Gardening and flowers

My degrees were all about plants, plant science and crops. So, I suppose I do like plants and gardening. Anyway, here are some pictures of flowers and our back garden.

This is our great-big-enormous cactus, which is growing in our conservatory. He's about 6ft tall now, and growing bigger every year. The black marks show how much it grows every 2 years.



This is one of our clematis plants, growing over an arch. And that is my cat under it. Her name is Phoebe.

I love clematis they are some of my favorite flowers for in the garden! They just bloom and bloom and bloom!

I also love peonies, hydrandeas, spirea, lilacs....lots and lots of lilacs.

and lilies of the valley.

I talked about plants in Biology this term... auxins and what not

bug eating plants ftw

FunkiVon wrote:

wow!
what a beautiful green garden you have, echi and do you mow your own lawn or do you have someone else do it? It's really tiring to mow the lawn....

I love lilies of the valley too, pam
my friend painted a painting for my 16th birthday

Pretty painting, Vonni :-)

I don't personally cut the lawn, dad does. We have real trouble with our lawn, mostly because the soil here is high in clay content, and this means it doesn't drain well, and when its dry it sets like concrete (or, like a fired clay pot, I suppose!). The poor grass really doesn't have much of a chance, and we've had some experts in this year and it is no better than last year.

I've tried to get dad to consider a different variety of grass, I'm thinking about the type of grass they have in Florida in USA, where its always green even though they don't get much rain. Dad is quite resistant to changes in the garden, so a new lawn might be a bit of work to convince him!

And yes... I like carnivorous plants too! I had a venus fly-trap in my room when I was at Uni, which was great, until my friends found out and poked it with pencils until it died! :-(

I love mowing the lawn!

But this year is a very bad one for the grass (I've become a small-time expert since I've become mowing the lawn myself). Usually it takes a graas from 3 to 5 day to grow back to 3-5 inches. This year it's taking 6-8 days. And! it has nothing to do with grass — I am buying the same sort of grass for the past 3 years.

I think it has something to do with solar activity...

OWLKA wrote:

I love mowing the lawn!

But this year is a very bad one for the grass (I've become a small-time expert since I've become mowing the lawn myself). Usually it takes a graas from 3 to 5 day to grow back to 3-5 inches. This year it's taking 6-8 days. And! it has nothing to do with grass — I am buying the same sort of grass for the past 3 years.

I think it has something to do with solar activity...

I agree with you here, the sun has been much stronger especially on the grass this year. We've currently got grass in the condition that it would normally be at the end of July: that is, dry, almost brown, and dead. I'm going to seriously consider some drought-resistant varieties. Some of the fescues look good (Tall Fescue), or Bermuda grass or Zoysia.

But that's enough about grass... :-)

MY NEW PROJECT:



Can any1 identify what species it is?

OMG i love plants!!!! weee

I shall take pictures of my sad feeble plants here... I'm only good at growing avocados... everything else has problems with me, especially int he land with no sun XD