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| View Poll Results: What kind of "garden look" do you like? | |||
| Strictly clean neat and well trimmed. |     | 6 | 15.38% |
| I like is "crafty" with added decorations. |    | 13 | 33.33% |
| Theme colored- reds together, blues together, or theme "groupings". |    | 3 | 7.69% |
| I like a little chaos of color and form mixed together |    | 26 | 66.67% |
| I like solitary 'special' plants or statues for eyecatchers. |    | 5 | 12.82% |
| Jungle features-the more vines the better! |    | 7 | 17.95% |
| Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 39. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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#2
08-10-2008, 08:32 PM
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| Don't think that worked....I don't see the 'poll'? I like the rock border, wandering path. You just never know what you might see around the corner. Scott (gotta have rocks...like in my head) B     |
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#3
08-10-2008, 08:33 PM
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| I like over grown, full, cant see the ground because of so many plants.  When I look at my new garden, I want to see so much beauty all at once. And its getting there. Theres already one end of it that I can hardly walk in. But, on the other hand I also like a neater looking garden also. Aw heck, I like them all!!!!!!!1  Deb
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08-10-2008, 08:46 PM
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| K-but next time give me just one lil ole minute!! Trying to think of happy thoughts in Australia. Imagining wha I'll do in my next home. Weeding today-looking around at all the things i did in my yard. Its just beautiful (even though a lil crispy at the moment!) I did everything to the landscaping I wanted to do (with a little help). Got my pond, park benches, black link chain, flower beds, peach tree, blue spruce and river birch, poured a second driveway. Row of rose of sharon along both brives (thank you Deb_b for the purple row!) Pool, veggies, berrypatch, dead roses (can't win em all). I like Scott's idea-winding path. Maybe I'll even have rocks in Australia to build with-that would be awesome-just like michigan!) I'm thinking gazebo this time. Maybe fruit orchard. Misty canopy for those 110* days? With some bizarre tropicals around the porch. I can dream! |
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#8
08-10-2008, 09:12 PM
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| I try to keep my plantings grouped together by variety.Sometimes it works and sometimes it does'nt. I am not as careful at matching my plants by size , so it is a regular thing for me to transplant-transplant. Variety of colors is most pleasing to me. Bill |
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#9
08-11-2008, 06:27 AM
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| Mine are a combination of cottage and southern kitsch. I love mass plantings of a flower,and areas that look like they have been there forever. I know,that reads chaos,huh? LOL
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08-11-2008, 04:31 PM
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| Well, I did the chaotic, varying heighth and color flowers in neatly trimmed flowerbeds here at this house. Its a lot of work to keep it going but I do love it. However, I'm starting to appreciate the "mass planting" of a single plant. I'm thinking more of a simpler yard with a few eye catchers-like I mentioned-maybe a gazebo or something. I saw a house that had a big statue on a platform in the center of a circular brick flowerbed with some kind of white flower covering the circle around the statue. Brick was red. It was very attractive. I'm even considering maybe a fountain. Anytime I do anything-I tend to do it big. Very visionary. Love to look at a completed big project that noone could quite imagine except me-and I made it happen. Its a charge. That's the great thing about gardening and landscaping. Sharing the vision (and also the work-hee hee!) |
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#12
08-11-2008, 08:56 PM
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| Hi Friends, As for me I just love whatever.....I'm new and I see all the beautiful flowers and shrubs, and I want one of each.....LOL I do have a hibiscus garden, and started a rose garden, then I have different flower beds with different kinds in it....I want it to be where other can enjoy it as much as my husband and I do... I see alot of wonderful ideas here and all of you are such wonderful people....If I can get to swapping with you, maybe I can learn more about the things I plant....I've learned alot from you guys already...You all have touched me in a mighty way....Thank You!
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#13
08-12-2008, 07:46 AM
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| Awwwwwww isnt that sweet?????? This is a great place and for some reason easy to connect here. The people are awesome!! Diane, my husband swears that I am trying to get one or two of every plant out there!!! He was going to buy me 4 burning bushes and I said, no, I already have those. Dont know what I'm going to do when I actually do have it all........go on to the rare plants I guess? When I go to the garden center, I scan all the plants for whatever I dont already have. Deb
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#14
08-12-2008, 07:57 AM
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| I'm glad the Rose of Sharon made it for you and you had enough to do the driveway like you wanted. As for me. I love many colors, many plants. Anything to do with gardening. I'm in the process of making a really big flower bed. HUGE. My whole front yard to be exact. I'm tired of weeding due to mowing. So it's becoming a flower paradise. There will be old wooden and steel wagon wheels, old hand plow, old horse drawn hay rake, marble walkways ( slippery when wet ), windchimes, windsocks, birdhouses, statues, rocks, and so on. As I said, a really big flowerbed. It probably won't be finished for another year or 2, but I'm working on it. I got alot done already. I need more truckloads of mulch this year. Just to make a start. I will post some pic's as I get a chance. Hopefully before my next surgery. Deb |
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08-12-2008, 10:03 AM
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