Not modest at all. Sometimes a garden is a spread of veggies and such, sometimes a green space to collect your thoughts.
I’ve had “gardens” that consisted of 5 gallon buckets. Any time you plant or grow something you are doing good.
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I’ve had “gardens” that consisted of 5 gallon buckets. Any time you plant or grow something you are doing good.
Here in SoCal we've been experiencing Drought Conditions for the past 7 years, (recently, until March of 2019), and there were severe restrictions on the "watering of lawns".
Here is my sumptuous front lawn - those are drought-tolerant weeds, (I believe), in the foreground, and a healthy clump of Fountain Grass, (HATES water!), in the background.
(I DID continue to water my Valencia Orange tree in the backyard, which is thriving...Please don't turn me in to the Water Police.)
Thanks.
Here is my sumptuous front lawn - those are drought-tolerant weeds, (I believe), in the foreground, and a healthy clump of Fountain Grass, (HATES water!), in the background.
(I DID continue to water my Valencia Orange tree in the backyard, which is thriving...Please don't turn me in to the Water Police.)
Thanks.
I've always loved the way people can cultivate smaller spaces, be it for edibles or aesthetics. Greater need for careful planning, but you get more in each eyeful, or something. Sometimes all it takes is being on the other side of a fence or hedge to feel like you're in a different world. And something all of us here can relate to... as a laborer of the landscaping and gardening variety, I can attest to how well a screen of leaves absorbs sound from roads and neighbors. To me, plants work better at blocking sound than it seems like they should.
@Chris Fitzgerald what's the tree in the 2nd photo, corner by the block wall and the fence, some kind of magnolia? Gorgeous old dogwood in the front!
@Don Kasper, amazing how advantages are so often the other side of a coin from a disadvantage.. Y'all could use more water, but the relative lack of it is what creates the open vistas and arid weather. We have so much water here that everything needs cut back every time I turn around. Can we split the difference?
@Chris Fitzgerald what's the tree in the 2nd photo, corner by the block wall and the fence, some kind of magnolia? Gorgeous old dogwood in the front!
@Don Kasper, amazing how advantages are so often the other side of a coin from a disadvantage.. Y'all could use more water, but the relative lack of it is what creates the open vistas and arid weather. We have so much water here that everything needs cut back every time I turn around. Can we split the difference?
unbrokenchain,
True. Yin/Yang at its most obvious.
I grew up in Western NY, where farmers "built" a pond by simple digging a hole in the ground and letting it fill with groundwater.
My retirement plan is to find an efficient way to get the excess water from the Eastern US to the drought-suffering Western US, AND, to make B/M-illion$$$ in the process.
I'll need some investor$....and a whole bunch of pipe.
I need a drink.
Thanks!
@unbrokenchain it's a young sweetbay magnolia. We lost both of our mature trees in the back yard over the past few years. We have planted the magnolia and a zelkova in their places, but it will certainly be a while before we experience any shade from them...
The Emerald Ash Borer has decimated all the Ash trees around here. Stupid invasive species.
Don't get me started...
Around here a big one (of the very many) is the hemlock wooly adelgid. Tiny little bug takes out some mighty, majestic trees. I've got a number of decent sized hemlocks on the land here that have been treated. They resist the bug for now, though I'm not sure how long until they will need it again. Here's a few shots containing hemlocks.. among their interesting habits is that they don't lose their lower branches and they love water, so in forests they often serve to keep streams nice and cold.(On the left above the van, the one in the middle is a norway spruce)
Same double-tree from the other side
And just a few more for me to commemorate this piece of land. I've been here six years, my first big investment, I did tons of work to the land and built the garage apartment myself. No words for the sentimental stuff. Now I have a contract on a house down the valley a little bit and this place will go on the market soon. There are many things I'll miss about this spot, but the sunny space and big trees are definitely the hardest part. Looking forward (through sorrow of course) to starting over in the garden, another season, another cycle.
Middle pic = tiger lily
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What breed of dog is that? I don't recognize it. Dang, that is one Big Dog!
I say, let him have the damn pears. He's entitled to them by virtue of being a shagging walking killing machine...but that's just me.
Plus, at a distance, he's kinda cute.
Plus, at a distance, he's kinda cute.
Leave him alone! Let him have a pear or 2....It's a small reward for eating a guitarist.
Thanks!
He's welcome to all the ones that already fell on the ground... but he doesn't need to be climbing that old tree! Who raised him anyway, no manners at all... 
Doesn't bother me too much but my dog is not a fan.
And yeah I know my camera sucks..
Doesn't bother me too much but my dog is not a fan.And yeah I know my camera sucks..
@unbrokenchain holy crap! I think you have the right idea.
Not in the same league as your issue, but the property next door to ours is a rental, and the doofus college students were too lazy to use the big bins in the back, so they regularly attracted rats. When they moved out, the rats moved in under our deck and started eating the food from our bird feeder by climbing the gazebo. I also like to feed the neighborhood pigeons, and had initially put a big plate on the patio for them.
The rats not only would eat the food, but would attack the birds who tried to approach it. **** that, says I. So I put the plate up on a pedestal with a squirrel dome under it. That worked for a few days, they they figured it out. Every time I thought I had them, they figured it out, leaving me to scheme on how to defeat the little shaggers. Then two days ago, I figured it out:
Who's yer daddy now, you creepy little maternalfornicationists?
Not in the same league as your issue, but the property next door to ours is a rental, and the doofus college students were too lazy to use the big bins in the back, so they regularly attracted rats. When they moved out, the rats moved in under our deck and started eating the food from our bird feeder by climbing the gazebo. I also like to feed the neighborhood pigeons, and had initially put a big plate on the patio for them.
The rats not only would eat the food, but would attack the birds who tried to approach it. **** that, says I. So I put the plate up on a pedestal with a squirrel dome under it. That worked for a few days, they they figured it out. Every time I thought I had them, they figured it out, leaving me to scheme on how to defeat the little shaggers. Then two days ago, I figured it out:
Who's yer daddy now, you creepy little maternalfornicationists?
Call the cops...This has been stolen.
Nicely done. I hope the Mods don't... oh. wait...
Nevermind.
Nice looking garden guys. I grow a small one. Roma tomatoes, mus melons, pumpkins, green peppers, cucumbers, and a first for this year: brussel sprouts. I do a few strawberries, but the critters eat most of those...
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I forgot to ask you where in WNY you were from?
It is, after all, the promised land.
Town of Tonawanda.... The Paris of WNY.I forgot to ask you where in WNY you were from?
It is, after all, the promised land.
