How does your garden grow?

[sister herb]

^ This sounds charming garden. I too let those wild flowers grow when ever its possible. After these the first ones here will come daisies, red clovers, bluebells and of course wild strawberries. My lawn is much different than my neighbor´s whose prefer clean and flat lawn. Of my mind kind of garden is just only very boring.

 

[noraina]

^ This sounds charming garden. I too let those wild flowers grow when ever its possible. After these the first ones here will come daisies, red clovers, bluebells and of course wild strawberries. My lawn is much different than my neighbor´s whose prefer clean and flat lawn. Of my mind kind of garden is just only very boring

Yep, my mother says she likes to let nature do it things - she only 'guides' them or clears up the weeds. Flowers look so beautiful when they are kinda just growing where they're meant to grow, she'll plant other flowers there herself, and hang up windchimes and it looks so pretty ma'sha'Allah. Little random clusters or vines climbing up the fence here and there look so natural.

I love the bleeding heart bushes we have, they are huge after years of growing. And we have lots and lots of bluebells.

Can you eat the wild strawberries?

 

[sister herb]

Sure I can eat wild strawberries. They are tiny as size but their taste is a lot of stronger and more aromatic than garden strawberries. By the way, this part of the city I live has named as "The Strawberry Meadow" as here was growing before of lot of wild strawberries and still do.

 

[sister herb]

It´s a time of the apple tree´s flowers.

 

[sister herb]

In the garden has now opened the time of the flowers.

Petunias in the hanging basket:

Lilac is one of my favorites:

Fluffy dandelion with the collection of shapes of the leaves:

Charming lily-of-the-valley:

Lupins have started to open. I love the color of this one - so girlish pink:

Wild strawberry and starflower:

False lily of the valley:

 

[*charisma*]

Assalamu Alaikum

Mashallah sis what a beautiful garden!

I want to start one here, but I get worried because the weather gets so sunny and hot :/ We had a beautiful basil bush growing and then it burned dry :nervous:

 

[sister herb]

Assalamu Alaikum

Mashallah sis what a beautiful garden!

I want to start one here, but I get worried because the weather gets so sunny and hot :/ We had a beautiful basil bush growing and then it burned dry :nervous:

You better choose the plants which like to grow in the hot and dry climate. Or water them more often.

 

[*charisma*]

Do you have any idea how to turn sand into fertile soil loool

 

[sister herb]

Sure. It´s not impossible. You have to make your own soil with composting using different kind of plant and vegetable waste with some amount of soil and fertilizer and keep it moist. I am growing pumpkins and squash in kind of compost benches. When that compost bench moulders, it keeps the roots of plants enough wet and warm and gives them good growing.

Here is kind of bench at the last autumn, started about one year ago. Pile of old leaves and vegetable waste has changed to a good soil.

 

[*charisma*]

Don't I need worms to compost with? I've thought about that but I have no idea where to get worms from..i think it's the earth worm that must be used right??
People here have huge farms and they plant tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc, but i think they use just soil and fertilizer from their animals. Others have greenhouses which are cooled with a water system...and I'm just over here trying to keep a pot alive ;D ;D

 

[sister herb]

Worms aren´t necessary but if you will have a tasty compost, they will find it by themselves. Who would say no to the free lunch?

 

[muslimah_B]

These are from my mums garden

 

[sister herb]

Lovely roses.

 

[sister herb]

Lettuces grow well:

Flower of white strawberry:

Chives:

Lovage, at the right hyssopus and rhubarbs:

Lilac:

The first midsummer rose:

A lot of lupins and more is coming soon:

At this year rhododendrons have only few flowers, mostly it makes new leaves.

Tatarian maple:

 

[al-Andalusi]

I should get back to my garden, inshallah. By now the mint must have overtaken a good portion of the herb space.

 

[sister herb]

Mint is like a weed in the garden. But good thing is that you can simply eat it when it spreads too fast.

 

[al-Andalusi]

Mint is like a weed in the garden. But good thing is that you can simply eat it when it spreads too fast.

I have found this out the hard way. I started the garden when I was young and since then the mint consumes the other plants when I am not there to stop it.

Thankfully, around the summer I always have plenty of mint to add to cold water or to lemonade

 

[sister herb]

This on is my indoor flower - old leaf cactus. It makes flowers once a year. One flower is open only one day.

Kind of leaf cactus doesn´t look very nice itself and sometimes I am planning to throw it away - but then comes the time of it´s marvelous flower - and I decide to keep it some more years. It´s age is about 20 years now.

 

[sister herb]

Herbs

Sage

Anise hyssop grows fast - very fast.

Chamomile from the last year germinated by itself and now I have it everywhere.

Flowers of chives.

Onions grow well too.

Lettuces in the frame

It´s a daisy time.

Rhododendrons

 

[sister herb]

A lot of herbs and vegetables available - fresh and free:

Peonies have just started to open:

Money maker tomatoes: