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5 Fabulous Design Ideas For Small Front Yards

April 11, 2017 by Richard Callahan Leave a Comment

Wondering what to do with a tiny front yard?  Limited space does not mean limited landscaping options. Here are just a few ideas from Historic Oakwood in Raleigh, North Carolina, that can give your home great curb appeal.

Landscape Idea #1:  Fill your small front yard with pathways, plantings, and mulch.

 

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Historic Oakwood Raleigh Homes Realty

Landscape Idea #2:  Add more distinctive features to Landscape Idea #1 by including fences, brick walls, potted plants, large rocks, stones, and whimsical garden ornaments.

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Historic Oakwood Raleigh Homes Realty

Landscape Idea #3: Grow a food garden. A well-maintained vegetable garden is beautiful, delicious, and becoming more and more popular in urban neighborhoods.

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Landscape Idea #4:  Simply fill your front yard with blooming bushes and mulch. Beautiful and low maintenance!

Historic Oakwood Raleigh Homes Realty

Historic Oakwood Raleigh Homes Realty

Landscape Idea #5:  If you love a lush lawn of green grass, don’t let limited space in your front yard keep you from having it.  And mowing the lawn will take just a few short minutes!

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Historic Oakwood Raleigh Homes Realty

 

 

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The N.C. Governor’s Mansion Gardens in Autumn

October 13, 2012 by Richard Callahan Leave a Comment

On this glorious October day while walking through Downtown Raleigh between the Glenwood South Global Fare street fair and the Cooke Street Carnival, I stopped to admire the grounds of the North Carolina Governor’s Mansion.  With our run of mild weather, the annuals and other summer plantings are quite large and still blooming and showing off their colors and the leaves on the trees haven’t yet started to turn.

 

But signs of the seasonal transitions are easy to spot.  Many of the vines and trees have hanging seed pods.  And while there are still bell peppers and other summer produce growing in the kitchen garden, the cool weather collards are off to a great start, too.  The groundskeepers have begun planting pansies, that sweet flower that seems to be made for N.C. winters.  And there are so many flats of fall plants and flowers lined up on the sidewalk inside the gates of the Mansion waiting to be put into the ground.

 

  

 It sure would be nice if the governor’s gardening crew would come a few blocks east and give me a hand in my gardens!

That’s Life in Raleigh.

 

Filed Under: Gardening, Places

Sweet Victory

June 24, 2010 by Richard Callahan Leave a Comment

Today I had my first tomato sandwich of the season made with a tomato from my backyard garden.  My plan to keep the squirrels out of my tomatoes is a success!  Ahhh, victory is sweet and tasty.

That’s Life in Raleigh.

Enjoying my first tomato sandwich of 2010

Filed Under: Gardening, Uncategorized

The Governor’s Summer Garden Patch

June 24, 2010 by Richard Callahan Leave a Comment

N.C. Governor Bev Purdue is participating in the Plant a Row for the Hungry program again this summer.  There’s a beautiful crop of corn, squash, and beans in the garden patch outside the gates of  the governor’s mansion.  All of the extra produce grown on the inside of the gates is also donated to the program.  I hope to have enough tomatoes to participate along with the governor this summer!

That’s Life in Raleigh.

The Governor's Garden

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Squirrels and My Tomatoes – Round 3 – Game Over!

June 21, 2010 by Richard Callahan Leave a Comment

Enough is enough.  I’m serious about keeping my tomatoes this year.  All these hungry squirrels that are lining up are so out of luck.

The contraption that I’ve designed to protect my tomatoes is in place.  If all goes according to plan, I should have bushels of tomatoes this year gracing my table and to share with friends and neighbors and Plant a Row for the Hungry.  I don’t think we’ll even have to contend with those nasty little holes that the birds drill in the tomatoes, either.

Check this out.  I have tomatoes ripening undisturbed.  No way the squirrels are winning this round.  But I’ll keep you posted.

That’s Life in Raleigh.

Sorry, squirrels!
Sorry, squirrels!

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Squirrels and My Tomatoes – Round 2

May 26, 2010 by Richard Callahan Leave a Comment

I’ve concocted a plan to keep the squirrels out of my tomatoes this summer. I’ve started putting my contraption together, but since I don’t have any ripe fruit yet for them to steal, I haven’t been in any hurry to complete my brilliant project.

Today, however, the squirrels are mocking my efforts.  Now the gloves are off.

That’s Life in Raleigh.

Squirrel on top of the post by my tomatoes
Squirrel on top of the post by my tomatoes

Filed Under: Gardening, Uncategorized

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