Gardening

[GRH]

Are any of you here gardeners? For me, gardening is one part job and one part passion. I work in the field of horticulture, so my personal garden is often an extension of my career...It's a place where I can trial plants, learn new things, and give a home to unwanted/unsold plants. But beyond that, gardening is a hobby and a love for me. It's so peaceful...

At any rate, I like gardening of ALL sorts. My first dappling as a child was helping my grandparents work a farm, so I have interest in veggies. My first plants that I truly took care of myself were a variety of herbs-- I still have the same rosemary from many years ago. From there I have branched out into ornamentals, and have steadily learned more and more about the world of landscaping-- sun plants, shade plants, native plants, bog plants, etc. Career wise, I have grown organic greenhouse tomatoes for several years and I have been a landscape director overseeing an 87 acre facility as well.

If there is interest, I can go into more details about what I'm growing this year and how my garden has evolved...

[sesame]

The plants/trees I have grown.
1) Polyalthia longifolia, family: Annonaceae; Deodar, Debdaru = Sanskrit.
2) Cinnamomum Tamala, Fam: Lauraceae; Tejpatra: Sanskrit
3) Carissa carandas, family: Apocyanaceae; Karamcha, Karamarda: Sanskrit
4) Cissus quadrangularis, fam: Vitaceae; Harbhanga, Harjora, asthisrinkala: Sanskrit.
5) Cymbopogon citratus, fam: Poaceae; gandhatrina, atigandha: sanskrit.
6) Areca Catechu, fam: Palmae; Betel nut, Supari, Gubak\Tantusara: Sanskrit
7) Momordica Charantia, Fam: Cucurbitacea, Bitter Goard, karavella : Sanskrit


I will add some more if you are interested.

[GRH]

Yes, add some more Sesame. In particular, are you fond of betel nuts? I've always been curious to try them, but have never gotten around to it.

As for my own garden, I have a lot of trees on my current property, so I have very few patches that offer anything resembling full sun. At best, the majority of the yard varies between partial sun to deep shade. In the sunnier areas I have some seed grown Shasta Daisies, some inherited daylilies, a white 'rapid-fire' Hydrangea, yellow and orange varieties of Coreopsis, Black-Eyed Susan, a bunch of Marigolds, a few Lupine, some Jasione, Dianthus, Globe Thistle, Phalaris grass, and a Delphinium...

I had a Meconopsis which didn't do so well, and I am thinking about adding some Goldenrod to the back of my border for some tall, late season bloom. Right now I have some Iris which hasn't done much as I divided it this season, and the foundation of this section of the garden are the Hydrangea shrub and a well-established Yew. I have done a lot to try to open the garden up, I climbed the surrounding trees to nearly 20 feet in the air and took off lower branches to try to get more sunlight to the garden. Still, there is more shade than I'd like, and the daylilies in particular have performed lackluster...

At any rate, that covers a small section of the yard...In a future post I'll work my way around towards the shadier sections and eventually to the vegetable/herb plot...

[ila]

I envy your ability to grow plants GRH. I have hated gardening ever since I was a little kid and had to look after a big garden by myself (and I do mean big - approx 50' x 200'). Our family grew all the vegetables that we required and it was my job to plant, weed, and harvest. I have never liked gardening since although I wish I could at least grow grass now. I get a good crop of dandelions every year and no matter what I do it seems I can't keep ahead of them.

Since you say that you would like to have more sun in your yard then you could probably do wonders with my yard. It gets a lot of sun throughout the full day.

[sesame]

1) Jaba or China rose from my garden, (its very small )
Hibiscus rosa sinensis.



2) Aloe vera in my window sill.

[kraken111]

I FIND ORCHIDS TO BE TRULY SPLENDID!!!

[cockluva]

I absolutely hate gardening, and i just can't stand mowing the lawn, if i could i'd concrete the garden.