The Internet Garden

9 Feb '04 10:17 pm

Later this year Mooseys Country Garden is going to launch 'The Internet Garden' - An extremely silly and fun way of involving YOU in Mooseys Garden design process.

location as yet unknown :
The location of this garden on the property is still unknown - Moosey hasn't even started persuading Steven yet!

After the garden bed has been prepared, we're going to make a couple of maps (webmaster groans at the prospect or MORE maps...) and take some photos of the empty plot.

Then month by month we'll assemble a list of TEN plants - ranging from bedding plants to shrubs, roses and even a conifer or two to keep moosey on her toes. The Internet Garden will run for 12 months. Visitors to our site and forum members will be able to VOTE one plant into the Internet Garden each month. The location of the next plant can be shown in dotted lines on a map or something.

Vote and you could choose your own plant :
To encourage you all to vote and to add to the fun Months 1-5 and 7-11 will be standard plant voting months. In Month 6 and 12 of the Internet Garden we'll randomly select someone whos already voted and they can choose any plant they want that moosey can easily acquire in New Zealand.

Think of this as the moosey garden equivalent of Big Brother or Survivor in reverse. The first few months' plants are going to get pretty lonely all by themselves!

We'll set up a dedicated area on the site where the internet garden will receive up-to-the-minute coverage of votes, results, biographies of the plants and details of the two chosen plants including the names of the two winners.

There are still a few more details to sort out but this gives you a good idea of what we've got planned. Let us know what you think - Are the rules too complicated? Are people really that interested in someone else's garden?

Will you vote Astelia or Agapanthus?

23 Feb '04 1:25 am

I'd love to look after an internet garden - I wonder what the best plants would be? It could be a great excuse to get some new roses in! Or perhaps a New Zealand native bush garden - or a small arboretum? Hmm...

3 Mar '04 2:40 pm

Do we get to vote yet? Very Happy

This sounds fun to me. And it might be a great way to vicariously keep something alive instead of fiddling around with it until it dies. Wink

4 Mar '04 8:27 am

How are we going to pick the plants? - I mean - pick the plants that will be voted for...?

You could create another one of your famous gardening lists Very Happy

or we can invite visitors to start nominating their favourites? One plant or a Top 3 selection?

Whoever picks the plants you can be sure our coverage of it will be excessive and extremely silly - featuring garish logos, plant profiles - If moosey can interview a cat elsewhere on the site :

http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/gardening-articles/reality-virtual-gardening.html

she can interview the plants as well. Teach her a lesson for banning my aphid photo series Smile

The number of reality television shows on at the moment is ridiculous - I say we take them on at their own game - voting plants off and on - the scope for gardening sillyness is unlimited. If we are going to compete with Big Brother, Survivor and their ilk we are going to need a racier name than 'the internet garden'.

How about :

mooseys netgarden?
the mooseEgarden? (tee hee hee)
mooseys supernet gardenaganza?

5 Mar '04 12:36 am

I for one don't know too many plants (surprise, surprise!) and would love it if there were a list to pick from. You know like on the reality shows where there are 16 original survivors or whatever.

As for names... what about something eye-catching (like they do for tv) like "The Garden of E-donism" or "Naked Natives" Laughing

Or something more intellectual -- except I don't know what that would be. Wink

14 Mar '04 8:28 am

I've had lots of ideas about an internet garden. I've wondered if it should be just roses - they are so universal. Then I like the Naked Natives idea - but maybe people would enjoy flowers more?

And how would we get on having summer when you guys up there are having winter? Could be nice in the middle of winter to check out your favourite rose!!!!! What do you think?

15 Mar '04 11:23 am

Well an internet rose garden would certainly give new meaning to the phrase "most dramatic rose ceremony ever" that they are always going on about for that bachelor show (or whichever).

I really like the idea of getting to pick which flowers/roses and then getting to watch them through the winter. Very Happy

Plus, that will give you even more to plan during your winter/our summer!

19 Mar '04 8:39 am

Someone wrote to me once trying to find an internet garden where everything was grown from seed. You'd be able to peep in and see how much growth there was, and wait for the flowers to appear, etc. Gosh, imagine the guilt and embarassment if the head gardener forget to water things!

20 Mar '04 4:08 pm

Maybe you could be like the tv executives and turn embarrassment into more viewers... you know like if the head gardener doesn't keep up the seedlings appropriately then she has to enter the "penalty phase" or something. It seems that earthworm eating is very popular on those reality shows -- and earthworms would be very appropriate for your internet garden. Hmm.... Laughing

24 Mar '04 7:19 am

Hi, everyone! I'm a newbie here and this is my first post. Please excuse any mistakes I might make as I wander around checking things out.

This internet garden idea sounds like a fun way of gardening without the dirty hands and getting all sweaty in the humid summer heat. Sounds like the garden ideas I plan each winter on paper, looking forward to the new gardening season. I think it'll be fun to vote on plants, etc. for this garden. Well, I'm off to look around. See you soon. Cool

The Internet Garden

The Internet Garden

I'd love an Internet Garden!

How do we pick choose the plants?

Rose ceremony

internet garden