So, What's In Your Garden?

MrsEkka

Ok, thought this would be interesting to see what's in everyones own garden. Well in ours the only trees, if you want to call 'em that, are golden canes. Yep, that's it. So, tell us what's in your yard?

Brother Colin

So that is where ekka practiced his chainsaw skills.

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Eric Frei

And it even spread to the neighbours yard this tree killing fiasco.

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yooper

Me and my wife do veggy gardening. We have a garden at home and out at my hunting property. at home we plant tomatos,corn,letuce,chives,green beans,cabbage,and also aragano, salontra,basil, mint and chamomile.out at my hunting land we plant all the roots..carrots potatos,horseraddish,onions,
redraddish and more beans. We do alot of canning in the fall of the year.
we also harvest wild leaks and about 20 to 30 pounds of morrel mushrooms out at the hunting property along with other wild basic mushrooms. although only the wife and kids eat the shrooms i like em but any mushroom maks me very ill. I do love to look for them though.

MrsEkka

Yeah , we have a vege garden also. In it we have tomatoes, radish, butter beans, cabbage, strawberries, potato, paw paw, lemon basil,rosemary, birds eye chilli, chives parsley, mint, passion fruit, small potted bay leaf tree & small potted lemon tree. Being in a drought though, we are not producing much & most are struggling.

TreeCo

http://www.treeco.biz/plantsgrown.htm

Here is a list of what we grow. We have over 1,000 hosta cultivars growing along with about 400 other trees, shrubs etc. We jsut added a cornus florida cultivar 'Celestrial' today(also know as 'Galaxy'). It is a Cornus kousa X Cornus florida hybrid. It it known for it's prolific white flowers before it's leaves emerge. It was $13 at home depot and 8ft. tall.

http://eppserver.ag.utk.edu/dogwood/.../celestgal.jpg

JohN Dee

Does a 40 foot long, 10 foot wide and 10 foot high stack of wood count?

Lol, other then that we have a 12m Pinus radiata right down the back of our yard.

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Eric Frei

Why you got that pine there?

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Jeff Darby

Good question Ekka, My Dad planted it when I was born,to mark my birth,Then one Xmas we were doing so bad he cut the top out of it for xmas tree,now the main trunk actually zig zags then goes of to form two very heavy limbs to one side,I have been thinking about corrective pruning ???maybe its to far gone will post a picture later,before dad cops any abuse he was just lookin after his family as best as he could.

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JohN Dee

Well ^ to what my father said but also it provides alotta shade for my room (Although my room already gets hot as it is, removing it would make it unbarable).

It's really over due for a good Shaping, Thinning and Deadwooding...

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mdvaden

We always like trees.

I'm a big fan of ornamental grass, particularly Miscanthus sinensis.

This page's photos are all from our own yard...

http://www.mdvaden.com/miscanthus.shtml

Actually, the last yard of 2 years ago, but we have more now including the spotted kind. And will plant more later after we move.

I like tricolor beech, dogwood and Japanese snowbell among others.

Liberty apple is a favorite for food and late summer color.

Heavy on evergreen foliage, plenty of conifers and broadleaf evergreens.

Blue fescue grass 'Elijah Blue'

May have to skip growing the scarlet runner beans this year, since our home is for sale.

l2edneck

I got tons of varieties,crape myrtles,bouganvillea shrubs,oleanders,lagustrum,hibiscus,yucca,plumeria,dracena,bout 8 roses,pony tail palm,some banana trees a java plum,think thats about it.

Got most of them from jobs.Ill take some pics when the start blooming.

azrael

MrsEkka ....
I have a really big garden .... as time goes by I'll give you a tour ....but this is whats really nice at the moment ... my David Austin "Leander" rose. I hope you like it...



Oh ....also this is an occasionally visiting Lesueur's Frog (Litoria lesueuri) ... it likes my pond although Ive never seen (or heard) its mate.



Azrael

MrsEkka

Hi Azrael,

What a beautiful rose,very elegant. I love the pic of your frog. Have you heard it's call?
Here's the link

Frogs of Australia > Litoria lesueuri / Lesueur's Tree Frog

Follow the link and just click on the (Hear it now) button.

We have the Litoria caerulea Green Tree Frog and Litoria fallax Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog. Well that's all I'm aware that we have at this point. We have taddies again at the moment.I've attached a pic of my taddies when they morph. So cute!

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azrael

I know that site ... its great ... I have also a Field Guide to Frogs of Australia by Martyn Robinson from the Australian Museum.
and yes ... Ive heard the little frog (pictured) calling ... but never any replies. (He is very small ...not much bigger than 50c coin). Hes been around ... on and off ... for about 3 years now.

I also have Striped Marsh Frogs (Limnodynastes peroni) ... They are more permanent residents in my pond and are breeding like crazy... they are very common in our area...and sound (annoyingly) like a dripping tap.

We have the endangered Green & Gold Bell Frog (Litoria aurea) here in the Illawarra but I have NEVER seen one. I have heard they like the storm water pipes around Port Kembla ... and there is a colony at the Sulphuric Acid Plant out there at Bluescope Steel .... a very strange habitat choice.
Im told they like to sunbake on Lomandra longifolia during the day .... and that their call sounds a bit like a lawn-mower....?

Also relatively common is the Bleeting Tree Frog (Litoria dentata) ... but you only hear them when it rains. They sound like bleeting lambs. I sometimes hear them in my area but none have adopted my yard .... yet.

Frogs are soooo cool ....thats a great job there with the breeding.

MrsEkka

Hmmm, dripping tap could be annoying but may turn into a song when they all get started,lol.
I do work hard at making my garden frog friendly and helping the frogs to breed. My latest batch has come from a tub of water I used to water my vege garden. It's quite annoying really, I've made a frog pond and put in frog friendly plants etc and they still spawn everywhere else but,lol.. I'm still happy to have taddies though, I bring them inside and my girls love to watch them grow & change. Here's a pic of one of my frogs all grown up. Have a great night!

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Eric Frei

LOL, blue tongue lizards are sure big around here.

Lots of tasty snacks being grown.

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D Mc

We have 20 acres of high desert, dry range with sage brush and native grasses. I have a couple of horses so we, of course, built a barn. On the west side we planted Cottonwoods for shade (Populas deltoides) a cottonless hybrid (I can hear Oldtimer groaning from here! LOL)

On the west side of the house we planted Black ash (3) with some shrubs and an Idaho locust given to us by a client. We also have a Pinus sylvestris in front also given to us by a client. We have to be careful what we plant because the deer come in in herds and can be very destructive.

The back, fenced garden houses our small hot house (for my tomatoes during the growing season) and raised beds for vegetables. We also have the Italian plum trees in this area, along with lilacs, grape vines, honeylocust, junipers, a wealth of bulbs, iris, and any annuals that strike my fancy. (We also have a small, decorative pond that the toads love.)

Being in the dry range we rely heavily on mulch to add nutrients to our soil and hold in moisture. It truly adds life. We had no worms when we arrived here and now you can't put a shovel in the ground without encountering one.

Right now we are at the end of winter so pics wouldn't do it justice.

Azrael, I tried growing roses but David made me quit. Said they were too expensive for annuals. I obviously don't have the "knack".

JayDee and JohnDee - our wood pile is approximately 100 feet long, 20 feet wide and 4 feet tall! Great habitat for rabbits! (aka snacks)

We don't sell the firewood, we heat and cook on it year round.

S and D mc

osb_mail

Do you guys have bull frogs in Australia they get quite large in the US in the summer I go out and hunt them for food I have some pictures of them but the pics are frogs getting ready to skin so they are kind of gruesome . Oh back to gardens I dont have one I live in a compartment (apartment) I used to grow Passion Flowers I think the are some of the nicest looking flowers around they usually dont live more than a couple years around here do to winters we have .

arborjockey

Heres our front yard and our future backyard. Backyard comes with local girl and grand chrokee....Hawaii's only reptiles are frogs. Oh including Geckos.

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TREE-SURFER

If I found my Missus on top of my motor, I would certainly have something to say... No problem with her being topples though.

I'd be too embarrassed to put a pic of my back yard. Been in neglect since last year.

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yooper

"O" What a glorious crop of snow I have in my garden this year! I'm expecting another 12 inches of growth through tonight and tomorrow. If this beautiful weather keeps up I'm sure to have future growth on through April. If I get a chance to capture a photo of the elusive snow snake of the north I will gladly post.
Love the photos of the frogs, had to show them to my wife ....she is a frog NUT. strange looking froggys, here they are all sleeping but come May they start peeping every night....I always miss that in the winter and always look forward to the first peepers.

treeseer

8 acres, from deep woods to big pond with aquatics galore to an orchard and veggies and herbs. Just quit being a landlord to horse owners so now have 2 more acres to reforest. I love gardening; had my hands in the earth much of today (68F), a family affair.

And I am also glad to see MrsEkka join in; spouses need to share fetishes and fascinations, at least a bit. My spousal hears treedrivel now and then and acts interested, as I do when I hear her psychobabble

Eric Frei

Oh, they're the snakes that evolved from the Loch Ness monster, travelled across frozen lands, bit Big Foot on the azz and now are frightening children in bed time stories.

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Therrin

I've no "backyard" per se, as I'm currently living on someone's else's property. I do however, have a couple potted friends that I've brought with me all the way across the country and back.

They didn't care for chicago much though, too cold, had to bring em into the kitchen. My girl's mum liked them and cared for them but her dad thought it a bit odd... men traveling with plants and such =)

I've got some chocolate flavored mint plants, pineapple sage, a potted night-blooming jasmine, Egyptian "walking" garlic, and four different types of peppers.

Done it

Fathers & daughters, it wouldn't matter what you had, you'd always be odd+. Can you imagine turning up at Ekka's place in about ten years. Apart from trees I have this night flower, a couple of grass mowers & a few protien machines, and a few frogs.

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Bernard Keays

Mrs Ekka,

We?ve got 2 Acres at Glasshouse. It?s a pretty area but the State Government doing their bit to change this (Northern Pipeline, Railway up grade, Bruce Highway duplication?). We have planted lots of trees and shrubs in our garden. I try to walk around the property every day just to see what?s going on. We have kookaburras, kingfishers, fairy wrens, silver eyes, fire tails, double barred finches, yellow robins, whip birds, fly catchers, fantails, scrub wrens, brush wattlebirds, lewin?s honey eater, white cheeked honey eaters, scarlet honey eaters, fig birds, spangled drongoes, brown doves, rainbow lorikeets and occasionally black cockatoos. A pair of pee wee?s nested in the frangipani tree outside the bath room window. They dive boomed me this summer when I was trying to clean the gutters. We also have the odd lace monitor and carpet snake. Sometimes you can walk around the garden and hear the birds going off. It?s usually a carpet snake that they have found. At night, sometimes you can find the odd sugar glider or ring tail but more commonly it?s a brush tail. Last year we had a pair of micro bats in one of my bat boxes. I think they had young but I didn?t want to disturb them. They stayed for about 2 months. We have lots of frogs at the moment. Mostly striped marsh frogs but we also get tusk frogs, emerald spotted frogs and a green tree frog which lives in the down pipes. I have also found a green thighed frog but I haven?t seen one for a while. We have cane toads as well. Last weekend, we had a Richmond birdwing butterfly in the garden. I was stoked. We have about 12 vines some close to ten years old. The best ones are growing up the mulberry and mango trees along side of the house. Not so for the veggie garden. It?s overrun with pumpkins. So I have given up on planting anything else. We have also planted lots of cabinet timber trees. I thought one day I might get interested in wood turning but I?m just practicing my pruning on them for now. Declan likes flowers and he's got a herb garden. Its over run with salvias and mint at the moment. The wet weather is not helping either.

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quercus

Too much to say.... A lot of medium sized trees, so they are my training trees.
So here are pics...

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yooper

Ekka, they shurley did not come from the Lock Ness, we all know that he is just a fairy tale. Snow Snakes are evolved from "Champ" A true monster of the lakes here in North America. And It is a well know fact here that they never crossed frozen land(what a silly comment ) as they swam here millions of years ago through the Great Lakes. I am very lucky to live on the shore of Lake Superior to be able to see so many tracks of the snow snake(Although I have only seen tracks I do know they are here) I will keep an eye out, hopefully I can capture a blurry photo to show ya all....As they all come out that way. Im thinking it has something to do with the magnetic field that surrounds them. You all have a good day

yooper

Are those a type a weeping willow? or black willow? and in photo no.3 is the one cut off about a few meters is that a willow too?