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Wendy B
Wendy B Murphy, NC on Apr 12, 2012
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The beginning of getting a yard in shape!

When we moved into our house 3 years ago the banks were caving in because the seller had sprayed everything, leaving nothing but death...we started by planting forsythia, then I kept buying what ever looked good and popping it into the ground. Now what I have is overgrowth and weeds, no grass...but my hubby did build a lovely gazebo. My daughter is wanting to have a wedding in our yard in October...so THIS is the rush to create something worthy for her wedding! All suggestions and idea are wanted!
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    The mess my yard is now, water draining from off the top of the mountan and taking out our drive way and one side of the circular bank
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    Coming lower into the yard, where the water from above has raced through. We are about to dig out and put in a small pond that the dry rock bed we will be ad...
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    I've started digging out a path around the gazebo so you can see the roses planted up against it...a LOT more path to dig out! My hands are blistered already, haha!
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    coming around the back of the gazebo I planted phlox and lavendar...there are elephant ears off to one side and whatever that tall grass is called...
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    The forsythia growing thicker around the side of the circle that has full sun...spreading like mad! I think I will have to remove other plants by Fall to just allow the fors...
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    This shot is to show how steep and where the water races downward...
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    I really hope and pray we can find order in this chaos!
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    tiny little hydrangea...how long do these take to grow?
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    more mess...as my friend just pointed out I need to just pick one area and focus! I keep floating like a butterfly...to this flower then that one...it's rather ex...
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    Friends question to me when looking at my yard... "How do you eat an elephant?"......."One bit at a time!" .....yep now my yard has been compared to eating an elep...
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    more hill...more plants mixed with weeds...more mulch needed I can't quite tell from this tiny picture but I think some of this area is where the dry rock bed will...
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    some of the plants are just so pretty that I can't bring myself to terrace and watch them die...so we are putting in some cut up railway ties to just sort of help sto...
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    more views of the steep hill we are working with...trying to figure out how to stop the mulch from washing down...
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    as I think I've finally almost weeded most areas and am ready for mulch I uncover a hosta garden, begging me to remove weeds and ...ummm...yeah, add...
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    a pond, a bridge...that will take care of some this view...I'd LOVE to be able to have pretty grass before the wedding but that is just not a reality. I have to focus o...
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  • John Madison Landscape, I... Orlando, FL
    It looks like you have done a great job so far. I would recommend adding in some color and maybe a flagstone walkway and ledge stone steps from the house to the Gazebo.
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  • Wendy B Murphy, NC
    Oh how I'd love to do that! We will add a pathway and some steps coming down...but I highly doubt we can afford the flagstone...thinking for now it will just be wood and mulch. This is going to be a process over time though. I will have paths and ponds and lots of mulch this year...maybe next year we will get to add things like flagstone pathways!
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