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Fredericksburg VA
We moved here last June from SC and focused most of our efforts over the summer to getting the interior of the home situated. The previous owner was an elderly gentleman and several things with the home had been neglected, including the landscape. By the time fall came we wanted to start focusing on the yard. We love our wrap around front porch and it would be so much more enjoyable to sit on if we could look at a pretty yard. Our little girl loves to play outside and it would be wonderful to have a nice yard that she could also enjoy. |
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Greetings from Ellicott City, Maryland. Check out my Ugliest Landscape entry. Please HELP... |
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We need your help desperately! Our landscape is suffering. We live in all shade with a small amount of sun. We live in a wooded area in Upper Marlboro, Maryland on about 2.1 acres. Our lawn has been taken over my moss, moss and more moss! Nothing will kill it! All we have is dirt and moss. The shell is here, but the know how is with you and your expert team at Meadows Farms.
I homeschool my youngest daughter, and she has no where to play outside. We very rarely entertain because we are embarrased. Our 3 daughters are so afraid to go outside. When the youngest does go out, all she plays with are the sticks that fall from all of the trees. I know that there is a beautiful swann of a landscape waiting for us, with your help. We have been customers since we moved to this area. |
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Charles Town WV
Have I got a yard for you? This yard has no class, no style, and no nothing. When you see this yard you are going to grab your tools and all your crew and bring them out here and perform emergency surgery. We just can't come up with a design or take action. We're not lazy, we work as hard as anyone.
But I know some where there is this ray of hope. A ray of sunshine that only the best designers can bring to life. This yard can be that Dream Yard. It can touch your soul.
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Beltsville MD Our landscape gives the phrase "It looks like a tornado went through" a little more meaning. Yes, a tornado went through our neighborhood several years ago and the effects are still lingering in our landscape today. The decaying roots left from the overturned trees are causing tables to topple and ruts in the grass that you can sprain an ankle in. Then we have the seeds, or presents as we call them, delivered by the tornado from the Ag Center to grow beautiful trees and flower beds. What flower beds and trees? Oh I mean the stink weed garden, the brush island and the wheat/hay we grow in place of the flowers and the trees growing in various places where most owners would never plant one. Please help save our landscape and make our yard a new kind of talk of the neighborhood. |
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Washington DC
I'm a DC resident and in desperate need of a landscape makeover (and big fan of Meadows Farms.) My yard is pretty bad -- I've put some work into it but a combination of a lack of funds (I actually used all Meadows Farms plants and shrubs to renovate my front lawn last Spring -- i will attach some pictures here of that as well -- but it totally depleted my landscaping budget), a lack of inspiration, and some 'mean' trees (they tend to throw everything AND the kitchen sink onto my lawn) have left my backyard a bit barren. In fact, my yard is in so much need that the Washington Post called it "a sad-looking rectangle of dirt and weeds”.
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We live on a corner lot in greater Falls Church. There is a lot of neighborhood pedestrian traffic that looks into backyard (runners, walkers, dog walkers, new moms with babies, kids to the bus stop etc...). If we won or placed in the competition, we'd improve the appearance and functionality of the yard for us and the neighborhood. I enjoy gardening and would love to increase the food and vegetable producing garden space. Meadows Farms would receive a lot of recognition with the new space. I think the neighbors would thank you too! |
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Spring has sprung
The snow is gone
Whatever happened to my beautiful lawn?
Meadows Farms did the front yard
It's still lush and thick
But the back yard was hit with the ugly stick
Only partially sodded
Since I ran out of money
The dogs roll in the mud and think that it's funny
Bare spots abound
Where the hound lifts his leg
As I look at the mess, I can't help but beg
Please take on this challenge
Choose my yard to fix
Prove that dogs, grass and bushes can coexist ! |
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Please help us! Our backyard is horrible for growing children and dogs who just want to play outside. We barley have enough backyard to accommodate our dogs and their needs. Our yard has a lot of overgrown bushes that we just can't seem to get rid of or get through. Right past the overgrown bushes, there is a huge drop.. |
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Our house, which we love, has a lack of curb appeal and a Wow factor. The house and property has a lot of good bones to work with, but we lack the vision and skills to bring the elements together and make our place a beautiful.
We need trees and flower beds in the back and a place for our three dogs to run and play. We also need a place to sit and enjoy the outdoors, maybe invite friends and neighbors over for a relaxing respite from today's busy and stressful lives. |
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Twenty-plus years of gardening were demolished in the February storms. Over a dozen trees cracked and crashed to the ground or had trunks snapped off 20 to 30 feet up in the air. During the height of the blizzard we chain-sawed a small gap through the fallen trunks and boughs so that a plow or an emergency vehicle could at least make its way down Glade Drive in Reston. As the storm ended, VDOT came through at night with front-end loaders and threw the huge mass of debris back up onto the landscaped berm separating my backyard from Glade Drive. Under that crushing logjam were rhododendrons, boxwoods, hydrangeas, oak, hickory, and maple saplings, etc. That mountainous mess is gone now, and with it everything around it and under it. I've got a garden of wounded stumps, ripped-up root systems, cracked trunks and raw earth. I spread whole and mulched leaves just to hide the gashes and gouges-it hurt to look at it. |
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Please Turn Ugly Into Lovely
Honeysuckles and prickle bushes were all we could see,
Honey's sweat and muscle cleared it to the "back forty"
Loving the outdoors and the long lot,
Trying to beautify...but a vision, we have not.
Can you help us, help us please?
We are in need of some pretty trees.
Big ones, native ones, small ones too;
We cleared the lot, now what to do??
Ugly in D.C. you want, well that we can provide,
No character, lots of sunshine, and a pathetic slide...
Ours is a designer's dream, nearly a blank page;
Just a butterfly garden, some basil and a bit of sage.
Create a haven for birds to sing and kids to play;
Front yard.... back yard.... do both I say!
Pick us, pick us, you will have so much fun,
A happy family and a proud Meadows Farms when you're done!
Please, oh please, help us turn ugly into lovely.
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Your contest could very well be the answer to both our yard concerns and our marriage. My fiancee' came over from the Ukraine 5 years back and we were married back in August 2009, at the local court house. We just bought a house together. An older house, much older and with a yard that's beyond a total disaster. We are waiting to have a formal wedding and reception in our garden. Problem is, we don't have a garden as yet, much less a nice yard. There's so much to do and the yard is more like a muddy swamp/stream, after any rainfall at all. We are cleaning the place up a little at a time but sure could use some professional help. The front yard is almost where we want it but the back yard is scary, real scary. The last snow storm crushed the old aluminum shed and we're building a new one.
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In the back of our house is a hill filled with weeds.
Please, please landscape me now
it constantly pleads.
The hill's close and it's steep
so that when it rains water heads for the house,
there aren't any drains!
The hill seems to move -
we've got some erosion,
creeping toward the house,
a slow-motion explosion.
Our two happy kids see a hill filled with fears.
When they try to climb it
they end up on their rears.
We've planted zoysia and grass-seed;
it always washes away,
leaving mud, sand, and weeds
but no place to play.
There's too much ivy
sheltering flying blood-suckers.
so we're stuck inside
avoiding the @%#$^%*&^*!!.
This yard is ugly,
a really big mess.
Every fix that we've tried
has failed, we confess.
With our neighbor tsk-tsking
every time she looks over,
please fix our backyard
so we can get a Rover (or Bowser or Rex).
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I called a local landscaper to help and was given the most shocking
news...there was no hope for our yard, according to this person! I was devastated and left to look at our dismal yard year after year. The back yard is spacious but has a steep grade. Add to that, many trees, some dead, and a lot of weeds. We put a fence up in the hopes that our children would be able to play out back. However, if there is any rain, the yard is too muddy to play.
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We bought our house last year in the late summer, and the yard had been badly neglected. The back is almost a dirt pit that quickly turns to a mud-pit when it rains. The slope makes things difficult to deal with, with the top part being harder clay dirt and the bottom being softer and wet. The deck is also blocking a lot of usable area for the yard and we'd love to be rid of it and put in a stone patio in it's place. |
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In October 2004, a young couple whose names were Lauren and John bought the house and tried to help the yard...but Lauren and John's efforts, with the help of their dogs, may have made the ugly yard even uglier. Take a look for yourself... |
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65% of the back yard in the beginning was fully overgrown, so much so that no one could walk it. It included 12' high bamboo, weeds, 35+ years of ivy ground cover vines, brush, dead trees, bushes, debris and numerous 60' beautiful trees. The yard had potential even though it looked like a jungle. It took me four years to clean the area by myself and I was ready beautify the area with a nice landscaping plan. Then much to my regret the electric company/BGE came last December and butchered my yard. They cut down those beautiful 60' trees, cut down all the bamboo and left my yard looking like a fire had destroyed the entire lot. |
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We have lived in our house for more than 20 years and when we first moved in we had a nice "green" yard. However, our neighbors yard drains into our yard and over the years their water has washed away our grass and left us with nothing but dirt. We have tried everything that we can think of to make our grass grow, but nothing has worked. |
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We are in desperate need of your help in Arlington, Virginia. We have lived in this house for four years and have accomplished nothing more than clearing away debris and overgrown neglected plants from the previous homeowners. Please help us! We see the potential that our yard has and would love to create an outdoor retreat for our children and friends, a place to entertain and play, but we need your help! |
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Our back yard has so much potential. It has just been unloved and unimproved since all of our initial focus was on the front yard! In our backyard, there are weeds, unkempt gardening sections, various stumps in the middle of the yard, bushes that have grown out of control, and trees and plants that are misshapen, out of place, and just plain not right for what we are looking for!
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The risky mosquito gang will be loving life soon, with their all day/night multiple keg parties. We are not sure if their batty and croaking friends are about to be raiding them. We would love to get some interference for them, so we do not get any risky diseases.
Our yard needs desperate help, we both got laid off from our jobs and had to use our yard money for house bills. Please help our yard, which would help get rid of those unwanted guests, so that we may have outdoor enjoyment for our family and friends.
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Frederick, Maryland
Last fall my wife and I purchased our first home which happens to be a true "fixer-upper". We live on a double lot in a beautiful 1930's neighborhood within city limits. The interior, exterior and the landscape has been neglected for many years. Our current landscape consists of a failing stone retaining wall, several rotted timber flower beds and a huge diseased Sugar Maple with a root system reeking havoc on our illegitimate sidewalks. A landscape makeover would allow us the opportunity to establish an outdoor living space by the time our home renovations are complete. A dream makeover would consist of rain gardens, eco-friendly plantings, and natural buffers from the streets that sandwich our property. |
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Cedar trees abound in our yard. When we were building, we removed quite a few of these as you can see by the leftover stumps. In the middle of the yard.
The cedars that were cut down were transformed into planks for the closets in the house.
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Our biggest problem area is our yard. It is in desperate need of stump removal, leveling, and grass seed. Over the past six years that we have lived here, the grass seems to becoming more and more scarce and more abundance of dirt. The previous owners had planted a nice size fruit orchard that is begging for attention. We are not sure what to do to the fruit trees and what trees we even have. The once blooming flower gardens are now circles of weeds. We have all types of wildlife that venture into our yard and admire watching it from our house windows. My dream is to be able to have different types of gardens to attract diverse types of butterflies, birds, etc. so my daughters and I can observe nature firsthand sitting outside by the gardens |
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We have lived in our home for ten years and have made many improvements both inside and out. However, what should be the best feature of our property remains an eyesore because it simply overwhelms me. We have a great deck that we powerwash and stain every other year or so (lots of work) and then really do not use because the yard stresses me out and embarrasses me. I have given up on grass, the yard is part sand, part clay. My biggest dilema is the back fence line. The entire backyard is on a slope. Along the fence is ivy that I don't know what to do with, and behind my fence overgrown shrubs. Should I leave all or some of it or take it all out? Where the ivy stops there is just dirt. |
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My firefighter (Arlington Cty.) son and his wife are newlyweds and they have just bought their first home in south Arlington. As you can see from the photos their yard is quite a challenge. The front/side yard is one long hill to the backyard which is relatively flat. The yard gets great sun (we think just about all day.) They love to cook and are so excited to be able to have their first vegetable and herb garden. (Peter does a lot of the cooking for his fire station.) Personally, I think this garden would be a fun challenge for your designers and a professional design and $5000 will have a huge impact on this yard and on Peter and Renee's life!! They are a wonderful, young couple and very deserving of some help. They are so enthusiastic and if the yard is chosen they will be so excited and so much fun to work with |
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This hill has been a constant battle. At one time, there was grass on the hill but it had to be cut with a weed whacker since it was too steep for a mower. Several years ago, I built the small deck and installed some dry stack brick walls and gardens and, immediately, a freak storm blew through and demolished everything. At one point, the neighbors had someone come over and take down a dead tree, because it looked so bad. |
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Since we bought our home in 2004, we have had nothing but trouble with our "yard." Our house sits on a narrow level spot right in the middle of a very steep hill. Both our front and back yards are nearly verticle at points. Grass won't grow and drainage problems are eroding the hills. Rocky bare spots are everywhere. My husband risks injury to mow the weed collection that does grow, and our young children have no place to play safely. This is not what we envisioned for our first home-owning experience. We try and plant a little here and there - we are loyal customers at your Garrisonville location, mostly buying dirt to fill in holes - but it all gets swallowed up by the ugly abyss that surrounds it. We have lost our landscaping motivation. To make it even worse, our neighbors have a BEAUTIFUL, terraced landscape installed by Meadows Farms a few years back. It's like insult to injury |
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We have lived in our home for almost five years now. We have almost an acre of land which has always been needy! Unfortunately, we have not had the resources or know how to best improve our landscaping situation.
Almost ten months ago, our family suffered an unimaginable loss. Our son was taken from our lives unexpectedly. He was the boy that was struck by lightening on a baseball field in Spotsylvania County.
We have received a tremendous amount of support from family, friends and the community. Meadow Farms graciously donated funds to help build a memorial for my son Chelal. We wanted to build one in our backyard, but we did not know where to begin.
When we lost our son, we lost a piece of us that would forever be lost. We thought that we could be strong enough for our family to get us through. Aside from our other children and family support, it was because of the folks that reached out to us through letters, cards and specifically plants that we have been able to remain strong. |
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Before the blizzard of 2010 we had a wonderful white pine tree, which we lost, that filled our small front yard. It pushed up against the bay window and, from our living room, we had a view of its intricate branch system, and sometimes saw 6 to 8 different kinds of birds at one time. We have a hill out front and for the last 20 years it has sported a lovely cover of pine needles: therefore no need to worry about a special growth on the hillside. |
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When we moved into this house, the sloping backyard was an untidy clutter of lumpy grass interspersed with a variety of horsenettle and clover. A huge willow tree hung over most of the yard and deck. Thanks to Hurricane Ivan, the willow was toppled and a gaping hole was left in the slope that invited a variety of new weeds (some taller than my head!). I had aspirations of terracing with deer-tolerant grasses and perennials (I even bought some landscape timbers to begin this undertaking...and yes, they are still there leaning against the deck). I soon scaled back this vision to one small retaining wall that would at least enable me to take a wheelbarrow from one side of the yard to the other without having to fight the downhill inertia. |
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South Lake Elementary, in Gaithersburg Maryland is home to approximately 600 students attending Head Start through Grade 5. We opened our doors in the fall of 1972 and the landscaping has been neglected ever since. It's quite sad. As you can see from the photos, the grounds around the front entrance are barren; the first impression is...institutional. A vibrant landscape would certainly lift our spirits. We can certainly provide Meadows Farms with a blank canvas to showcase your designer's talents. Imagine the scene with 600 happy children enjoying their beautiful new school. Pick us; we promise to take care of our landscaping this time! |
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I love gardening. I love mostly digging in the dirt and planting in early spring and watching life spring up and become beautiful flowers, shrubs, trees, and
vegetables. Nothing is more satisfying as it brings me closer to nature. That was until I moved into my home of twenty five years. I have slowly lost hope and
don't like looking at my yard. I have amended the soil, mulched, planted and replanted various plants but nature has conquered me - the hard gray soil, voles
or moles, the Japanese beetles, drought, and freezing temperatures. That is just
a few of the reasons my yard looks so pitiful. |
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I purchased this house a year ago, the yard has a lot of gravel in it, the cement pad in the back had a old storage shed on it that FHA had torn down but the pad was left. The hole in the back yard is from the gas tank that was dug up and they left a big hole. I had a drive way put in about 8 months ago and still have a lot of gravel to move. Both sides of the house have gravel laid down so cars and work trucks could make use of the back yard. I have planted a few trees and bushes by scraping away sections at a time to dig. My house is about 5 years old built when they torn down a older home, it has such great promise to make fantastic, but moving the gravel with hand equipment has become a bit much. |
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McLean Virginia
When we expanded our house in 1999, most of area from the inviting patio where we had entertained and enjoyed lazy summer evenings as a family became interior space. The remaining, cramped "patio" consisted of a muddy pile of fill dirt perched dangerously close to a steep hillside drop-off.
Ever since then, only marauding deer ravaging the flowers and vegetables we'd tried to grow on this rare sunny spot within our heavily wooded, hilly 1.4 acre lot enjoy our "patio".
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We have lived in our home for over 20 yrs, and have raised four sons. Our yard is almost 3 acres, and it is hard to keep up with it. Times have been hard, but we love our home...we just don't know what to do with it. At the moment or should I say for the past several years we have tried to complete home projects. But as you see through the pictures, we have failed |
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We bought this house a year and a half ago and I keep telling myself that I'm going to build a retaining wall, waterfall and a beautiful natural garden. But, every time I step out the door and see how daunting this task is, I shudder, close the door and leave it for another day.
To make things worse, this winter one of our tall 40-50 foot evergreens fell over and lay bare across the whole yard. We have cut up most of it, but the stump still stands tall, reminding us of the damage. And of course it's too big for us to take out without help |
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Here are my photos of my ugly yard! It is not a mud wrestling pit, it really is a yard meant to be played in by my dog. But he hates mud and doesn't like to get his paws dirty. Nothing I do will keep grass in this area. Every year the snow and rain wash all my hard work away. At this point in the game, I don't know whether to do my landscaping again or let the professionals take over.
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There are no [civil] words that can describe my yard. Ugly is an understatement and the yards I've seen competing thus far are stunning compared to mine. I live on the northwest corner of a main street near the Brookland area of D.C. where the volume of traffic during rush hour is high for a two lane street. While commuters are sitting in traffic or waiting for the traffic light, they have the honor, let me rephrase, the dishonor to look at my sad, sad front yard. |
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I would like to enter my VERY ugly backyard into your contest please. My husband and I bought our home in 2007. You wouldn't believe it, but my husband actually has put a lot of time into this backyard and it still looks like this. It original had random pieces of little rocks and bricks buried into the ground so after removing those we worked on trying to make the ground even. We have removed the random placed bushes and trees which were already dead. Now our yard consists of dirt, weeds, and patches of grass that I tried planting last year. |
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We purchased and planted lots of beautiful things to grow there. Lovely, isn't it? Photo number three shows the two Leyland Cypress trees we planted as a way to hide our yard from curiosity seekers wondering what horrible plague had attacked us. As you can see, they have completely taken over the corner and are only inches away from brushing the cars as they make their turn. Photo number four shows our lovely "rock garden" my husband created with all the rocks he's pulled out of the yard over the years. Photo number five is the view from my kitchen slider - my husband just located the downspout drain on the side and I fear the yard is going to wash away........... |
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We've been in this house about a year. it's located in the small town of Remington, va and was built about 1962. the front yard was pretty desperate, so we spent a little time and money working on that - there is still work to be done there. the back yard, however, is pretty much a swamp. everything ever planted there seems to die. (this was my mother-in-law's house before we bought it.) when it rains, we have huge puddles. |
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Our backyard in Springfield, VA is in desperate need of a Meadows Farm $5,000 makeover. As you can see by the attached photos, it has a variety of problem areas including a steep hillside with incessant weeds and 12+
grasses that we try to control w/ weedwacking throughout the summer. Add in disinegrated timber steps, fallen trees/stumps, 10+ years of brush, and ivy taking over the ground and many of our trees. There is lots of potential here
though. There are river birches by the creek, a magnolia or two hidden in the farthest corner, and large oak and holly trees (w/ many small holly trees to share!) |
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We have 1/3 acres of soupy grass and mud begging for help.
Neighborhood legend has it that the yard was once nicely landscaped, but the previous owner ripped out all the plants and sold them to clients of his lawn care service. Trees, fallen over from this winter's snow, do not help the view. I took pictures all around the house, because the full 360 is repulsive. We have tried to improve the front yard with andromeda and daffodils, but it has a long way to go |
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My husband and I moved into this foreclosure in Gainesville, VA, last June, and while we spent a lot of time and effort just putting the existing landscape borders in the front yard to rights, there's still a lot of cringe-worthy landscaping there! There's the scraggly boxwood in one corner, and a two-for-one deal where what looks like one bush is actually two - half boxwood, half azalea. The neighbors are wearing a path through the beleaguered front lawn, and in heavy rains water pools up around exposed tree roots. The back yard is even worse - a combination of compacted clay and rocks, it's dusty in dry weather and a huge mudhole in the rain, complete with puddles. This yard desperately needs help |
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Our names are Satchmo and Ella, we're dogs. We were adopted less than a year ago and we're writing to you because we wanted to do something nice for our mummy and daddy cuz they love us very much and we want to try and help them. Our parents used to have a nice back yard with pretty flowers, plants and an herb garden but we like to run, play and chase squirrels and now they got no more plants except for a big bunch of bamboo. They tried to get rid of the bamboo cuz they said the mosquitos that were making us itch lived there but it won't go away. It's even coming up in the neighbor's yard!
Our yard is real fun when it rains a bunch. We get to play in the place our parents call "the swamp" - cuz we don't got no more grass. We get really muddy. We don't think mummy and daddy are happy when we get yucky. We're constantly dirtying up towels and they mumble gruffy stuff to us as they're wiping.
All that white cold fluffy stuff that came down from the sky was really, really fun ! There was sooooo much that the tree where the squirrels live is now leaning so far over that we can almost get them! Our parents get worried the tree might fall on us. There's a pretty fence on one side of our yard but the rest of the yard has an old dumb chain link fence. Sometimes when those two young humans that live behind us are mean to us we jump up on the wood pile and pretend like we're going to jump over the fence. Our parents get worried that we're going to get scratched on that old fence. We love our mom and dad and promise that if you fix our yard we won't be mean to the squirrels any more and only play in the grass. Our parents really love to garden, but they just look out on our yard now with big eyes and shake their heads. |
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My husband and I have spent the last 5 years building our house and finally moved in a year ago. We are still working on both the inside and outside of the house along with the yard. We have tried to do the landscaping ourselves but everything is such a mess! We have terrible drainage and very poor soil. We have purchased and planted many plants from your TLC section and it has helped but so much more is needed. You can see where we are trying to create a walkway to the front door which washes out when it rains and also note the dead weeds on the embankment. |
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Leonardtown MD
We have lived here ten years, and have tried everything to make the front of our home beautiful, but sadly everything dies,nothing thrives. We have spent a lot of time and money, and nothing lives. We all most gave up, until I saw your contest. It would amaze us if you were able to turn this ugly front landscape, (you dont even want to look at the back) into a showplace. We cant bear to kill another plant, trying to improve the look. It has become a place of refuge for skunks. :( They are the only things that thrive here. |
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Spotsylvania VA
I think that my front yard qualifies as one of the ugliest landscapes in DC. At one time this home and it's grounds were quite beautiful. We purchased this 1970's rambler in 2001. In the last two years we have recently replaced the windows, doors and roof. Several spots in the front yard need immediate attention: a dam spillway for the pond and the front steps/walkway area. As you can see from the pictures, the spillway is eroding the front landscape. The front step and door area is also in need of landscaping and care. |
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I'm sure our small, shady back yard has potential, but for a decade, I've |