Published on 12, July, 2020
My thing is dwarf Fig trees. Especially "Fignominal".
Mine went up in the fire but I still love all things garden, all things plants. One day I will have another garden!
I also love a vegetable garden. I love to grow indeterminate tomatoes as they grow all year long here.
I also love to grow papaya trees, Japanese cucumbers vines, passion fruit and kitchen staples like lettuce and herbs
How about everybody else? Pictures? thoughts, experiences, hopes for?
This is a funky fun plant shop in the jungle.
and the other picture is the only surviving picture of one of my fig trees when it was just a lil'tike.
Very beautiful pictures! Your garden is gorgeous. I love the wellie boots as plant pots-might have to borrow that idea for my own garden.
What are you hoping to grow in your garden next? Next year I'd love to try some tomatoes in mine.
Uhane said:How about everybody else? Pictures? thoughts, experiences, hopes for?
Well I'd love to grow some strawberries that don't get devoured by the garden slugs and snails but let's not go there!
I'd love a proper vegetable garden, complete with a beautiful flower border surrounding it. I can just remember my mums at our old house and it was so pretty so if I could get mine to that-or something like it that would just be perfect.
I'll take some pictures tomorrow-though it's nowhere near as nice as yours is! Parts of mine are nice but other parts are weedy and overgrown. I'm trying to get it tidy and nice-though I do have some sweet looking plants just randomly growing-I'll take some pictures tomorrow, you might know what the plants are.
Love this thread already thanks for making it. ️
you can get lid of the slug problem with Vaseline. as long as it doesn't directly touch the plant. It will keep ALL crawlies away. It also doesnt wash away with the rain like diatomaceous earth powder does.
thank you dear. that place makes me feel very happy and calm. there is a lot of whimsy.
Weedy and overgrown or rewilded naure havens? Well that what I tell myself anyway. My gardens having a bit of a redesign, the pond is being rebuilt and the orchard/wild flower bit redone and I got new compost containers. I've not done any veg this year as I'm wanting to rework my veg plot and either have raised beds or go for forest gardening style, I have hazels that I planted as a hedge and I'd like to put the soft fruits such as raspberries and currants in front of them and then work downwards in size with veg. We get lots of strong and salty winds and a lot of stuff just won't grow., but soft fruit does really well, beans really badly, I've seen leaves torn off the plants by the wind.
I do love hydrangeas and roses, I have quite a few roses, a new one has started flowering, it's a patio rose, that I bought, for £1:50 in a sale, I put it in a nice pot with some nice soil and it's happy. I like quite old fashioned flowers, snap dragons, wall flowers etc. I also love my spring bulbs and primroses, I plant purple heuchra interspersed with yellow winter pansies followed by primroses, they really show each other off well. Another thing I seem to have a aquired a bit of a collection of are hebe's, they do really well here and seem to take anything the weather throws at them, all the polinators love them too and as they all seem to flower at different times of the year they're good nectar sources for early and late polinators.
There one bed that I'm seriously going to ovehaul this year, it's full of rubble from when the house was rebuilt some years before we moved here. Last year I thought I'd found archeology, but it was a load of bricks that I think might have formed part of a door arch? It's got very poor thin soil so I will either have to bring in a load of new stuff, or plant for poor soil, with loads of lavenders, rosemary and thyme?