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Call to all gardeners! [pics]

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sorenson

05:31 / 16.10.06

Is this the place to boast about garden successes? I have recently ventured into roses - never thought I would, but despite myself I have succumbed to the family obsession. First - climbing roses, big blowsy and beautiful:

Next - first red rose I ever grew, so perfect it made my heart glow every day that it graced our house:

In a month or two I might come back and post vegetable pictures (no possums in my back yard - just about the only good thing about living near an industrial wasteland...).

bitchiekittie

16:08 / 16.10.06

I love roses so much.

and grant, how impressive! orchids are my absolute favorite flower, and I've kill absolutely every orchid I've ever gotten, which are many. I finally settled on some "peacock orchids" for my garden, which are not actually orchids and aren't nearly as pretty, but they do grow for me!

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

17:06 / 16.10.06

Yo ho!

A well-timed thread: I planted my first "serious" garden this year, various flowering perennials, and I'm wondering how to "bed it" for the winter. Is it best to cover the whole thing with mulch and mark where the "good plants" are, or to mulch around the good plants, or to mulch ONLY on the good plants in hopes of whacking everything between 'em, or what?

My main concern is not being able to recognize the good plants from the e-e-eeevil ones next spring.

grant

19:21 / 16.10.06

I love those climbing roses. Roses don't do too much for me. Orchids seem to like being barely maintained. (My yard would be famous for the depth of its weeds, if such things were ever seriously measured.)

grant

19:21 / 16.10.06

The rose *plants*, I mean. They don't *respond* too much to my ministrations. Sheesh.

sorenson

02:13 / 17.10.06

grant, I am actually just benefitting from an accident of location - for some reason here in Melbourne roses pretty much grow themselves. I think it is a combination of the climate and the soil - cool enough to not get too many diseases and clay soil which they love. But I am still happy to take the credit!

And your orchids are spectacular by the way. I've been meaning to get a couple of the big showy cymbidiums - I'm hoping I will have more luck with them in pots than I do with other things (given they like to be pot bound and don't need too much attention). Australia has heaps of very cool native ones, but I haven't had much luck growing them. Check out this one in the wild though - it's a flying duck orchard! (not my blog)

grant

02:14 / 17.10.06

Whoa. Those are funky.

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