theodorad

Member since: Apr 08 | Years gardening: 5

An Appalachian country girl moved to the city.

My grandmother and mother were farm girls; I inadvertently learned gardening from them because everyone planted and canned vegetables.

Then, I wanted to get rid of the horrid front bushes so we wound up with a shade garden under the cherry tree, and that’s when I found out just how much I had learned by osmosis.

Then, I wanted herbs to cook with so we wound up with an herb garden on the east side.

Then, I couldn’t stand the ugly azaleas on the west side, so we ripped all that out and just tried putting in a flowery sun garden.

The back is still a mess and will be until we get the home addition built.

We fight a constant battle against deer.

Gardens

Backyard garden

Zone 7a We have a deck that we're planning to rip out and replace, so this really isn't landscaped. It back a forestland. But I love the vine that climbs...
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East side herb garden garden

Zone 7a When this repressed farm girl wanted to grow her own fresh basil, we ripped the ugly evergreens and holly out of the east side yard and planted lot...
- 44 plants
- 60 journals
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Front lawn shade garden

Zone 7a We tore out the awful bushes in 2004; now we have a perennial shade garden wrapped around the cherry tree where we can't grow grass anyway. There ...
- 34 plants
- 46 journals
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West Side garden

Zone 7b Circa 2008: The west side of the house looked T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E. Dead azaleas, random saplings and the huge weigela that was WAY too big for that sp...
- 27 plants
- 52 journals
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