Shit Whateverist, you've made me jealous.
I'm not even into gardening.

(June 19, 2012 at 8:43 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: Shit Whateverist, you've made me jealous.
I'm not even into gardening.

Well then my work here is done.

Hah. Kidding. The trick is to make a garden you love without hating the process. No to do lists .. well, except when guests are coming over. The making of it must feel like play 'cause I don't need anymore work, thank you. The garden isn't an it rendered by my hand, it is an ongoing dance between me and this place and the plants I love. Love it or leave it to someone else I say.

I live in the North of England so the only thing I can grow in my garden is moss. Mind you, it's nice and sunny today, I might yet progress to weeds.

(August 3, 2012 at 4:06 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: I live in the North of England so the only thing I can grow in my garden is moss. Mind you, it's nice and sunny today, I might yet progress to weeds.

Have you considered 'micro-climates'? It has been freezing weather here with very few "sunny-days" as per Oz specs. These garden beds are small but are enjoying warm micro-climates and frost free conditions whereas my neighbours have gardens that are suffering from our Aussie winter.

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Rain washed garden in between downpoors

What's growing in my garden? Not a damned thing, we had record high temps concurrent with a nasty drought and I'd gotten entirely sick of irrigating my little home garden (especially considering the amount of money I'd spent irrigating my leased "garden"). I let it die, and I let the native weeds and grasses do what they do. Figured I'd take the opportunity to starve the squirrels and other critters that have begun to specialize in stealing my food. Besides, it needed a rest, I was working that little plot of clay like a dog...lol.

(August 3, 2012 at 12:39 pm)Rhythm Wrote: What's growing in my garden? Not a damned thing, we had record high temps concurrent with a nasty drought and I'd gotten entirely sick of irrigating my little home garden (especially considering the amount of money I'd spent irrigating my leased "garden"). I let it die, and I let the native weeds and grasses do what they do. Figured I'd take the opportunity to starve the squirrels and other critters that have begun to specialize in stealing my food. Besides, it needed a rest, I was working that little plot of clay like a dog...lol.

You should see the size of the damned squirrels in my neighborhood. Some of them are evolving saber teeth so they can prey on the larger, shaggier ones. It all started because we planted so many fruit trees 25, 30 years ago. Those are now largely ignored, except by the squirrels and their rat cousins who live along the creek. My younger dog becomes almost incoherent with rage when one of the cheeky buggers cusses her out from a safe height.

I used to raise finches and other small birds in aviaries set beside the creek. All that bird seed really drew in the mice and rats. One time a rat gnawed its way into one of the outside flight cage right through a 4 by 4, the only thing I hadn't flashed. Once when I was buying one of those mice traps that captures lots of live mice a lady from the SPCA who had set up a table in the store congratulated me for my concern. I didn't have the heart to tell her that all the mice were then dispatched with the end of a two by four inside a large garbage can. (Where is it that really needs your excess live mice, I wonder?)

Kichi: why do you have an outside dunny?

(August 3, 2012 at 4:06 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: I live in the North of England so the only thing I can grow in my garden is moss. Mind you, it's nice and sunny today, I might yet progress to weeds.

I am envious, I had to look after a moss lawn, you would not believe the work it involved keeping it free of grass and weeds, but the colour in winter, joy'

Thank you every one for the photos, and Whateverist If the problem with the lawn and your bitch is spotting, you can get a tomato extract food supplement for dogs which stops the problem. I have seen it work several times and used to advise my customers to use it.