You have a nice home full of well looked after and happy pets and beautiful gardens for them to play in. i have never visited your part of the world but it looks a lovely place to live with a climate that allows you to grow a wide variety of what to us would be quite exotic plants which would never survive our climate.
i love seeing your photos and if you look into the potting shed we have threads where we put up photos of our gardens and plants that are coming into flower And others to show our pets and furry garden companions. Please feel free to join us as we all love cat and dog photos just as much as we do flower ones.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
There's are a few hanging vines in the kitchen, and the orange roses and pink roses in the front yard. And the red hibiscus I was able to see cause I didn't have to work, its also in the front yard. all of the other pictures are of down the ro
the big trees down the road are cypress, water oaks, live oaks, hickories, red maples, dogwoods, and many other kinds of Vines, shrubs, waterplants and more.
Here's a quick rundown on the problems, squash and pumpkins and cucumbers are a treat to grow, but 3/4 of our plant space is partial shade to shady. Recently I've tried planting crop plants and vegetable in the more sunnier of the shady places but they for the past couple of years have gotten a kind of mildew and I'm not sure how to treat it yet. The best thing to do there I figure to put them in full sun but space is a bit limited there...caterpillars and grasshoppers are able to cause quite a bit of damage but not too bad, it's usually treatable, and slugs and snails can be a bother but we love all wildlife it's just the choice of seeing a beautiful flower or letting the bugs grow big and making sacrifices. But there's always another year to try new things! New adventures! Also the biggest problem I have is overrating and plant misplacement, like thinking a plant should be in full sun when it should be in partial shade vice versa. And the way I plant it, a lot of the time I put it in some good potting soil and hope for the best but I learned with orchids and succulents you have to have do more and have a lot more care. Also I don't have a greenhouse so I have to bring all our tropical plants in the house in the winter and it can be a pain in the butt to move them outside and in whenever it's warm!
And our yards def not perfect our west side has a big sweetgum that needs time to heal and it's that side of the yard to put fireeood, and branches and seeds falling quite often making it hard to put soft plants under so it gets a bit neglected and because its close to the beehive, but I will say that nothing in our yard looks too much like crap lol. And the morning glories to the east side are getting a bit out of hand. im always learning especially with the fruit trees this year ^-^ but gardening is a fantastic thing and if there's a problem that just means there's a idea to fix it!
We've had a good year for hibiscus so far and here's another! this is a Texas hibisca I call it a Texi Hibisci is western folk talk lol. We got this from my boyfriends mom a couple years ago and it just flowered this year for the first time and it is rather tall ^-^
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You have a nice home full of well looked after and happy pets and beautiful gardens for them to play in. i have never visited your part of the world but it looks a lovely place to live with a climate that allows you to grow a wide variety of what to us would be quite exotic plants which would never survive our climate.
i love seeing your photos and if you look into the potting shed we have threads where we put up photos of our gardens and plants that are coming into flower And others to show our pets and furry garden companions. Please feel free to join us as we all love cat and dog photos just as much as we do flower ones.
Congrats on the rose being the gardeners world jubilee plant. I would have picked the sunflower or tomato lol
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the big trees down the road are cypress, water oaks, live oaks, hickories, red maples, dogwoods, and many other kinds of Vines, shrubs, waterplants and more.
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Down the road* a couple pics up to end.
Here's a quick rundown on the problems, squash and pumpkins and cucumbers are a treat to grow, but 3/4 of our plant space is partial shade to shady. Recently I've tried planting crop plants and vegetable in the more sunnier of the shady places but they for the past couple of years have gotten a kind of mildew and I'm not sure how to treat it yet. The best thing to do there I figure to put them in full sun but space is a bit limited there...caterpillars and grasshoppers are able to cause quite a bit of damage but not too bad, it's usually treatable, and slugs and snails can be a bother but we love all wildlife it's just the choice of seeing a beautiful flower or letting the bugs grow big and making sacrifices. But there's always another year to try new things! New adventures! Also the biggest problem I have is overrating and plant misplacement, like thinking a plant should be in full sun when it should be in partial shade vice versa. And the way I plant it, a lot of the time I put it in some good potting soil and hope for the best but I learned with orchids and succulents you have to have do more and have a lot more care. Also I don't have a greenhouse so I have to bring all our tropical plants in the house in the winter and it can be a pain in the butt to move them outside and in whenever it's warm!
And our yards def not perfect our west side has a big sweetgum that needs time to heal and it's that side of the yard to put fireeood, and branches and seeds falling quite often making it hard to put soft plants under so it gets a bit neglected and because its close to the beehive, but I will say that nothing in our yard looks too much like crap lol. And the morning glories to the east side are getting a bit out of hand. im always learning especially with the fruit trees this year ^-^ but gardening is a fantastic thing and if there's a problem that just means there's a idea to fix it!
We've had a good year for hibiscus so far and here's another! this is a Texas hibisca I call it a Texi Hibisci is western folk talk lol. We got this from my boyfriends mom a couple years ago and it just flowered this year for the first time and it is rather tall ^-^
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Here's some grammar checks lol
fireeood should be firewood ha
and overrating should be overwatering but i bet there's a few more I missed haha