Random Pictures taken using your Phone..Let's see yours

PeppermintPatty said:
Ok! Thirty years is a long time gardening.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I worked on it every spring, summer and Christmas break while I taught but didn't make it available for a Garden Conservancy Open day until 2017, after I retired
MarkD said:
I started about 30 years ago and I don’t get discouraged if I lose a plant and am not afraid to move a plant to get it to just the right place. Lots of trial and error.

The only clematis I grow now is C. Armandii ‘Apple Blossom’ which grows big and is very nicely scented.

View attachment 290287
Click to expand...

Yeah, I didn't put my stamp on the whole thing until about 2017. That is when I made it available for a Garden Conservancy Open day, soon after I retired. There were so many people who came through that day. Exhausting but fun too. The next day a friend sent me this link to a guy's blog who had visited that day and taken lots of photos: https://www.succulentsandmore.com/2017/04/pseudonatural-freakshow.html#more

Lots of fun seeing one's garden through another gardener's eyes. Since then I've visited him in his Davis garden and he's been back to mine several times.
 

MarkD said:
Yeah, I worked on it every spring, summer and Christmas break while I taught but didn't make it available for a Garden Conservancy Open day until 2017, after I retired


Yeah, I didn't put my stamp on the whole thing until about 2017. That is when I made it available for a Garden Conservancy Open day, soon after I retired. There were so many people who came through that day. Exhausting but fun too. The next day a friend sent me this link to a guy's blog who had visited that day and taken lots of photos: https://www.succulentsandmore.com/2017/04/pseudonatural-freakshow.html#more

Lots of fun seeing one's garden through another gardener's eyes. Since then I've visited him in his Davis garden and he's been back to mine several times.
Click to expand...
My goodness. I really need to explore your journal or diary on here. This garden is exquisitely masterful. A garden open house where so many people were swarming around you like bees to a hive.

The time you must have invested in this garden must have been astronomical. It’s clearly a great passion of yours.

Do you get flocks of migrating birds stop by at certain times of the year? Do the same birds nest there each year?

What a treat for the eyes. It must smell heavenly.
 
Last edited:
PeppermintPatty said:
Do you get flocks of migrating birds stop by at certain times of the year? Do the same birds nest there each year?
Click to expand...

Mourning Doves used to nest under the cover for the backdoor. Robins often do as do hummingbirds. And last year I found my first bushtit nest but they may have been nesting here a long tim as the are often in the garden. There was a night heron along the creek once and I’ve seen hawks, crows and waxwings.

It is becoming more work than I care to do so I’m thinking of putting in a unit in the side lot and diminishing the plantings there. The back and front would be enough.
 

IMG-1708.jpg
 
@MarkD - I’ve never seen Mourning Doves nests but we get Mourning Doves . The sound of them is so soothing to my ears. Robins and hummingbirds we get too. I think we get the same ones each year building a nest in the same place in the same tree doing their same little zoom zoom mating dance. Is a night heron different from a blue or grey heron?
Eagles we get a lot of as well as crows and grackles. Waxwings I haven’t seen around here. We’ve been seeing red breasted and evening grosbeak pairs. Lots of purple and gold finches, chick- a - dees, junkos , sparrows etc. It’s nice having a garden to attract such birds.

It DOES look like a LOT of work, especially for an elderly person. Maybe it would be nice to downsize it a bit . Your garden makes me miss mine. Thanks for sharing that with me.
 
Pappy said:
House across has been sold. This outfit showed up at supper time and I had to go out and see what it was all about. I presume that either storing or moving a long distance using these pods.

View attachment 290456View attachment 290457
Click to expand...
wow . never seen those pods before.. what a good idea. People rarely move from here so it's unusual to see removal trucks here in my area , so they might be doing that here for all I know..
 
Pappy said:
They are quite popular here in Florida. People coming, people going. U-Haul is very popular too.
Click to expand...
yes I can imagine it would be a very regular thing to see trucks like that in Florida with such a high transient population... I must keep an eye out for something like it here..:D
 
hollydolly said:
not hard to find it lol...
Click to expand...
Yeah..but I hadn't realised that stream was the River Gavenny.
That is clearly signposted down by the bus station.Where is it is a little wider.
I had rather thought the stream-because it is really a stream-flowed into the Gavenny.
Don't think some of the locals realise that either!
 
Furryanimal said:
Yeah..but I hadn't realised that stream was the River Gavenny.
That is clearly signposted down by the bus station.Where is it is a little wider.
I had rather thought the stream-because it is really a stream-flowed into the Gavenny.
Don't think some of the locals realise that either!
Click to expand...
funny how we cn live with something for years and never know what it's called.. :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top