2 May '04 9:16 am My week is complete I have caught up with the latest of the 'Recent Garden News' at moosies.
I had a chuckle when faithfully following the link to 'too wet to garden'.. There is a mention about gardening mags and their take on Auckland gardens.
I have been on some really fun and interesting garden rambles here and also subscribe to a NZ gardening magazine. I must say, I have never actually seen one of those perfect patio gardens....do they really exist?
To me a garden is not a 'real' garden untill the wanderer can spot at least one pile of weeds laying about waiting to be sent to the compost, a garden tool forgotten or just plonked in the bed it was digging, a few leggy plants with something stuffed in the ground at their feet (cos the owner couldn't bring themselves to chopping them down while they still had a flower on) and at least one plant growing wildly in the 'wrong' place. Oh and a slightly dishevelled area where the owners first discription is "I am going to....."
I love these gardens.....they are such fun to explore and have a life all of their own
moosey
head gardener
2 May '04 5:49 pm Oops! It's well known that South Island gardeners are automatically rude about Auckland - possible jealousy that we can't grow those darn tropicals very well? we're sick of trying to get others to believe that we actually enjoy treezing winter temperatures?
Hmm... ooops...
Actually one of my friends came up to Auckland for the Heroic Garden Tour? and said it ws amazing. I sort of was jealous.
chooky
valued contributor
New Zealand
3 May '04 8:17 am There's also the spade,fork or some such implement stuck in the garden somewhere as well that marks a real garden.Or in my case a pile of horse poo or grass clippings waiting for the chooks to do their scratching and spreading.
Cheers.
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pumpkin
compost executive
Auckland
3 May '04 8:52 am Sorry moosey....I think my post came out a bit wrong I was refering to the glossy magazines' content ....
BTW~ Some of us here are a wee bit jealous of Southern gardeners.....our climate allows those bugs and pesky things to keep right on munching through winter, and you can grow some wonderful plants that only perform at their peak after a spell of cold weather.
LOL chooky~ I like the idea of having those little garden helpers
Swallowstitch
honoured contributor
Geraldine New Zealand
Perfect Gardens Do Exist
8 Aug '04 6:49 pm I'm doing catch-up on some of these topics, this one has reminded me of a garden I visited several years ago belonging to a dedicated Alpinist(now deceased). It truly was perfect.... despite the magnificent collections of well tended and frequently rare specimens all laid out in a perfectly proportioned garden, I found myself beginning to lose sight of these and was instead seeking the slightest sign of , not necessarily neglect, but something, anything to show that a "normal" gardener worked there. It was almost unreal, as though someone had airbrushed the garden to remove any evidence of horticultural wrinkles so to speak.
I have caught up with the latest of the 'Recent Garden News' at moosies.
I was refering to the glossy magazines' content ....
