hellohouse

hellohouse

Member since: May 08 | Years gardening: 3 Organic gardener

My boyfriend and I own a Chicago bungalow on the northwest side of the city. It’s a city lot (30′ × 125′) but that doesn’t make building the gardens easy. We’ve planted at least six trees, lots of flowers and shrubs, and some veggies and herbs since we bought the place in June 2005.

Gardens

  • hellohouse's Behind-the-Garage garden

    Behind-the-Garage garden

    Zone 5b

    • 1 plants
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  • hellohouse's Border garden

    Border garden

    Zone 5b This little bed is just under 1 foot wide and 25 feet or so long.

    • 1 plants
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  • hellohouse's Frontyard garden

    Frontyard garden

    Zone 5b When we closed on Hello House in June 2005, the front yard was pretty bare. The grass was decent (nicer than it's been recently), but the stone pla...

    • 9 plants
    • 3 journals
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  • hellohouse's Herb garden

    Herb garden

    Zone 5b

    • 5 plants
    • 0 journals
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  • hellohouse's Next-to-the-Garage garden

    Next-to-the-Garage garden

    Zone 5b

    • 0 plants
    • 0 journals
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  • hellohouse's Prairie garden

    Prairie garden

    Zone 5b

    • 0 plants
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  • hellohouse's Vegetable garden

    Vegetable garden

    Zone 5b

    • 1 plants
    • 1 journals
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Chicago

United States United States 5b


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I love to grow

native perennials, herbs (not much work there!), tomatoes


Hobbies

nothing too exciting


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