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Well since it's winter, my garden is limited to the oregano that lives in my living room. XD I intend to slowly expand until I have a nice indoor herb garden. The trick is keeping the plants alive--my thumb is more black than green, apparently. But I keep trying anyway.
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my garden? a 10 meter by 6 meter patch of grass and clover, boarded by a range shrubs, bushes and weeds. most of the plants in my garden are hardy little suckers, due to the soil in my aria (30 miles or so out side London, about 1/2 an hour from oxford) being mostly rock and A LOT of clay, which makes planting and growing a utter nightmare. but the ones i have are thriving quite well. stuff like my mums rosebush, some out of control vine-y berry bush with black berries (non edible) X 2, my blueberry plant, a large rosemary bush in one corner, weeds (damned stinging nettles!) and about 6 or 7 other random plants that i don't know the names of. out front i have some potted herbs: mint, chives, basil and thyme, which have died off for the winter (they will be back in the spring for eating ^_^) we also have my mother's red Japanese acer tree, which is guarded by a stone dragon (one of many :D ).
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if indoor plants count, we have, in total spread through the house: banana plant, 1 Christmas cactus, one (probably dead) bonsai tree, another random tree, countless spider plants (my bad, i brought home the original) 1 alo vera plant, 2 more cactus, a strawberry plant, a coffee plant and a venus flytrap.
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Gardens! :D
We have about 20 acres in Hawke's Bay NZ, and we're part way through what's expected to be a summer-long drought... So the grass is brown dust!
I'm managing to keep most plants alive though, for how long.. who knows. We have a little vege patch with a giant red sunflower smack in the middle, silverbeet for the chooks, and pumpkin and courgette rambling wild. I have a home-made wooden trough of watermelon seedlings that I'm hoping to have dangle over the edges. We have hanging baskets under the trees, and the petunias and lobelias in em are in full bloom.. Also trying a strawberry in a hanging basket, neat idea I saw online.
I've thrown loads of wildflower mix about which has been doing quite well, so plenty of alyssums and stock coming up beneath the poppies and swan plants (which have my first monarch babies of the year on em!).
We have a little rock garden by the door with various succulents planted throughout, and a potted dwarf lemon (which has to be watered twice a day atm).
I also have a pond-in-a-pot, with a maroon-leaved waterlily, something similar to mondo grass, a water avens and 6 cloud minnows.
And plenty of houseplants of course!
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My 'garden,' may it rest in peace, was three kinds of herbs and twelve pots of morning glories (my favorite flower in the whole freaking world), all from seeds. My herbs, which were healthy and strong in their original container, died within days of them being moved to separate pots despite my best efforts. And all but one of my morning glory plants barely made it past sprouting - the survivor chugged desperately along, fueled by daily watering, specialized plant food, and sacrifices to an ancient pagan power sheer determination...until winter hit and killed it stone dead, despite it being kept in the house, safe from the unreasonably cold weather.

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We use to have a small veggie garden that wasn't as successful, it stopped because...well I won't say why, it's kind of personal. But we do have another patch close to our shed that has plants, I don't think anything grew though.
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