So, over the past couple of years I have landscaped around our house. When we moved in the back yard had a clothesline, a huge stump right in the middle, an uneven, moss-covered patio and white rock along the back of the house.
The back yard spring 2006
Oh ya, there was also a bird feeder in the back yard too, it was ugly, old and brown as well. One of the first things to go!
We got rid of the stump with the help of Collin and Mike, I took out the patio and used the blocks for bordering my flower beds, took out the white rock from behind the house and put it along the far side of the house, were no one sees it (that is a good thing!), and we got rid of the big ugly clothesline pole, (we didn't use it, and it was clunky and brown {actually, we still have it in our garage if anyone wants it}).
My latest projects were planting a dwarf magnolia tree in the back yard, it will be small and pretty, and I can trim it and shape it to the size I want. I also expanded the flower bed in the corner of our yard. I got a few new perennials and I needed to move the rhubarb, it was getting holes in the leaves from the falling water off the neighbors garage. I also expanded the strawberry patch, per Nate's request. Here are a few pictures I took the other day.
Primroses, this one has more flowers than leaves!
Sweet William-I added pink and red ones.
Lambs Ears
Apparently a delicacy for rabbits! You can see this side of the plant has been nibbled off, and this much is gone less than 24 hours after I put it in the ground! I fought the rabbits last year and lost miserably. They on the other hand won the strawberries, lilies and more! I don't even know what some of my plants look like since they ate anything above the soil.
Not this year, I need to pull out the big guns and do something to keep my plants safe. I use big guns figuratively, but if you hear about a crazy woman from my neck of the woods getting carted off to jail for firing a gun in city limits, I may have resorted to the use of firearms to win the battle against the RABBITS! Any suggestions?
Corner Perennial flower bed; several varieties of sedum, irises, lilies, sweet william, lamb's ears, chives, peonies, strawberries and more.
another view
The back of the house; several varieties of hostas, irises, lily of the valley, false dragonhead, lilies
Daisies, hostas, rhododendrons and something else too, I don't know all what I have
Hostas
