@Kyeh@phendrick interesting images and memories. The Japan garden might be any good garden but looks like the Portland Japanese Garden if you visit Portland, OR, right next to the famous rose garden. Once we were there on a tour and they introduced us to one of the gardeners who was meticulously pruning the moss using tweezers.
The Garden of the Gods is where my (new) wife and I and some family members went after our informal wedding in Colorado Springs. Great place to take short walks and get great photos.
@Kyeh@tinamarie1974 it does sound good. The weeds sometimes have nice flowers if you let them. Dandelions actually have nice yellow flowers until they turn into those round things you can blow on and get lots of flying dandelion seeds; very fun as a kid. Also funny when I saw bunches of dandelion leaves at a local market; apparently a very good healthy salad addition as long as they haven’t been toxicated by weed killers. I like diverse “ pasture” lawns but sadly my neighbor seems to want everything to be toxic bright green monoculture looking like a golf course.
@Tadlem43 was talking to my neighbor, they had garden beds and one wasn’t used yet this year. I mentioned that it looked like a lot of “volunteer” tomatoes. Already the yellow flowers and they said probably wait a but we can share good “free” tomatoes this year.
All of the above.
But mostly the weeds.
@Kyeh Add a few rocks for balance.
(They don’t take much maintenance.)
/showme a garden with balanced rocks
@phendrick Here’s the image you requested for “a garden with balanced rocks”
@phendrick
/image Garden of the Gods Colorado
@mediocrebot Those in my image are a lot more uniform and symmetrical than many I’ve seen!
@phendrick Hmm. The /image is pretty, but I was hoping for this:
@Kyeh @phendrick interesting images and memories. The Japan garden might be any good garden but looks like the Portland Japanese Garden if you visit Portland, OR, right next to the famous rose garden. Once we were there on a tour and they introduced us to one of the gardeners who was meticulously pruning the moss using tweezers.
The Garden of the Gods is where my (new) wife and I and some family members went after our informal wedding in Colorado Springs. Great place to take short walks and get great photos.
Veggies and herbs
@tinamarie1974 And don’t you have flowers too?
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 it does sound good. The weeds sometimes have nice flowers if you let them. Dandelions actually have nice yellow flowers until they turn into those round things you can blow on and get lots of flying dandelion seeds; very fun as a kid. Also funny when I saw bunches of dandelion leaves at a local market; apparently a very good healthy salad addition as long as they haven’t been toxicated by weed killers. I like diverse “ pasture” lawns but sadly my neighbor seems to want everything to be toxic bright green monoculture looking like a golf course.
Trees. I planted redbud, black walnut, tulip poplar, red maple, cucumber magnolia, black locust, and saucer magnolia.
@nobile omg walnut and locust are so obnoxious why would you plant them on purpose
Ideas!
I’m good at growing grass, but not flowers.
Is a grass garden a thing?
I didn’t plant one this year, but a rogue tomato plant popped up, from a fallen tomato from last year, I suppose. Weird!
@Tadlem43 was talking to my neighbor, they had garden beds and one wasn’t used yet this year. I mentioned that it looked like a lot of “volunteer” tomatoes. Already the yellow flowers and they said probably wait a but we can share good “free” tomatoes this year.