Gardener's Group discussion
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Hello. This is Richard. I've been an obsessed gardener all my life with an emphasis on edible plants. I currently have a limequat, a variegated kumquat hanging with ripe fruit and a 20 year old rosemary bonsai n my office window.
Welcome back Lisa and welcome Richard!
Hello Sandra! This is a great group and you learn so much, everything about gardening and even some things not about gardening. I sure have!
Hello! Im Lesle an Ohioan in zone 6. Love outside gardening! Live within the city limits, but have a 1/3 of an acre that is probably 90% shade! Obsessed with Perennial gardening and have a small vegetable garden in the only area with sun! Love Dirt, Grime and Worms!
Hi Lesle! Welcome!! I love dirt, too...=))
Welcome Lesle!!!
Thanks for the Welcome Jo and Debbie! I have been reading some of the discussion boards and are enjoying them. Cant wait for spring! only 20 days away!
My name is Rosemary & I live in the south of England. I love gardening and looking round other people's gardens.My style is relaxed cottage garden although my husband would like a "tighter" low maintenance look as we are getting older. My favourite gardening books are by Beth Chatto & Christopher Lloyd
Welcome Jane :)It is s small group here, make yourself at home.
Hi all.Just joined. I am reconnecting to my garden as slowly enter into 'empty nesting'. I not only love plant selection (with a current passion for Hellebores) but have a passion for garden construction particularly hammering away at sandstone for walling or paving. I also love historical fiction so if anyone has a book where gardening and historical fiction or biographies intersect I would love to hear from them?
Hello Tony, the best gardening/historical novels are two by Philippa Gregory.Earthly Joys & the sequel Virgin Earth. They are set in reign of Charles 1 ..& focus on John Tradescant a renowned plant collector. The historical content and botanical detail are meticulous and they are an absorbing read, I couldn't put them down!
Welcome, Tony! Two of my favorite gardening bios have been The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants by Jane S. Smith (one of my favorite books in any subject) and Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales by Marta McDowell.
Thx Sandra....added to my growing list!
Hi, I'm Jennifer and new to Goodreads. I love gardening but I think I have a black thumb instead of a green thumb. I hope by being here I can learn to take better care of my plants.
Hi Jennifer. Welcome. I'm a gardening writer with 2 books and several magazine articles out there. My specialties are bonsai, herbs, vegetable plants and all bedding plants. I managed 4 greenhouse operations before running my own wholesale bonsai business for more than 20 years. I don't have time for much of the daily chitchat that goes on here but I am happy to answer questions.
Thank you Debbie, Greta, and Richard for the welcome!
Hello everyone. I've been here for a while although I haven't been too active. I'm an author with 2 gardening books published and I recently started a blog to discuss my writing interests including gardening. My latest blog is about peppers in the garden. You can check out my books and see my blog at my author profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Hi all new members, make yourself at home :)
Hello Everyone! My name is Laurie. I live in No. California, specifically the Silicon Valley, where we don't have much in the way of true seasons. I have lived in CA most of my life; however, had the wonderful opportunity to live in No. England for six years where I had the joy (except in the long winter) of experiencing seasons & the benefits of true dormancy on the garden.My specialty is roses. I have 65+ roses!
I also love to read. My favorite books are historical fiction.
I look forward to participating in the group!
Hi!I am Anika, a trained gardener living and working in Tokyo.
Only have a balcony, no garden, but try to keep it green as well.. :)
Greetings! I am a long time gardener, vegetables and flowers, now living in Northeastern Vermont where I moved from zone 6 in CT. Exploring permaculture approach on our current homestead and very interested in saving and sharing seeds... I love books about gardens, gardening, agriculture and any memoirs that focus on these topics. Currently reading The Seed Bed and Here and Nowhere Else.
Hi, I am a Horticulture student currently. I will be graduating in the Fall of 2016. I enjoy gardening and sharing/teaching young students all things garden related. I enjoy learning something new each day. I look forward to meeting new gardeners.
Pam wrote: "Greetings! I am a long time gardener, vegetables and flowers, now living in Northeastern Vermont where I moved from zone 6 in CT. Exploring permaculture approach on our current homestead and very i..."Welcome to our group! FYI--the best book I have read on permaculture is "Gaia's Garden". Really opened my eyes to different ways of doing things.
Welcome all newcomers! Looking forward to sharing news and ideas. However, I live in Minnesota so I won't be actively gardening till about the middle of April.
Hi all - I'm not new here but I've been, well, dormant... :) Looking forward to chatting more with folks. Currently reading & greatly enjoying Brother Gardeners following the fellowship of gardening fanatics who introduced something of a renaissance in the 1700s, partly due to the influx of American seeds and plants into England. Thanks for the book recommendations all! Katie
Pam - for a very different look at gardening, and some say one of the "seeds" of permaculture, check out "One Straw Revolution". A fascinating re-invention of man's relationship to nature. I'm about to try the idea of breaking up heavy clay soil by planting Japanese radidshes. :) Katie
Jane wrote: "My name is Rosemary & I live in the south of England. I love gardening and looking round other people's gardens.My style is relaxed cottage garden although my husband would like a "tighter" low mai..."Love Christopher Lloyd! So frank and bitchy!
Hi Char! Welcome!! I like your snack garden idea! =))
Hello. I'm Linda, a daffodil addict ..... spring is arriving here ... so my addiction may change with the seasons :)
Char wrote: "Hi All ~ Char in Minneapolis here. Our house is on a small urban lot, but there's a lot of gardening to be done! I've participated in the tinyfields.org project since it's inception and I love to..."
Hi Char--fellow Minnesotan here, although I live a bit north of you. Welcome to the group!
Linda wrote: "Hello. I'm Linda, a daffodil addict ..... spring is arriving here ... so my addiction may change with the seasons :)"Hi Linda--welcome to the group!
First really nice day of spring today and got outside and started the spring cleanup. Beheaded (sounds violent) all my hydrangeas and cleaned up the sidewalks, porch and patio. Started a few seeds in milk jugs about a week ago so hopefully will have nice sturdy plants to set out by the end of May.
Hello. My name is Don. My wife Pamela and I live on a farm in North Dakota near the Canadian border. We have several gardens -- a rain garden, a prairie garden (about 1/4 acre, mostly forbs), two vegetable gardens (about 1/2 acre total), berries, fruit trees (including some apples I've grafted from old farmsteads), lots of flowers, and an old garage that we converted into a greenhouse.
At the moment we are getting ready for spring -- moving old hay bales to the orchard to form windbreaks and spreading manure from the chicken house on one of our (fallow) vegetable plots in the back.
I'm old, so I have had time to read lots of gardening books. I look forward to sharing with, and learning from all of you.
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Books mentioned in this topic
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (other topics)Introduction to Permaculture (other topics)
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (other topics)
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (other topics)
Edible Forest Gardens (other topics)
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Since I live in apartment, I'm 'doomed' to only northern and eastern windows. My plants are in kitchen and balcony (north), and bedroom (east), so I'll list them by the roms they occupy.
I'm very attached to my plants and they usually mimic my moods. Some of them I even named (pet names)!
When I'm really depressed, I talk to them and clean the dust from their leaves – it's so soothing…
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Except gardening, I love fishkeeping, hiking, observing frogs and reading.
Now to my family!
Northern Side:
Balcony
Lily of the Valley
Lillium
Tulipa
Hyancinthus
Lavandula officinalis
Rosmarinus officinalis
Hibiscus rosa
Lilac
Jasminum
Rosa (mini)
5 Roses (planted this fall)
Kitchen
Saintpaulia (6 African Violets)
Citrus limon
Eastern Side
(Bedroom)
Billbergia nutans
Phylillitis scolpendrium
unknown creeping/crawling plant
Epidendrum prismatocarpom
Hedera helix (in hanging pot)
Hedera helix (in regular pot)
Phalaenopsis Germischt (named Daenerys)
Phalaenopsis 2-Trieber
Dracaena deremensis (named Solos)
Guzmania lingulata (the newest family member)
unknown plant (looks like Anthurium x Scherzerianum)
Sansevieria trifasciata 'Golden Hahnii'
Aloe (vera) Barbadensis Miller
Aloe arborescens
Aralia japonica
x Fatshedera
Tradescantia
Zebrina pendula; tradenscanta
Mint (chocholate scent)
Ripsalidopsis gaertneri
Schlumbergera
Kalanhie
Cyclamen persicum
shallow boel with cactuses and succulemts
Cactus (named Liége)- not sure about species
Pothos (Sciendapsus Aureus)
Epipremnum pinnatum
Asparagus densiflorus 'Sprengeri'
away of window:
Dracaena fragrans (named Dragos – the oldest plant in family, quite big)
Dracaena steudneri (named Pierre)
Spathiphyllum wallisi
S. tango
in aquarium:
Anubias Nana
in glass showcase:
Dieffenbachia (named Adonis
Wheat
I search (and, usually, memorise) scientific names, so if I named some wrongly it wasn't on purpose!