would anyone care to show off there beautiful landscapes....!!!!!!!!!!

[thechickenguy]

i would like some ideas about how i would like my landscape when i get my own house.
thanks. the chicken guy.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

maybe a koi pond? or catfish pond.

a few trees for accent.

You must have a flag!

& a bird feeder

How about a rock garden?

No landscape is complete without a stallion statue!

 

[thechickenguy]

that sure looks nice. thanks for posting!

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Remember, go small!

It takes FOREVER to take care of my place!

 

[rebbetzin]

I posted this on The EasyGarden forum the other day...

While looking for an old photo to show someone, I ran across this old photo of the front yard of my house from 2005.

And then this one of my beginning of removing the lawn, putting in a pathway and just having garden beds.

Putting in flagstone April 2007

Here it is 5 months later, the dichondra has filled in between the flagstones, and I grew a Sunflower arch covered with Morning Glories that year.

and the other day I posted what it looks like now...

It sure has changed over the past five years.

In my back garden things are always changing...
One thing that had to go was a tree stump that had been in the way in the back garden for almost 20 years.

Here is a photo of me with the saw after cutting it down, it took 2 whole hours to cut that stump off!!
It was petrified!! The tree had been hit by lightning and that is what killed it.

For a few years it had served as a the base for a scarecrow in the vegetable garden.

This last spring I planted some Morning gloriy seeds at the base of the stump and it looked pretty festive with flowers in it's hair for it's last photo with it's face on.

I put the face on one of the big pine trees in the backyard

Here is a close up of his new location, he looks happier I think...

The day after putting the face on the pine tree, I was on the phone to my daughter, and I was telling her about moving the face, she said to take a picture for her, I got the camera out, and I noticed... his nose was now running!!

Poor thing... maybe he caught a cold being up so high now.

Hope this gives you some ideas.

 

[thechickenguy]

oh yes. and thank you for taking time to post. i like your yard very much. one of my favorite flowers is the morning glorie. i just love them. ive got 90 different seed packets for $5 about a month ago. 90% off. even though i dont have my own place and since im going to be breeding and selling my chickens all spring and summer i figured i would plant plant plant plant plant flowers all over the place around my coop and in the fall when im done selling eggs my chickens can free range again.! i love flowers.

 

[rebbetzin]

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Be careful with Morning Glories... They are considered Poisonous. In fact, it is a good idea to look up which plants/flowers would be ok to plant near the chicken coop.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

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Be careful with Morning Glories... They are considered Poisonous. In fact, it is a good idea to look up which plants/flowers would be ok to plant near the chicken coop.

They shouldn't kill your chickens, unless they eat ALOT, but I bet they get HIGH!

 

[bburn]

birdaholic.....my favorite picture you posted was the one with the stella de ora lillies.....all were beautiful but that was my favorite!

I am going to go find some pics and post them....I love flowers and have iris everywhere. Many were from ditches on the mountain I live on....no one loved them so I brought them home with me!

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

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Ha, that was an old iron gate post we couldn't remove, so a weather vane & stellas went in to hide it.