What's my garden for
Last post 19-07-2009 5:37 PM by patiopal. 46 replies.
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23/04/2008 05:24 PM
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- Ariadne
- Contemplating on the compost heap
- 05 Apr 2008
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Never mind cleanliness (what a waste of time, coz you only get mucky again!).........I say composting is next to godliness!
Sitting, spinning threads of stories & weaving the colourful strands of life.
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21/05/2008 04:13 PM
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- Crickett
- Notts/Derbys
- 21 May 2008
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My garden is for... sitting in, working like mad in, working out agression on weeds instead of people, forgetting horrible work days, thinking up ways to overcome all kinds of problems, thinking up ways to right the world, planting pretty flowers and yummy vegetables, stroking the cat, eating from the BBQ, spending time with nature in a suburban area. And I love it!
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25/05/2008 08:34 PM
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- seawitch
- chichester
- 26 May 2005
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my garden keeps me sane its what i gaze upon when i am ill ,what makes me want to get up and face the day however much i hurt .it absorbs my troubles produces food ,hours of amusment,wonderful scents ,fantastic flowers that people may not have seen before and most of all raises money for charity .
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20/06/2008 08:14 PM
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Hello,
After forty odd years living here the garden has changed substantially. I heartily endorse what you say Clare, but at the moment I am getting most pleasure from bird watching. The baby blackbirds are feeding just outside the kitchen window, and on a walk through the rhododendrons I could hear, and then see, baby wrens squawking until mother wren fed them. The greatest pleasure was a couple of days ago when, for the very first time, I saw an adult great spotted woodpecker introducing a youngster to the peanut feeder. Providing a variety of food over the years has increased our birdlife dramatically, with flocks of bullfinches the current biggest increase in numbers. Fortunately we only have one plum tree, and they do not seem to trouble its blossom.
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20/06/2008 09:48 PM
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- FranH
- Derby
- 20 Jun 2008
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When my hubby comes home from work and getting our baby ready for bed I like to potter in my garden. Sometimes I just like to stand on the patio and look at everything; listening to the birds sing and feeling the sun on my skin I sometimes forget where I am and can imagine being in a beautiful cottage garden in the countryside (which I am not). My garden is also a place for laughter and fun, playing with the children on the grass, having a relaxed BBQ and glass of wine with friends, tea and biscuits in the afternoon.
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22/06/2008 11:58 AM
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- Marge
- Oop North
- 22 Jun 2008
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When I was little I used to think of the garden as just somewhere to play in (mainly running around clutching teddy!), and then as I grew older it was just a place for Dad to mow the lawns and me to sit in. Now I keenly grow my own herbs, veg (well, attempt to anyway), flowers, shrubs, and all sorts of plants. I get so much pleasure from either relaxing in the garden or even doing a mass of weeding  I have also noticed since I have been using fewer chemicals that more wildlife comes into the garden too. There is a bird that likes to regularly check our lawn for worms, and the occasional frog visits too.
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22/06/2008 06:32 PM
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- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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Hello Marge Oop North is a bit vague my friend where in the world are you?. We have got frogs in our garden and loads of birds and two bird nests, I've done away with the back lawn this year so i have more room for growing flowers. I use my garden for looking at.
digger 
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23/06/2008 04:08 PM
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- Marge
- Oop North
- 22 Jun 2008
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Digger, I'm a Yorkshire lass. I've been outside putting out netting to protect the raspberries. It is my first attempt at growing this fruit and I am hoping the birds don't get them all.
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23/06/2008 06:09 PM
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- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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Hi Marge, I live right on the border between E.Lancs,W.Yorks and North Yorks. As for the raspberries once they get going they spread like crazy which is okay if you like eating them.
digger
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24/06/2008 06:01 PM
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- Tasha Service
- Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
- 24 Jun 2008
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I am new to this site and I have enjoyed reading what everyone has to say. On the topic of raspberries, I seem to have some trouble. I only have one raspberry bush that comes back every year. It only grows to be about a foot tall and stops and doesn't produce. My mother-in-law thinks that it is too close to a lilac bush that is close to the garden but my husband won't let me move the raspberries. Any suggestions?
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24/06/2008 06:39 PM
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- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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You could move the raspberry secretly and don't say anything, or you could try and give it a good balanced feed and when flowers begin to develop give it a big high potash feed.
digger
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07/02/2009 04:07 PM
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Thats a bit sexist. Anyhoo, I am a Landscape designer and gardener in Nothern United States, and to me gardening is a way to make a living doing something productive and fun. I love entering a baren plot of land and chaging it into someones dreams. It is a place of relaxation and joy. For my own garden I use an informal design, kind of controled chaos. As soon as I am out with my plants the stresses of life fade away. It's a place where I am in control (to an extent) and I can make a difference. As soon as I step off my property I am just a face in a sea of people. But on my acre, I am important, and needed by all.
As for the carbon footprint, I have a degree in plant science and have studied carbon quite extensively. It is the food that plants consume. It weighs less that air, making it rather difficult to float up and cause a greenhouse effect. Thats why smog is so horrid because it stays down where we can breath it. I don't really want to get in a debate with a bunch of fantatics on this topic. We all have our views, I just sugest that we remain skeptical and don't buy into the political scare tactics. The climate is forever changing, and in my humble opinion we should focus more on controling our trash problem. I read on the news that they are buring the methane that trash produces in larger quantitys and producing power. What if we launched our trash in a rocket toward the sun. It would disintigrat before ever reaching it's destination...rockets might be rather expensive though...
As for the rasberrys, (again, in my humble opinion) they are to invasive and should not be part of a garden. I would move them.
-Adam
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22/03/2009 08:10 PM
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- patiopal
- My Garden forums
- 11 Feb 2009
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My garden is all but in fantasy, fragments of what it WILL be like...when I get it....
Would fantasy garden do on this question? Yes, most definitely.
My garden IS for that. To sit,hear the buzz of bees, feel the tickle of the breeze, watch the waving of leaves and hear the twitter of birds and trickling bubbling water.
See, I never had a garden.
I hope to get one, as a social housing apartment on my street has become vacant.
My dream is screaming to be realised.
to build a bloom!
to make a small bit of heaven in a small bit of garden for a large women in spirit.
Anyone read Yeats? "come away oh human child, to the waters and the wild
for this world too full of weeping for you to understand."
I loved it as a schoolgirl. I love it now in early late middle age.
I want to 'come away" to nature, to rest, to nurture something good and wonderful.
Not to struggle with the worlds absolute impossible now.
I think its time... its time...
Yes, it looks as if the muse has hit, I hope its not soppy.
I bloody need my garden!!!
Ann
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23/03/2009 06:49 PM
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- Phot's-Moll
- The sunny South coast.
- 06 Jan 2007
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Fantasy is an excellent reason for having a garden - or hoping to get one. We all need dreams and each time I sow seeds, take cuttings, plant bulbs etc, I feel I'm helping to make mine come true. In my fantasy, they'll all flower or produce crops before the slugs get them! Reading the posts here is making me appreciate my garden even more than I already did. As for the raspberry - the lilac could well be depriving it of vital moisture and feed. If you (or your husband as he's the one who wants it to stay put) feed as Digger suggests and give it a really good soaking every week then it might do better. If you're already doing that, then it's a duff and should be replaced with a better one.
Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.
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