Share pics from yours, a friend’s or a public garden you enjoyed visiting

MarkD said:
Nope not me. I’m neither qualified nor willing to make a garden for anyone else. But the attempt to make my own has kept me interested for over 30 years and deepened my appreciation of plants. What I find fun is choosing and placing plants to suit myself.
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For some reason I thought you were a professional gardener. I thought you were in a gardening club where members visited your garden and you visited theirs. Sorry for my misunderstanding.
 
Pepper said:
Always enjoyed schlepping over to Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the Cherry Trees, but it's gotten much too crowded with humans lately!

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Sakura Matsuri at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Made it there once and would love to get back there again some day. Even more so I would love to see the High Line gardens for the first time. While I'm back there I'd like to get another visit to Wave Hill, Longview and Chanticleer.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
For some reason I thought you were a professional gardener. I thought you were in a gardening club where members visited your garden and you visited theirs. Sorry for my misunderstanding.
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Yes you are right about the club membership. I'm in and used to be board member for the California Horticultural Society centered in San Francisco. I'm also a member of the Hortisexuals, a garden visiting club which was a spinoff from Cal Hort and I have many friends in Western Horticultural Society which is centered near San Jose. But I've always been vocal about my not actually being a horticulturalist even while appreciating people who propagate plants and can advise me about how to better grow what I have. For me it is about the aesthetics and making a space for nature.
 
MarkD said:
Yes you are right about the club membership. I'm in and used to be board member for the California Horticultural Society centered in San Francisco. I'm also a member of the Hortisexuals, a garden visiting club which was a spinoff from Cal Hort and I have many friends in Western Horticultural Society which is centered near San Jose. But I've always been vocal about my not actually being a horticulturalist even while appreciating people who propagate plants and can advise me about how to better grow what I have. For me it is about the aesthetics and making a space for nature.
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Ok! You used to be a board member and had many friends who were board members. I would have thought you’d consider yourself a horticulturalist. You certainly know your stuff.
Then again, these days if you have a picture of a plant you can get an app that tells you exactly what it is. My husband used it when I was trying to figure out some wild spring flowers which I thought was pretty cool.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Ok! You used to be a board member and had many friends who were board members. I would have thought you’d consider yourself a horticulturalist. You certainly know your stuff.
Then again, these days if you have a picture of a plant you can get an app that tells you exactly what it is. My husband used it when I was trying to figure out some wild spring flowers which I thought was pretty cool.
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I wonder which one he uses. I've down loaded one but gave up on it.
 
RadishRose said:
What beautiful photos of gardens and flowers in this thread! 💕 💕 💕
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My favorite art form. ;)

Though there are so many other objectives one can have for a garden than that and many can be combined. Some want a setting for sculpture, some want a bit of nature for the creatures still trying to make a living in our midsts and some want to grow food. No doubt I've left out some. I like the asian aesthetic which seeks to portray nature but in a way that remains cognizant of their unavoidably human perspective. I have a friend who designs gardens to be an extension of their living space with outdoor kitchens, comfortable seating, fire pits, swimming pools and more.
 
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MarkD said:
I wonder which one he uses. I've down loaded one but gave up on it.
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I’m not sure which one he used but he says you can go to Google, hit Google , go to search, take a photo and google search will find everything about it. Note: You put the photo in the place for the photo, which is a framed area.
 
Paco Dennis said:
Our garden this year. Volunteer cherry tomatoes, and a zucchini plant. We are getting about 10 cherry tomatoes a day now. Zucchini will be a bit late...about 3 weeks.

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I had a 2 volunteer cherry tomatoes plants come up in My garden last spring ( Sept in Australia )
I was surprised to see it was still alive / producing fruit when I arrived home after being away for half our winter
We don’t get snow and our daytime temps during winter range from 8~ 10 c ( 46~ 50f )
now with day time temps warming up a little 18c forecast today , ( 64 F ) as we head towards spring time the tomato that survived winter is putting on heaps of new growth @Paco Dennis
 
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MarkD said:
It is an amazing garden. We were there in September of 2018 with my dog Smokey. Here is a handful of impressions.

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Wow Mark. Those pictures are fabulous. You take nice photos. What an awesome looking fountain. I like your wife’s hiking gear. The hat and boots are super cool 😎 The texture of that second to last photo is magical.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Wow Mark. Those pictures are fabulous. You take nice photos. What an awesome looking fountain. I like your wife’s hiking gear. The hat and boots are super cool 😎 The texture of that second to last photo is magical.
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You are very kind about my photography but honestly I take a very simplistic approach when there is a lot that could be done to build up and improve an image. I just notice textures, colors and compositions I like and focus on areas where the light is nice where possible. That works best in my own garden where I can take the photo at any time I like unlike when I travel.

I liked that big white bud too and I’ll pass along your compliment to Lia.

@David777 Gentians have been challenging for me to grow but I like seeing them. I’ve also started growing a few alpine plants now tgat I have a large raised bed one can sit on and admire small things. This alpine Aster has bloomed for the first time for me this year.

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A finger for scale.
 
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Does size matter? When it comes to bulbs, it can. Doesn't this bulb look loaded with potential? Taken 5 days ago when I first saw a flower stalk emerging.

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For a sense of scale here is a picture I took yesterday with my hand for reference.

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Mine was a gift from another club member when she sold her property to move to Oregon. She invited me to dig them up, keep as many as I like and disperse them as I saw fit among the group. Because board members do so much I felt I should share them with fellow board members. Apparently mine is the only one with a flower so far, but as I told them that isn't necessarily a good thing. Another year of putting energy into its roots could pay off long term.

But while our former president's bulb from that batch was not in bloom yet either, another one he received from an elderly member a Southern California group did bloom this year for the first time for him and what a show! I took this photo of that bulb back on July 24 at his place.

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Just the other day I asked him how large the flowering stalk had gotten he sent me this photo with a yardstick to show the scale. All the flowers had blown by then but on the last photo you can just see one red flower open.

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