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Originally posted by Triss:
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So any idea what you have in that yard of yours and any ideas of what look you want to have there? [/QB]

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Thanks for the welcome, Triss!
What's here? Well, before we bought it, the mobile home had been unoccupied for over a year. I suspect this yard has been untended for a VERY long time. Perhaps not even tended by the previous owner.

After we ripped out the waist high grass and old, fallen Xmas lights from around the skirting we found what was once a bed outlined in big rocks around the front of the trailer (where the hitch sticks out). There is a woody, prickly thing that I thought was dead because it was sort of steely-grey, but now it has little buds on it! I think maybe it's a rose. It is little more than a few branching sticks about 4feet high covered in millions of thorns. It sits in full on sun with it's back to the aluminum siding - but it's survived!
We also uncovered a white square plastic bin full of dirt and were going to dump it, but there seem to be things sprouting out of it now that its out of the tall grass. They're about 4 cm tall and not like tiny little plants at all - more like a rocketship made of leaves piercing out of the earth. My sweetie says he thinks they're bulbs.
I have no idea.
If there are any additional plants beside grass I haven't found them.

I probably sound like an IDIOT! ~~shakes head in embarrassment~~

What do I want? Wow. I don't know. What can I have? I like flowers, but I like gardens that are all green and lush with little flowers like sprinkles on a cake. I think my sweetie prefers big banks of huge showy flowers.
I'd like to see butterflies and hummingbirds come here.
We have bears, skunks, raccoons, deer, and elk in this mobile home park. That might influence my choices, yes?



AT
.......oh, and I'm allergic to fruit - so no berries or anything.

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Originally posted by patches1414:
Hi thistledown!

Welcome to the Forum! ....This is the greatest group of people you'll ever find. .....you'll have a green thumb before you know it. Hope to see you around the forums. ......
patches

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Wow! Thank you! I kind of got a relaxed feeling while I was lurking here. Everyone seems so helpful (and I certainly need help!), LOL!

You'll definately see me on the forums! The only thing regarding garden I HAVE is QUESTIONS!!


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Originally posted by Triss:
.....Good places for starts are around the doors since you go in and out them all the time, they are a good place to see your hard work. Do you have porches? Any way of posting pics for us to see?

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That's a great idea! Instant gratification! I NEVER would have thought of that!

We have a deck, but it will SERIOUSLY need work this spring before it is safe to walk on. The porch is part of the deck. Hopefully I will have my photos up soon!

I've googled my area and we seem to be Zone 5a.
Our front end (with the hitch and rosebush) face south. There has been very little sun, as there are mature cedars all around, but I'm hoping the higher summer sun will give us more light soon. The yard is along the west side of the trailer. I think it will get plenty of sun during most of the day, but in the morning our own trailer will block the light, and in the evening our neighbour's trailer will block it.


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Originally posted by JV:
AT welcome to the forum from Texas. I also live in a mobile home. Around the front hitch area of mine is inclosed . There I have a Rose on each side as well I have four Tropical Hibicus on the housing over the tongue........Jimmy

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What a friendly forum! Thank you for the welcome! From what little I know of Texas I think it's similar in climate the the area I grew up in!

I checked out your photobucket account: GORGEOUS hibiscus! I have no idea if it would grow here, but when I was looking up plants that grew well in acidic soil, I found pictures of something called "azaleas". Their flowers look quite similar to hibiscus (hibiscuses? hibisci?). At least they do to my untrained eye!

I think it'll be quite some time before I can achieve any blooms like that! Hopefully I can reap some wisdom from this board!

Let's hear it for mobile-home-pad-gardens!


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Originally posted by princessazlea:
Hi thistledown
Welcome to the forum
Nice to meet you.

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Why, thank you! All the way in England! My sweetie is from Ireland (Cork), and he says I would LOVE the gardens in England!


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