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Spring Gardens
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Spring Gardens
April 7, 2014 at 11:39 pm
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RE: Spring Gardens
April 7, 2014 at 11:44 pm
Looks nice, but that green PVC pipe (or whatever it is) looks silly and out of place.
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RE: Spring Gardens
April 8, 2014 at 12:01 am
(April 7, 2014 at 11:44 pm)Sejanus Wrote: Looks nice, but that green PVC pipe (or whatever it is) looks silly and out of place.

Yeah it is pretty funky. But some folks like the silliness of it. Frankly, I wish they had pumped it full of concrete and then ditched the plastic.
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RE: Spring Gardens
April 15, 2014 at 11:07 pm (This post was last modified: April 15, 2014 at 11:24 pm by Whateverist.)
Haven't visited any new gardens lately but I am working on a new section of my own garden. This is in our side yard, alongside the driveway between the house and the creek. Originally we wanted to have a natural-like meadow garden, of the sort we saw at Great Dixter in England. But that turned out to require more upkeep than all the rest of the garden combined.

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So for the last year I've been trucking in dirt, rocks and -of course- plants to create a natural, open area. Here are some in-process shots from a month or two ago.

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Oh what the hell, here is a drawing and a satellite photo of the garden.

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RE: Spring Gardens
April 16, 2014 at 1:53 pm
Holy crap you have a huge garden!

It looks pretty.
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RE: Spring Gardens
April 17, 2014 at 4:15 pm
(April 16, 2014 at 1:53 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Holy crap you have a huge garden!

It looks pretty.

Thanks but do be careful of the apple tree. There is a talking serpent in that one talking all sorts of shit. I fear he may be a danger to himself or others.
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RE: Spring Gardens
May 11, 2014 at 11:18 pm
I'll probably be pretty scarce around here for the next week. We have our big garden/studio shindig coming up next Sunday. So much still to do!

Here are some snaps from the refurbished meadow garden taken yesterday.

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RE: Spring Gardens
May 11, 2014 at 11:21 pm
I love gardens - as long as other people tend them.

I have NO talent for gardening.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: Spring Gardens
May 12, 2014 at 12:31 am
As do I .. but especially I enjoy making one. Too bad it takes so much time to bring the best out of it.
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Day after the big garden/studio party.
May 19, 2014 at 5:27 pm
Perfect day yesterday for our garden/studio party, sunny in the mid 70's F. Just the right number of visitors and they mixed well. Didn't take any photos then but I got these this morning.

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