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One of the first things she asked for when moving in last summer was to expand the flower bed so she could bring her garden with her.

She transplanted much of her collection, which she has spent decades cultivating. An inspiration!

If anyone has any recommendations on how to prune and work with the potted Fig tree, let us know :)

By the side of my house, there is this like i dont know what to call it, like a stream of water, everything that you can see with tall grass its because there is water there. I tried trimming it with a weed trimmer but when you cut some of those plant, they give like a rash and immediately starts to itch desperately.
Is there any chemical that I can use to kill those plants!?

I bought random plants from a garden center years ago and just recently found out they're native! Blue false indigo. I've got a few around the yard; going to have to plant more. They've got lovely flowers (2nd pic found online; my plants are already done flowering for the year). Zone 7 in eastern US.

Edit: Apparently this plant is pretty rare in the wild in its native habitat 😕 https://extension.umd.edu/resource/false-blue-indigo/

I’m just very curious to know what the neighbors are hiding / protecting. Anyone seen a rectangular patch of grass different to the surrounding like this. Whats the purpose to doing something like that? Just very unusual!

Here’s my yard.. I added used old pavers to the side of the driveway.. and tried to add native perennials with the exception of the Berkeley sedge in the form 1/5 of the yard… I should be able to get more to finish the yard in the next month…
Locate in San Antonio, TX

Mistakes:

1. I buried the steel edge divider between the pavers and the plant bed by the driveway too low.. can’t see it. Some soil ends up on the pavers
2. Some of the pavers are uneven
3. Don’t really have a perennial plan just mixed them up in the plant bed
4. The large pavers between the yard and plant bed aren’t super level
5. Didn’t buy enough sedge now waiting for more. The yard is weedy, should have solarized this whole time

Anyway any tips you have for me to fix my yard and make it more generallly aesthetically cohesive and functional appreciated

Thank you

(30C vs 49C)

Day two or three of this heatwave, surface soil temps in the prairie zones have only risen around 7F, turf areas in full sun have increased about 10F a day.

Edit: yes, surface temps. Was moving quickly on my way in to shower after working in 95F heat for an hour and missed an important word. I am aware of how soil works and that deeper soil doesn’t heat up on the same time frames. Surface soil temps impact evaporation/drought, the surface level biome, deeper temps, and the heat island effect. With so many conversations around trees being planted to mitigate urban heat, I wanted to show that you could get good cooling effects via ground level shade and plant respiration without having to wait over a decade for good shade trees to grow in.

This is my first summer trying the "Mowable Meadow" approach I first read about here. I mow the borders and pathways, but leave as much as I can to be "meadow" areas that go untouched.

In the past I tried to let it all grow long, but received nasty letters threatening to call bylaw enforcement on me. I've found this is a good compromise that keeps the NIMBY's off my back.

Now that I have these meadow areas established, I'll probably start adding native seed mixes and seeing what takes.

SW PA, too many things, and I don't know what half of them are, but I'm in a committed relationship with Partidge Peas

Utah State University this year. Nothin' says America like monoculture.

I've struggled with these since I started mowing lawns at 14 and just used disposable blades as much as I could until now.

I haven’t even lived in my new home for a year yet but I’ve been working on the outside a lot. I moved a thousand miles away from my previous oasis and I’m so happy the work is already paying off. None of my neighbors yards look anything like this at the moment. I feel like I’m watching a nature doc just standing out there.

It's not to everyone's taste but this is my meadow garden. It's cared for with nature in mind, and the philosophy that we borrow and share the space with other creatures. No pesticides, no deterrents, everything in harmony. The veg is protected by the frogs and toads - lettuce, peas, beans all remaining untouched by virtue of the amphibian army. All compost is home made. It isn't based around planting and has cost next to nothing except time. It was overgrown with brambles and grass when I moved in. Some might say it's still overgrown!

I try to balance being able to use the space for family life (kids, dog etc) with not being too tidy and guiding nature rather than fighting it, going with it instead of against it. It's a 1950s ex-council house so we're really lucky to have a good amount of space to have lawn, vegetables, orchard, hens and meadow garden. They had different priorities back then. Ponds are a 1930s claw foot bath, Belfast sinks and a washing up bowl sunk into the ground, affectionately known as Froggy Bottom. We've a regular population of 16 or so frogs in there! The bee 'hives' are actually solitary bee populations (I don't like saying hotels) I made from scrap wood and my talented wife painted for me.

Please be kind. First post and I wanted to share in the hope someone else might make a little space for nature too.

It’s actually insane how much impact on wildlife, aesthetics, my cuisine, and happiness this little plot of land has done in 1.2 years.

Following on from my photos of my garden, I thought some of you might like to sit with me in a somewhat blustery golden hour. You can hear a chorus of goldfinches (all of which started visiting when I established my meadow - they love the seed heads), wood pigeons, song thrushes, blackbirds, doves, and in the background there is a goldcrest, a greenfinch or two, a chiff chaff and a black cap (although I'm not sure they can be heard on my phone mic!) Sorry for the video quality - it's not exactly an editing masterpiece...

If anyone wants any advice or help getting started with wildlife gardening, please feel free to ask away.

I love that my garden really is a haven for wildlife and my favourite place to be.

I alter my lawn every year by adding new plantings or seeds, it's buzzing right now!

Might not look like much but there are 20 different types of plants in there, predominantly clover and yarrow

I've posted our back yard on here before. Last year we ripped out our front lawn and this year we finished the bulk of the planting. We also added a bunch of solar lights. We are lucky to live in a neighborhood with no HOA, so i can be as whimsical as I please :)