David James's Backyard garden
Created on Friday, 20 Jun 08
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Zone 8 Not much to say yet - Inherited asparagus and artichoke and trying to expand from there.
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Zone 7 outside the front door of my apartment. it's in the way and people trip over my containers. also, there are no trays under the pots, so when I water it drips on the cars in th...
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Zone 8 I don't have much room at my place - all my plants are in pots there - so a friend let me grow in her backyard. It's a nice space, and I have a little greenhouse set up there.
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I'm trying to add perrenials so it isn't so much work in the Spring. Of course then I need to move those I put in the wrong place.Like the campanulla that grows to 4 feet & fall...
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Zone 8 Raised beds out back
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21 plants
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Zone 8
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Zone 8 This is my front garden. When we bought our house 4 years ago. It was surrounded by a nice big empty yard of dead grass. I started tearing out the lawn and replacing it with str...
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Zone 8 In January 2008 I bought a four-foot shoplight with two full-specturm fluorescents and began starting plants indoors.
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Zone 8 The plants in our building lobby include several that have been here for years, plus some I've added. The fluorescents overhead are 12, maybe 14 feet up, and on 24/7. The plan...
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Zone 7 This is my garden that I have planted in the last month. Prior to this being dirt it was covered with crab grass, weeds, snails, slugs and pupas.
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Zone 8 My friend Danina shares a big house with a group of friends, and the big house has a big back yard (west facing) with a wide variety of wondrous nooks and crannies, including se...
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Zone 8 The house beside Danina's sits abandoned. The yard is largely overgrown with weeds. I am going to clean it up on the rationale that, otherwise, the weeds will keep invading Da...
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Zone 8 Our back garden is only 70 square feet, so I am always looking for more places to put plants. When I asked the thrift store next door if they'd like a pot of flowers in their e...
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Zone 8 My rose garden existed when we purchased our house in 1989. It consisted of 12 hybrid tea roses, all still with their tags showing that they were Jackson and Perkins Test Garden...
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Zone 8
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This isn't actually a garden, just the plantings in various places in my front yard.
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These are the plants currently living in pots on my back patio.
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Zone 8 From the patio up, bordered by stairs to the right & garage to the left. Full afternoon sun. Morning sun only if I prune the camellia I hate.
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Zone 8 We started this one after taking a class at Seattle Tilth. The idea is that the border and close plantings helps you control things like mint that are apt to take over. You put ...
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I am turning my entire small yard into a backyard wildlife habitat. This part of my yard is right in front of my driveway, and divided into two parts by the stairs. A rock wal...
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This area is the largest part of my yard, aka "the front yard".
When I moved in, this area was covered with huge, poorly pruned prickly evergreen shrubs. They were both ugl...
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My house is on a very busy street, and the house looks quite small, so people are always surprised to find that I have a big backyard. One of the interesting things about it is ...
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Zone 7b The shadest part of my yard, approx. 15 ft by 4 ft.
Most of the back yard is partial sun to full sun. Eastern facing with a brick patio, shed, and hammock. My husband is ...
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Zone 7 I have four 24 foot by 4 foot beds for my veggie patch. I try to rotate them a la Steve Solomon's methodology.
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Zone 7b
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David James's Backyard garden
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