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

[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.