Gardening

[nangiggles]

Do any of you tend to your own garden? Cutting grass, raking, mulching, planting flowers, growing seeds, etc?

I have successfully planted flowers and grown seeds in the past including some gorgeous black calla lilies and oriental lilies, but am not sure if I should just buy the flowers or buy seeds, I want to do a black and white themed garden but there are few attractive white flowers in stores and almost no black ones....

I bought some rose and tomato seeds I'll plant this weekend....

How do you take care of your garden?

 

[SPEKTOR-AAA]

Yes I tend my own yard. I enjoy it actually. My least favorite is dealing with yearly irrigation fixes (sprinklers, drippers, etc).

Black calla lilies are pretty. I would just buy the plant pregrown but Im all for instant gratification.

 

[nangiggles]

Yes I tend my own yard. I enjoy it actually. My least favorite is dealing with yearly irrigation fixes (sprinklers, drippers, etc).

Black calla lilies are pretty. I would just buy the plant pregrown but Im all for instant gratification.

I just love the satisfaction of watching that little green leaf sprout from the soil, then see stems and colors peaking out of them.... it's awesome

 

[cindylou]

I only do annuals in container gardens around my house...everything else is bushes. My lawn looks like thick plush carept..I spend most of my time on that...not really messing with flowers too much unless its on areas where I entertain outdoors. Johnny tried a garden last year in the field behind our house... it didn't do so well. I'm not into growing my own food even though Glenn says I should grow my own food...I need to buy my survival seeds.

 

[nangiggles]

these are some of my flowers in CR... http://i55.tinypic.com/bev8ns.jpg camera sucks but plants where very vibrant, even the berries

 

[shirlene29]

my whole yard is hill so I have tons of terraced gardens...everything from bog plants to wooded plants to rock gardens...shade, full sun...and vegetable gardens also all terraced
and I just was at my house this week sprucing the yard up a little replacing a couple blueberry bushes that bit it..spiking the fruit trees and trying to figure out if the magnolia tree was going to bloom this year
I was also tidying up the stone walls a little (fire dept destroyed one though that needs serious work that will have to wait)
and investigating my lack of daffodils


I love gardening
I spend obscene amounts f money on it pretty much every season but winter

 

[shirlene29]

oh and I just added to my strawberry patch...hoping to have a few different varieties this year
and I have a worm compost pile thats about 8'x8'x 5' high for the gardens...all my vegetable food scraps and weeding/grass clippings get thrown in it

Im planning on a different water feature this year...

its weird gardening the house your not living it, but also strangely soothing

 

[nangiggles]

I get you Shirlene, gardening is very soothing, I just got some white easter lillies and purple hyacinth, mini roses and some blue morning glory to put in the trellis in the dog's kennels as well as Callendula and marigold to plant near areas I want the dogs to stay away from...., and the very front of the property will be the home of the goth garden, I already bought a book called black magic purple passion so I can study the plants, flowers, etc in order to come up with a design, I'm SO excited

 

[shirlene29]

I have purple pink and white hyacinth....and my hardy primrose came in...really nice deep purple color, but yellow centers so wouldnt work for your black and white idea..

there are black roses ...most of the black flowers you find are really an incredibly deep purple/wine

 

[PICK3]

Do any of you tend to your own garden?

no

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