Hello Everyone! It really has been a while since I have been here and lots of things have changed. First I bought a house (with the help of Habitat for Humanity) in 2021 and it had a blank slate when I bought it, which means everything in my yard was planted by me! I do wish I knew more about gardening and that I had a choice in what I used as my lawn. Because creeping thyme and clover seems a whole lot better than grass. I don't have any pictures available right now, I'm at work and all my pictures are on my computer, so those will have to wait but I have managed to make a small vegetable garden in my back yard, and I have quite a bit of flowers lining the outside of my house, though I may transplant a lot of those further away from the house. I have also started an herb garden in the front of my house! I'm so excited to share my journey with you all! A picture of my house Not long before it was finished
I had almost the same when I bought my present house 5 years ago. It had weeds mixed with grass, 13 trees in the back yard, (half of them needing removal) and that was it besides some mondo grass in front right next to the foundation. Put your big things in first is my recommendation so that you have structure to work from. I'm excited to see how your garden progresses !! Here's what mine looked like
Annie, thats a very nice blank slate though! I bet it's been fun updating! I have actually been adding for a couple years now The first i when I got my first landscaping items from Habitat, I didn't get to pick out what I got but i still love them all When I find the pictures of the close up of them I will certainly post!
It has been fun but lots of work removing the grass a shovelfull at a time and dealing with the sandy soil. But, gardens are really never finished, are they ?.
I actually have been tarping my lawn little by little as I set up my garden. I learned after i did a very little bitt going around my house! I'm so thankful for tarps!! Storytime: In August of 2021 we had landscaping day and These are what were provided. If I remember correctly (and I am not 100% on everything. In this mix are 2 Ornimental bushes, 2 evergreen (i think they start with A but i cannot remember) 1 hydrengea 3 pincushionn 3 coneflower 1 butterfly bush 1 Japanese spiroa 1 bush that i cannot for the life of me remember as it is unremarkable to me (it still lives!! I may have missed one or two things? I'm not sure, but I did have to replace 1 lavender and the butterfly bush the year after they were planted as I was not careful with pruning them. D: Looking back at these I can tell how big everything has gotten and i'm just wowed by it! I'm so proud of this as I did get to pick out where everything was and at the time I knew nothing of landscaping, heck i probably shouldn't have planted the bushes so close to my porch but they are not supposed to get very big at all and they havent't at all either. Neither are higher than my banister on my porch and it's been only a few years but i keep an eye on them!
