Why I love my garden

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I see now why I love my garden so much just like the test of us all. I see the hidden beauty in photographs I take. It always amazes me. it’s a beautiful gift a garden, one that is treasured. Just look at the gardener behind the garden and you see them in the garden style. 

[Than]

Wow, that's a forest, not a garden. Beautiful

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1 hour ago, Than said:

Wow, that's a forest, not a garden. Beautiful

A living ecosystem! 

[Harry’s Palms]

Nice pics , beautiful garden / jungle. Harry

[Palms1984]

Very healthy, beautiful, and thriving palm garden!  😎

[donpachino1983]

I also to love your garden 

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2 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Nice pics , beautiful garden / jungle. Harry

Thanks Harry that’s just the tip of the iceberg. 
Richard 

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4 minutes ago, donpachino1983 said:

I also to love your garden 

Theres more in there in the understory! 

[JohnAndSancho]

I know I say this every time you post garden pics, but what I love about your garden is everything looks like it belongs there. It doesn't look like some fancy over manicured McMansion where you just farted out money all over the place - I mean, I know you've put tons of time effort and money into it, but it all looks like it belongs there. It looks natural. 

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1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I know I say this every time you post garden pics, but what I love about your garden is everything looks like it belongs there. It doesn't look like some fancy over manicured McMansion where you just farted out money all over the place - I mean, I know you've put tons of time effort and money into it, but it all looks like it belongs there. It looks natural. 

Yep no silver spoons in our family, but I will say there has been no budget on plants. But as for the landscaping it was done with the rocks on the property, my mate owned a sawmill so the railway sleepers where free and my mate owns an irrigation shop and I work doing irrigation. So all the irrigation was free. Just a lot of work has gone into it and still does. I love the jungle look it was a natural process from age 16 I said I wanted a rainforest garden. Dreams do come true!

[JohnAndSancho]

2 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Yep no silver spoons in our family, but I will say there has been no budget on plants. But as for the landscaping it was done with the rocks on the property, my mate owned a sawmill so the railway sleepers where free and my mate owns an irrigation shop and I work doing irrigation. So all the irrigation was free. Just a lot of work has gone into it and still does. I love the jungle look it was a natural process from age 16 I said I wanted a rainforest garden. Dreams do come true!

I doubt I'm around long enough to see the palms grow into anything major, but bananas and papayas are gonna look really out of place in my yard but I don't care. I want the fast shade. Mine is definitely gonna look like someone just plopped plants in there among the crape myrtles and magnolias and oaks and cedars and magnolias and whatever else is growing out here. I guess if I want to be positive I can pretend it's an oasis in the middle of a forest. 

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3 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I doubt I'm around long enough to see the palms grow into anything major, but bananas and papayas are gonna look really out of place in my yard but I don't care. I want the fast shade. Mine is definitely gonna look like someone just plopped plants in there among the crape myrtles and magnolias and oaks and cedars and magnolias and whatever else is growing out here. I guess if I want to be positive I can pretend it's an oasis in the middle of a forest. 

Banana’s yes but papaya pushing the boundaries on that one. Just plant as much as you can, you will be surprised at what lives and not shocked by what dies. 
I like crape mrtyle trees got a couple in the garden a nice old fashioned tree. 
I will never get to see a lot of my palms flower that’s for sure! 

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56 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Banana’s yes but papaya pushing the boundaries on that one. Just plant as much as you can, you will be surprised at what lives and not shocked by what dies. 
I like crape mrtyle trees got a couple in the garden a nice old fashioned tree. 
I will never get to see a lot of my palms flower that’s for sure! 

Oh I know the papaya will become compost. I just want them for the super fast shade in summertime and keep dwarf varieties in buckets for fruiting and sell a few. I have a nice warm humid room where I can grow them all winter. But the big ones I know are sacrificial. Keep the sun out of my windows and end up in the compost heap after the first frost, most of the bananas will bounce back in spring and a couple will live in pots forever. I've got my game plan down. I sound like an idiot most of the time, but I kinda know what I'm doing. 

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1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Oh I know the papaya will become compost. I just want them for the super fast shade in summertime and keep dwarf varieties in buckets for fruiting and sell a few. I have a nice warm humid room where I can grow them all winter. But the big ones I know are sacrificial. Keep the sun out of my windows and end up in the compost heap after the first frost, most of the bananas will bounce back in spring and a couple will live in pots forever. I've got my game plan down. I sound like an idiot most of the time, but I kinda know what I'm doing. 

I like your style sir that’s the spirit, get in there and get them going. Oh and it’s good to be an idiot we all do that I love been an idiot why not have a bit of fun in life!