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Just for fun this evening I started counting the plants in my beds. putting them on the computer to keep track.
One bed in the back yard has 20 different plants in it. Got 6 more beds to count!
How about you??

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Haven't counted this year but a couple of years ago I did and I had 85 different varieties of plants in my entire garden. I've lost a few over this past winter and haven't added more so no longer have that many. This is perennials, shrubs, and trees, not annuals.

Maybe when I'm not so busy with the garden I'll do another count.

You had me curious, so I went out to the largest bed I have and counted the different varieties and it came to 56. Most everything is in groups of 3 or 5. Less then 5 are individuals. I couldn't count the actualy number of plants.

I did this several years back and found I had over three hundred separate and distinct varieties of plants.... that's when I got wise and started slimming down the count!!..... I may be under a hundred now....!!!... wow!!.....

I've counted in the past. Just to have an idea of what we've added to this property since we moved here 9 years ago.

It was all just untouched woods and wild growth everywhere..vines as big as your arm and brush so thick you couldn't even walk through it except for the horse riding paths that had been here for years.

After clearing space for the house and surrounding yard, I guesstimate we've added between 350-400 landscape plants since then.
But that's not counting my courtyard pots...hehe, most have perennials but some get changed out each season.

Nope, not yet. I'm still busy adding more new ones every time I get a chance or pass a markdown rack! ((eye roll))

And I also still keep getting new stuff from other gardeners around the country! I have requested that my son find me a particular grape plant in Japan. I don't know the name, I just know they were fantastic tasting super big grapes...bigger than a muscadine or large black grape...needed 3 bites to eat it.

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never have done that. oh my, i would be in last place here. are we just counting varieties? i have about 20 not counting the dwarf apple and maple trees. forgot some.. 26. but then my garden is 25'x25' and that includes a 12'x12' deck and the new patio. its a real postage stamp compared everyone's lovely estates pictured here. but it's my little p.s. and i love it as much as you all love yours.

if you can count them ~ you don't have enough! LOL

I sould not even begin to think of how many I have. I have dozens of Shasta daisies and several varieties of them. I have literally dozens of Asitatic lillies but mostly yellows and reds. My blackberry lillies reseed everywhere in my big garden. There are dozens of those. As far as annuals, I know I put in close to 200 this year--I told you all I was planting like there was no tomorrow. Now the majority of the annuals are in containers. It keeps me busy watering all those containers but I love the color it adds to the front of my house. I had a lot of volunteer johnny jump ups that I planted around my gardens. They are a most gorgeous plant. Now you have me curious and I will have to attempt to count.

I forgot to add that the bed I counted is only 1yr. old. I dug roses out of it and made it a butterfly/bird garden. Will add more if I don't move.

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Originally posted by owie:
I sould not even begin to think of how many I have. I have dozens of Shasta daisies and several varieties of them. I have literally dozens of Asitatic lillies but mostly yellows and reds. My blackberry lillies reseed everywhere in my big garden. There are dozens of those. As far as annuals, I know I put in close to 200 this year--I told you all I was planting like there was no tomorrow. Now the majority of the annuals are in containers. It keeps me busy watering all those containers but I love the color it adds to the front of my house. I had a lot of volunteer johnny jump ups that I planted around my gardens. They are a most gorgeous plant. Now you have me curious and I will have to attempt to count.

pictures of the front of your house with all the container plants. please?

I just counted all of my different varieties. I have 54 and several different types of each variety. DH was hoping it was more, but then we are only counting the different varieties.

I was out taking pictures tonight and DH has promised to help me post next week. I have to wrok the next 4 days. While I was out there I counted 15 butterfly bushes 6 pine trees, 7 red hot poker,17 Stell D'Oro lillies, and stopped counting.

oh goodness - I just marked 1 for each type...I have several varieties of iris & daylilies, several butterfly bushes, roses, clematis, etc. So each of those types just got a 1. Still, I came up with 89 **THUD**. Had no idea there were so many different kinds of plants and shrubs out there. No wonder I stay tired all the time from weeding and deadheading!

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Silly bird has seen my front yard & walked most of it too!
I'm not going to count the different plants in my beds YET but I did count trees a couple of weeks ago.
I have 37 young oak trees (live oaks, I think) all volunteers.
53 loblolly pine trees that drop hundreds if not thousands of pine cones..they are tall 60'-85'....one day they will ALL be gone!
3 flowering crab apples
4 myers lemons
1 lemon from SIL's tree
12 dogwoods, tiny, just planted
6 redbuds, tiny, just planted
2 golden rain trees, tiny, just planted
2 ash, tiny, just planted...dug up as about 2" volunteers in my SIL's yard in Ill.
6 maples, tiny, just planted...same as ash, from Ill.
2 eucalyptus, small, just planted
2 lowquat
2 pecans, young-fairly small yet.

This covers the front & both sides as far as we mow. Just into the area we don't mow are 10 more pecan trees (volunteer) that I've saved....besides more oaks & pines & some sweet gum & some mimosas and probably a few others in the woodsy area. One HUGE southern magnolia in the woodsy area...and several volunteers scattered around.

Everybody's place must be a peice of paradise.

I just count my packing slips to know how many plants I am planting. This year I have planted 150 and have about 200 to go!

~~~~We need LOTS more pictures here!!!!~~~~~~~~~~

Karen, your property sounds like it looks similar to mine. Lots of Live oaks, water oaks, red oak, laurel oak, Sweetgum, Cedar, Pignut Hickory, Magnolias, 80ft yellow pines, Dogwoods, Chickasaw plums, Sparkleberry, BeautyBerry, Viburnums, Wax Myrtle, Winged Elm, Sabal palms and Saw Palmetto. Some trees I haven't identified yet.

All those trees and shrubs were already here before we got here. I didn't count those in my list...just the ones we brought in ourselves.

Here's a photo of the north side of the property when we first bought it....a lot of tall pines.

I really don't do those kind a stuff. I prefer counting sheeps. lol

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