Hey, that backyard looks awfully familiar in the pledge this morning. Must be the ryegrass. :)
Gotta go mow the lawn out back...
Duncan Gardens in Spokane, WA's Manito Park. This huge park was two blocks from our house when we lived there.
Posted on 04/26/2005 6:35:33 AM PDT by Billie
Last year was the first time we had ever tried it and were thrilled with the results - as apparently were the deer.
Because my garden is so large, 1/3 of an acre moreorless, planting deer repellant/safe rosemary and lavendar will be far too expensive to do at once.....so I'm giong to start by planting it along the north side of the garden in the area where we know the deer cross the creek.
I was so disappointed last year - I had put in 64 tomato plants with the hopes of shelves of sauce to last me the winter.....we were lucky to have gotten a dozen or so salds with tomatos because of the rain.
Deer also like immature cantelopes - hubby had been thrilled by how well the lopes were doing and so devastated when we were out there one afternoon and discovered every single on was gone...6 vines produce a lot of lopes and we didn't get a single one. Same for the watermelons.
I would have so loved to bag one of those well fed deer - it would have been tasty, besindes all the corn, cantelopes, and watermelon they wiped out more than half my hot pepper and I had 14 varieties growing.
Jax is no longer sick, thankfully, but is home form school today - we're headed for the store in a little while and then hopefully I'll be able to stop at the garden center an pick up some herbs.
We have alot of deer in our area and see them in our pasture all the time but they've never bothered the vegetable garden. I hang Irish Spring soap inside old pantyhose in the trees around the garden and it keeps them out of that area. Someone told me about that trick, says it fakes the deer out, makes them think humans (hunters) are around.
Thanks! I'd almost forgotten how gorgeous those first two pictures were! And found more pretty ones to add to it. :)
Have a busy work day but hope I can sneak in later and post some pictures! BTW, very near our Michigan cottage is Meijer's Gardens in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Meijer's as in the big department stores) It's supposed to be beautiful too! Will try to google it later. ((((billie)))))
Oh, I would love to see some of the Meijer's Gardens!
Good morning Billie and FReepers everywhere.
Thanks, Aqua. I left that part pretty much the same as two years ago because it seemed to compliment the colors of the gardens.
The Biltmore Estate has the prettiest flower garden in my lil corner of the world and now is the time to see it:
That is gorgeous! Are those mostly azaleas?
WOW!!!!!!! Thanks for the tip. Irish Spring is one of my fave soaps - so I always have some.......I will try that this year.
The north border of our property is a creek and on the other side is woods so the der are forever in our fields.
Every thing works here.
Thanks
It was beautiful, with glass doors and windows all along the great room wall overlooking the lake - fireplace between them - and unobstructed views of spectacular sunrises and sunsets reflected on the water.
The property sloped down to the lake itself with a couple of terrace levels, and I was in plant heaven!
There were day lily beds along the top of one back yard wall - rose and camellia and vinca and Gerber daisy and mint beds - brick walk from the driveway to the front door with begonia beds flanking it - beds along the driveway and driveway wall lower area below - numerous pots on the front porch, by the door and hanging.
Keeping the Michigan Bulb company in business, I added all kinds of things, plus local bedding plants, and sowed gorgeous tall colorful zinnias beside the lattice by the stairs going up to the deck and screened porch across the back of the house. Then there was my hammock between two tall trees near the lake - next to it, flowers along the rock-lined path to the lake, plus other outlying beds.
Those 2 1/2 years I was in my glory, constantly adding new beds...even saved hundreds of seeds from my own zinnias one year and sowed them by the lake edge where a bulldozer had plowed up some fallen overhanging trees and bushes - and that bed yielded a glorious sight.
Despite physical limitations, I have always loved hard labor in my yards and *couldn't* slow down, no matter what.
Finally, as it was getting harder and harder to just go up and down the steep slopes, the Lord looked at me and said, sighing, "She does get carried away..:))" "Better move her out of here before she works hersalf into coming Home before I planned that for her!"
Result: Linda decided to sell the house to move up to 'bigger and better' in Augusta, and we moved to a house on a lovely corner lot with level ground..:))
No doubt about it, I was born to grub in the earth wherever I lived.
In Winston-Salem, we moved into a new development, the house one of just 7 on a cul-de-sac, ours in the center at the top of a hill. We all were trying to establish lawns and flower beds, and when I wasn't at work, would be outside at 5 a.m. with coffee in hand, starting my projects -- and usually still outside at midnight moving the sprinklers around.
My neighbor two doors down the hill said to me one day, "Margaret, I hardly recognize you, since my usual view of you is just "bottom up" in a flower bed!"
[There must be something to the Signs of the Zodiac - a May child, my Taurus is an Earth Sign - LOL]
Wow! That should prove interesting! I wonder if they will all become ripe about the same time? We had an apricot tree and a peach tree a long time ago, and the apricot bloomed earlier than the peach tree (in fact, so much of the time, the freeze would get it so there would be no fruit)
However, I just will not buy peaches in the supermarket because they taste like cardboard; on the other hand, the nectarines are sweet and juicy!
BirdsEye and GreenGiant do it for me. :) The little nibblers in frozen food section are really good. :)
Morning!
How frustrating to lose so much of your garden to the rain, and the deer. I read Aqua's remedy to keep the deer away - interesting!
Hi Billie! Beautiful thread today. I hope you are having a wonderful Tuesday.
Hast thou some of your special coffee brewed and available to share?
Brewed up, not sure if anyone actually wants the stuff.
It's being hard on my gut today, and that's rare.
Good morning, Temple - hope everything is well in *your* corner of the world. :)
Hey, that backyard looks awfully familiar in the pledge this morning. Must be the ryegrass. :)
Gotta go mow the lawn out back...
Duncan Gardens in Spokane, WA's Manito Park. This huge park was two blocks from our house when we lived there.
I pinged your friend, Beth, to the thread today. :)
How I wish you had the time and the stamina to work up another opening post for us, dear LadyX!
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