Round And Round The Garden

[Socks]

Nice gardens,I think you did well. I'm sooooooo jealous of your hot house,I hope to build one this fall to be ready for spring,but I doubt it will be as nice as yours.

 

[owlbassboy]

lovely garden big c, how did your elm end up like that lol heres my one

 

[BigC]

Excellent Stephen,
Looks a nice shape.
Hope mine ends up looking like that only its a bit smaller.
I'm letting it do it's thing and leaving well alone for now. It didn't like being indoors so
its outside and it seems to be doing fine now.
ATB
C

 

[owlbassboy]

i set mine outside in when it rains.

 

[chesterscot]

will look out for you C
got some callistemon (bottle brush) seed if youve got a spare ten years as for stralitzia (bird of paradise) get lud to raid the wilds of south africa for seed or if you have a wilkinsons over there they are a fiver same for hibiscus but its the hardy purple one
regards mate scot

 

[seffieuk]

Oh my goodness - don't get me interested in blooming bonsai as well!

Seffie x

ps just off to look at bonsai, oh just thought, we have a Chelsea gold medal winner down the road - oh if only it wasn't snowing

pps darn, what i should have done was not told you about the gold medal winner and nipped down there and taken a few snaps http/www.bushukan-bonsai.com/

 

[aly_starh]

Oh my goodness - don't get me interested in blooming bonsai as well!

Seffie x

Snap... and i just ordered one aswell!!!!!!!


That garden is smashing Big C!!!! Good Job!

 

[loraxchick]

your garden is beautiful! well done. i am very very jealous of your greenhouse. i will have a glass greenhouse someday and what a pretty kitty
cheers

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Since I saw this topic has surfaced again, I quickly explored the garden again with the camera....

This is an indigenous tree called "apiesdoring" (directly translated it would be Monkey thorn tree).... 14 years old.

This Bonzai Syringha is covered in a whitish something on the stems... What is it and what can I do about it??

This is a Kiepersol... another indigenous tree.. About 20 years old.

This is what we call a "graveyard" plant and is actually growing between the bricks... If I put it in a pot, it will not grow.

This is an "airplant". It has no roots and will grow if you hang it from the ceiling with a piece of string.

A Cactus growing in a window box.

Just showing off the lawn... Has to be mowed 3 times a week... fortunately very small.

Very young Palmtree next to a goldfish "bowl"

Big Fern behind a garden chair

Some cacti arrangement on the window sill.

 

[aly_starh]

Wow, cool plants ludwig!

Especially:
Grave yard plantWierd
Air plant Wierd-er

i have never seen or heard of them.

The Bonsai looks cool! Cant wait for mine to arrive! (Man, i sound well sad. lol)

 

[seffieuk]

Betta you can buy air plants from most garden shops - very weird as you say!

My goodness you ave some nice plants, most of those we would probably have to grow indoors

Oh, no, i can see myself heading down to the bonsai place................

Seffie x

 

[Ryefish]

Really nice garden! I would love to have a greenhouse. I was tempted to buy my mum one of those plastic type ones for her birthday but im not sure where she would put it. You have a nice Hosta! The snail devoured ours just before autumn kicked in It was growing really nice too. Ah, and the acers! I would have a garden full aswell if i could. I dream of having a red acer over a large pond ^^

But at the minute i have to deal with a diseased Apricot tree (its in a pot, was a birthday present and i didnt want to leave it anywhere) and a million house plants

 

[bae1994]

heh my local garden centre have a giant bonsai that looks identicle to this

without the red

http/cdn-write.demandstudios.com/upload//6000/500/80/2/16582.jpg

about 10 ft tall and

5,000 pounds


but yeah tried with bonsais and failed lol

 

[chesterscot]

sorry to hijack but lud your lawn is stunning a team of rabbits or guinea pigs would die to graze that, take a look at Iberis sempivirens it looks and grows awfully like your graveyard plant but i cant see the flowers in enough detail to tell
regards scot

 

[three-fingers]

While they have their uses I'm really not a fan of lawns, am I the only one? .

But I love both your gardens!

Living with my parents still rolleyes, my mums in charge of the garden, and she's very good at it too. She designs other peoples gardens too, and has done courses on garden design and plants at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, I think she's looking to do more, and eventually wants to start a business designing gardens.

I used to have a patch of the garden to myself, but that was destroyed when we got our extension built .

I'm still allowed control of the garden pond though, and I grow carnivorous plants, orchids and cacti/succulents in my room. Aquatic plants are my favourite though.

Would post pics but it's dark, -6*C outside and everything is frozen/snowed over.

Love spending summers in the garden though.

Love your economy pond BigC, and the acers are beautiful!

Very jealous of your collection too Ludwig, especially your airplant (I used to grow lots of these, but ran out of space).

I need to try air plants again lol.