YOUR Home Landscaping

[invincible569]

I was curious if you landscapers take care of your own home landscaping. Do you have a beautiful yard? Do you maintain it like you should?

[Ryan Lemons]

yes, I actually do my parents just put down the red cedar mulch on the flower beds boy does it show it all! and helps keep the plant eating worms away cause they don't like the smell.

[invincible569]

I just redid mine this weekend. Im not a pro landscaper YET! My wife and I resoiled, remulched and put new season plants. Now I just need to get the grass luscious green again.

My next project is to put a fountain in my backyard. Then I plan to add a flagstone walkway. I have other plans too.. but one step at a time.

[rat_race_engineer]

Mine looked nice last year but it needs its Spring makeover done....just haven't gotten around to doing it. Needless to say, the wife is getting all over my case about it. Its to the point now that she dread's hearing the business phone ring...."I'm never going to get my house done!" she says....I say "Don't be hating that ring, that's the sound of money!".

Jason

[Scaper-S2k]

You would never guess that a scaper lived at my home. The landscape doesn't look real good. I don't treat the lawn, and haven't mulched it for years.

Only my direct neighbor on one side of me knows that I am a scaper. No one else knows because I usually drive my car to and from work. Guys show up to mow it when it can't wait any longer.




But I vow to improve that this year. I love installing nice landscapes, so I will try to get one in on my home in the fall. It will be done.

[RRS]

I live in an apartment, but I have a pretty extensive collection of plants. I'm going to wait about another two weeks and I'll be moving everything out to my balcony.

My grandmother is an avid gardener and taught me a lot of what I know. She is constantly rooting something for me. I have a fern that is a cutting from a plant my uncle gave my grandmother for her birthday 40 years ago.

This is a picture I took of some plants I moved inside last year during one of the strong storms that came through. This is about 1/4 of my plant collection.

[RRS]

You can bet when I buy my first house I'll have perfect landscaping.

Here is my night blooming Cereus right before it bloomed. I was out of town the night it happened.

[steve-o]

we have 5 acres with 1.5 cleared that we cut. weeds are green too. lol. we have lots of beds and trees that we keep looking good but the yard is just too big to treat. it looks ok as we keep it cut. my wife is into lawn ornaments and we have probably have about $5,000 in the damn things. windmill, you name the animal ,we got it.

steve

[Stephen M.]

A nice yard? You're kidding right?

I just mowed my yard and it was about a foot high. My employees mowed it about 2 weeks ago when it was slightly higher. Usually I'm the embarassment of the neighborhood; but my neighbors know that the mechanics car doesn't run well, or the shoe maker's kids have no shoes, and the plumber's house leaks and has marginally working plumbing, etc.

My clients have b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l yards. I don't have time or the desire to make mine nice.

[SodBuster]

Pumped 30K into the scape of my home in the suburbs last year. Maybe another 20K this year to finish it out. It's just good business to have kick a$$ scapes. For years I was just too busy to make it happen. When the wife said she was going to hire a landscaper to scape in this home...I took action. Really gratifying to have a decent scape.

[ohreallythanks]

my front is soothing to sore eyes.....my back waites for rock and timber so i can start that project...design in place....front yard has super plush fescue sitting on compost...back grass is ok sittin on some added topsoil....clay under all

[highlander316]

i have a pallet worth of 1"-3" natural wall stone spread across my driveway and mulch beds as I wait to complete two decorative walls for the past two weeks. Paying customers first! Ha, my mom told me last year she was gonna hire somebody to cut the lawn because she got tired of all the grass in my pool, since I wouldn't cut it for like every 10 days and it would be LONG.

[Stephen M.]

...When the wife said she was going to hire a landscaper to scape in this home...I took action. Really gratifying to have a decent scape.

OOCH!! Wives sure know how to hit their men!! And I'm sure your wife let's you know how "gratifying" it is!!!