My garden in Mandal [Archive]

rainbox

18th August 2009, 11:34 PM

Here's some pics from my garden, it's a total mess still. I uncovered the water feature today though, it looks nice! At least it will, with a bit of TLC. You wouldn't believe how overgrown this was, you really couldn't see any of it because it was totally covered in ivy and bindweed. But of course I forgot to take "before" photos. Oh well!

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This is another bit we've cleared up. Yummy herbs growing out of septic tubes! (unused of course)

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and on the other side there's strawberries

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This is were we're planning to put the greenhouse. I uncovered a bit of the stone wall so you know can see what's under there! The plan was to build a small greenhouse out of windows onto the existing wall of the flowerbed. There's some steps going up the side of the bed and at the top of the steps the door will be. That's the initial idea anyway!

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rainbox

18th August 2009, 11:38 PM

Everything is pretty overgrown:

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And there's also a lot of rubbish lying around. Definitely needs a serious clear up!

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But there's still a couple of nice flowers :)

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Riz

19th August 2009, 01:59 AM

hiya martine..

thanks for the pics, the water feature is going to look awesome when its fully cleaned up and nice use of the septic tubes he-hee

why is Charlie wearing a skirt lol..

tahir_phoenix

19th August 2009, 08:23 AM

Looks like the garden from my old house before I did the makeover!

Lots of nice features you have in that garden and plenty of hard work ahead of you but as any gardener knows once its all done it'll be worth the effort!!

Great photos & Good luck!! :)

rainbox

19th August 2009, 12:07 PM

hiya martine..

thanks for the pics, the water feature is going to look awesome when its fully cleaned up and nice use of the septic tubes he-hee

why is Charlie wearing a skirt lol..

Thanks! It was a pretty awesome garden a couple of years ago, hopefully it'll get there again. The water feature is super cool. Septic tubes are kinda weird but at least it's original :P

He he, she wears a skirt because she's a girl, Charlie MAY ;)

Riz

19th August 2009, 03:05 PM

He he, she wears a skirt because she's a girl, Charlie MAY ;)

lol..

well that explains it all.. i know how you are a bit of a bohemian martine so i thought maybe you like to dress charlie up.. :cheerleader::cheerleader::cheerleader:

Riz

24th August 2009, 05:36 PM

you should start composting as well martine, once you cleared away everything... i love the water feature though, cant wait to see it once its all tidy :)

~Obsidian~

24th August 2009, 09:42 PM

A veritable jungle :p can't wait to see it all spick and span!

rainbox

17th September 2009, 11:38 PM

Riz

20th September 2009, 08:45 AM

its getting there slowly :)

Tania

20th September 2009, 11:17 AM

I like how begin to look your garden :) Do you kept your boat garden or not? I was a little bit off too:(

rainbox

21st September 2009, 10:59 AM

As far as I know, the boat garden is still there. I had to move back to Norway though so I don't know what it looks like over there anymore. Going back in October though to have a look :)

Thanks, I think bits of it is beginning to look good. Still tons to do though!

farah

4th October 2009, 11:03 PM

Hello, sorry I haven't been on much lately my computer's in bits waiting to be rebuilt so it's hard to do photos and stuff... The garden is happening, slowly but surely, we've got some new interesting plants in it, including Sea-buckthorn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippophae_rhamnoides), nanking cherry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_tomentosa) and stevia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia_rebaudiana). photos to come!

I don't know if I would call it spick and span yet by any means but it is improving :)

The messiest bit before and after:

Major project but luckily you have Charlie to help you out there! Judging by the picture of the messiest area after it's clean-up the garden must be looking marvellous after it's full face-lift. Thank you for the links on those three different plants, very varied uses for each one, did you begin the nankin cherry shrub from seedlings and have you ever tried one of the leaves of the Stevia?

rainbox

6th October 2009, 11:16 PM

Major project but luckily you have Charlie to help you out there! Judging by the picture of the messiest area after it's clean-up the garden must be looking marvellous after it's full face-lift. Thank you for the links on those three different plants, very varied uses for each one, did you begin the nankin cherry shrub from seedlings and have you ever tried one of the leaves of the Stevia?

Thanks farah :)

It looks a lot better, a lot of the plants have had a bit of a rough time and look a bit sad from being moved around and cleaned up. But it'll be brilliant next summer!

We actually got all of those plants from a lady locally who used to run a nursery with her husband, he passed away recently and there's just too many plants for her so she gave them away to anyone who wanted to come dig them up. It's pretty cool as they're all big bushes!

The stevia is amazing, intensly sweet and an almost liquorice or anis like flavour. My brother can't eat sugar at the moment so he actually uses a powder made from this plant instead, and it's 375 times sweeter than sugar! 0_0

It's very cool though as it doesn't affect your bloodsugar level at all and is actually healthy. Apparently it's illegal to sell this powder in Norway as a sweetener, because the sugar industry is so scared people will find out about it they do what they can to get it off the marked.

Everyone should have a Stevia in their garden :)