well, at least we have our tomato plants, our confetti flowers, and our morning glories.

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

It was a project we undertook 4 years ago, and we love it. The only down side is that we don't have a little terrace back there, so enjoy what you do have!