How does your garden grow?

[carolann]

I'm not sure if I have missed a thread like this or we have not had one but I was thinking the other day, I know how dangerous that can be, but I was wondering what people grow in their gardens or allotments. I have a front garden but I don't do anything with it as my late MIL did all the planting well the shrubs and trees anyway I on the other hand have taken over the veggie plot which I used to plant and dig over every year but she took all the credit, I have a narrow strip which the OH cut a large pipe down the middle and made me two 14inch wide x 5ft beds, we planted bulbs and all sort in them. I have a little half round type bed which was a rock garden and it took me 2 months to dig it all out and get it back to some sort of order but I planted more summer bulbs, Aubrietia (mixed colours), Garden Pinks, Gazannia and some Black grass thingy. Then I have 3 beds for my veggies and another one for my Strawberries. I love growing my own flowers and veggies as I get such a buzz from it, and the veggies taste great. What do you do in your gardens?

[Deleted]

Well, with a tiny garden the answer is 'as much as I can possibly squeeze in'.

We have a minute front railed garden with a raised bed in which I have a variegated Weigela, a variegated miniature bamboo, Eunonymous 'emerald and gold', and a few purple Heucheras and Viola Labrodorica 'purpurea'; lots of daffodils and grape hyacinth bulbs planted there for spring.

In the back, we don't really have room for vegetables, so apart from lettuce the 'culinary plants' are all herbs. For the rest, lots of cutting grown fuchsias, intermingled with evergreens - Fatsia, Choisa, hebes - , climbers around the walls (solanums, passionflower, eccremarcarpus. Boston ivy, variegated ivy and a baby native ivy). Colour comes from a mixture of perennials ( Penstemons, yellow Alyssum, Malva 'Magic Hollyhock', Dahlia 'Bishop of Llanduff', cannas) and annuals - nasturtiums, Asters etc.

This all sounds rather better than it actually look because (1) the garden is only a couple of years old, and (2) I'm still a novice ;D. ... cheers ...

[Weeterrier]

My garden? How does it grow? Furiously
I'm a sucker for herbaceous, and the taller the better. By late summer, I need a guide to get me to the greenhouse. I have never tried veg, but I may do in the future. Being on this board has inspired me to try. I grow fruit though, apples, plums, gooseberries, blackcurrants, blueberries and strawberries. I did away with the raspberries, the suckers were everywhere, but I'd like to do them again.
Come January, now that the earth is almost bare, I'm going to start posting photos on the garden thread, then I can add to them every month.
Aren't we the luckiest people to have such a hobby?