Garden and Yard Photos

[fireinmn]

James A....your house is amazing! love love love the porch! nice in put.

[roni]

I love mimosa trees - or I thought I did until Kathy took a deciduous plant materials class, came home and told me they were actually silk trees .

I love silk trees.

[James A.]

Originally Posted by roni

I love mimosa trees - or I thought I did until Kathy took a deciduous plant materials class, came home and told me they were actually silk trees .

Really?! I stand corrected. Thanks.

fireinmn...thank you. It's nice to hear after putting so much time into it.

James A.

[James A.]

roni,

I think the jury is still out:





James A.

[roni]

James,

I dunno. There is a lovely mimosa tree on the campus where she took her class. Her professor told her that they were commonly called mimosa trees, but that it was a silk tree. That is all I know. I still call them mimosas .

[SunKneeMarie]

Originally Posted by fireinmn

Are you spending your kids college funds to put it in?? if in you don't mind me asking...

We always said we wouldn't do anything "big and fun" like that if it was going to come out of "needed funds." We tried that debt thing once and didn't do so well with it! So, college is safe and funded where we want it, and our finance guy gave us some options so that the pool is going in without anything necessary being disturbed. There's even enough "gravy" for a couple of trips to Playa!

[SunKneeMarie]

Originally Posted by roni

James,

I dunno. There is a lovely mimosa tree on the campus where she took her class. Her professor told her that they were commonly called mimosa trees, but that it was a silk tree. That is all I know. I still call them mimosas .

from that page:

Albizia julibrissin
Silk Tree

Common Names: Silk Tree, Silktree, Mimosa, Mimosa Tree, Powderpuff Tree

(looks like everyone's a winner! it's both!)

[roni]

Originally Posted by SunKneeMarie

from that page:

Albizia julibrissin
Silk Tree

Common Names: Silk Tree, Silktree, Mimosa, Mimosa Tree, Powderpuff Tree

(looks like everyone's a winner! it's both!)

I think I dated a juli brissan once, when I was in college .

Here are some more. My pictures don't really do the yard justice, mostly i was taking them to show my boyfriend that there is a time when we have green grass and flowers as he only got to see it in winter.

[James A.]

Very nice. I wish I had grass that looked like that. It just gets hotter than hell and twice as dry (hey, I just made that up!) in the summer.

James A.

[cpfstich]

Gimme a few weeks and I'll post pics of the new deck I'm gonna build. The materials were just delivered this morning. Now for some dry weather.....

[NorthMinnesota]

No dry weather here!!!

We also just put in a new deck. its not wood its made of some other material it makes some noise sometimes but other then that its works really well and the best part is that it doesn't get the weathered look and it doesn't rot. It looks alot like wood too.

[MoonDance]

ok mofi, fess up. where do you live...looks like my neighbourhood

[SunKneeMarie]

Mofi--those plants are so pretty! What kind are they?