@Fire - I think the new poster isn't really a new poster Or it's a WUM.
I've had big gardens and small ones. They're both a lot of work, but in different ways, and money doesn't necessarily mean better. I've built some from scratch, and renovated others, and it's about commitment and hard work. As you say - inspiration and ideas from some gardens are often what it's about, not being resentful that you can't afford them. It can be something as simple as a pot carefully placed, or a colour combination you hadn't thought of before. And yes - making choices. My favourite garden is the one I left behind many years ago - when my children were born, and we had no money. It was built with graft, and saving and scrimping to afford a bag of compost, or a new plant.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've got an old 'good' proper camera and a new cheap Chinese phone that takes very good photos. I do think there's a lot to be said for having 'the knack' and framing things well. My hubby has the same phone as me but never takes good clear photos, he admits it.
I would love a good macro lens but I font know if I'd be able to get one for my old 'proper' camera. 🤔
With insects and other fast movers, I can take 20 photos with a digital, and then discard the 19 out of focus. Everyone thinks you have one lovely photo. When we had film, you could take a whole reel of 36 and get two photos that were any good. When digital first came out I thought it would never catch on. The computers needed were too expensive, the cameras not high enough pixels etc. How we have moved on in 20 years. Now even a child can pick up a digital camera, bang it on auto, and produce decent images that can easily be blown up to A4, or cropped to get that little bit in the middle that was good.
No photo, but a first to see above my house. High in the sky circling and calling a Buzzard. Checked that the call was right and yes it is! I know alot of people see them, and we have seen them around the lanes near the village, but this was my first in the garden. So graceful. 😁
I think I agree, @Dovefromabove... we don't seem to get big slugs here, just those little greyish ones which chomp your seedlings.
Re the camera debate: I posted this butterfly on the "Forkers" thread recently.
Time to come clean: I took half a dozen photos of Small Tortoiseshells on different flowers in the garden, using my phone camera. It was sunny and windy. The wind meant almost all the photos were blurred; the sun meant I couldn't see the phone screen through my glasses (which have lenses which darken in sunshine) so I had to take them off, giving me only the vaguest idea what I was photographing. So... this is a total fluke.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Or it's a WUM.
I've had big gardens and small ones. They're both a lot of work, but in different ways, and money doesn't necessarily mean better. I've built some from scratch, and renovated others, and it's about commitment and hard work.
As you say - inspiration and ideas from some gardens are often what it's about, not being resentful that you can't afford them. It can be something as simple as a pot carefully placed, or a colour combination you hadn't thought of before.
And yes - making choices. My favourite garden is the one I left behind many years ago - when my children were born, and we had no money. It was built with graft, and saving and scrimping to afford a bag of compost, or a new plant.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I would love a good macro lens but I font know if I'd be able to get one for my old 'proper' camera. 🤔
My OH doesn't bother framing photos either and can't always focus!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Re the camera debate: I posted this butterfly on the "Forkers" thread recently.
Time to come clean: I took half a dozen photos of Small Tortoiseshells on different flowers in the garden, using my phone camera. It was sunny and windy. The wind meant almost all the photos were blurred; the sun meant I couldn't see the phone screen through my glasses (which have lenses which darken in sunshine) so I had to take them off, giving me only the vaguest idea what I was photographing. So... this is a total fluke.