I'm sitting here with my third cup of tea this morning, planning to get out in the yard shortly. Your photos, Nell, are absolutely lovely. In the next week or so, I will be adding a new bed with a path, so your post came at the perfect time for me-although, truth be told, any time is the perfect time for photos of splendid gardens! Thanks for the pics-I did look at the whole album and then some!

Cynthia

Nell, once again your gardens remind me of mine, except as I mentioned in another post, I think mine are too crowded. I have the wide paths that are can be mowed too. Then, I see we both have large metal garages/shops!

For my stepping stone through the middle of the driveway bed, I used the flakes of old alfalfa hay. It has to be replaced every couple of years.

I always get such a feeling of serenity quiet when I see your gardens; just lovely.

Glenda

I need more space. I wonder if the people behind me would mind having their backyard expanded.

I like grass paths too. And open spaces in between. And ways of getting places from more than one direction.

Do you find when you walk towards the house you see things you missed when walking away from the house down the same path?

Everything looks lovely, Nell . . . what a nice tour for a rainy morning. (Two and 1/2 inches here, overnight--yea!) It must be a joy to mow your grassy paths.

My Oakleaf has had dried seed heads all summer & the leaves started turning about a month ago. Yours must bloom later than mine.

Thanks for the tour, Nell.

Your oakleaf's are huge! How many acres do you have?

Oh, Nell. What a gorgeous tour. I have said elsewhere that your gardens evoke such a sense of peace and tranquility. I love the grass paths and I envy you all that south Georgia flat land and (probably) sandy soil. I, too, took the complete tour. So, so beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Judy

Beautiful...so serene and cool looking even on a hot summer day. I just love your wide open spaces linked with the intimate peeks around a corner. Thank you, c

Thanks for posting your paths, Nell.
Everything looks terrific.

Libby

Your grassy paths invite walking, at least in my imagination. Your gardens always look so tranquil and quiet and country, love your casual atmosphere!

Beautiful pictures Nell!
We are growing a path along the neighbor's citadel-like arborvitae. Your pics make me think that we probably want our path to meander a bit, to add some uh........It's striking how your charming paths, as Glenda said could be MO or PA. It doesn't look like okeefenoke, I don't look at it and expect to see alligators in the alley ..........meandering.

Duane

p.s. My Wife and I were driving along a creek on the edge of Allentown PA the other day. A worker was trimming the creek edge. I reminded her that they found small alligators in the creek some years back. The very next day wfmz news reported that animal control apprehended a 6 footer in Jordan creek right in Allentown lol.....
meandering

You are all too kind and complimentary. We're on high ground here, so not swampy like over toward the Okefenokee Swamp in Eastern South Georgia, or down toward Lake Seminole.

I did measure the parts where I garden the other day. A line of pines and azaleas separate the front yard from what I call the Upper Garden, which is where the long paths are. The house and front yard takes up roughly an acre. The Upper Garden back nearly to the pumphouse takes up another acre, so we'll just call it two acres and not include the structures in the back.

Here's a more cottage-like view from yesterday of lantana montevidensis, Madagascar periwinkles, crape myrtles going out of bloom and Salvia leucantha coming into bloom in the front and the obligatory view of the south end of Buffy.

It's all fun, thanks.

nell

Nell,

what a pleasure it is to take a stroll through your garden paths. Very calming, serene, and beautiful.

Thank you for sharing photos.

~Natalie

Nell, your paths are lovely. What a beautiful garden you have and what a joy it must be to slowly walk the paths and enjoy all your hard work. Thanks so much for sharing your photos.

Ohhhh, these pictures so make me want to stroll with you around your garden so you can point out, tell me about all the treasures you are growing that I can't. I'll bring my camera :o).

Annette

Oh Nell, I just love your place. Two acres sounds like the right size to me, large enough to have gardens and paths, but not too large. What are those hot pink roses?

Enjoy your lovely oasis ~ FlowerLady

Absolutely beautiful! My goal is to have meandering grass paths and hidden nooks in my yard. I hate mowing, and have crabgrass, bermuda grass, and bahia. I'm overseeding with clover this fall and winter to try and tame some of that.

I have 8 acres altogether, but my "yard" is only about 1-2 acres. It will be more when I get the old fence line and brush jungle cleared out behind the house.

Your yard inspires me!

What a nice garden tour. :-)

I have but one path that is finished in my garden, the brick walkway I built, so many years ago now, from the kitchen door to the yard gate. The rest of the paths in our farmyard are dirt, time worn from repeated use. A path to the chicken coup, one to the hog barn etc. Some of them are two dirt tracks where the tractors, pickups and such go. When it rains they are muddy, when it's dry they are dusty. It's all part of the charm to me, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Lovely pictures, Nell.

MeMo

MeMo, you bring up a good point. A working farm does have its own charm! There are places in our yard that I think would be a wonderful location for a planting of some kind.........then I remember, no, that must be left open for the gas tanks, or the tractor or the farm truck to use. The practical use must come first.

Glenda

I'm a believer in 'Do what works' and garden around all the inconveniences of country life. My garden evolved years before I came along here. Some of the changes were so small, like making the driveway circle around in front of the tractor shed instead of going up a little slope that always washed out in a hard rain. It took months of constructive staring to figure out that simple change, and about half a day to change the drive, fill in the wash and plant centipede grass to stop the erosion.

The nice tree line at the north side used to be a pasture fence. When DH was having some bulldozer work done some 20 years, I suggested leaving the young established trees that had come up in the fence row. Now we have three mature pecans, two deciduous oaks, and a live oak. I curved on around toward the back with two shrub islands with crape myrtles and loropetalum with a space in between wide enough for a tractor to glide through. There's a field road on the outside with fruit trees beyond. Everything is planted with an eye toward mowing.

Another garden point is the space under nut trees. You can't pick up pecans in a shrub bed, but spring daffodils are gone underground when pecans fall.

Thank you for all the nice things you've said about my garden. It's a place for an old lady to play and the dog and cat to roam with the birds and butterflies. Did I tell you all that Buffy treed a raccoon the other day? She also caught a squirrel, whose remains I gave a decent burial with the cat in attendance.

Nell