Protherj's Backyard garden
Created on Wednesday, 16 Jul 08
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Zone 8
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9 plants
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Zone 8
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10 plants
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Zone 8 It's mostly shade plants and bulbs that haven't come up yet, but it sure does bring a smile to my face when I come home every day.
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30 plants
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8 journals
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Zone 7b My garden is a mix of herbs, (mostly) perennial flowers, perennial bushes and vegetables, with the odd raspberry tossed in just to confuse the issue.
Most of these photos are...
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Zone 8 My sister and I built this 4'x10' raised bed in 2001, initially filling it with a truckload of garden soil containing well-composted steer and chicken manure and a good deal o...
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Zone 8 The front beds are devoted to bulbs (daffodil, tulip, a few hyacinths, day lilies, saffron crocus and a few tiny native irises) hardy perennials (salvias, lavender, acanthus, cl...
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9 plants
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Zone 8 I have two groups of container plants in the back yard: Herbs and strawberries, in a sunny spot on the brick patio, and shade-loving plants - a fern, hostas, dicentra, spiderwor...
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4 plants
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1 journals
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Zone 8 Two long fence borders - one with most-of-the-day sun and one in deep shade - hold a haphazard array of plants that please me: An akebia vine, borage to attract the bees, a thic...
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Zone 8 A corner where two exterior walls meet at the back of my low deck makes a perfect sheltered spot for containers of shade-loving perennials and ferns, along with a fuchsia that w...
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6 plants
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Zone 5 My first attempt at hydroponics.
I am a trial and error kind of guy, so I made a lot of mistakes and learned from them.
But I am having a lot of fun. I enjoy just sitting in n...
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6 plants
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21 journals
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Zone 8a Definitely a work in progress, and not very pretty. Badly in need of an overhaul, including bed rebuilding, landscape fabric, mulch, moving of compost piles, de-weeding, trellis...
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16 plants
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12 journals
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Zone 8a My father-in-law built this semi-portable vinyl/plastic-sided greenhouse for me in 2007. It is strictly for spring seed starting and cuttings since it has no heater for winter, ...
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If I had more time, more money, and more energy ... this is what I would have.
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Overgrown and badly infested with weeds. Most of the landscaping is over-mature ... we've had to remove the tree in the photo of the goldfinches, as it was rotting and falling i...
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11 plants
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Zone 8
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5 plants
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Zone 8 The front yard borders around the house.
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5 plants
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Zone 8 My little veggie garden - I don't like veggies very much so there are only a select few.
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5 plants
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5 journals
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Zone 8 A rectangular patch of earth next to our driveway. Just a mix of pretty perennials.
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6 plants
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6 journals
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Zone 8
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