Anyone else garden? Flowers and veggies and such?

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I love to garden! We live in an apartment, so it's just potted plants for me, for now! I have dozens of potted flowers out on our patio, though!

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Those are just some from my little "patio garden" :)

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& Of course my daughters helping me to plant them! :love:
 
I don't have a veggie garden yet. I live in the woods, bought someones 800 sq ft cedar log cabin that was their vacation home and turned it in to my permanent home. It didnt even have central heat when I bought it.
Here are some of the flower beds I helped build.
Had to learn how to cut red sandstone which is on the property. Cut the stone the old fashioned way with chisels. Was fun!
Brought in dirt. My center circle is 55ft by 35 ft and took 5000 plants of pachysandra that filled the circle in 3 years.
Bought lumber for some of the beds and also helped tear down a corn crib and barn & used the wood to help my hubby at the time build a wood shed in the one pic.Love it here. My litte paradise.
Here's a pic of my wood shed, center circle driveway and side flower bed
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kmelane thanks for posting the beautiful pictures.

I need to take some of my lilies, but I have film camera.
it will be awhile before I can post pictures.

kt, don't be surprised if the tomatoes start ripening at the same time ;)
 
Oh my goodness, tomato pie and tomato gravy. I followed the link to get the recipe for that scrumptious looking tomato pie. Now I need the recipe for the tomato gravy. Usually when I hear tomato gravy, people mean the same thing as what we call spaghetti sauce here. This looks much different. Squirrel wants some of this, too. Please. Pretty please.

I have blossoms on my Better Boy and Early Girl tomato plants. There is also one teeny tiny green tomato on an Early Girl plant. I think that I won't take down the polycarbonite panels from around my porch for a while since they are making my porch like a greenhouse. The panels are usually down long before now.
 
I think there are as many tomato gravy recipes as there are people who make it, lol. I'll try to find you one closest to how I like it, because I don't have a recipe, I just make it, lol. Then you can adjust as you like. :)
 
I didn't grow these, they grow wild in the old field next to my house, but I like looking at wild plants, too.

The hummingbirds love the trumpet vine, but it's an invasive species:

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The mimosa tree, also an invasive species, looks tropical, blooms smell like mild roses, and they produce pods that look like flat bean pods:

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I just like nature and taking pictures. :)
 
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