Lisa asks…
Tacky Gardens: What defines a tacky garden?
What defines a tacky garden to you? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, for sure….and I fully believe a garden should be an expression of one’s self. What I love…you may hate (and visa versa).
But….in YOUR opinion, what defines a tacky garden?
GardenersCardiff answers:
1) Using an old toilet as a centerpiece in your front yard flower bed
2) cheap wire edging from the dollar store, all bent up and crooked
3) more weeds and dead flowers than actual living plants
4) a mirrored garden ball on a big pedestal surrounded by a horde of garden gnomes. Extra points: signs indicating names of gnomes.
5) prominently placed and decorated pet tombstones
6) flashing lights at night to illuminate your cheap rickety garden arch and twirling windsocks
7) fake flowers in amazing, multicolored purple, blue, yellow and pink abundance
8) different, brightly colored windchimes on long poles randomly placed about 4 feet apart all along the walk
9) dog poop piles rotting in the front yard
10) cheap folding chairs with worn webbing arranged around a campfire ring topped with an old refrigerator rack and littered with cigarette butts- in the front yard.
Jenny asks…
best parks/gardens in melbourne?
my friend and i are heading up to melbourne to do some good photography,
we want to be in the pictures, and we’re dressing in soft, pastel colours
(cream, ivory, champange, rose , gold etc.)
any recommendations of places to go..
carlton gardens, fitzroy gardens, royal botanic, flagstaaf etc.
and also to achieve the best photos, grey sky or sunny,
i think sunny would be more affective, but what do you think?
thanks guys 
GardenersCardiff answers:
My favourite gardens in Melbourne are the Royal Botanic Gardens, Alexandra Gardens, Treasury Gardens, and Queen Victoria Gardens. St Kilda Road, just over Princes Bridge near the city, is bordered by these gardens and is quite pretty. The Floral Clock is along here, and the parks extend as far as the War Memorial.
Mary asks…
How does gardening improve our everyday life?
growing vegeables, composting, gardening
GardenersCardiff answers:
I think that it takes us back to our roots, no pun intended. Our family roots. The things that you learned about gardening came from your parents, what they learned from their parents, and so on. It brings back childhood memories of hated chores, the taste of fresh from the garden foods and the smell of the fresh turned earth.
There is also the sense of life. You can take a small pot of earth, place a seed inside it, give it sun and water and watch it grow into a life of itself. You nurture it, protect it and then enjoy it as if it was a part of yourself.
Gardening, at least for me, is a stress relief. It lets me get away from the chores of the house, the phone, computer and the TV. It also is a chance to enjoy nature. I watch the birds in my yard, the weather changes, the different bugs and my neighbors. We see each other outside doing our gardening activities and chat about what we’re growing, plant problems, children, neighbors and everything else. It’s a connection. I also find out which neighbors will be sending me the dreaded zucchini.
Powered by Yahoo! Answers
]]>