Please get rid of the dracaena immediately or put it where your kitties cannot possibly get to it. It's deadly poisonous.
Wow, wow, and more wow. You guys swing for the fence! These are some AMAZING gardens with such talent!!
These colors are exquisite!! That is quite an accomplishment, I would love to try my hand at flowers. What would you suggest as a nice beginner flowers to intermingle in with my veggie garden? I'm planting lettuce, broccolli, cauliflower, peppers, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, eggplant, cilantro, green beans and a few other veggies I have yet to decide on.I used to do a lot of gardening but between working full time, the cattery and an injured knee I don't do much now. I have been a Certified Master Gardener since 1999. When my kids were home I have a huge vegetable garden - 130 foot by 30 foot. I grew everything from the normal squash, potatoes tomatoes and peppers to sesame and poppy for baking. During the summer I never bought vegetable and I also froze a lot for winter. I also liked flower gardening. Here are a few photos of my past efforts.
All I can saw is "WOW!"
I can only second your thoughts. What a little piece of heaven!I'm sorry, I may be a bit speechless. (Which DOES NOT happen much!) lol I'm just sitting here looking at all the attention to detail in every last picture, it is beyond words. I can certainly see why they would want to feature your parents garden in any magazine, it is absolutely stunning!! I would give anything to have an inkling of that type of talent and dedication to apply to my garden. Now, I'm going to have to look at these pics again because I am in awe still.Thank you so much for sharing these @Kieka !!
Thank you! I love having flowers to cut & bring in the house all summer, & sometimes into early fall.
Very pretty! Yes, speaking of water. That's what really makes my garden a "labor" of love. We don't have a hose on the house. (landlord took it off & closed it up years ago, because a guy who used to live downstairs was washing his car & even a small boat he had, & we don't pay for water, so that ended that! I've never asked him to put it back, because he has already complained about the water bill before, & am pretty sure he would say no, or raise my rent, which I can't have him do! He pays for it because his strip of shops w/ his barber shop in it is in front of us, & there are also 3 houses back here, all on that same bill. Although what he's said it was, is actually pretty cheap for all of these places on the same water bill!) SO, I have 2 water cans (just plastic ones from walmart, 2 gallons ea,) that I fill up a couple of times each, & water from over the porch as much as I can, then go down for the end of the garden. Not fun, but I love having the flowers! A friend of mine suggested I get a rain bucket, & have my dad put a spout & hose on it for me. I thought that was a good idea, but was concerned about mosquitos from it, & she said you just put a screen on top & it's fine. She said that's what they do w/ theirs & haven't had any issues. I
mmm, yummy!
I don't mind it too much in the yard; but I couldn't weed enough to keep it out of the strawberries. And I weeded almost daily. It still gets in the raised beds too of course.
I will probably get some peppers to put in where the peas go once they are done. My peppers have had issues with the stink bugs the last few years.
Thank you, I'm aware of which plants can cause him harm. He doesn't have access to them (the aloe and dracaena are kept on a shelf he can't get to)...he just has access to his cat grass and the bamboo (which he does not chew on). I love my plants and I love my cat. Great link tho!
