Spring Is Time For Planting/Gardening

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Thanks Sheryl!

I agree mowing a slope is too much like work. It's also dangerous! I have an uncle who cut his big toe off when his mower rolled back over his foot.

I bet your slope looks prettier with flowers and shrubs on it anyway!

I absolutely love a casual cottage type lawn filled with plants.

[Janet]

I love gardening and working in my yard. We haven't had a garden four about 4 years now, but with watching what I eat and the prices in the grocery, I'm thinking of planting a garden this year. I always planted sweetcorn, greenbeans, peas, broccoli, cauliflower, radishes, carrotts, leaf lettuce, and green onions. I use to love going out there early of a morning, after the dew dries and weed and just do my thinking out there. I love planting flowers and have a flower bed on the south side of the house. On the north end, we planted a few evergreens that are really taking off. Now we just need to make things pretty with some chips or stone or something. Maybe that is something my son and I can start on, on spring break. Oh you guys have really gotten me in the mood.

[Mandy]

Oh i love planting pretty flowers, and nurture them, and i love water features! To sit, and listen to the sound of the running water is soooooo relaxing to me!!

[Chandra Amaya]

Originally Posted by Mandy

Oh i love planting pretty flowers, and nurture them, and i love water features! To sit, and listen to the sound of the running water is soooooo relaxing to me!!

Ohhhhh I can't wait to add a water feature. I live in an apartment now & am limited on what I can do. I love them though. They are so beautiful & very relaxing.

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I love the look of a water feature, but comically, the practical side of me wins over and I keep wanting to go turn off the water! I seriously thought I would put one in our yard until I had a small tabletop one in the house and it drove me nuts!

I've already started picking up seeds for my garden this spring. I'd have to shovel snow and thaw ground to plant them yet, but I couldn't resist picking them up.

[rivermom]

A few years ago my hubby bought me this water fountain for Valentines Day. I LOVE it. Of course many of the flowers you see around it ummm, have all but died. I pretty much have to restock the pretty annuals each and every year. LOL

I really do enjoy the sound of the trickling water. It's very relaxing and it makes the deck seem fresher.

I just returned from getting pots, soil, and herbs to start my herb garden on the deck. They didn't have much of a choosing right now so all I got was Thyme, 2 Basil plants, and Rosemary.

I went to a nursery afterwards to seek out more herbs but they said they wont be selling them until April. So, I guess I will just hang tight to get more.

Then....I stopped by a flea market (we have tons out here) and found an old wooden bench to sit at and set my herbs on. I am placing that too on the deck.

This poor deck, I tell ya. It's getting full! LOL We have a table w/ 4 charis, the hot tub, plants, etc and my goal is to make it my own little oasis when I am completed.

My hubby and I spend most our time (during warmer months) on the deck. It over looks the valley and hills/river and it's relaxing to us.

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Sheryl, your deck sounds wonderful!
I wish I could have a longer growing season here. We can't really plant outside until the very end of May or beginning of June. By Oct it's all over again.

Is that picture from your deck? If so, WOW! Nice display!