If you were a garden

joanlawson

Hi

If you were a garden, which kind would you be :?:

1. A wildflower garden..... carefree, easy-going, natural, sometimes disorganised.

2. An English formal garden.......accurate, organised, detail-orientated, classy, high-maintenance.

3. Cottage garden........traditional, informal, colourful, romantic

4. Rose garden............beautiful, fragrant, versatile, sometimes spikey.

5. Woodland garden.........peaceful, protective, visionary, like to see the light shining through the darkness.

6 .Oriental garden ........ poetic, artistic, spiritual, reserved.

7. Water garden........ a liking for movement and sound, but also natural tranquility.

8. Kitchen garden.......purposeful, practical, down-to-earth.

If none of these, or a mixture of them, what kind of garden would you be :?:

Joan

annie_mial

I seem to be all of them, different gardens would apply on different days/times/weeks and all would be dependent on what arther is currently doing!

Annie

ninakang

Can I be the garden that's low maintenance with a trampoline in it?

Nx

angel1

My garden of forty six years is a Memory Garden, where every tree, bush, and flower has a wonderful memory for me.

The large patch of lawn in the corner where the grass is a bit brownish, and never grows as well as the rest. That`s where my boys swing and slide was, all those years ago.

Then the tall fence, with the honeysuckle mingled with Clematis growing over it. That`s the one my eldest fell off and broke his arm when he was six.

The little pond with the fish. Amber would sit mesmerised for hours, watching them.

See the old pear tree. Kids used to climb over the back fence to pinch the fruit. Frank would tell them to come to the front door, and he would give it to them!

Look at the lovely Weeping Willow in the far corner. The fronds formed a lovely shady spot for Frank to rest under, on bad days.

And best of all, my own special arbour that has the sun all day long. Pots of glorious, colourful Bizzie Lizzies, Geraniums, and trailing Surfinia dotted all around. This is where Frank`s ashes were scattered, and it`s the most spiritual of places for me.

I lead as full a life as is possible day by day, but when I sit in My Memory Garden, and close my eyes, the sounds of happiness, and laughter are all around..........Ange.

tillytop

You paint such a lovely picture Ange - it brings a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes. I love the idea of a garden full of memories.

I think Annie and Nina's answers are very apt, but, in my case I would like to say kitchen garden, but in truth much more likely to be wildflower garden - particularly the bit about being disorganised!

Love Tilly x

annebr

Oh Ange,

That was so beautiful the tears are streaming down my face as I type. I can picture your garden and the happy memories.

Love Anne

valval

my garden is a little neglected at the moment tender care from certain areas and taken for granted from others. so sandy with cactuses in some areas and neat well tended full of colour and cared for in others.but changing from season to season val

joanlawson

annie_mial wrote:

I seem to be all of them, different gardens would apply on different days/times/weeks and all would be dependent on what arther is currently doing!

Annie

Hi Annie

Yes, I think that there are elements of the different types of gardens at different times. I hope your leg is better now. I think you have been like a battle-field garden recently :!: :shock:

joanlawson

ninakang wrote:

Can I be the garden that's low maintenance with a trampoline in it?

Nx

Hi Nina

That would make you a family garden then

joanlawson

Hi Ange

Thank you for such a lovely reply to my thread. Your description of your Memory garden was very moving, and I could picture it in my mind so well. But I think you are like the Woodland garden as well, because you do see the light shining through the darkness.

joanlawson

tillytop wrote:

You paint such a lovely picture Ange - it brings a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes. I love the idea of a garden full of memories.

I think Annie and Nina's answers are very apt, but, in my case I would like to say kitchen garden, but in truth much more likely to be wildflower garden - particularly the bit about being disorganised!

Love Tilly x

Hi Tilly

I think I am like you, mainly a wildflower garden, but with elements of the cottage garden and the oriental garden. However, I am practical and down-to-earth too when I need to be, so I have something of the kitchen garden in me as well.

joanlawson

valval wrote:

my garden is a little neglected at the moment tender care from certain areas and taken for granted from others. so sandy with cactuses in some areas and neat well tended full of colour and cared for in others.but changing from season to season val

Hi Val

That is a mixture of a garden :!: Well, you are the ''full of colour and cared for'' version on here

valval

thanks life is full of ups and downs some times there are more downs than up like many a garden nothing stays the same

trisher

Ange

That was so beautiful, yet also bought a lump to my throat, it also bought tears to my eyes.

I'm so glad that you shared it with us. Thank you

Love Trish xxxx

dreamdaisy

I am currently a desert plant garden. Nothing but prickly, spiky, un-attractive and ugly thorny plants dumped in gravel. When things improve I shall revert to garden no 1. DD

valval

dreamdaisy wrote:

I am currently a desert plant garden. Nothing but prickly, spiky, un-attractive and ugly thorny plants dumped in gravel. When things improve I shall revert to garden no 1. DD

it will only take a little rain to bring out the beauty

joanlawson

dreamdaisy wrote:

I am currently a desert plant garden. Nothing but prickly, spiky, un-attractive and ugly thorny plants dumped in gravel. When things improve I shall revert to garden no 1. DD

Hi DD

I'm sorry to hear that you are still not feeling well. I do hope you will bloom again soon.

joanlawson

valval wrote:

thanks life is full of ups and downs some times there are more downs than up like many a garden nothing stays the same

Val, for you, to cheer you up.

dreamdaisy

Thank you joanlawson, a lovely flower indeed! I'm 8 days in to a flare that shows no sign of abating. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

valval you do have a point about ups and downs but there is a large genentic flaw in all people - we only really remember the bad stuff. We tend to forget the more pleasant things - it's the rough that sticks. Humans are stupid creatures most of the time! DD

valval

well we will have to try harder to remember the good wont we, it up to us really in the end

angel1

Poor DD, you really are suffering so much, I send you all my sympathy.

However, I`m afraid I must take exception to your rather sad view of the human race.

There is nothing genetic about how a human being views unpleasantness. We all have, within us, the ability to learn from the bad things, and move forward, and even become a better person, as a result. The fact that some people choose not to is a very sad fact of life, but it is a choice nontheless........Ange.

carola

dreamdaisy wrote:

I am currently a desert plant garden. Nothing but prickly, spiky, un-attractive and ugly thorny plants dumped in gravel. When things improve I shall revert to garden no 1. DD

I just KNEW you'd say something like that, DD! You make me laugh

Alas, I don't have a garden however dream of an overgrown garden with lots of herbs and lavender plants which I can rub and smell as I walk by. Best not to have a pond I am falling over a bit just now and don't want to splash.

Ange, what a wonderful description of your garden.
Carol

joanlawson

babycham wrote:

Anyway if I was a garden it would be a flooded one ...In tears just opening all the bills.......G.d the vet one is the worst they do take advantage of us xxxL/Babycham :shock: :shock:

Hi Bcham

Sorry to hear that you are a flooded garden, but many plants which grow in wet lands have very strong roots, and when the floods recede, they produce the brightest flowers.

I totally agree about vets. It costs at least £10 just to walk through the door.

joanlawson

Hi Carol

Alas, I don't have a garden however dream of an overgrown garden with lots of herbs and lavender plants which I can rub and smell as I walk by.

I think that makes you a wildflower/ cottage garden, rather like me.

frogmorton

Mine is a newer Version of yours Ange
I ahve memories in it of My old cat Eric, my Mum and Dad

things the kids grew and are still growing

Lovely gardens

DD I will put a whole bed of candytuft in your garden for you to lie in and rest till you feel better

Love

Toni xx

tkachev

a water garden for me please.Im very sensory. Smells, certain noises , colours get very definate responses from me and water is one of my favourite sounds,


Elizabeth