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[BikerD]

I have just got into gardening since moving from Tenerife where I lived in an apartment. I have put the back garden down to vegetables and the front is grassed with small flower beds. This year 2012 I'm going to make a garden table and bench to be able to sit and enjoy the peace and tranquility. Found a brilliant design at a roadside cafe (very well made) have photographed it and measured it up.

[littlefatferret]

Well, no garden but I do manage a garden centre so I get to see trees, herbs, and lots of flowers everyday and they never die and always look beautiful in garden centre world! At the moment everywhere is filled with jewel-bright primroses, regal purple irises and shy delicate snowdrops and I have just noticed that the camellia are starting to flower.

[Nettie]

A yes, to gardening, I turned my yard into a semi Bonsai garden, more borders with small plants, less lawn and a vegetable garden. A semi desert climate gives me a good variety of weather to grow most veggies. Cold in the winter, some -15 etc days but generaly a short winter. Trees surround my yard, therefore it's well protected from harsh winds, and the trees and shrubs keep the garden cool in the summer. Enough food to last into the early spring. then on to gardening again.

[lilyblue]

Have just moved house before xmas and am now thinking what will I do with my garden I brought a bamboo plant and some other potted plants with me so will leave them in there pots for now,there is a small empty plot so hope to grow some kind of veg pototoes and salad veg etc..what would be the easy kind of veg to grow?I just had flowers in my last garden...

[RosesLady]

I am an avid flower gardener in Ontario, Canada.......a lot of roses

I will try to upload some photos later on...my photos seem too large to upload, so I will have to read how to resize the pics.

I stopped trying to grow veggies because there are a lot of squirrels here, and they would taste everything I grew of veggie nature. Of course they ate the heads off my tulips too. And yes tried mothballs, they just move those around my garden. I'm trying ceyan pepper now for the little paws.

I grow many varieties of roses, hydrageas, delphiniums, trying foxglove (not as successful), clematis, hostas, astilbe, impatients, petunias, geraniums, bleeding hearts, obedience plant (which isn't very obedient ), several flox varieties, lillies, daisies, salvia and many, many more....

[lilyblue]

Looking forward to looking forward your photos Roselady ...all those lovely flowers sounds so colourful..

[Earthsong]

I stopped trying to grow veggies because there are a lot of squirrels here.... And yes tried mothballs, they just move those around my garden. .

I've never tried to grow mothballs..... which way up do you plant them?
I tried growing tomatoes in a tub near the back door a few years ago, but my dogs picked and ate them as fast as they ripened so I didn't get any. Then I tried planting a "squash" in the tub, & my old dog pulled it up every time she went past.....
I know when I'm beaten..
Now I grow window sill plants - & am trying to forget the time I found a row of orchids carefully laid out on my patio, minus their pots!

[spangle]

Hi,
My husband and i took an allotment on when we retired,its hard work but very rewarding.
We have grown all sorts of vegetables,potatoes,carrots,cabbages,leeks,beetroot,runner beans
parsnips and onions ,we have done well with butternut squash, and lots more.
Also fruit strawberrys and rasberrys.We grow a few flowers also.
Its like being in a different world there,quiet,and lots of birds singing in spring.Somtimes i just like
to sit for a while and take it all in.We have a chat with other allotment holders, and the local
council judge the allotments once a year and give out a certificate and a small prize to the
Winners.

[spangle]

Hi everyone where are you all ? busy gardening i expect, well we have started planting the seed trays now with a few items ,the onions are coming up and the broad beans we have planted cabbage seeds and sprouts,And also a few flower seeds,the allotment has all been dug in the autumn and manured,we are already to go?
How are you gardeners doing.

[Jeannieus]

Well Spring is here and I am going out to plant some bulbs and just hope they grow. I grew beautiful gladioli last year and am replanting the bulbs.The sun is shining and warm. Great. The garden is 175 feet long and I have to buy a new lawnmower to tackle it. Does anyone have any recommendations as to which lawnmower to buy? I cant use those petrol ones where you have to pull the string. Too hard.

[homelover]

I love to have my garden to look beautiful in Summer, but I have to admit I don't like the work, 
if there is someone planting/tidying. the garden then I like to help. and my son was here
yesterday, saying ! I should plant Gladioli, saying "they would look good at the back of my 
raised bed.. think I will plant , what month will they flower.??? also what about Foxglove ??
nice to hear views