My front yard

27 Sep '07 11:19 pm

Hello!

This is my front yard in Osijek city, region Slavonija in Croatia (south-east Europe).
I also have a country garden in corn fields and vineyards near my city. There I live every weekend.

I adore Mooseys country garden. Moosey, you are my big inspiration. You and your garden are the reasons that I deside to live in country every weekend and go there every spare moment I have.

Here are the pictures of my front yard garden:

I have lots of pets. Precisely: four cats, two dogs, two ferrets, two parrots and one gunie pig
And here are some of them:

At the end I want to apologize becouse I dont speak or write english very well, and make lots of mistakes in this post. Sorry!

I send you a greetings from Croatia, or in Croatian language: Pozdrav svima iz prekrasne Slavonije i Hrvatske!

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27 Sep '07 11:51 pm

What adorable surprise your lovely Mooseysgarden-friendly message , your delightfully beautiful garden photos , and your precious animal-friends' photos! Aren't you SO very lucky, living among such treasures!!!???? Very Happy

Please, stay with us! Welcome, again!!

28 Sep '07 1:40 pm

Dear Goran, you will fit in perfectly with this group. Your garden is beautiful and your animals so adorable. Also, your English is great. You should see what would happen if I tried to write in Croatian (or any language other than English for that matter). Please come again and post some more pictures.

28 Sep '07 1:51 pm

Goran, it's great to meet you and see these lovely pictures. Do you grow vegetables in your country garden? Is it like an English allotment?

I love the watery things - and the beautiful animals! Cheers, and please write again.

28 Sep '07 5:06 pm

and I would love to see pictures of your weekend getaway gardens. Seeing what you have done with this small space, your country gardens must be amazing. Your pets are adorable.

28 Sep '07 7:09 pm

Love your garden and your animals are adorable.

Great to meet you,and see your garden and your animal friends, please visit often and let us know how your gardens are going.

28 Sep '07 7:18 pm

Welcome from me, too, Goran! I loved all your pictures, especially the ones of the water feature - that jug fountain is great!! Very Happy

I, too, am looking forward to seeing more pictures of your gardens, and I am very impressed with what you have done in a small front garden!!

And don't worry about your English - it is fine!! Most of us do not spell any better than you do! And as for us spelling in Croat, well. . . ! Very Happy

Please come back again soon!

Cheers!

gordonf

28 Sep '07 8:03 pm

Hi everybody! Thank you very much for your welcome!
I read this site for about two years, but I was too shy to write, because I have very bad knowledge of English. I read English and understand everything, but writing…..argh, it’s not my thing. Very Happy

I am learning that beautiful language for the last few years, so I hope it will be some improvements in my writing.
Moosey, yes I grow vegetables in my country garden. Now it’s autumn and the most of vegetables where picked. The weather is not very warm right now, but we can still grow some short-daylight vegetables like spinach, little radish etc. Also I grow grapes, and make my own vine. And it is very popular to grow plum trees in Slavonia. From their fruits we make alcohol drink named “rakija”. It is something like Russian Vodka or Schnaps in Germany. Region Slavonia is located in Panonian valley, between Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Hungary. We have terrible war ten years ago and plenty of things were destroyed, but in past few years we gather strength to rebuilt our life and our country, for delight of every citizen and for the memory of those who died that we can live in peace.
Hey, I have some great news for you: In this region of Croatia you are like a movie star in gardening world. Everybody knows about you and about your delightful garden.
My country garden is very young, and it is in construction phase. This year we have very bad dryness. We have leastwise rain in past hundred years. This year all plants are only live through.
But I’ll still bring you some photos of that dry country garden:

The vineyard (In croatian: vinograd):

Hibiscus edge (Hibiskus zivica):

The spuca (Smrca):

The main yard (Glavno dvoriste):

Ginkgo (Ginko):

Ash tree (Jasen):

The plum tree (Sljiva):

Small alpine garden:

This plant we call “houseguard plant”:

This ones name I can translate like “soul of mother”:

And at the end: Sunflowers (Suncokret):

Sorry for very long post. I was thrill with warm acceptance that I have here, so I overdo a little! Embarassed

Best regards everybody! Ciao!

28 Sep '07 8:19 pm

Hello again, Goran!

What beautiful pictures! You certainly have a good crop of plums! The plums have done very well here, too, this year, although I don't grow any. And the picture of the field of sunflowers - how beautiful they are! Is this your field? And, if so, what do you do with all those sunflowers? Surely you can't eat them all! Do they squeeze them for oil, perhaps?

And the "houseguard plant" - did you know that its Latin name is "Sempervivum"? I have them growing on my roof garden.

It is great to see what types of trees and flowers are grown in different parts of the world! And it is great to meet someone who has seen such turmoil and destruction as you have in the recent past and who still is willing to plant again and to carry on, cheerfully! Bravo!!

-gordonf

28 Sep '07 9:15 pm

Hey!
Yes, that sunflower field is also mine. Hi hi, I surely wont eat them all. Sunflower Oil Company buy sunflower seeds and make oil from them. Last years some amount of that oil ends like bio-diesel fuel for cars.
Hm, interesting fact about house-guard plant.
Well, Croatians are one of the Slavic nations, and old Slavic mythology is still present in our culture and in plant names. There are lots of influences to our customs from other nationality, for example Roman, Hungarian, Turks, Germans, Austrians, but essence of Slavic mythology and way of life is still present.
In that old pass religion the plants had very great importance. The whole Slavic Panteon was lived on trees or in the trees. The greatest god of lightning, Perun, was lived on oak tree, and that tree was saint. Soul of dead person lives in the lime tree. Walnut tree was evil, and they belief that those who plants walnut tree will die when diameter of trunk reach diameter of that persons neck. There are lots of beliefs like that. Slavic nations where nomads two thousand years ago, and they lived in forests. So they have religion tied with nature, forest and plants.

My front yard

My front yard

Welcome!! Dear Nature/Animal lover friend!!

Welcome to another gardener and animal lover

your garden is beautiful

Welcome Goran

Welcome!

Thank you

Beautiful Pictures!

thanks