How does your Garden Grow

[Dominic]

I would post a picture of our garden but I would have to photoshop out all the weeds first!

[cyprusmax47]

I would post a picture of our garden but I would have to photoshop out all the weeds first!

Is THAT the reason your webcam is not installed yet?

[PhotoLady]

I would love to say this is ours, but I can't - it's a photo I took of a garden yesterday when we were out on our bikes, about a mile from our home on Pilling Lane. You can just make out the Zebra sticking his head out over the barn door.... Someone with a sense of humour obviously lives there.
On the other side of the house, the garden there is fabulous - full of fruit trees and a large vegetable garden in between lawned areas.





The front garden is still a tip as we never got round to doing anything with it last year as most of the time was spent sorting out what was happening with my Dad and making sure Mum was okay after he passed away. But we're getting someone round to make some changes by removing some of the garden, reshaping the driveway and having tarmac laid to it as well as adding a low wall.

Under the side canopy to the side of the house we're having it all re-flagged as the previous owner made a mess of it. His concreting skills weren't very good to say the least so each time we hose it down, it loses some because his mix was too sandy and we're also having a small wall built in the back garden so that we can re-jig the garden around and make some kind of a patio area. We will keep some of the flowering beds as we want to keep the camellia bush, the clematis plants and the wisteria around the edges as well as the very nice tree where we feed the birds.

Here's the tree - we don't know the name of it:




So our planted area or, our temporary "garden", is living under the patio just now which includes an olive tree, bougainvillea, a lemon tree, that pink annual furry thing that I've no idea what it's called and a curry plant with some mixtures of French marigolds, petunias, another variety of marigold and some rather large daisies:

[PhotoLady]

That Zebras got one hell of a neck....

I take it you were looking in the right place on the photo in order to see the zebra?

[cyprusmax47]

That Zebras got one hell of a neck....

I take it you were looking in the right place on the photo in order to see the zebra?

You are right that the owner of the giraffe has got a sense of humour, I love it....
Max

[PhotoLady]

It's quite a talking point.... One of the local Facebook groups for the area has members asking for directions to the house so they can take their kids to see the garden. It always brings a smile to the faces of strangers - that's good to see

[cyprusmax47]

It's quite a talking point.... One of the local Facebook groups for the area has members asking for directions to the house so they can take their kids to see the garden. It always brings a smile to the faces of strangers - that's good to see

But I was talking about zebra with long neck like giraffe.... as did Hudswell.....
Max

[mockaji]

Great Pictures.

Thought I would add some off my hanging baskets pictures takeno a week ago, the geraniums are ten years old,and whilst we are only here for 6 months a year my irrigation system keeps them alive when we are away.
The secret of great growth and flowers is Phostrogen feed ever Friday.
R

[PhotoLady]

Love that red and yellow, mockaji

Hubby had a Cyprus throwback moment today and we ended up picking up some red geranium bedding plants and also some of the trailing variety, although hanging baskets really aren't my forte - I find they take too much looking after, which I'm not very good at.

Lincoln, what's that pink star shaped flower called? Your 4th image down.