What kinds of plant/tree do you have in your front/backyard?

[K9karen]

We have 2 huge cranberry trees (that's what I think they are..lots of red berries and the birdies show the results on our cars ) Also 2 fire bushes at each side of the end of the driveway. Lots of greens near the house. I just bought hot pink crepe myrtles for the side of the driveway.

I planted tulips and crocus and lilies and hyacine a few years ago before my wrist accident and they all pop up and look great. I also always plant impatiens/New Guinea impatiens in salmon color, in honor of my mom. (She planted them for as long as I can remember).

I usually pick flowers by shape or color at the nursery, so every year is different.

[davidpizzica]

I have an old apple tree in my yard, which unfortunately is nearing the end of it's life (it was planted when the house was built in 1939), and a big magnolia tree in my front yard with rhododenron bushes on on the side of the front yard.

[Pam]

I have a crimson king maple in the front yard and a flowering plum tree by our mailbox. We also have a blue hoopsi tree (a variety of blue spruce) All of these trees came home in the back of our car from the nursery and are now HUGE, since in December we will be in this house 28 years. Our neighborhood used to be woods so we had the builder leave several of the maple trees in the back yard and there are lots more behind our fenced area. They are very beautiful except when fall comes and I have to pull out the leaf blower and rake!

[BitsyNaceyDog]

We have mostly huge Longleaf Pine trees and big oak trees in our yard. We have a bunch of other little trees, but I wouldn't be able to name them all.

I'm jealous you have such nice fruit trees. We had some fruit trees at our old house and since we moved 2 years ago we've missed them terribly. I want to plant some new fruit trees next year.

[jennielynn1970]

How about weeds and mulch, lol.

I may have grown up on a farm (that has maples, birch, pear and a bajillion other kinds of greenery and plants), but I am so not a "green thumb" person!

[Karen]

We have 2 huge cranberry trees (that's what I think they are..lots of red berries and the birdies show the results on our cars )

Hee hee - cranberries don't grow on trees, sweetie - they grow on bushes in swamps. Muse be some other berry - choke cherry maybe? What do the leaves look like?

Anyway, our front yard right now has daylilies, and peony bush that bloomed a couple months ago, and some chrysanthemum that will bloom in the fall ... the back yard has a large maple, and several yews, ash, oak, lilac bushes, buckthorn, grape vines, and lots of Queen Anne's lace and clover and butter-n-eggs, blossoming right now, plenty of goldenrod that may bloom later in the month, and - more this year because we've been having so much rain ... moss.

But what my yard grows best, as is true of much of New England, is rocks. We are on a ledge, and the back yard is flat but then become a steep hill, and anywhere, if you did, you hit rock. Small rocks, fist-sized rocks, and ledge.