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Garden: Bramasole
Bramasole is the famous estate of Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany. Mayes describes the restoration of her estate and the gardening she does there in several bestsellers. Mayes was a proponent of the locavore lifestyle long before it had a name, advocating eating fresh local produce (either grown or bought in town) and eaten in season. Bramasole produces its own high-end olive oil for sale.
Garden: Vegetable Garden
Since we moved here in 1991, we have grown a full range of vegetables including potatoes, lettuce, radish, tomatoes, beans, peas, onions, and many herbs. We have mint, oregano, catnip, chives, rosemary, dill, thyme, and cilantro.
Garden: My Life is a Garden
My Garden is very eclectic. It is an English garden with garden trinkets hidden among flowers and foilage.. there is rocks and creeping jenny, creeping thyme and sweet woodruff. My garden dazzles the senses!
Garden: Brain on low
Small suburban backyard. Contains small (15' x 5') ground garden. I put in a small area of mulch with roses, spirea, and clematis. Also have a stepping path with Indian sandstone stones with thyme growing between them. In the front have a small area which used to be lawn and I have torn out (ran out of room in the back!) with an assortment of flowers.
Garden: Rough But Improving
South exposure but some decent shade behind the spruce.
Got a new place and had to start all over again. Some wonderful irises, thyme and a dianthus collection, many sale plants still in their pots, still yardstone to put out. Toddlers take up a lot of the former time and energy we had! At least there is some youthful enthusiasm for watering :)
An even rougher but larger backyard plot has blanketflower, raspberries, thornless thistle and deep-coloured delphiniums. Sea holly, usually a failure for the past many years, finally came back with a beautiful purple-blue sheen on the stems. Grass and willow invading; when will we have the time and energy? Trying to encourage a combo apple to grow.
Garden: Carols Herb garden
The garden is made with Landscape timbers arranges so there are six sides. Landscape timbers are used to divide the garden into six wedges. there is a different herb or edible plant in each wedge. Included are Three kinds of thyme in one wedge, two kinds of Lavender in another. In a third is two kinds of parsley, in the fourth is chocolate mint, the next has nasturtiums and the last has sage.
Garden: My Little Garden
My garden is a little bit of everything. Although there is a lot of space to work with, I've tried to bring some of home (Minnesota) to my garden for my children. It has western grass in the middle, edged by small planting spaces that I've created with brick borders. There are two lilac trees, to remind me of the smells of spring when I was a boy. I grow seasonal berries, like strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries in some of the individual plots, and vegetables such as onions, tomatoes, broccoli, garlic, cucumbers, cabbage, etc. In others I grow flowers, such as roses, tulips, daffodils, and so on. And I also raise herbs, lavender, marjoram, thyme, basil, rosemary and mint. All together, I average about 150 different plants, either potted or planted in the soil.
Garden: The Nest
Veges- carrots, pumpkins, tomatoes, peas, courgettes, silverbeet, beetroot, spring onions, cauli, lettuce, chillis, ruhbarb.
Flowers- calendula, peony poppies, hollyhocks, portulacas,
Herbs- basil, parsley, chamomile, wild thyme, mint, chocolate mint, sage,
Garden: Vickis Slice of Paradise
New to gardening and just completed building 7 raised beds from scratch on our 1/4 acre flat section! 4 planned for veges, and herbs and soft fruit in the other 3. The majority of my gardening know-how has come from books/internet and as a child, watching my mother slaving in her garden every weekend (I thought it has to be more enjoyable than that looked!).
Just planted out peas and corn seedlings with broccoli, cauli and lettuce germinating. Planted out parsley, oregano, thyme (vulgaris and lemon), chives and rosemary with others germinating. Young blackberry plant is the first in the soft fruit bed with others to come. Also have an existing hand dug plot with tomatoes and celery growing and the last of my broccoli and lettuce going to seed.
Potatoes and onions growing in tyres at the moment but will grow potatoes in bags from now on and onions in the new beds.
We also have an enormous walnut tree, plum, pear, peach, 3 apples and 2 lemons.
Garden: Colene's Summer Heat
I am growing (hopefully) the following in my 18 x 10 x 1' organic garden: Strawberries, Raddishes, Bcoccoli, Watermelon, Cucumber, Corn, Red/Yellow/Sweet Onions, Garlic, Bush Beans, Sweet Corn, Asparagus, Pole Beans, Black Beans, and Gourds. I have various tomato and pepper sprouts. My Herb Garden (which is scattered in pots everywhere) consists of Lavender, Rosemary, Chamomile, various Basils, Verbana, Lemon Balm, Cat Nip & Grass, various Basils and Chives, Dill, Parseley, Thyme, Corriander, and Spearmint. I also have 84 Mammoth Sunflowers lining my property.
Garden: Rosemary & Thyme Community Garden
Community garden sponsored by business and community members for the benefit of relieving hunger in our area. Operated by volunteers for the purpose for growing healthy fruits and vegetables to support our local food pantries and food banks while providing a great place for learning.
Garden: Gabi's Veggie Patch
This year I am growing herbs (thyme, basil, parsley, coriander, curry, lemon grass, oreganos and mint) for my cooking fancy, tomatoes (plum, beefsteak, Marmande and cherry tomato varieties),cucumbers, courgettes, broccoli, eggplants, lettuce, runner beans, honeydew melon and raspberries. I also have a lemon & lime trees, 2 avocados that haven't given any fruit yet, a guayaba and an apricot tree. I am also experimenting with seeds from a japanese square watermelon variety that a friend of mine gave to me.
Garden: Our Garden
We're building a garden from a scrap waste patch behind our cottage that the landlord was going to concrete.
We're taking a very slow, permaculture approach because we've discovered that from where we're starting, we have approx. 6" soil which is a mix of waterlogged mud and heavy clay, onto the old, C16th cottage floor. We're spending little bits on the garden as and when we can and we're cultivating cuttings from local hedgerows and plant-swapping.
Our initial plan is to cover as much of the breeze-block wall as possible with flowers and then build raised beds (ideal as I have spine injuries) from the rubble that we've pulled out so far, in which we can far easier manage the soil quality.
Last year we had success with carrots; onions (bedford champion); lettuce (lollo rosso) raspberries; roses; cucumber; lavender; and various herbs. We have also introduced a laburnum as a standard and have a little patch of lawn chamomile that's struggling valiantly.
This year, we've decided to take a side-step in direction and focus more on growing berries and dedicating the rest of the garden to our birds. We're also hoping to attract more butterflies and bees - especially as there are swarms literally vanishing in our area & we'd quite like to bring some back and maybe start a colony of our own.
Garden: Patio Garden
This is a collection of herb and spice plants that we grow for cooking purposes and beyond
Garden: Jane's Garden
I have had raised beds for quite some years, but two years ago I decided to go to square foot gardening. I plant peas, carrots, various lettuces, several different herbs, peppers (jalapeno and chili), garlic, onions, cucumbers, spinach, potatoes and beans. I built a spiral herb garden this summer to plant next year.
Garden: Heifer International St. Francis Peace Garden
A lovely garden with flowers and herbs that provides the kitchen with food. Lots of butterflies and ready access to fertilizer.
Bev Farrell Renny
This is our beautiful Spirea in its full majesty, with pink peonies and a hosta growing beside, along with shaggy thyme at ground level.
Louis
I am working towards self sustainability. I have solar heated water, solar power, rocket shower, and energy free water pump or ram pump, organic veggie garden and all of this in one of thÉ most beautiful places in the world. That is for sure! I am siyuated in Goso Forest, Gwexintaba, Lusikisiki. It is not on the maps of GardenJot so far away. It is about half way between Durban and East Londen. Food being grown success full in my village before i came here: Corn, pumpkin, beans, sweet patato, potato, and dumbi. Veggies: 4x Beans, Cherry Tomato, 4x Pumpkin, Butternut, Gemsquash, Carrot, Onion, Kale, Eggplant, Beetroot, Green Peper, Herbs: Thyme, 2x mint, basil, red sorrel, 2x wild garlic, coriander, 2x lavender, origanum, ginger, Special: Comfrey, MaryGold, Nasturtiums, Worm Wood, Trees: Moringa, Lemon, Orange, Banana, Fig, Pawpaw, Avocado, Cherrie guava, Garlic tree. Fruit: Melon, Watermelon, Gooseberry, Strawberry and Ghogie berry. (not sure of this spelling) Challenges! Goso Forest and all the insects in there!! Seems like we have more here! Sjoe. 20km or 1 hour from Lusikisiki which doesnt have many shops. No electricity and constant water. visit us at www.jointventures.co.za
Sliver-moon garden from house view.The lamb statue is in memory of my first son Benjamen.The space in the plantings is a dry stream bed with washed rocks we've found,creeping phlox,and creeping thyme.There is a very large rock in the center of the garden my son set for me from our woods.The sprinkler is a copper bent-pipe twirling swan my husband got me at an auction.A touch of humor is the little wooden sign on the E. side,"Is it snowing yet?".Also on the E. is an urn from an old LA courtyard
Thyme growing where it was impossible to mow ! A few weeds interspersed for some interest :)
My herb garden - my favourite garden, I think. I love the scents, and it is an amazing attractor of insects of all kinds. It is simply alive on a sunny day! I have many varieties of thyme ("Doone Valley" creeping thyme in foreground), "Primrose Heron" lamb's ears (coloured golden green instead of silver, and hard to find), santolina, a very old sage (Salvia officinalis), African blue basil, bronze fennel, English and Spanish lavender, and many more.
Various herbs were planted by the end of our fourth week and a circular path mapped out. The local shops donated Lavenders which helped balance our Nasturtiums, Thyme, Chives, Strawberries, Feverfew and various other oddments from our own gardens.
