Search Results for: Clay
Garden: Paula's Butterfly and Bee Garden
Completed redesigned and replanted 7 years ago, this series of garden area covers two-thirds of an acre, with a view of Sausalito across the water. New stone walls were recently added to terrace the SW facing hill. The growing season begins with irises and then moves on to roses (100+) and then to dahlias. Other highlights of this pie-shaped property include a woodlands garden, 18 fruit trees, a redwood greenhouse, a succulent garden, an antique water pump collection and garden sculpture.
The garden features flowers at the warm end of the spectrum: apricot, orange, hot pink, red and burgundy with smaller doses of blue-purple and chartreuse.
Although the Zone 9b garden rarely sees frost conditions, Paula and Dennis Jaffe contend with less than ideal soil and climate challenges. Morning fog, clay soil, extreme wind and Southwest facing tiers with unrelenting sunshine are a few of the problems. The water shortage is also an ever present consideration.
Drip irrigation waters 100% of the plants with the lawn sprinkled by MP rotaters. Several compost areas and a worm farm provide the planting beds with a constant supply of natural fertilizer.
Garden: Rose Side Garden
The direct Marin sun means these roses require little attention and flourish with just the smallest amount of time.
Garden: Shepheard's Way
Three acres containing, 3600 square foot vegetable garden and various flower beds.
Garden: Garden Bloggers flower garden
You can find me and my garden adventures at http://jellyfishbay.wordpress.com
For those that want more: Growing up in the "winter, water, wonderland" that is Michigan has made me appreciate the natural world around us. I maintain a hummingbird/butterfly garden at the local library through my volunteer hours as a master gardener and a tiny, urban flower garden at home - it is mostly shade but I have a few spots that get more sun.
Garden: Kathy's Garden
I have many plants in containers, due to poor soil and rampant gophers. But I also have other plants in the ground, including roses, fortnight lilies and fruit trees. I love drought-resistant plants like Pride of Madeira, flax and ceanothus.
Garden: Villa de Flores
Villa de Flores is a private Estate Garden with a Mediterranean style. It has Italian Gardens with stone pillars and rustic wood beams with rambling roses. Waterfalls, lush lawns, stream beds, BBQ's and Fireplaces and much more. We have opened our garden up for weddings and events. Please visit us at http://www.villadefloresevents.com
Garden: Fairview Christian Church Garden
Fairview Church Garden was on the Kansas City Urban Farms and Gardens tour for 2009, July 28! We are a community vegetable garden(using organic practices), Youth Garden 50 x 50, supported by the Missouri Extension office and Missouri Master gardeners, some raised bed areas with flowers and vegetables, 4 plots for local gardeners, roughly 20 x 20 with main garden about 340 x 40, growing tomatoes, mostly hierlooms, (cherokee purple, amana orange, carolina gold). We also have Peppers(bells, jalapenos, anahiems, cherrys), Eggplant, Kale, Swiss Chard, Corn, Potatoes(purples, pontiac, klondike), Greenbeans, Squash, Cucumblers, Okra(burgandy), Kohlrabi, Broccoli, Cabbage, Sweet Potatoes, Beets, Onions, and Garlic. Whewwww.... we have a few herbs...Dill, Chives, Parsley, Basil(green, christmas, red) Horseradish, Mint(chocolate and apple), lastly Borage. Flowers such as marigolds, zinnias, petunias, and nasturtium.
Garden: Follow My Farm
This was a crazy idea from the get-go!
After traveling around the country for 12 years it gave us a chance to check out areas to settle in. We were still undecided when we were hit by a few hurricanes in a row. That was it! I had the RV wired for the internet and started searching for a place to move to. I found this place and the price was right.
I had some pictures emailed to me. They were mostly of the interior and a couple of the exterior. Nothing of the little over 5 acres of land. When we got here I could see why. The place was neglected and over-grown with about 2 or so acres covered in Kudzu.
So we "bought the farm"!!!!
The original idea was to buy some property we could transform into a viable, productive farm. Problem is neither one of us are farmers. I come from a product design background! Since we got here we have begun to see some progress but we have a long way to go.
So Follow My Farm as we grow and go on an adventure together!
Garden: Jesse's Gardens
Excited for the coming Spring! Blooms of crocus, crunchy sweet peas and dirt under my fingernails!
Garden: Grub's Jungle Hideout.
Click on the first picture and have a look through, you never know you might like it. U.K.Young Hardy/Half hardy Jungle garden heavily planted with Bamboos, Palms and about 10 different Musa and Ensete Banana types.All in rural Oxfordshire. U.K.
Garden: Nirvana
Labor of love that has been 12 years in the making. 10 screening trees, rose garden, lilacs and perennials.
Garden: Carol's Garden
I like to plant whatever catches my eye. I have two perennial gardens featuring oriental poppies, lilies, hostas, astibles, columbines,daisies,blackeyed susans,purple cone flowers. Just to name a few of my favorites. One garden gets full sun all day. The second gets the morning sun only and shade from the house for the rest of the day. Due to the fact that I'm on the lake I have to plant species that can tolerate the wind.
Garden: Northern Acres
We live on 80 acres of woods,marsh,bog,wild field & pond. We are blessed with abundant and fascinating wildlife. We moved here in '06 to retire and simplify life. I vowed not to be tied to large and numerous gardens as my health is failing. I decided on a veggie garden with small beds and herb borders. I use a lot of fresh herbs in cooking,garnish, and healing. Each bed can be easily worked from a network of mulched pathways and instead of the one acre garden we once had to have to feed our large family, this garden provides enough for fresh eating and attractive plantings.
In our front yard there was an existing crescent moon perennial garden we haven't been able to resist adding to until the borders are bursting and it was going to have to be expanded in some way. A new bed was tilled this summer and now we have mirror image gardens in the front yard on either side of a cement bench. We have just begun the plantings.
In the back yard a tiny daylily bed has been replaced by a partial sun perennial garden, a small pond and border plantings. I have planted roses which I love but have not had good luck with in our previous home.
To the west of the house, against the woods, we have a hosta bed that is beautifully serene.
Our gardens are always evolving and quirky and challenge me to find ways to limit the work and enlist helpful hands and minds.
I am by by no means a professional I just enjoy the sun, soil and challenge- So welcome to my garden
Garden: Outdoors and Houseplants
I love to garden both inside and outside. I recently started a 24 x 20 garden spot. I am growing tomatoes, green peppers, pumpkins, zucchini, winter squash. I also love to grow flowers in my yard primarily perennials.
Garden: Work in Progress
Just moved in to this house and there was an existing garden that was pretty boring. I love gardening but I just struggle with what to do about this mess. The soil is very poor. After watering it dries almost to a solid mass. I need help!!!!
Garden: Lots of Veggies in my garden!
I'm trying to grow as many veggies as I can in Calgary's wierd climate. Cold weather crops do better. Tomatoes must be under glass or forget it. It's discouraging at times. I use rain water to water mostly everything. I like simple old fashioned plants like morning glories, nasturtiums, sweet peas, roses etc. I always get blossom end rot on my zucchini and don't know how to prevent it..
Garden: Carolyn & Kenneth's garden
A mixture of English-style perennials, with a strong component of daylilies, some of which I have hybridized.
Garden: Fenton's Bed & Breakfast
Beautiful landscaped gardens, with Daffodills, tulips Hyacinth in the Spring, Peony, Iris & Lillies in the summer.
Garden: The HideAway
3/4 acre corner lot. Lived here 14 years and finally looking good. Multi shrub border and 14' high cedar hedge borders a tiered garden in the back and perennial border in the front.
Garden: Geno's Garden
I have several areas, a perennial shrub border in the front which is gradually taking over the lawn, a vegetable garden, a shade garden and an area "in transition"
Garden: 1st attempt in a community garden
This is my first attempt this year, with a veggie garden. So far so good, almost everything has grown, except celery and leeks, but I planted them too late. I should have started them indoors, too.
Hopefully, weather permits (so far July has been colder and rainier than usual), I'll get some good veggies out of it.
I'll repeat the experience in my private yard next year, as I have just bought my first home.
Garden: Heritage Heaven
An eclectic mix of perennials, herbs (my true love), annuals and veggies. Potager style. I have an herb garden too. I try to grow heritage varieties like peas and lettuce, as my small way to keep more variety on the planet.
Garden: Sanctuary
Slowly on limited budget converting very small unused in-town backyard space,under black walnut and in driveway, into micro nature spot. Natural species and herbs with a few vegetable attempts......
Garden: My Eden
Mostly Raised Beds, Some sunny spots, some shady spots mostly partial sun. Mostly veggies a few grapes, berries and flowers
Garden: Vivian's Colony Farm Plot
1st year Community Plot - July 2009. Assorted vegetables, berries and a little lavender to attract the bees.
Garden: Terri's backyard escape
rose garden with 25 bloomin' beauties. Big garden half perennials, half veggies. water garden with rock garden plants surrounding the waterfall. 3 beds with mostly perennials with a few annuals thrown in to fill empty spaces.
Garden: Roses and more
Small garden in Mississauga. It's like an english cottage garden with vegetables and roses peacefully coexisting
Garden: My little creations
Always changeing/adding, growing, love to watch the birds come and go. A place for peace of mind!
Garden: Brouwer Yard
Started spring 08 after we moved and cleaned up and then had it all torn up for a new septic system.
Garden: Snakehaven
A variety of different gardens covering collections of lilacs, perennials, shrubs and annuals for cut flowers.
Garden: nancy's garden
took out all the grass, wanted trees, shrubs, and perenials. put in pathways and even a pond
Garden: Water Garden
I have a very shady backyard surrounded by cedar trees so hard to grow stuff; however I put in two ponds for fish and frogs and have resorted to potted plants that love shade.
Garden: Lady Gray's Home Garden
1 acre lot with lots of trees linning property and a grove of linden trees in the front yard; gardens around the house, shed and linning the back of property, with much more to come. Full sun in back yard and dappled sun in front.
Garden: Place de Mira
Started it 8 years ago when moved in. My first garden, so I am practicing with different themes. I have a Japanese, Mediterranean, Wildflower, English Country. The flowers are all white and mostly perennial. The grass is left as it was, full of clover, the white flowers blend in well.
Garden: Chilliwack Grows
8 fruit trees, 5 flowering cherries, an ancient japanese maple and lots of perrienials
Garden: just-sing-it gardens
I have been transforming a long neglected property into gardens over the last 3 years. I now have a small pond and very little grass left. Alot of perennials, some vegetables, and fruiting shrubs: raspberries, boysenberries, and a full size mulberry tree that is driving me crazy: what a mess! But the berries are delicious and the birds love it. Still needs refining, better fencing, etc. I use no chemicals: organic methods only.
Garden: Gardens on Dale Street
I grow herbs and vegetables. This year tomatoes were bit, beans, snow peas basil and strawberries were added.
Garden: Quarry Flower Farm
Started in Spring, 2008, as a specialty cut flower farm in north central Texas, growing for farmers market and florists. As farm develops, we hope to become a pick-your-own flower farm. I grow on 1 acre-my limit since I am the farmer/grower/seller/etc.
Annual beds are planted in 50 foot rows under landscape fabric with driptape irrigation. Some annuals we grow are: Kurume celosia, ProCut sunflower, Benary Giant zinnia, perilla, Amazon Neon Duo dianthus, broomcorn, Ammi, Nigella, Gaillardia, Jobs Tears , Crane kale, Blue Boy cornflower, Lisianthus, Ageratum
Perennial beds are being prepared with a labyrinth path through the field. Perennials we are growing are Prairie Sun rudbeckia, Purple Smoketree, Curly Willow, Lambsear, Powis Castle artemesia, Jewels of Ophar, Jerusalem Sage, Mint, Grasses, Vitex, Salvia leucanthus, Autumn Joy sedum, Thalia, OsageOrange, Viburnum, Buddleia, Leonotis, Echinacea - Coconut Lime, Mac n Chees
Garden: Chris and Irene's Allotment Garden Plot
20' x 50' rectagular community allotment garden at the Agnes Street Community Garden in Saanich, BC, Canada.
Garden: The Jungle
I live on 2.5 acres and have perennial gardens around the house. I am an amateur gardener and always looking to learn. I have 6 apple trees, two grape vines and a small vegetable garden. I am looking into planting a small herb garden.
Garden: MyGreenHavn
Finally getting summer here thank goodness as we are busy combining and need the hot dry weather, the garden is staring to wain and I have to water frequently to keep it fresh, starting to collect seeds and moving some lilies. I have control my urge to lay out yet another bed.
Garden: Franks Gardens
I enjoy growing many types of perennials such as lilies, roses and cut flowers and enjoy growing vegetables and fruits in our edible garden patch.
Garden: Gpymama
Inherited garden that I am renovating with my novice skills, that increase each year.
Garden: My slopw
In a valley, on a steep slope. Microclimate may extend to zone 5, as lavendar survives the winter.
Garden: Backyard
Over the years we've slowly been taming our backyard. When we bought the place the yard was completely overgrown. The people that put on the siding had to cut a great deal of shrubbery down just to get to the house.
Garden: Evelyn's Garden
I have a large back yard with a hill. There is a pond and a waterfall. It is an oasis in the city. Off the back door is a pergola covered with Wisteria. The hill is covered with perennials and trees. There are paths on the hill.
Garden: Eclectic
Eclectic. Still working on transforming it from grass and weeds. Hopefully, in 2 years or so, I'll be able to say it's "a work in progress".
Garden: Escape
20'x50'south.a little east involved but mostly south.we haven't made our deck yet...but once it's up I will need help to know what to plant.we live in Kanata,ontario.this might give you an idea of the zone.thanks
Garden: The Mumfords
Just starting to landscape, the main idea is to have a low maintenance, yet lush landscape with Tuscan colors.
Garden: backyard garden
small perennial garden in the suburbs on a tiny lot. Full sun behind the house and morning sun (til about 1pm) in the front.
Garden: Liz's garden
Lots of lawn and trees, mostly perennials -- I love peonies, delphiniums and day lilies. We also have a smallish vegetable garden.
Garden: My Gentle Garden of Peace
This is where my heart is and my place of peace and sanity. I love to come and work in the soil and look at the colors and the changing shapes and sizes of the plants and to keep changing things year after years, adding this and removing that. I love to taste the produce from my tiny vegetable garden and complete with the weather and the creatures for the produce to see who will win this year.
It is always different and always challenging and always a feast to the eyes and the heart.
Garden: My little piece of heaven!
I am a lazy gardener, so use mostly trees, shrubs and a few perrenials. There was nothing but grass & toads in the yard, in 1996 when we moved to Fox Creek. We like it better now!
Garden: Memories Garden
My garden is small, but the rewards I get from it are immense. I am my happiest there-just feeling the soil between my fingers and the sun and breezes on my face. In my garden, I am at peace; and time has no essence.
Garden: My little paradise.
When I bought my home in 1998 there existed only grass and a fence surrounding the house. I started gardening in 2000. Each year I have added beds, plants, shrubs, trees and hardscapes.
Garden: Kat's Garden
I strive to create a garden that is fun for my children, provides fresh food for my family, and is attractive to look at.
Garden: Haysboro Haven
My garden is a mixture of annuals, perennials and tropicals in beds, pots and baskets. I start as many plants as I can from seed every year. Tropicals are house plants in the winter.
Garden: good vibes
Lots of perenials and self seeding flowers with a few pots and annuals for variety and all seson blooms.
Garden: Beausejour Daylily Gardens
Beausejour, Manitoba
Beausejour Daylily Gardens located in the town of Beausejour, Manitoba, 46 km north-east of Winnipeg. This two-acre community garden has something blooming from spring to snowfall.The Zone 2b Beausejour Daylily Gardens is the only American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) Display Garden on the prairies; the perfect place to test any tree or plant. It is also home to the most amazing collection of iris and peonies. We presently have over 550 Daylilies cultivars and over 150 Lily varieties.We are also an official Lily Display Garden documented with Manitoba Regional Lily Society. However, there is far more to the Beausejour Daylily Gardens than just daylilies.
Perhaps the greatest benefit has been the Garden Angel Program. Although the Friends of the Beausejour Daylily Gardens are responsible for the planning that goes into the park, and the Town provides some maintenance, it is the “Garden Angels:” who maintain the park to AHS Display Garden standards. Each section has a folk art sign with it’s number and the name of the Angel looking after it.
Garden: geo's garden
i grow,shrub roses,perinnials,shrubs,heathers,conifers and this year trying some veg.my garden is quite small,mainly shrubs and roses at front.
roses and herbaceous plants at back.
also hoping to start work on a garden railway this year.
Garden: taming the jungle in the Northend
I started out with plans for an English garden but because of the soil and the type of plants that favoured the location it turned into an Eclectic garden. My children love it and my cats think they are living in a garden jungle when everything is fully grown. It is also a nature habitat and I also try to grow plants for the wild birds, butterflies, and bees.
Garden: our haven..st.polycarpe quebec
moving from b.c.(5 years ago) i had to learn and still learning about q.c. gardening!!!
we started this garden from NOTHING.our first winter we walked over the new seadlings wich were everywhere in the house...and then it was just hard work to make a flat farm surrounded by organic fields into a cosy backyard...stillin the process..but loving it.
mimi
Garden: A Little Piece of Heaven
A collection of gardens featuring perennials, annuals, shrubery, pathways, water features and ornaments suitable to the sun/shade conditions. Several sitting areas provide interesting and colorful perspectives of the landscape.
Garden: Rough But Improving
South exposure but some decent shade behind the spruce.
Got a new place and had to start all over again. Some wonderful irises, thyme and a dianthus collection, many sale plants still in their pots, still yardstone to put out. Toddlers take up a lot of the former time and energy we had! At least there is some youthful enthusiasm for watering :)
An even rougher but larger backyard plot has blanketflower, raspberries, thornless thistle and deep-coloured delphiniums. Sea holly, usually a failure for the past many years, finally came back with a beautiful purple-blue sheen on the stems. Grass and willow invading; when will we have the time and energy? Trying to encourage a combo apple to grow.
Garden: Mom's Garden
I Love to grow any kind of flower if it will survive in my yard. Very windy, and full sun to part shade, mixed soil conditions. Started a compost this year,( have tried before but not successful) The garden is always changing , mostly because I cannot make up my mind, that is always a good thing for my friends whom I give my extra plants to. I planted vegetables this year, and am loving the great taste of home grown veggies. yum.
Garden: 201 Charlesland Wood, Greystones
I have a long narrow garden, with wooden panelled fencing on both sides so they cast shadows on the garden in the morning and evening if we are lucky to have sunlight. Its a work in progress as a friend has designed a series of garden rooms which I am very slowly implementing. Another friend constructed a living willow fence for me this year so that forms one of the 'room' boundaries. I have a raised bed for vegetable growing - all in modest amounts given the restriction on space. I have successfully grown beans, peas, lettuces, rocket, strawberries, cucumbers, spuds (potatoes), herbs and so on in the productive garden.
Garden: Back Garden
I have lived here for 15 years and have added many plants on a whim! Some are in the right place some are not. The whole family use the space for many different activities. The garden has a southern aspect and is fully fenced.
Garden: 4000 Ft Ski Hill Veggies
For the past three years I've been attempting to re-establish a garden which my mother had over 10 years ago. The earth sat for about eight years and then weeds invaded with overgrowth (as the house and property were rented). I have been adding sand, peat and manure to the clay like soil and am starting to have success with growing vegetables. Which is great considering the house is just under 4000ft on the Kimberley Ski Hill. Next step is to landscape and re-establish a lawn.
Garden: Villa de Flores
Tuscan style garden with rolling lawns, waterfalls and ponds, patio areas, fireplaces, fire pits, and a few daffy ducks to keep the snails at bay!
Garden: Greenbank
about 300m2 in size, had drainage installed & renovated, in working progress. Have Kitchen garden, flowers, trees, and lawn among the 60m2 patio area that will include Clay Pizza oven and decking area.
Garden: Heritage House
This is a brand new project. I have replaced the crappy clay we call soil around here and I'm looking forward to hostas, herbs and a few bulbs for colour.
Garden: Diane's Garden
Small backyard with patio and fish pond. Lilacs and hydrangeas. Next year I'll be planting roses and clematis along my cedar trellis.
Garden: Cloonmore
Just starting out on trying to get our garden into shape, growing fruit, veg and a few mixed borders
Garden: Abby's Sanctuary
My garden is a collection of "cast offs" from other peoples gardens. In all reality, it really shouldn't have done as well as it has
Garden: Abby's Sanctuary
My garden is a collection of "cast offs" from other peoples gardens. In all reality, it really shouldn't have done as well as it has
Garden: Mountain Meadow
Flat lawn with a steeply sloping hill behind. We have added raised beds, retaining walls a pond and a mountainview patio.
Garden: Lapaie's acreage.
This site was a former gravel pit when we started 9 years ago. The soil is very gravelly over a heavy clay base. The Southern Gulf Islands of BC are in a 'rain shadow' so water is limited. We think we have created a wonderful haven for birds and humans! Our garden includes a pond and stream, 18 fruit trees and raised boxes for vegetables.
Garden: Veggie Town
Vegetable garden. 2nd year. Corn, zuchini, tomatoes, bell peppers, egg plant, cucumbers, radishes, green beans, carrots, tomatillo, lettuce, muck melon, summer and winter squashm herbs. Had success last year with pumpkins and potatoes also. Full sun 8+ hours per day and is watered by hand or sprinkler daily for a least 1/2 hour. Very loose mixed soil of peat, compost, clay, and sheep and mushroom manure.
Garden: Ivy Cottage Garden
Our backyard consists of a part sun/part shade garden, a rock garden, and a garden along the fence. We also have several trees in the yard, and a small vegetable patch at the side of the house.
Garden: Central Alberta
3 year old, north facing plot, we have planned from scratch. I will add photos soon.
Garden: Blooms 'n Berries
Our garden is a kid and bird friendly space! We have 2 children, ages 2 and 8 and we love birds, butterflies and even the bugs! The garden is an outdoor classroom to our kids, since they get to learn so much from it! It is always colorful, both our front and backyards and I especially look forward to the arrival of "my" purple martins, that every spring come back to our backyard, all the way from MY BEAUTIFUL BRAZIL!!! I am proud of how much my garden draws the attention of our neighbours, especially since I had to relearn everything I knew about gardening, as plants here require different care from what I knew before. One of my favourite past times is taking pictures of my plants, birds, bugs and my family, of course!
Garden: Zen and the Art of Garden Maintenance
With the purchase of our home 2 years ago, I inherited several raised weed and bramble infested beds in my southern exposed back yard. After much work I am learning to grow vegetables and currently have scarlet runner beans, swiss chard, ever-bearing strawberries, cucumbers, carrots, yellow bush beans, beets and a section of herbs. I love it!
Garden: Creek side
5 park like acres with year round salmon creek, large seder trees, alder, birch, maple and many others. lots of lawn. Also Vegetable, berry fruit garden and poly tunnel. We try to blend the wild with the domestic.
Garden: Back to Basics
Vegetables, Fruit trees, grapes, blueberries, thornless blackberries, and garlc
Garden: Friendship Garden
My garden is my friend, mentor and sometimes advisary. I fight the
clay soil, curse the rocks and battle weeds. Still, every spring I am
hopeful and happy to be with my friend. We worship togeather,
commune with the universe and hope the beauty and mystery of
nature soothes our souls. Me and garden are friends with lots
of flaws but we put up wth each other.
Garden: Lindsay's English Garden
A mixture of sun and shade loving perennials with a few annuals. I'm starting to try flowering shrubs and different lilies.
Garden: Gordon Young Garden
a mixed garden of 1.5 acres with a fruit garden, vegetables, flower beds, woodland garden. Very friendly for wildlfife
Garden: Sandy's Garden
I have flower beds on all sides of the house. The back was mostly shade until we lost a big tree last winter. I have a mixture of perennials, shrubs and bulbs.
Garden: Cherry's Garden
Small back and front garden but packed with plants, shrubs and trees. There is a small pond and a patio.
Garden: none
Large yard, pool, garden continuing to evolve--looks nice in the back, but the front needs work.
Garden: Garden on a Hill
Vegetable garden on a hill...Raised borders cut into the clay ...Square Foot Gardening method used with heirloom vegetables where possible
Garden: Peace & Quite Time
Moved into a new house. Some brunsfelsia/agapanthusse/cannanas and a few trees. Have a courtyard with pots in them They have to be refilled and replanted. Have to start from scratch because it there is nothing. Brought a few plants from the old garden but not nearly enough . I love roses and will try and establish a rose garden.
Garden: Doodle
new garden started from fields of rushes but getting there slowly.trying bit of everything,would really like to do the permaculture thing.
Garden: Our Garden
We're building a garden from a scrap waste patch behind our cottage that the landlord was going to concrete.
We're taking a very slow, permaculture approach because we've discovered that from where we're starting, we have approx. 6" soil which is a mix of waterlogged mud and heavy clay, onto the old, C16th cottage floor. We're spending little bits on the garden as and when we can and we're cultivating cuttings from local hedgerows and plant-swapping.
Our initial plan is to cover as much of the breeze-block wall as possible with flowers and then build raised beds (ideal as I have spine injuries) from the rubble that we've pulled out so far, in which we can far easier manage the soil quality.
Last year we had success with carrots; onions (bedford champion); lettuce (lollo rosso) raspberries; roses; cucumber; lavender; and various herbs. We have also introduced a laburnum as a standard and have a little patch of lawn chamomile that's struggling valiantly.
This year, we've decided to take a side-step in direction and focus more on growing berries and dedicating the rest of the garden to our birds. We're also hoping to attract more butterflies and bees - especially as there are swarms literally vanishing in our area & we'd quite like to bring some back and maybe start a colony of our own.
Garden: allotment
My allotment is on a slope, south facing, about 5oft long. i'm growing all kinds of vegetables and herbs, this is my first year there so i am an absolute beginner!
Garden: Veggies
1st year of our backyard garden....very small, yet we had a great crop of tomatoes, peppers, green onions and lettuce. Brussel sprouts refused to produce any sprouts.
Garden: A garden of two halves
Three challenges are faced in this garden...the soil , the aspect and the slope. However , I have enjoyed trying to make something productive out of it and it keeps me busy!
The front garden is pretty steep but gets all the sun ( and wind ). The soil is not too bad but thin in places with rock underneath. Mainly ornamental except for the small bricked area near the house where I get all my seedlings started and grow some edibles.
The back garden is starting to look like an allotment according to my neighbours...their dining room window looks right onto it ( another challenge!). The soil there is pure clay so I have 4 deep beds and a hugelbeet with a few extra bits recently converted to usable soil by a kind of lasagne method. The house shades this garden almost completely in the winter but in summer half of it gets most of the sun available. A large area of flax stops the garden from falling down the gully and is home to 3 chickens at the moment.
Garden: Tillie's Flowers
Tillie's flowers and birds January - September 09
entrance, front, and south side is all cement
moss roses, begonias, ferns, zinnas
backyard is 15 x 30 with another litte rock extension on the north side
morning glories, moon flowers on the fences
four o clocks and zinnas in grassy area
marigolds, zinnas, moss roses, sweet asylumn, honeysuckle in garden area
marigolds, trumpet vine, morning glory vine in rock area
bird pictures start in January with the hawk - gold finches in March - cardinals and indigo bunting in April
Garden: lara's garden
Predominatly native intermixed with flowering perinnals for colour and picking in beds around spacious lawn areas. Lots of bio-diamanically grown vege gardens, citrus, combined with many areas of reclaimed unused council land now accomodating a large range of heritage and compainon edibles. Every space is used to provide unsprayed healthy free food that is also pleasing to the eye and most importantly generates a sense of satisfaction in our children.
Garden: Margaret & Lynda's Garden
Margaret and I live in manufactured homes that are very close together. We combined our spaces to create one garden.
Garden: Mommy's 'Fitness' Project!
Backyard was nothing but old pasture, dirt & rocks when I moved..... Very discouraging, but with much work... it's starting to turn into my 'Dream Garden!!...
Garden: Nature's Gift
We recently purchased a country acerage with great "bones" to build our dream garden.
Garden: Disaster zone
No money - no garden. Love to have a beautiful garden full of trees and flowers
Garden: My Backyard Oasis
Small yard in heritage district with full sun in a few areas, but attempting some colour in the shadier areas.
Garden: Peaceful Waikanae
A garden was created out of a plain grass lawn a year ago. My aim was to create a place of peace and tranquility so I planted white flowering trees, white flowers and shrubs.
Garden: 2500m2 amateur
A large lawn surrounded by flowers, waterhole. Volleyball court. Fruits and berries. A small greenhouse.
Garden: callaghans garden....
private family garden, contains specimen plants, and takes a lot of work... hostas, fuchisa, roses, climbers, monbrieta, acers, etc
Garden: Kilmarth Farm
Eight year old, one acre country garden in North Canterbury. Mostly planted with cuttings and seedlings from friends and an emphasis food production.
Garden: Ian's Garden
First Zantedeschia Pentlandii flower grown from seed. 2 years. Seed kindly supplied by a national bulb-growing / propagating / selling company without charge to me. Isn't it beautiful! Zants are my favorite flower aside from Gloriosa Rothschildiana/Superba, but I have no luck with them.
Wild and weird abstract collection of plants mainly grown from seeds & cuttings. Climate Zone Summer Rainfall, Winter frost. Soil Type acidic loam to clay to well-drained. North-facing slope, between high walls. 24 square metres. See others at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=4285&id=1457234328&l=2fc912be34
Garden: Woodbine Cottage
I have just started creating this garden in between getting my own landscape horticultural business up and going.
Garden: Shady Haven
Informal garden with lots of Thorn trees, Leopard trees and wild olives. The garden does not have much sun, so I grow mostly clivia, forest bell bushes (Makaya Bella), a lot of ground cover and a few herbs (lavender where the sun does shine), Tea tree, bay leaf, lemon, chillies. A few standard rose bushes also seem to survive out front.
Garden: Roselee's garden
A Large garden on the banks of the modderriver in the freestate. My garden has lots of roses in formal and informal planting. Part of the garden is a wild garden with only indigenous plants.
Garden: About Your Garden
My entry in Bloom 2009 was made up of small garden designed with a thirty something year old single person in mind who has bought a home and not an investment property. The main aim of this garden is to show that a limited space and budget should not restrict what you can put in your garden.
I achieved this by using elements that you would expect to find in a large rather than a small outdoor space. The garden would be situated in a new housing development with residents located on all sides. The vertical planting scheme, along with the pergola, provides cover for the person within the garden. Both of these elements also help to enhance the view from outside the space.
This is a garden where they can sit after a day in the office and read a book or just relax.
Garden: Mr Alan Wynne (mother Mrs Molly Dipper-garde
Mostly indigenous. Planned by proffessional. very casual.
Garden: The smallest evergreen forest
mainly palms and cycads, floor covered with pebbels, some antique stones and clay pots, beneath the trees.
Garden: BT's Busy Garden
My house is in County Clare, in a little spot called Doorus, next to Lough Graney. I have 5 acres of land but 3 of those are meadow. It is all very damp as I live next to a bog, with my husband. He has been associated with horticulture all his life and I have always been a gardener.
We have mostly mixed beds with a core of shrubs and perennials plus some annuals for colour. Cosmos do particularly well and dahlia. We have many bulbs, tulips and daffodils plus others. We have a large contorted willow in the front lawn.
A stream runs down the land when it rains, but soon dries up if it ever stops raining. My husband grows vegetables, gladioli and the annuals from seed. We love our fresh vegetables.
When we moved here, the front garden had been laid out with walls with plants in the tops of them. We have added several beds.
Garden: Binky's Garden
A garden of food self-sufficiency, flowers and chickens still under development.
Garden: A little bit of heaven
A small townhouse garden with roses, lavendar, water features, etc. In the little backyard a raised vegetable garden & deck is planned!
Garden: Reilly's garden
I don't have any idea to grow roses and buganvileas... any one can give me a hand with this?
Garden: My getaway
My garden is grown from cuttings and plants that I generously collect from friends and family. I do not have a planting plan so the garden planted all over the show. I do not have gardening "rooms" but would love to incorporate that at some stage. This spring was the best my garden has ever looked. Still waiting for a garden bench to put under the massive tree in the front garden.
Garden: Debbie's garden
1200m2 1/2 lawn - informal, Have two big coral trees - one front garden the other back. Have a small vege garden as well. Arums, Agapanthus, Petria creeper, Wysteria creeper, Jasmine creeper, Banksia roses, Galpinia trees, bouganvilla intense pink, Have a small earthworm farm, some crotons, Mock Orange bushes and ciggarette tree over birdbath.
Garden: suburban potager
Only experimental beds at this stage. 700sq metres of flat bare garden to plant this year - lots of ideas for 2011
Garden: Shaunlee
An emerging farmhouse garden. All plantings only a few years old at the most. Continuing to plant and plan as we go along. Aiming to grow some shade and wind breaks but having problems with the drought and learning which species grow best in our climate and soil type.
Garden: Castello di Galeazza
Acres of woodland, a kitchen garden, formal flower gardens, and over 400 species of plants from around the world. Totally Organic: No chemical pesticides, fungicides, or herbicides. More information and photos on www.galeazza.com
Garden: Sir Lowry's Pass Olives
Olive orchard, herbs and part with indegineous trees and plants.
Difficult condition for gardening: the wind!
Garden: Burwood's Little Piece of Heaven
The front yard is a mixture of shade and sun. The house faces north and closest to the house I have had to plant shade loving perennials and shrubs. It has been quite a challenge to find plants that will bloom beautifully in the shade.
Garden: Giardino delle fate
Still to create and start due to house and ground work. It will be full of flowers in spring and summer and rich of red leaves and berries in autumn and winter.
Garden: kilmagoura
my garden is a small cottage garden with lots of flowers and a few shrubs. I also have a backyard with a lot of pot plant. flowers in my gaden are foxgloves, peoneys, delphs. lots of types of daffodils , dalhias and pot marigolds and lupins. Shurbs are bullidia, varegated elder and old rambling roses. The cottage was built in around the 1910s so olld fashoined plants suit with the odd modern plant such as a gum tree cut down as a shrub.
Garden: My favourite Garden
A garden with a pond 2 waterfalls and a 15 m stream , a green house a little bit of a vinyard , tunnel out of bouganvillas diffrent seating areas with a table under a canarien Palm. 4 years of pleasure to create a very special garden. out of the pools backflash "riverbed " we took the flow for the stream . Plants mi with mediterain, subtropical and succulentes/cactuss. 20 tons of rocks,tons of gravel for the path,30 tons of lava ashes(picon) . The garden is owned by Very special people that i want to say thank you for letting create me this garden. thanks for support. Chris www.flowerpower-lanzarote.es
Garden: Daikokucho Garden
Since our house is built on a platform on the side of Tenjin mountain, our garden has several small flower beds and many potted plants.
Garden: Casa Julian
My garden is like Topsy -it just grew. My main garden area is to the front and is mainly lawn and shrubs under Umbrella pines, with a Lime tree and a couple of olive trees. I have an Orleander hedge to the front - I have plans to turn the part in front of the house into a formal Italian garden. At the side of the house I have a pool side garden which is only in its second year and consists mainly of interesting shrubs and container plants. At the other side of the house is my olive grove and Orto (vegetable garden)At the front of the Olive grove I have planted a Pittisphorum hedge but it is not doing very well. I have lots of ideas, very little cash and less energy than I used to have so progress is slow!
Garden: mrs P
3500sqm of mostly clay and stoney soil.
we have many spanish plants and some english, olive, almond, cherry, walnut trees, and oliander, orange ,roses,and lots of shrubs many climbers,marigolds,gladoili,blueberries,blackcurrants, and a veg patch, with onions potatoes tomatoes,beetroot rhubarb,carrots cabbage shallots,green beans lettuce pepino,and melons,not all at the same time,but very busy in the spring/summer.
Garden: One of each
Love growing perennials and keep finding plants I 'have to have'. Finding spots for them gets harder every year!
Garden: Cannings garden
About 130'. Rockery, huge willow, containers, many perennials, unheated greenhouse, some soft fruit, poor apple trees, holly, herbs, lawn, patio. Faces East.
Garden: Velvet in Brussels
Welcome to the garden of our shop, we focus mainly on hardy orchids, hardy gingers and rare edible plants. I also have some nice Acer from Japan.
Garden: The Churchwell's
4 gardens in all - consisting of North facing walled garden, south facing lawned garden with flower beds planted to attract insects vegetable plot and unadapted field containing 5 cidre apple trees, a pear, two peach one walnut and and a couple of plum trees
Garden: In domo patris
It is a garden with some English sculpture items (a stone statue, and a couple of bronze), with shrubs in the border and with creepers (mainly the lilac trumpet vine) growing up on trellises.
Garden: work in progress
Ever expanding and changing, I have a shade garden full of perennials. I think I might be the hosta queen :)
Garden: Lots of Lawn - Gotta Go!
Southwest facing - parching! Very dry and windy! All lawn - 75' wide - with beds either side of the stairs. Right side: sedum,oat Grass, primrose (if it comes back). Left side: irises (including three pretty coral-colored German ones, 7-foot lilac bush and on the left property line: 2 potentillas (one will have to come out) and one spirea. Want to plant roses in left front bed. Also, there is a lone peony on the right side in a hole I dug (not a bed, but needs to turn into one). Also in the front, there is a beautiful, but aging weeping birch - need arborist - a golden elder bush that needs pruning at least twice per summer - and a large May Day tree. I am not great in the planning stage, but will do my best this LOOONG winter.
Garden: Mai Più Senza!
I have a garden divided into two zones; one sunny area and one shady area. The sunny part is what people first see while walking by and upon entering, and the shady garden is more private, behind the house with roses on a pergola and high hedges around the edge of the property.
Garden: Spring
Small forest garden for the faeries, and backyard along the fence. 3rd season for wisteria, first season for fence garden. The faerie garden is ongoing, always changing as does the forest.
Garden: Monty
Five raised vegetable beds with companion planting on the top terrace. On the lower level are mixed borders with perennials and shrubs, hardy mediterranean, testing anything that can put up with horrible compacted clay topped by gravel - drought-tolerant and quite successful. Linking the levels is a lavander hedge.
Garden: My experiment
I'm planning on the first garden to consist of (in order of rows)...
1. Bush beans
2. Bean herbs (bohnen kraut)
3. Tomatoes
4. Lauch (onions)
5. Karrots with Dill mixed in
6. Onions
surrounded by the veggi garden will be certain flowers, Marigold, Ringelblumen that help with the bugs and soil.
On a second level (terrace) I plan to plant more Tomatoe plants surrounded by Lavender and Echinicea.
Garden: Always bloom
Lots of flowers that bloom at different times during the summer. Most of my gardens are very simple, more wild flowers than rose type gardens. I base most of my design on color and a cutting garden. The key to any good garden is to cut, cut, cut; it keeps plants healthy and blooming. Another important factor is the soil - always prepare your soil before planting. Love to work the ground, I think I am a farmer-girl at heart.
Garden: Oakleigh Grove
An overgrown wilderness of gorse,blackberry,weeds and 19 oak trees that we have planted
Garden: Pilgrims
3 1/2 acres landscaped with trees, shrub and herbaceous borders, 400 roses of all types, 50 clematis, vegetable garden.
Garden: My personal pain
My garden - my pride - my joy. Inland of southern Spain, 7,000 sq meters! and being washed away as I type. Have been working on my garden for 5 years and am so pleased with what I have achieved and also sadden by what I've lost, but it's all down to try and error. My garden is bursting with colour and is slowly spreading out into parts of the garden I haven't even started on. Never had a garden until I came to Spain.
Garden: bad fish heights
This is a testament to effort and wish fufillment - side of hill very exposed very cottagee lot of edibles and just the best really. We have recently opened a garden store in Te aro - called grow from here - 2w1 Abel Smith st (between cuba and Taranaki-um
Garden: Jardin de Zorra
Small garden around our house in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Many cactus, palms and citrus trees, prolific bananas!
Garden: vegetables, pot plants and orchids
Most of my garden is made up of pot plants, I live in Australia and there is a big push for gardeners living in Australia to grow Australian Natives, but I have to say I'm not a great fan, I love to grow Orchids, Rhodedendrons, ferns, gardeniars, I like plants that have lovely flowers, but I also like the weird and the wonderful plants, unfortunantly we are in the middle of a very long drought and that makes gardening here a bit difficult, especially for me as most of my plants are very water hungry, I also have a very productive vegetable garden that my friends are all happy about as I grow so many vegies that I could'nt possibly eat them all myself.
Garden: Jen's garden
Mostly exotic shrubs with a couple of australian natives and some vegetables and herbs
Garden: Permacultur Startup Garden
berrys, trees close to the wall, little Greenhouse made with rubish, vertical garden, Kiwi, Apple trees, wild salads, herbs
Garden: Mrs J. Bannister
I have an oblong garden which needs a lot of attention. I started clearing flowerbeds last year that had been over run with weeds, creepers & left to its own devices, however Im new to gardening in the UK after living abroad much of my life & would love some ideas on improving it into somewhere joyful & pleasant on the eye. We intend to build a sun deck & add a gazebo in the summer. There are a number of trees surrounding the garden, so Im not sure where to start
Garden: Home garden
Cottage style garden but needs to be able to endure extreme temperatures and drought in summer.
Garden: Trude's garden
A plot of a third of an acre slightly on a slope. Hardly any shade, so pritty hard to keep things going when it is hot and dry.
Garden: SPHERE
My garden is so small like a baby.
It will be getting better and bigger near the future.
As the gardener, I am still a beginner.
Please teach the idea with a good garden.
Thank you:)
Garden: whatamess
half pine and cork wood,a bit of almond,fig, olive and fruit such as nispero,apple, plum and persimmon, then orange grove at bottom alongside stream,mostly very sandy, high water table and clay 15 inches below sand.
Garden: Oakwood Manor Community Garden
Students of Oakwood Manor Elementary School, in partnership with Gladstone City's Senior Gardeners Project, engage in organic vegetable and flower growing to learn about plants, soil and water conservation, composting and recycling, good nutrition, and community service.
Garden: My Oasis of Peace
1,000 m2 of plants, meandering paths leading to different areas, some secluded, some open, 1 freefall waterfall into hidden tank, 1 cascade into open pond with water Iris and other aquatic plants, future home for two turtles, some fruit trees, lots of pines for wind breaks, rose arches, several banks and benches for contemplation, small greenhouse - complete my little haven!
Garden: templair
small garden with a few flowering plants , a palm & a cypress. Sufficient sunlight all through the morning during summer.
Garden: Omenapolkku 30, Vallilan siirtolapuutarha
Founded in 1932, The Vallila Community Garden is one of the oldest in Helsinki, Finland. Eighty years ago this area was underwater and part of the bay. Today it boasts 169 allotments.
Garden: The Love Shack Garden
Property is about 5 acres (4 Acres bush and subtropical rainforest. We have a variety of established fruit trees including mandarin, lemon, lime, lychee, papaya, ladyfinger bananas, Percimon,
Nectarine, Mangoes, Jack fruit and Nashi Pear. There is also one lonely macadamia in need of some tlc.
After living in town for the last few years we recently returned and started a veggie patch and herb garden.
I am also a fan of pitcher plants although have only two varieties thus far. :)
Garden: mISS TRACY GAUR
Front Garden is a rose and Fir Tree Garden.
Back garden is Herb and Various varieties, Long Garden Partitioned and colourfull.
Garden: Merritt College Arboretum
The Merritt College Landscape Horticulture Arboretum supports an educational program designed to prepare students for careers in all the major horticultural disciplines, including landscape design and construction, nursery and greenhouse management, sustainable urban agriculture, floral production and design, turf management and arboriculture and aesthetic pruning. Of special interest are the Permaculture Demonstration Garden with more than 100 fruit trees, perennial and annual plants for food production, companion plantings and herb collection; a collection of more than 500 Mediterranean, South African and Australian specimen plants as well as a large collection of California Natives.
For additional information see: http://www.merrittlandhort.com/
Garden: A little bit of everything.
Bulbs, Hosta's, Perrenials, Some shade, Some sun, Black walnuts on neighbours yard, Raised vegetable beds, Large maples, Evergreens, Huge lilac hedge and fish pond.
Garden: Denver Botanic Gardens Park
Denver Botanic Gardens at York Street presents a wide range of gardens and collections that illustrate an ever-widening diversity of plants from all corners of the world. Distinctive gardens define and celebrate our Western identity and a unique high altitude climate and geography.
Many of our innovative gardens are models of drought-tolerance and showcase native and adapted plants that thrive in Western gardens. Throughout Denver Botanic Gardens, the time honored traditions of European horticulture merge with a dynamic diversity of plants and design that represent the best in horticultural achievement.
Denver Botanic Gardens has opened the city's first publicly accessible green roof, located above our new Offshoots at the Gardens bistro. The green roof is the first of its kind on a city-owned building in Denver, and is a highly visible demonstration of the many benefits of green roofs for communities and for building owners.
Source: http://www.botanicgardens.org/content/our-gardens-york-street
Garden: sloping berm garden, mostly sun
renovated sloping berm with a variety of mixed perennials/shrubs, and trees.
Garden: Mökki
It's a modest summer cottage garden with some flowes, apple and plum trees. The soil is originally sand but we have brought clay for flowers.
Garden: My Garden
I have several different species of plants. Mostly things I love that can grow in our zone. I do have a design certificate in Landscapes.
Garden: Brandy's garden
My garden in the backyard is large with lots of roses and perennials. I enjoy putting in some annuals as well and like lots of colour. Last year I removed several large rhodos from my front yard as they were looking messy and they are not my favourite even if I am the one who planted them many years ago. I was able to recycle most of them by placing them at the end of our driveway and over a couple of days they all disappeared. I enjoy gardening and especially now as I am retired.
Garden: rose garden
Different roses of all colours.
Flowers the bloom for long periods of more then once,preferably perinial.
Garden: Pia's summerplace
1 ha allotment in northern Helsinki. I grow berries (currants, strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries) and some summer vegetables...
Garden: A lifetime of work
We have 8 acres - half in native bush which we're trying to restore, and the other half in orchard, vegetable garden and grass, with large bushes and tress on a sloping north facing hill.
Garden: Country Garden
Country Style Garden on 10 acres. Mainly growned from cuttings and divisions in the last 4 years.
Garden: Elizabeth & Alan's sub tropical garden
Our garden is a mixture of sub-tropical, roses, vegetables and traditional with mostly flowering shrubs.It is divided into two with mostly sub-tropical round a swimming pool and other more traditional plants in the other half. The garden has all day sun.
Garden: Now Beginning
Now I begin to make my garden.
I want to grow fruiets, vegitables, and flowers. But I don't have enought time... so it will be slow.
I want to learn about gardening!!
Garden: My Haven
I have old trees therefore plenty of shade, three ponds, a Fuchsia growing area and a Rose garden. Other interests : epiphyllums, tillandias, ferns and feeding birds. Not much lawn.
Garden: My little garden next to the river
A small garden with the shady stuff alongside the house, the sunny stuff against the far wall, a small pool and a huge palm at the back. No space for vegetables, although I want to get my sons interested in growing them!
Garden: postage stamp
tiny shady garden, with fish pond, decking, gravel shrubs, herbacios border, small fruit patch & bird feeder. Iplant with a trowel & shoe horn. Front not touched yet, side bank 5' by 30' over grown with brambles :- this ears project.
Garden: Villa Massei
New Renaissance garden on the grounds of a sixteenth century hunting lodge, a short distance from the walled city of Lucca in Tuscany. 8 garden rooms with formal hedging, fountains, a 16th century grotto, see "A Garden in Lucca" as well as www.agardeninlucca.com
Garden: Mary's jungle!
Surrounded on two sides by tall hedges. Rather heavy soil. Lawn and flowers mainly although we do grow a few veggies too. Puppy and grandchildren 'help'. We have a playhouse and swings
Garden: John Ducie's Garden
Robinsonian style garden with mature trees shrubs and herbaceous plants, fruit trees, rock garden,vegetables and greenhouse
Garden: Traditional cottage garden
I grow heirloom vegetables as well as flowers, herbs and fruit trees.
Garden: new start all ways learning
2 years going now and was hammered by latest winter,. but now back to blank cavas .
Garden: Stichting B.a.d - garden
Community garden in a former inner schoolyard. It is a green oase which is used by the artist who live and work now at the place.
Garden: Serro do Galo
ca 3/4 of an acre in the foothills of the serra de Calderão 30 km north of Faro. Fruittrees, a vegetable patch and a growing collection of plants for the mediterranean climate, including many succulents.
Garden: maria´s plot
trying to grow organic vegetables but the soil is poor and would like a much prettier garden full of flowers but I get too much sun and too much wind.
at the moment i´m growing broad beans, lettuce, onions, leeks, artichoke, trying to grow spinach and fennels but these last two are not doing very good.
Garden: The Rectory Garden
Out the front we have many trees and flowering shrubs- one side we have the veg and herb patch- the other side ( sunny side) has the Verandah with exotics and hanging baskets. The back garden is mostly lawn with wild borders
Garden: Avril's Somerset levels garden
My garden is very wet which presents lots of difficulties. I also have rabbits which eat everything. I garden by trial and error and love surpises when new things come up that I haven't planted. We are surrounded by trees so in the summer it feels lush and green. I love wild flowers. We have primroses, celandine and wild orchids in the spring and foxgloves in the summer.
My gardens has odd soil but is seems to be very fertile. It is neutral in pH but is comprised of clay, loam and alkaline peat.
Garden: Steve's Sanctuary.
My garden is small, front and back. 18 months ago it was a builders tip and whatever shrubs there were were smothered in ivy and cats claw. I am building it up from scratch, sweetening a wretched clay soil with as much compost as I can afford. These dreaded rains have drowned a lot of my young plants so I have to rethink everything in the face of the oncoming winter. Drat!
Garden: Camp Sonoma
We live in a Mediterrian climate but the garden looks more like an Englishh garden. We are also on a very shallow well which makes our garden scheme even more questionable.
Garden: Sheila's Garden
I grow flowers and vegetables...
I look for things that will survive the hot summer with sometimes drought conditions and severe winters!
Garden: Iturraran Botanical Garden
Iturraran Botanical Garden is in the middle of Pagoeta Natural Park, in the municipal term of Aia, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Northern Coastal Spain. It has a surface of 20 hectares, from which 15 are gardened. It is owned by Gipuzkoa's Council and it's open to the public (free access) all year round. It has representative collections of Quercus, Acer, Magnolia, Cornus. But also many other plants, from trees to hardy perennials, up to 5000 different taxa, including species and cultivars. The local weather is quite balmy, Z9, we are not far from the sea, which means not too severe winters: the drawback is all the wind, which sometimes can be quite troublesome!. With only 3 gardeners as permanent staff, our garden style has to be quite wild!. When you visit, please bring the machete and forgive us the brambles! :)
Garden: Tabor work-in-progress
When I bought my house I inherited a wonderful yard with many mature trees and shrubs. I'm working on adding lots of bright beautiful flowers. I love the idea of good fresh healthy food just outside my door so I've been adding raised beds for fruits, veggies and kitchen herbs.
I have many excess plants and shrubs as well as rasberry and strawberry starts. I'm always up for plant swaps. I'm still a little green at gardening and would enjoy the insights of other gardeners trying things out in lovely Portland.
Garden: My community and yard garden
I am doing edible landscape at home and veggies at the community garden. One can never have enough garden friends.
Garden: Patti's Pad in the Valley.
Today,I started to get the ground ready for gardening. I put in some flowers Tulips purple, red and Pink. I am getting my seeding plants indoors for the spring. Im planting zuccinni, tomatoes, beans, herbs, and more.... I love plants, veggies, flowers and Native plants.
Garden: Redsquirrels exotic experience
currently learning how to grow palms,yuccas and agaves. yuccas would rank as my favourites as ive achieved more success with these since i started.gradually planting them out as and when ready apart from a few specimens to remain in containers just incase the weather gets even worse over winter
Garden: S & D's Little Acre
There are 4 micro climates on the property. The north side is shady except for the full sun on the strip of land we have expropriated from our neighbor. The back varies from full to dappled sun and is where we grow our vegetables and herbs. There will be a shade garden under the cedar trees. There are appx. 300 sq. ft. of soil to be enriched that was under the 50 year-old cement pad we removed last fall. The side strip to the south of the garage along a brick wall will hopefully produce a variety of vegetables--this is the first year. The front is the lovely flower garden established 3 seasons ago with a place for zucchini in the sunniest spot in the yard. It's a Little Acre in transition. Weather is still a bit cold yet.
Garden: Ranchgirl's first garden..in a box
Inspired last year (2009) by Tracy Clarke's garden box...loved it and want to replicate it this year.
Garden: Backyard Bounty
Edible garden, Plums, nectarine, apricot, persimmon, vegetables, watermelon, favas, tomatoes, cucumbers, and raspberries.
Garden: My Private Garden of Peace
I am struggling to learn how to make my garden beautiful and surviving the prairie climate and the clay soil. I also work so time is limited and I am doing it by myself. I love it and it is is both rewarding and frustrating but I struggle on.
Garden: Soulful Gardening
Veggies, Perennials, Annual flowers, Perennial veggies, watergardening, bulbs, shrubs, ROSES, and tropicals. Wanting to continue to learn more about all these plants and growing in Colorado. Also want to plant fruit trees this upcoming season.
Garden: Dee's Retirement Project
Shrubs, Annuals, some vegetables. Like birds, have feeders and birdbaths
Garden: Perrenials
Just getting started, different perrenials plots. Will number each one. Would like to get cutting flowers.
Garden: Dave and Paulines garden
Mixture of vegetables, Rhubarb, greenhouse edibles,Approx. 50 Roses, Bulbs,Daffodils,Tulips, Gladioli, Lillies, Snowdrops,Dahlias, Shrubs, Hydrangeas, Potentillas Buddlia, Spiraea's,Berberis,Weigela's, Philadelphus, Peonies, Forsythia, Fuschias, Hostas, pyracantha, Euonymus, Virginia Creeper, Cotoneaster, Cistus,Hibiscus, Periwinkles, Sweet williams, Foxgloves, quince, Honeysuckle Lovech, Clematis, Lupins, Achillea, Galliardia's Dianthus, Carnations Lavender, Curry plant?, Aquiligea, Chrysanthemums, Geraniums Grasses, Fruit bushes,Gooseberry, Black and Red currents, Raspberries, strawberries,Grape vines. Fruit trees, Apples, Fig,
Peaches,Pears,Cherry,Plum,Walnuts. 2 wildlife ponds,
Garden: Bilkania
Backyard of an old village house not far from Sofia (Bulgaria)...
Hinterhof von einem alten Dorfhaus,ca. 70 km von Sofia (Bulgarien) entfernt...
"I gledame se dalgo s planinata, a pomezhdu ni nikakva dosada" Li Bai
Garden: Helen's Garden
Trying to make it look respectable, haven't got much idea about a Texas garden.
Garden: stranford lough
i am growing some heasthers this nyear ,some dutch bulbs,some fruit both hard and soft and am planning to groe toms and peppers in my greenhouse
Garden: stranford lough
i am growing some heasthers this nyear ,some dutch bulbs,some fruit both hard and soft and am planning to groe toms and peppers in my greenhouse
Garden: stranford lough
i am growing some heasthers this nyear ,some dutch bulbs,some fruit both hard and soft and am planning to groe toms and peppers in my greenhouse
Garden: Maya's Backyard vegetable garden
Trying to start and grow a vegetable garden this year with beans, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers etc...
Garden: Willie and Jenn's Garden
We buy organic all winter and when it warms up we try to grow as much food as we can! This will be our 4th yr with this setup. We would love any tips on how to produce more and better organic produce!
Garden: small patch
at the moment only three raised vegetable plots and a border around a patio which was recently been built by husband. lots of work to do!
Garden: Montgomery Bricolage
Tomatoes & other miscellaneous veggies, all organic and all in PH-challenged clay soil. Also some flowers and a compost pile maintained by plenty of slack.
Garden: K & P Entrprises
We are in our third year of building up the soil for mostly organic gardening. We carved a chunk out of our field for this so it has been used and abused for many years. We also will have a greenhouse soon and are looking forward to fresh tomatoes most of the year. (Cannot tolerate a winter tomato from the store!)
Garden: Brian's Plot
A crop rotation of native plants, lavender and soil conditioners. It has kept me busy for the last 4 years but is finally self propagating and self-sufficient. Now just letting it grow and collecting seed.
Garden: HERBARIUM
Parque privado abierto a la comunidad, el Herbarium tiene un jardín sensorial con hierbas aromáticas, una huerta orgánica con parrón y frutales, plantaciones aromáticas de lavanda, huerta comunitaria para niños "Pillpa", laberinto y prado de relajación. Tienda de regalos. Abierto de lunes a viernes 8 a 17 horas, sábado de 9 a 18 horas. Clases de Herbología, Terapia Hortícola, Dibujo Científico y Huerta Urbana. Talleres sabáticos y visitas guiadas. Más info en (562)2797087, www.herbarium.cl, email: herbario@herbarium.cl o en Facebook como Herbarium o Huerta Urbana Herbarium
Private park open to the community. Sensorial garden. Organic orchard, vegetables and aromatic herbs production. Labyrinth (7 circuits), horticultural therapy programme for kids "TiNi Pillpa". Gift Shop. Workshops (starting April 8): Botanical Drawing, Herbology and Urban Orchard. Guided visits for schools, groups and associations on request. More info: Phone: (56.2)2797087, email:herbario@herbarium.cl, www.herbarium.cl or in Facebook as "Herbarium", "Pillpa" or "Huerta Urbana". Open to the public Monday to Friday from 8 am to 5 pm. Saturday from 9am to 6pm. Free entrance to the park.
Garden: Wisteria Lane in Glengormley
My garden is a long narrow urban garden which I have divided into different sections depending on what I feel like at the time. The one we are working on at the moment is the vegetable garden which my daughter Rachel said was a "bit desperate housewives" hence Wisteia Lane. Like most gardens it is an ongoing project and will probably never get finished as I change my mind too much about how I want things. It is mostly a pretty garden with a lot of cottage garden flowers and shrubs.
Garden: PILLPA (butterfly in quechua)
Pillpa (mariposa en quechua), proyecto de Herbarium, es una huerta-jardín, dedicado especialmente a los niños. Tiene forma de mariposa y en cada una de sus alas se desarrolla un programa de terapia hortícola para niños. El objetivo es una mejor calidad de vida y formar valores sociales en ellos. Cada niño es dueño de un metro cuadrado y a través de su cultivo, se le enseña a compartir, a respetar, a solidarizar. Pillpa es totalmente orgánica y para contribuir a ello los niños preservan la biodiversidad cultivando flores al lado de frutales, hortalizas y hierbas aromáticas. Tienen también un sector de reciclaje, lombricultura y compost. Otro sector está destinado al área social con una canchita y juegos infantiles. Más información en www.herbarium.cl o en Facebook como PILLPA.
Pillpa, a project of community gardens for children. Tierra de Niños Pillpa is a Herbarium project that is being worked on in collaboration with Manos y Naturaleza and the Chilean Horticultural Therapy Association. This garden is shaped like a giant butterfly or pillpa (875 m2) and in each of its wings it houses a different Horticultural Therapy programme focused essentially on education, health and training for the children of the Metropolitan Region, aiming to become an example to be duplicated in each of the towns of Greater Santiago and eventually in every town in Chile.
Garden: i love my garden
its loved by all, we have just done things over the years and we love it our little haven
Garden: my owm experiments garden my lab
its were i put all that i learn in pratice doing al sorts off things hybrids and so on
Garden: My Bulgarian Garden
2000 sqm's or so mainly for vegetables, plus extensive fruit trees and another 18,000 sqm's of land currently used for grazing but may consider planting some fodder crops for animal feeds. We're smallholders and raise animals for meat and try to grow as much as we can without the use of chemicals or machinery.
Garden: Beginner's Learning Garden
just learning to garden using square foot methods and some permaculture techniques.
Garden: Janet's Garden
Partially shaded NE facing back garden growing herbaceous perennials and annuals and vegetables in containers on the patio. Sunny front SW facing garden also growing herbaceous perennials and some alpines.
Garden: Mikes converted garden of raised beds
Coutry cottage front garden which is south facing, cosisting of Hardy evergreen shrubs to decidous shrubs, various bulbs alpines and herbaceous plants lawn and a ash tree with clematis montana Elizabeth growing through. One special Corus Venus bred by the famous Peter Moore with very large white flowers. Back garden consisting of decking path ways and patio with large perimeter raised beds for veg chickens phormiums, herbaceous, alpines lilac tree, acers, dwarf conifers and a vaiety of shrubs. more to add once up and running. Mike
Garden: Brad and Jan's Garden
Getting ready to prep area for lots of summer veggies I already have started inside.
Garden: Kari's Paradise
I'm typically a very impatient, instant-gratification-seeking gardener, but planted a ton of flower bulbs and veggie seeds this year to see what happens. I'm very excited to see an explosion of color this summer in my yard, and lots of veggies and strawberries as well.
Garden: John's Meditation Garden
24 feet square, mostly veggies with salvia, marigolds and Mexican poinsettias scattered about. 6 different tomatoes, 5 lettuces, 2 spinach species, eggplant, kale, collards, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, italian beans, peas, pablano, anaheim and green peppers, asparagus, cucumbers, cantelopes, fruit pumpkins. And in pots and separate small plots all around are herbs, roses, rose of sharon, peach and pear trees. Ya gotta love it!
Garden: Sk8ers Paradise
We have a 40'x5' and a 30'x7' plot in the backyard. We are also planting the entire front yard with veggies!
Garden: Plantasia
I have been removing lawn and adding more plants every year. I spread my multiplying perennials and bulbs all over the place: in friends' gardens, and I confess to impulsive "guerilla gardening." I'm running out of space and want to stretch out, maybe out to a more rural spot.
Garden: From Night to day!
I will post some information after I can find the best words to describe it.
Garden: Perennial Garden
Lots of spring bulbs, Filling new gardens with mostly shade perennials. Iris blooming now with peonys about to bloom. Newer Knock-out rose hedge starting to bloom. Missouri Primroses taking over several garden areas-very invasive as is Gooseneck Loosestrife!
Garden: Perennial Garden
Lots of spring bulbs, Filling new gardens with mostly shade perennials. Iris blooming now with peonys about to bloom. Newer Knock-out rose hedge starting to bloom. Missouri Primroses taking over several garden areas-very invasive as is Gooseneck Loosestrife!
Garden: New garden
We have moved to Bethalto. We just put in a swimming pool. My soil type is clay. I left a large garden,so I'm eager to get out and get my garden started.
Garden: good eats garden
we have a couple raised beds here at home, and frequent the Venice Learning garden a lot to help out.
Right now we have tomatoes, cilantro, squash, cabbage lettuce, bok choy, kale, peas, strawberries. transitioning into summer... and just got n avocado tree. hopefully our plums will do better this year
Garden: Rus en urbe
As of right now I have squash, beans, eggplant, and peppers. I also have an herb garden. We are doing some altering of the site for this fall's garden, so right now my large garden is resting.
Garden: Aleatha\'s English flower garden
I have an English Tudor style home so I decided to go with it and create and English style garden. The transformation I have created with my own two hands has brought joy not only to me and my family but to my delight and suprise, my neigbors as well.I have discovered that I am a fearless gardener. I am willing to try new things which can sometimes result in failures and suprises. In the end the \\\'mistakes\\\' never really are failures because I always learn in the process.Experience is an an invaluable teacher.I have evolved however into a more thoughtful gardener and make plans based on more than just beauty. I consider in my plans the sustainability, maintanance, cost, all seasons and even how I can enhance the balance of natural elements in my garden such as birds,insects and other local animals. This year my challenge is to do more with less and am planning with my daughter to do a straw bale vegetable garden. I hope it works!
Garden: A Garden for All Seasons
A moderate sized suburban garden. Mainly shrubs and herbaceous borders to provide all season leaf colour and flowers. Gravel area and lawns front and rear. Some seasonal containers and an area for vegetables, mainly growing onions, shallots and climbing beans.
Garden: The Putterer's Garden
By day The Putterer, aka Beth Py-Lieberman, is an editor at Smithsonian magazine. At night and on the weekends, when The Putterer is not busy as a wife and mother, she likes to putter in the garden. http://www.gardenputter.blogspot.com/
Garden: Justin's Garden
The back garden is pretty small, about 45 feet square. It's split into areas, such as an Italian formal garden with clipped box and palms, a woodland garden with a pond, ferns and dappled shade, and a lawn with flowers and banans. There's also a patio with decking and a spa pool.
Garden: Michael's Vegetable and Kitchen Gardens
Melons, Tomatoes, grapes, berries, herbs, greens, flowers
Garden: Caitlins Plot
MY GARDEH IS ABOUY 1/4 ACRE , I have shallots and potatoes put in , love to grow cabbage ,any ideas what sort is best to grow
Garden: gerards private oasis in maudlin court
private half acre garden with cottage style perinnuals,small wildlife pond with waterlillies and koi fish,english perfumed hybrid tea roses and tiger lillies.wysteria covered house frontal,small terrace dining area with grape vines and succilents.garden illumenated by night with added waterfeatures fountains throughout.
Garden: My home, and others I create...
As a garden designer/landscape architect, I use my 2500m2 garden as a test bed for certain planting ideas.
Garden: Parkers' Piece
2500 square metres in southern Finland. Part forest, fruit trees - 5 apples and a cherry, silver berches, spruces, pines, poplars and small oaks. Mature gardens all round. Will flowers in the forest - lillies of the valley, anemonies and foxgloves; rhododendrons; greenhouse and veg patch. Still getting used to gardening in this climate (long cold winters), which is a challenge for veg especially! Roses are challenging, but I'm getting there. Any advice would be great from those that know this climate
Garden: ENGLISH DISABLED FRIENDLY GARDEN
My garden has been designed to make it easier for me to garden from a wheelchair. I have old chimney pots, sinks and other architectural planters which I can tend to the plants in them from my wheelchair. My garden is divided into sections by wrought iron work dividers. I can tend to one section each day if I so wish. I grow a wide variety of trees and shrubs. I like to take cuttings and I grow a lot of annuals from seeds which keeps the cost down. I have a small vegetable patch & also grow vegetables interspersed with other plants on my plot.
Garden: Our very small townhouse garden
A little bit of everything. Lots of pots, a few trees, small fountain, bird feeders, herbs for the kitchen, mosaic artworks, grass for the dogs and even a barbaque area for the man of the house.
Garden: Good intentions, benign neglect
Slowly turning my weedy turf backyard into a child-friendly garden (I hope--I welcome suggestions). Just planted two blueberry bushes but they look very lonely out there. Will plant milkweed this weekend.
Garden: 7 Flower Garden beds
I have 7 flower garden beds and 11 window boxes. I also am starting a shade garden in the part/full shade in the way back of my yard. It is mostly tulips, lilies and hostas. That will take many years to develop.
Garden: My Little Plot
I returned to allotment gardening after a work enforced hiatus some 4 years or more ago. I now blog,tweet and facebook my exploits and advice to a growing number of friends and supporters. I also try and remember to blog about general gardening advice for our local newspaper website!
Before I gave up my old plot 20 years ago, I was an executive committee officer for the Allotments Society and then later worked as a head gardener for an 18th century estate.
Whilst working there I gained my RHS Certificate in Horticulture.
Garden: The veg patch
From asparagus to zucchini, and a lot in between! A first attempt at growing most of the food we need: for fun, for health and for the planet.
Garden: Terry's Garden
Our backyard consists of a large maple, elm tree, and an apple tree. We have raised beds for our vegetables and are currently in the process of adding a third raised bed. We have large flower beds with a combination of perennials and annuals, part of which is 5 years old. As the years go by, we have made the beds bigger and focused on adding garden elments. We are currently laying concrete for our new gazebo and brand new extended front steps.
Garden: Urban sprawl. The good kind.
A garden originally installed by Masterpiece of Mtka and revised/tended by Urban Oasis for the past decade.
Garden: My fisrt try at home grown
I am tring my hand at growing a small(all organic)vegetable garden.
The soil is of the dark brown, Hard packing,Mostly clay type. With a lot of rocks and too many Glass,Plastic,and Metal objects to list.(I don't even know what most of them are)
I spent everyday after work for over two weeks TILLING and removing what was not soil.
Next I tilled in 400 Cu.Ft. of green manure then 800 Cu.Ft. of seasond manure and compost.
I set out my tomato,and pepper seedlings on may 17 and also planted my corn,bush beans,oakra,carrots,pumpkins,watermelons,and cuecumbers on 05/17&18.
NOW ON TO THE THREE W'S
WATERING WEEDING WAITING
OH NO, MORE WEEDING. How do i get my plants to grow as fast as the darn WEEDS?
Garden: My Garden
I work the front yard garden whilst my wife takes responsibility for the rear. It's a semi detached house with access front and back.
I grown ornamentals at home and leave the produce for the plot.
Garden: John & Dea's Suburban Paradise
We are striving for a 'Gardenesque' style - a combination between an old english cottage garden and a naturalistic garden. We started the garden in 2009. Eventually most of the yard will be gone and it will be taken over with beds and paths. We would be more than happy to trade seeds or cuttings with others.
Garden: lisa's gardens
i love all different types of gardens..i do as much as i can. front yard, around the patio, container. both veggies and flowers..and i love rose bushes..i will plant wherever i can..i once grew tomatoes on a small fire escape in my first apartment..:)
Garden: Terry's Garden
Our backyard is a good size, it consists of a large Maple Tree, a large Elm Tree and an Apple Tree. In the last 5 years, we've pretty much changed everything. We took out 35 trees, added sidewalks, flower beds and raised beds for vegetables. We added a high fence for privacy and the safety of our 2 Bichons. We just finished putting down a cement slab for our new gazebo. This will be connected to the main patio. I take great pleasure in puttering with my flowers, annuals and perennials. Our tool shed was moved over so we can add 1 more raised bed, giving us 3 in total. It's a great way to grow vegetables !
Garden: C & T
Just starting off with the garden, weekend seems to be only time to get at it so things moving pretty slowly...
Garden: Caro's Rondebosch Shade and indigenous
Garden at back has a large swimming pool surrounded by indigenous plans.It is in semi-shade for most of the year. Very few plants flower for long because of the shade (and two energetic dogs). Front garden is small, pretty, also indigenous but over-run by large shaded hedge and a huge exotic tree. we keep it colourful with wire flowers and animals, stones and succulents.
Garden: Jardim d'abrolhos
My garden is a mediterranean tipycal one. Here grows aloes, agaves, piteiras, loandreiros, malvas.....
Garden: none
I grow all types of flowers and shrubs but especially love roses. I am not a big fan of annuals due to the outrageous numbers of snails I seem to get! I have quite a large area with a small front lawn with 2 beds and a border and a larger lawn with a border and 4 beds. At the back of the house I have another border 3 beds and 2 raised bedsas well as loads of potted plants. My partner is the vegtable grower and he has a small bed at the back and a tunnel.
Garden: Steves Exotic Playground
Growing a wide range of exotic plants,mainly bananas,palms and aroids with an ever increasing collection of play equipment,lol
Garden: Alan's Jungle Sanctuary
A small Tropical garden in South Bucks specialising in banana plants and other big leaves. Most plants are container grown to enable winter storage.
Garden: My little Forrest
Overgrown, and everything was just planted as i got the plants...The garden wasnt planed, but are in a process of restructuring and redesigning it...
Garden: Marg's backyard prairie garden
I grow asiatic lillies, hosta, day lillies, shrubs, daisies for the most part
Garden: Bless My Bloomers
Two gardens...one large, hot and dry country garden and a smaller cottage garden in a mobil home park.
Garden: Urban oasis makeover
This garden started as an overgrown weed patch. The elevations are delineated by a swooping steel-wrapped wall which will gradually rust. Eventually the upper level will be fenced and planted in an English-influenced style.
Garden: AJ's Garden
We've got a big garden with a wide variety of sun exposure, full shade to full sun. I'm just starting to work with roses, and have a small zen garden in the works.
Garden: brandy roses
I am located in Mississauga. It is my first year gardenning. I wanted to have a pretty back yard for BBQ's.
I am growing zuchinnis, tomatos, cucumbers, roses, coneflowers and lilies. I like to feed birds too.
This is a picture of my dog in the before-garden setting.
Garden: Desert brown with a touch of green
Desert soil, dead clay with no organic matter, extremely hot summers, hot enough to cook plants exposed to the sun,well below freezing winters,,,,oh the joy of desert gardens!
Garden: Kel's Garden
I love my flower garden! I have fibromyalgia so getting in my garden regularly is a challenge. I've planted mostly periennials so that I could enjoy it without over-doing it.
Garden: Blois Gardens
I have apple trees,just planeted blum and cherry.
Most of my rose bushes died with in the past 5 years. Would they do well on east side of house?
Garden: GardenMom's Garden
A combination of many edible plants, vegetables, perennials, fruits, herbs, and beautiful textures and smells. This is the first year for this garden. Visit my garden at http://www.gardenmom29.blogspot.com/
Garden: My back yard oasis in the city
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mostly perennials, a work in progress over 10 years. Lots of hostas & day lilies.
Garden: My front yard oasis in the city
This is a new garden started in fall 2007. Most plantings are from my back yard. Again, this garden is mostly perennials but I add bulbs for the spring.
Garden: Jenni's Escape
When we moved in, the landscape had not been watered in quite some time and significant portions were on death's doorstep. It wasn't a complete blank slate, but close. A little water and a lot of sweat has brought some good progress. In a little over a year, we completely reseeded the front yard, planted trees & shrubs (bur oak, horsechestnut, Siberian peashrub, dwarf Alberta spruce, hazelnuts, golden currant, smoke tree, ninebark, yew, own-root roses) and tons of perennials (catmint, yarrow, Cranesbill geranium, Buddleja, larkspur, Snow-in-summer, ice plants, poppy mallow, bee balm, Black-eyed Susan, lavendar, Coronado hyssop, etc.) It is a jumbled mix of color & texture, and a continual work in progress, but to me that is the fun of gardening!
Alroy Brouwer
My gardens here got their start in Spring of 08, after a big cleanup and a new septic system. Its mostly englih style combined with some edible. I am in the horticulture industry (sell potting soil and fertilizers). the ground is heavy clay so evrything is going into raised beds made of peat, compost and bark.
Carol Elizabeth
Love Gardening- Love getting out in nature getting hands into the soil and nurturing plants and flowers. Love growing Orchids indoors too. The Garden here at the Rectory- was quite mature when we arrived 4 years ago- if only with tree's. We have added many shrubs and many beds and borders. Broken spades, forks, rakes a plenty due to the boulders just below the surface and the clay. We have had as many successes as we have failures- it is very much trial and error- but it is great when all the hard work is made visible.
Chris Knight
Ok, I am from the South-West coast of England, just south of Bristol,north of Taunton. I garden in a small town that is set in a naturally protected bay facing warm west winds and backed by a curved set of hills to the east. The soil in both my garden and on my plot is a clay to loamy clay mix. We get weather for the south west and Midlands as we sit in a bay that cuts into the UK. I grow vegetables and fruit mainly as I love to provide food that looks and tastes good. I like flowers and shrubs too but I get bored with a fixed design so either have to re build the garden regularly or stick to growing produce. I blog on Blogger.com, I have a fan page on Facebook as Weston's Green Knight. I tweet as Westongreenman and I blog for my local newspaper,who originally named me as The Green Knight. I have been an executive member of the local Allotments society and have worked as a Head Gardener at an 18th Century estate with a Victorian Walled Garden and Cider orchard plus 10 acres of ornamental and copse gardens before the property was sold to a developer. Now I work on my plot as well as working full time as a manager in a furniture store.
A beautiful sedum. I just love the way it grows in such a perfect mound. Great for full sun & can tolerate the drought and clay condition that I have here.
My angel guards the autum sedum and wisteria. Behind the birdbath are
lavendar and Russian Sage. Next year I will plant sedum on the other side
of the backyard because they don't seem to mind the clay so much.
The first summer of our project. The raised bed lets us avoid problems of heavy clay soil and poor drainage.
Last year,mid summer with baked clay soil and yellowing grass.It was hot for much longer than many care to remember!
