GypsyMoonMinis
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I have cabin fever and am wanting to start planning my outdoor handy work early. I live in town (its a small town, less than 500 people, unincorporated etc) and my minis are kept here at home. I have two pens, with two horses in each, on either side of my house, plus I've converted our 1 car garage into a barn with 1 extra large and 2 smaller stalls. They have enough room to run and play (each pen is roughly 900 to 1000 sq feet in size). My neighbors love them as much as we do (yay!) and it works for now, until we are able to purchase some property.
So on to my question. I want to landscape the yard, so that I dont look like a stock yard. I keep everything very clean. One pen is the old driveway in front of the garage (obviously cleaned up well with nice footing) and the other pen is down the length of the house. Im going to put a gate between the house and that pen to block off the back yard from the front, and keep the dogs in back so I can work on my *curb* appeal (with an equine flair )
Already I have alot of flowers and shrubs, and Im extremely careful not to let the horses in the beds, because i dont know whats ok for them or not. I let them have the run of the yard for a period daily when weather permits, but they are heavily supervised when they are out. Currently I have iris, daffodil, ferns, day lilies, Asiatic lilies, peony, roses, columbine, hostas and some old fashioned type flowers that I don't know what they are. ALso a large amount of Shasta and Rebecka daisies.
I have gotten rid of a couple chokecherry trees (dried leaves are deadly toxic to horses i found out), as well as got rid of all my chamomile.
I am wanting to plant more lilies and I want to use herbs for fill, such as basil varieties, mints, and lavender to name a few. I want to put some shrubs around the ends of the horse pens, both for asthetic value and as a bit of a screen from the street. I don't really want any evergreen type shrubs or bushes, but I need something that the horses could chew on if it grew into their pens and they would be ok.
So any suggestions for nice looking yard plants that are horse safe? Anything that I should avoid like the plague? Any landscaping hints/tips/tricks?
Thanks in advance!
So on to my question. I want to landscape the yard, so that I dont look like a stock yard. I keep everything very clean. One pen is the old driveway in front of the garage (obviously cleaned up well with nice footing) and the other pen is down the length of the house. Im going to put a gate between the house and that pen to block off the back yard from the front, and keep the dogs in back so I can work on my *curb* appeal (with an equine flair )
Already I have alot of flowers and shrubs, and Im extremely careful not to let the horses in the beds, because i dont know whats ok for them or not. I let them have the run of the yard for a period daily when weather permits, but they are heavily supervised when they are out. Currently I have iris, daffodil, ferns, day lilies, Asiatic lilies, peony, roses, columbine, hostas and some old fashioned type flowers that I don't know what they are. ALso a large amount of Shasta and Rebecka daisies.
I have gotten rid of a couple chokecherry trees (dried leaves are deadly toxic to horses i found out), as well as got rid of all my chamomile.
I am wanting to plant more lilies and I want to use herbs for fill, such as basil varieties, mints, and lavender to name a few. I want to put some shrubs around the ends of the horse pens, both for asthetic value and as a bit of a screen from the street. I don't really want any evergreen type shrubs or bushes, but I need something that the horses could chew on if it grew into their pens and they would be ok.
So any suggestions for nice looking yard plants that are horse safe? Anything that I should avoid like the plague? Any landscaping hints/tips/tricks?
Thanks in advance!