We have decided to plant ivy to grow up the front of our home and add some character to a bland facade. This weekend we will be putting up the trellises needed and prepare the ground for planting next month.

It seems like every weekend we have a home project. I spent this morning cleaning my covered back porch. This afternoon, I went and bought some conduit, which I spray painted ORB. Tomorrow will be another coat of paint. Next weekend my husband will be installing the conduit - we are using it for outdoor curtain rods. I've already ordered the 14 sunbrella fabric panels. I'm really looking forward to seeing how it all looks when we're done!

We did all the ground work with backhoe and rock rake behind my baby Kubota.... laid another retainer wall at the side entrance to our guest room, and got ready to plant beds.

Prepping to sell:
1 - dethatch 1200 sq feet of lawn
2 - expand flagstone patio
3 - spread mulch lots of places (kept the chipped stuff from the pro tree cleanup)
4- trim back oleander privacy hedge near pool
5- shred all the trimmings
6 - mulch more places with the shredded trimmings

Think that's enough!

Install water to the garden with 6000' of drip tape. Put up drywall in the new potting shed. Build another raised bed for the garden. Here is the potting shed - almost done! Greenhouse is done just adding final touches to it. Praying my wife stays safe in Afghanistan and for warm weather!

Installing new frostfree faucet in barn aisle, and new automatic waterers... planting some beds in front of horsebarn...and a weeping cherry tree, Then, placing three cupolas on roof of house. Building my raised herb garden by the walkin door to kitchen if I get to it.

If the weather is agreeable we're going to start work on our back yard reno. 1st step is digging up dirt around base of house where it should be gravel to keep pests from coming to visit (ants). We're digging up the garden and moving it, and we need to cut down the apple tree to make way for our deck reno starting in May.

Weekend project to start prep of vegetable and flower garden areas just went on hold. More snow. :-(

This weekend it is to look for another house.

Thanks Carole M., you reminded me of what our home inspector suggested we do! Also, researching boxwood and low lying plants ( how to plant, and how to space out). The only thing I grew growing up in NYC was a tomato plant on my fire escape...

Just finishing our raised flower bed/fire pit build. Planted the pink dogwood (Satomi) and Daffs last weekend. Deciding what to put down as ground cover. I'm leaning towards lava rock. Once I decide what ground cover we'll lay landscape fabric then fill this weekend. Also, making a material list for replacing the back fence, that's happening May long weekend.

Hey Wyndyacre like your greenhouse. Do you use it much and for what? I have mine almost done but more a high hoop house than a conservatorie like yours.

Yes Rick...I use it alot! We built it from salvage materials 12 years ago and I have used it for seed starting, division growing and heated it to winter over my tropicals and cactus collection ever since.
I start lots of different perennials and vegetables from seed, do cuttings of shrubs and "grow on" divisions of different plants also for my one acre garden.
For 7 years, while I worked seasonally as a horticulturist I also had a massive plant sale at home every May and used the greenhouse and coldframe to prepare for that also. I got a fulltime job as a gasfitter 6 years ago and don't do the sale anymore but still love my little GH for my own gardening pleasure.

You can see more photos of the GH, coldframe and gardens in my Ideabooks...labelled Wyndyacre's Garden.

Just picked out the flagstone in Cartersville, GA to start landscaping for a path. Hopefully we will have it delivered by mid-week. Will start laying out the area or framework for the basic path by removing grass and leveling off this weekend (that is, if it ever stops raining here.)

Over the last year, we renovated a 150 year old house! The previous owners cultivated a beautiful garden which was shown during garden tours every Summer for 15 yrs. The house was on the market for two years before we bought it and sadly the gardens were let go. Last Summer, I worked for months preparing it for this Spring, with little gardening experience. My hope is to restore the gardens eventually! I never thought I would love gardening as much as I do and feel excited about bringing the gardens back to their former glory!

Other garden

The back garden looks a little "rough" so if anyone has any suggestions please feel free!