Garden Inspirations

Love that arch @Beekissed , you might enjoy these, seen on one of the garden tours I went on.




This kind of garden art I really love.
Annette

Oh, those are such pretty places!

My ideal existence is to exit a door from my home and find all this food, lying about and waiting for me!

Of course, I want that 12 months each year. Right there, at hand. Instead, so often, I go off to the store and exchange $, for something processed or shipped .

It helps to have large (GOOP) gardens, even if I didn't want to travel very far to find that food. At the foot of the back steps is about right . The varieties I can grow, hedges my bets. It's disappointing for an entire crop to fail. But if, there are multiple varieties, I likely have something to celebrate. Eggs in more than one basket ... and all .

Annette, I have gained some experience with tomato varieties. They don't all respond to weather conditions in the same way. Further, few days-to-maturity doesn't always mean resilient in changeable, spring weather. There are climate-specific cultivars. I was lost in Tomatofest's list of choices for a cool climate ~ link ~ after writing the above, last night. Remember however, you are in a marine rather than a continental climate.

Steve
who has to soon go out and run sprinklers now that the wind has died down ... while drinking coffee in the truck

Annette you have lived such a interesting life I love reading about it. Can you post a full picture of the iron garden gate ? I have a fetish for garden gates.

What beautiful garden pics. I am looking out the front window watching the hummingbirds at the artificial flower feeder, because there are no real flowers out there for them. Watching the sheep graze the sparse grass and enjoying the tall (and I mean tall) weeds, the chickens are scratching happily, wandering about their paradise, and Trip, our Great Pyrenees, is stretched out in the sand driveway surveying his kingdom. What a different picture I envision in my mind! If you like unleashed landscaping, I've sure got it.

One of these days I'll have some pretty flower beds. Right now my big push is getting pasture grass to grow and the garden. I will be planting winter rye grass soon. I pulled Bermuda runners and planted several strips in one of the wood lots I call a pasture and they are already sending up green leaves! I'll be dry lotting the sheep soon so I can plant the rye grass for their winter pleasure.

I admire and enjoy your beautiful pictures. Thanks for posting them!

I also love the "wild garden". My grandmother had a very small garden. I loved him so much! It seemed to me that he is alive. She was able to accommodate a lot. I loved to sit on the old bench near the house between tall hollyhocks, look at the stars and listen to the apples fall to the grass. This small garden has many places where you could sit. Each place was cozy surrounded by different plants, but made it possible to see the garden from different angles.
My garden is more than grandmother, but not too big. Around the house is laid track. I made a lot of areas next to it. And in other areas too.
Walking through the garden - it's almost like a journey. In the evening I walk around the house. I felt that the walk 1.24 mile .This various flower beds, conifers, rocky garden, shrubs, places where vegetables grow.
Now many people are invited to design the garden. Garden is obtained in the European style. It is beautiful, I do not argue. I see beauty, but I do not see the soul of the garden. I want to say that I do not get emotional impact in this garden. This "magic wave" that inspires me.
The old gardens are often given such a feeling. Although they do not follow the rules of "good design".
Here are some examples of our northern old gardens.


Although I'm sorry, of course, that climate limits the choice of plants.

Once again, your pictures capture the breath taking beauty you find around you. Hollyhocks.....my mother planted them when I was a little girl....I need some of those.

@Nyboy it's not a gate but a folding screen, I think I picked it up at Costco many years ago, this is the best I can do. Right now it's in the corner of my garden room where the koi pool is. Sorry, can't get a pic of the whole thing, to do that I'd have to back up and I haven't managed to master walking on water yet .

It came with these clip on plant holders, which I haven't used so far, I just clipped them on for this picture. This is what used to be in this corner before I moved the screen here,

This birdcage sits in front of the screen empty now, I still haven't found a plant or anything I really like in it, toying with the idea of a twiggy branch with Spanish moss dripping off it and some tillandsias glued to it, any ideas would be appreciated, I'm stumped. I also love black metal, have several metal obelisks around the garden.
My neighbor collects metal thingies, she calls them her black uglies, some she leaves some she paints, her garden is full of her finds. I prefer to let things age naturally, like we did with these lattice walls in the garden room.
Annette

@Larisa , absolutely beautiful, , be still my heart. Hollyhocks, that's another plant my grandpa had in his garden, sadly missing in mine but soon to be remedied.
Annette

A friend's English style cottage garden, I feel like I'm stepping into a fairy tale every time I go for a visit.



I don't know if you saw the Victorian Garden Series when it was on PBS, I have it on dvd. My friend and his wife actually visited Harry Dodson when on holiday in the UK and was shown around the garden where it was filmed, sadly it wasn't kept up after the filming finished but still they had a very enjoyable visit.
Annette

It is wonderful! It looks like a fairy tale indeed.