Gardening Notes

[poliphilo]

I'm not a gardener, but I like plants.  My idea is you fill every available space with green things and let them get on with it. 

We have holly, we have ivy, we have cotoneaster, we have honeysuckle. We have an ash tree and a eucalyptus tree and a hawthorn. We have lots of things in pots whose names I've forgotten. 

We have some rare and fancy grass that came in the same pot as the hawthorn and is now sprouting from between the flagstones. And why not?

This year we have blackbirds nesting in the ivy-  about four feet from the kitchen window.

Our yard's not exactly pretty- but it's beautiful.

Comments

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I like it. It's wild in a sense, and seems like the apothesis of the paved desert in the front yard next door...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like a garden I can hide in.

I like it too.

[elegysostenuto.livejournal.com]

It is like a little pocket of mysterious forest. I can see my younger self playing robin hood or whatnot in there. ;)

Re: I like it too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

It's a tiny patch of wilderness.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I'd be concerned about the grass between the flagstones because it will disrupt them--unlevel them--eventually. But otherwise, I'm with you about the easily maintainable.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Good point. I'll have to watch out for that.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I´m trying to make out the gum tree in there. Can´t seem to see it.
I like that wild look. Lots of corners of my garden look like that. All the plants and vines are jumbled up and tangled together.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The gum tree is just out of sight, behind the house wall. I had to lop it severely at the back end of last year because it had grown so tall it was threatening the telephone wires. Happily it's now sending out lots of new shoots. It amazes me that an Australian tree can do so well in our damp northern climate.

[oakmouse]

What a delightful wilderness!

I like natural, largely "unmanaged" gardens so much more than carefully groomed picture-perfect gardens.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like a garden to be mysterious- and to have places in it where you can hide.