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By greenjeans
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Hello everyone…I have been milling around on this website and have thoroughly enjoyed all of the chatter, pictures, etc. I have even left some comments to some of you. I have just bought a new home in North Carolina after having rented for some 12 years and am so excited about finally being able to landscape my entire yard. I originally came from Florida and have found it very different as far as climate and soil (clay not sand) ar concerned. But, I am learning. It is a big undertaking transforming a large yard into a dream. I hope I am up for the task. I have already found a lot of wonderful ideas from all of you and am so thrilled about the possibility of so much more… Have a happy day!
19 Jun, 2008
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Thx, 1198 What Zone are you? I am 7.
19 Jun, 2008
Hello & welcome (from the other side of the pond!) I too started from scratch 18 years ago with no grand plan, little knowledge but loads of enthusiasm. I set out to create a wildlife friendly garden and Hopefully thats what I've achieved.As the kids grew up i took away grass in favour of borders. I only wish I had this site to draw inspiration from back then! Good luck and will look forward to watching your garden grow.
Best wishes, Mike
19 Jun, 2008
Welcome Greenjeans sure you will get to know a lot of us and our funny ways.Great site newcomers always welcome and always interesting to hear how others garden.
19 Jun, 2008
welcome to the gardening family xxx
19 Jun, 2008
Welcome to this super friendly gardening community.
19 Jun, 2008
Hello Greenjeans, I'm sure you will enjoy GOY it is fun and educating. Clay soil is a challenge, but can be used with some attention to soil modification. I garden mostly in pots and planter boxes on my patio because of OA. But I am close to you in climate and soil comp. being near Atlanta. Good luck on your project!
20 Jun, 2008
Welcome to GOY Greenjeans. Just think of all the fun you're going to have in that large yard. Happy gardening !
20 Jun, 2008
I might seem a bit thick here, but i would just like to ask - what's a yard? I keep reading some users refer to their yard - I always thought a yard was a concrete area with the garden beyond, but reading these blogs and comments i am wondering if some folk refer to their whole garden as their yard, Just curious?
20 Jun, 2008
Marksbegonias,
You are correct. In the US, yard refers to exactly what you call your garden in the UK. Garden in the US is a planned out planting of vegetables or decorative scrubs and /or flowering perrienials (sp) and annuals, or a commercial similar setup open to the public. A famous one here in the southern US is Callaway Gardens. So in the US you could have many gardens in your yard!
20 Jun, 2008
Welcome and good luck with your project .
20 Jun, 2008
Thank-you to all for the lovely comments. I am sure I will love conversing with all of you in the future. I look forward to learning a lot. I hope to post pictures at some point. Right now all I have are the befores.
20 Jun, 2008
Hi Greenjeans - nice to meet you! I have relatives in North Carolina...I haven't been there, though. By the way, it's good to have a set of 'before' photos, I wish I had bought a digital camera a long time ago so that I had a set to compare what the garden used to be like...So you are lucky!
20 Jun, 2008
OMG [Oh my God ] Spritz I too have relatives in North Carolina - we could even be related , hows that for your worst nightmare scenario?
21 Jun, 2008
welcome to GOY
21 Jun, 2008
Wohlibuli thanks for that information. It would seem a US Garden must be a UK flower bed or vegetable plot, and the US yard a UK garden. Now i understand!
Welcome to Greenjeans, BTW, I'm sure you'll love the site (only draw back is - it's adictive lol) :-)
21 Jun, 2008
US - Yard....UK - Garden...it's less complicated.
22 Jun, 2008
Tomato ~ tomatoe!
we're all one big family and the bigger the better as far as i'm concerned.
let's play!..............
26 Jun, 2008
Give em an inch, they'll take a yard my Mum used to say.
But as far as I know, a 'yard' (apart from the Imperial measurement) is your 'Cribs', your 'yard', your 'place'.
Your little corner of heaven, your little plot, your big plot, your land !!
It's yours, and it's where you do stuff, and hopefully post the pics on here for us to see.
Next, they'll be doing 'Pimp My Yard' (Oh, hang on, they have - It's called GardenForce).
I long for the day when Alan Titchmarsh or Monty pinches the shoulder of my sweater and says 'Yo yard, is officially pimped !'
Word.
27 Jun, 2008
Bonkers - from now on I shall think of you as my cousin!!!!
27 Jun, 2008
Wording is slightly different wherever we are Cluelesskev, the version of that saying i had always heard was "give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile" We always refered to the "back yard" as the area of concrete outside the back door, between the house and the lawn. I had also thought of a yard as a small walled in area with no garden, as such - which was what originally confused me when some were refering to their garden as a yard (i don't take much confusing, i'm afraid) But now i know a yard is a garden lol :-)
5 Jul, 2008
Welcome Greenjean's! I too, am new to GOY (May 2008). I have found this to be an exceptionally friendly and helpful website. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have so far. There is a wealth of knowledge here and from all over... Good luck on your yard, I know the feeling (and my yard is very small!) I too am in the US, Portland, Michigan.
19 Jun, 2008