Joyce's little world

[joyce]

A few pictures I took last week of my front garden. I have alot of flower beds scattered throughout the yard but my front garden is my pride and joy.

I did get to plant my carrots, headed onions and red potatoes a couple of weeks ago, but that 's all I have done in the vegetable garden. I was just down there and I lost the carrot row. Water went right across it in 4 different places.

I will be adding more pictures as time goes along.

One of my azaleas



Creeping Phlox in my front garden









My Japanese maple



Bleeding heart

[Christy]

very pretty! love the creeping phlox! thinking of planting some this year

[Tonnymonk]

Absolutely gorgeous, Joyce!! I love the creeping flox, too!! Aren't azaleas great for making it feel like spring!! Thanks for sharing!!

[joyce]

I lucked out on the creeping phlox. I was at Lowe's 4 years ago and they were marking down all kind of flowers. I got the phlox for .25 cents a pot. I brought home a truck load that morning of annuals and perennials they had marked down. Some were rather puny looking but with a little TLC they all lived and I was a happy camper.

I love all the spring bloomers even dandelions. Sorta renews the spirit after a long cold winter.

[ChileFarmer]

I like them all, very pretty indeed. Garden washing, some of ours does also. But you did get rain, just look at your flowers. CF

[Christy]

wow i need to go to lowes more often!

o n i absalutly love your rock walkway!!! your gardens look so nice n neat,

[Wrennie]

Beautiful Joyce!

[joyce]

My front garden. This project took us about 4 years to complete, we did it all by ourselves. Still early for blooms and stuff. Wait until about a month from now and it will be a colorful mass of blooms and blossoms.














My peony, It should be in bloom in a couple of weeks.




Water feature

[Christy]

joyce come move in with me for four years LOL
omg is that NICE! love the bridge over the pond.
my peonies are still redish green from popin up! n you got buds! lol i would love your warm weather but you could keep the tornados n that come with it lol

[joyce]

Yea we have our share of tornadoes for sure. I want a storm shelter so bad. Thought we was gonna get one this year, but other priorities took over.

I have a few more pictures I wanted to share.

Some of my Iris's









A clematis I have growing up the oak tree on the north side of the house.







Columbine







The front of my dead tree row. I call it that cause when I moved here there was nothing but dead trees there and we cut them all down and I said hummmmm.....looks like a good place for a long flower bed.



The back side of the dead tree row

[Wrennie]

Very pretty Joyce!

[ChileFarmer]

Super nice, great photos. Thanks for the tour. I enjoyed it all. CF

[Christy]

very beauitful joyce!!!

[Tonnymonk]

All I can say is WOW!!! Absolutely beautiful!!

[joyce]

Sorry I haven't been here in awhile. Alot going on and fighting the weather like everybody else. I have had a couple more bad falls and the last one fractured my ankle. Now they say I have bulging disc and Osteoarthritis. I am on a walker but still gardening, just really slow.

Here are some of the latest pictures I have taken of my vegetable and some of the flowers. Hope to post more often. Just trying to get things done around here.












I think these are called Siberian iris



My north garden.





Butternut squash. The ones on the other end had to be replanted



Summer squash, maters, cabbage







I have 5 blueberry bushes and they are loaded this year, don't know if you can really make them out yet but they are loaded like crazy



My poor south garden. Started once not to post any pictures but what is up is growing good. Just needs to stop raining. I may go back and replant some more of the skips





I think they call this yarrow. It is about 4 ft tall



Clematis around the lamp post



A new flower bed I started this year. Daylily in the middle with dianthus and Blackeye Susans on the oputer edge



A flower bed around the Japanese Maple



Ain't it purty

[Spruance]

Sorry to hear about your ankle Joyce. That's the last thing you need with your garden to tend to.

Lovely photos, and such a lot of space. I am ever so slighly jealous. ;D

[Pharmer Phil]

Ouch, sorry to hear of your injuries Joyce, but It looks like you have out gardened this two footed man
Very nice Joyce , I'd say ona the best gardens I seen so far this year, weather looks like it's way better than here... Thanx for sharing

[trudy]

Love all the pics, an yes that one is yarrow btw. All your work has paid off, sorry to hear of your injuries. Try not to overdue, I know its hard not to get out there though. Thanks for sharing your garden, one of the prettiest I've seen.

[Tonnymonk]

All I can say is WOW!!!! You must have the nicest yard in town!! Sorry to hear about the ankle, but looks like it hasn't slowed you much! Keep those pics coming! You sure have a VERY green thumb!!!

[joyce]

Thank ya. Summer has kicked in here for sure. Up in the 90's and the humidity to match it. I love it.

Picked my first summer yellow squash today and had enough I put up 2 bags in the freezer. Having trouble with red mites on my tomatoes. I have tried the dishsoap mixed with water and squirted them a couple of times and they are still on them.

I will post some more pictures soon. I love reading and looking at y'alls gardens. I live for this time of the year. I feel so at peace out in my gardens.

[Tonnymonk]

I feel so at peace out in my gardens.

Me too! Nothing like working up a sweat out there and then sitting back and admiring what you have accomplished. I call it "my therapy"

[tink]

WOW What a beautiful garden!!!!! I want to live where you live as there are no weeds there.

[Christy]

beauitful!!!!!

[abirdseyeview]

Phabulous! Thanks for sharing.