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I have 3 gardens! heart Technically two of them are my mother's, but she doesn't live with us anymore, so by default thier upkeep fell to me. I have a flower garden in the front of the house with Azaleas (which I love, they're absolutely gorgeous), tulips, creeping juniper, and tiger lilies. A tip for the tiger lilies- they will grow anywhere forever because they are just that hardy---UNLESS YOU WEED WHACK THEM. stressed My dad discovered this one for me. It took them 2 years to grow back properly.

I have a food-ish garden in the side yard of our house that includes tomatoes, strawberries, and chili peppers. The tomoatoes are supposed to be annual, meaning that I have to re-plant them every year, but.... They've grown back on thier own for the last few years. eek I have no idea why. I abuse the heck out of them because I don't like tomatoes... domokun

And I have a ritual herb garden. I grow fennel, sage, mint, cilantro, thyme, and sweet basil. Really only the sage, fennel, and thyme are used in my rituals regularly but I had to make it look like an innocuous kitchen herb garden for my dad. Generally, the herbs are the hardest thing I grow. Everything else pretty much takes care of itself, but the herbs have to be kept at 70 degrees until they sprout, and the soil has to be kept damp. But I think it's worth it.

I love gardening. I like watching things that I planted grow. I like nuturing them and harvesting my fruits. I'm very connected to the earth, so playing in the dirt with my green things is very relaxing for me. How do the rest of you feel about your gardens? Am I the only midnight gardener? lol

Sorry for the long post!!!

Before I moved, our old house had a natural rock garden in the backyard (sooo pretty) and my parents planted almost every flower under the sun there. If was like weeds, flowers were all over the place. Then, off to the side, I think my dad was gonna make some steps (the garden was on a short, steep hill, and behind it was a humongous[sp?] open field that never got mowed, so the grass was as tall as I was.

So anyway, dad was digging around off to the side of the garden because he was going to make some steps up to the field for my grandmother because she couldn't get up by herself. Then when my dad kept digging, he found more rocks, and all by themselves, they were shaped and aligned perfectly to make a set of steps! >.<

More on topic: Me and my mum want to make an herb garden so she doesn't have to buy her herbs anymore. It's no problem for me, as ong as I can grow some of hte stuff that I want. *hinthint*

Yes. xD

Terra cotta pot garden?? Put 'em in terra cotta pots in a window sill or something?

My grandmother had a fern like that. It outgrew every single pot we put it in. It eventually grew bigger than the chair in our living room. xD

We have big palm looking trees in our kitchen all winter cuz they're our deck plants. We cant kill them i swear lol..

I'd have my own garden but my mother is a control freak and likes to um be in control. she is an herbalist so we have a new garden around out house. We have food stuffs, herbs and flowers all mixed in willy nilly and its lined with rocks so it looks sorta castle-ish. I recently bought a plant that looked like tufla tree from Dr. Suess ^.^ I love plants but my mom is the ultimate gardener of doom and gets a little complex for my simple gardening tendencies.