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I was out watering this morning, when it occurred to me just how much our back yard has changed since I got into Bonsai and my wife got into general gardening. We moved in to this house 2016, but really didn't start any gardening until the following year. We have been slowly landscaping around the house as the budget allows, though it seems with each passing month out estimation of what we can do all by ourselves is increasing. There has been talk of terracing. Anyway, I digress, here are a couple of pics of the yard when we moved in.
Here is Janet dog hanging out with her entire world. The back yard pretty much looked like the pic all around when we moved in. Not much in the way of shade or interest. As you can see, we also have houses in sight of our back yard.
Here is the "Jesus Shed" - It was loaded with pro Jesus gang graffiti.
I debated on scrapping it entirely, but when I started getting into bonsai I decided it would make a great work area, and being frugal, I reused most of the wood I tore out from inside to build some rickety little bonsai tables.
Here are my main display benches, on the back porch just out the kitchen window. The blue one is reused wood from the Jesus shed. I keep meaning to replace it, but hey, it works.
Behind the bench and up in the backyard is the garden that my wife put in. We weren't too sure about spacing and whatnot and she spent a couple years just throwing stuff in there. Basically, we are looking to make a natural privacy fence, with the idea most of those arborvitaes are going to grow and spread a bit to block a direct line of sight from the houses behind us to our back porch.
The monkey pole for the bonsai was already there, I just built a platform. We lined the garden with both rocks that we dug up while digging out the garden, and landscape brick "donated" with the caveat that we pull the bricks and load ourselves - fair enough.
Here is Janet dog hanging out with her entire world. The back yard pretty much looked like the pic all around when we moved in. Not much in the way of shade or interest. As you can see, we also have houses in sight of our back yard.
Here is the "Jesus Shed" - It was loaded with pro Jesus gang graffiti.
I debated on scrapping it entirely, but when I started getting into bonsai I decided it would make a great work area, and being frugal, I reused most of the wood I tore out from inside to build some rickety little bonsai tables.
Here are my main display benches, on the back porch just out the kitchen window. The blue one is reused wood from the Jesus shed. I keep meaning to replace it, but hey, it works.
Behind the bench and up in the backyard is the garden that my wife put in. We weren't too sure about spacing and whatnot and she spent a couple years just throwing stuff in there. Basically, we are looking to make a natural privacy fence, with the idea most of those arborvitaes are going to grow and spread a bit to block a direct line of sight from the houses behind us to our back porch.
The monkey pole for the bonsai was already there, I just built a platform. We lined the garden with both rocks that we dug up while digging out the garden, and landscape brick "donated" with the caveat that we pull the bricks and load ourselves - fair enough.
