How does your garden grow?

Trollheart · 05-18-2015, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by monkeytennis

I've got a bird bath, the birds don't visit as much any more because of the cat but there is one fat pigeon that constantly splashes the water around and scares the doves and tits away, fat twat.

Seriously this pigeon is massive.

Probably post pics of the garden when I can be bothered.

Jesus! Tits are hard enough to attract without some bastard pigeon scaring the women away!

Mind you, we have pigeons that do the same. ****er can't get onto the perch for the feeders in the picture, but can stand on the water bowl which just lifts him up enough to get his beak into the hole. Once one figured it out, they all do it now.

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

We have a nice patio adjacent to the golf course complete with a killer lemon tree. I'd plant herbs but I think the dogs would just end up eating them.

A killer lemon tree? ****! Have you told the cops? Probably scared it will murder you, huh?

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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah

Ive planted some pot in the window box my neighbour uses for her tomatoes.
Hopefully shes none the wiser. This was about two weeks ago....Well see.

Other than that its Palm trees yet there is always a lawn crew there 6 out of 7 days.Couldnt tell you what they do...Except wake me up on my mornings off.

Hoping to grow stoned tomatoes eh?

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Shouldn't a post in a thread about gardens (that you created in the first place) show pics of actual gardens? All I see is a strip of untended weeds.

If I had a real camera, I'd post pics of my yard. My mom is bit of a gardening freak, and so our front yard is actually kind of impressive, especially now that it's Spring. The very front and one spot in the middle, is lined with crapemyrtle trees, and for about a week in the Spring or Summer or whenever, our front yard just has this vibrant curtain of bright pink that makes all the other yards around us look like ****. I'm not a flower lover by any means, but even I think it looks beautiful at that time of year.

Our backyard is less maintained, largely because we've always had large dogs with access to it that have kind of made gardening almost impossible. There's a strip of garden around part of the backyard that's protected by wire fencing, but that's mostly small trees and high bushes for privacy's sake.

Hey, you should have seen it before the extension was built! I'm surprised nobody dumped a dead body there, thinking it was waste ground. We had an old fridge lying against the wall (the other side, the wall you see was not built at that time), a pile of wood and stones and rubbish in both corners, huge spiny bushes that would eat you if you went near them ... compared to that, my garden today is a paradise!

GuD · 05-18-2015, 06:13 PM

When I first moved in to where I am now our back patio I guess you'd call it area was totally trashed and the greenery was more... grayery. Now, we have flowers. And a nice wall that my landlord hired some contractors to build out of some kind of redwood.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 05-19-2015, 02:01 AM

We have some leafy lawns and pot plants. Pretty unexciting. We also have many fruit trees like plums and lemons.

The Batlord · 05-19-2015, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

We have some leafy lawns and pot plants. Pretty unexciting. We also have many fruit trees like plums and lemons.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllllll YEAH!!!

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 05-19-2015, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllllll YEAH!!!

Lol.......

Plankton · 05-19-2015, 01:41 PM

I've had plastic plants die on me, so no garden for me, but my friend always plants tomato's for a backyard BLT party. A hotplate for cooking, some thick cut pepper bacon, some potato bread for toasting on the hot plate, some lettuce, and a nice thick slice of beefsteak tomato is just about as close heaven as you can get. Beer and music is usually involved somewhere in there as well.

RoxyRollah · 05-19-2015, 06:16 PM

@ Th I couldn't help it,her window box is right thereaah!
Plus the leaves look similar at a quick through the window glance.
I don't have a harvesting plan for if and when it does sprout.I was really just curious to see if itd sprout outside under a tree in a window box.:P

The Batlord · 05-19-2015, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah

Ive planted some pot in the window box my neighbour uses for her tomatoes.
Hopefully shes none the wiser. This was about two weeks ago....Well see.

Other than that its Palm trees yet there is always a lawn crew there 6 out of 7 days.Couldnt tell you what they do...Except wake me up on my mornings off.

That's actually kind of ****ed up.

**Frownland** · 05-19-2015, 11:03 PM

That's quite a nice gift actually.

**Frownland** · 07-17-2018, 08:54 PM

I have a cactus that's started to bloom in the past month. It's gone from 2 inch fuzzballs and 1/2 inch buds to this in the course of a week with this heat wave.

05-19-2015, 02:01 AM	#13 (permalink)
Scarlett O'Hara Make it so Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,181	We have some leafy lawns and pot plants. Pretty unexciting. We also have many fruit trees like plums and lemons. __________________ "Elph is truly an enfant terrible of the forum, bless and curse him" - Marie, Queen of Thots

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Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,766	I've had plastic plants die on me, so no garden for me, but my friend always plants tomato's for a backyard BLT party. A hotplate for cooking, some thick cut pepper bacon, some potato bread for toasting on the hot plate, some lettuce, and a nice thick slice of beefsteak tomato is just about as close heaven as you can get. Beer and music is usually involved somewhere in there as well. __________________ See location...

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	That's quite a nice gift actually. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

07-17-2018, 08:54 PM	#20 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	I have a cactus that's started to bloom in the past month. It's gone from 2 inch fuzzballs and 1/2 inch buds to this in the course of a week with this heat wave. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-18-2015, 06:13 PM	#12 (permalink)
GuD Dude... What? Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,322	When I first moved in to where I am now our back patio I guess you'd call it area was totally trashed and the greenery was more... grayery. Now, we have flowers. And a nice wall that my landlord hired some contractors to build out of some kind of redwood.