Quote Originally Posted by gemini9961
You are so funny Sarah. Being from Florida myself I feel for you. I live in the country myself in an area pretty "rednecky". However, if that is your one "little" oak tree, I have got ya beat. I have large oak trees in my yard which prohibit the growth of lush green grass, no sunlight means no grass a growing. Combine that with Grant digging holes and we have quite the yard. We do have a nice patch of grass in a few areas that do get sunlight but that's not the whole yard.

Back to your thread, I am sure your yard will look fantastic once it's finished.
No grass? Did you look at the pictures? We have zero grass. Zippo. Nada. Nothing. Thing is, if we had grass, we wouldn't mow it and then it'd really be a redneck yard! So it's probably a good thing the tree is there. I think that picture makes it look small. It's a huuuge tree. I'll have to measure the diameter and see how big it is. We need a permit to cut it down.

We're lucky that our dogs don't dig. Mandy used to, but when Buttons quit digging she quit to. She also quit digging out of our yard once he went blind. So she was kind of the follower with him.

Quote Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah
Sarah, From another Floridian.....just about everybody's back yard looks like that about now. I work on my yard as if I'm expecting Better Homes and Gardens to stop by and to no avail this time of the year. Most of my plants are brown(hit with cold), I have leaves all over the yard, and just a general appearance of doom. The grass is all brown because it's dormant etc. Your yard has great potential. I keep my fences painted because they will all turn green if I don't. I even painted the back stoop(if you will) and it turned green through the paint before I treated it. That was during a period of alot of rain and humidity. Who can fight the humidity in Florida? I can't wait to see your makeover pictures and I know you guys will have a blast doing it.

p.s. LOL I have a hot tub on the back screened porch but I don't keep water in it
We decided against staining the fence for one reason: it's HUGE! lol

We haven't had water in our hot tub for years lol.