tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8284944855633609232.post7764376925871592633..comments2024-02-10T18:50:01.193+10:00Comments on Gully Grove: Nature's wayChris http://www.blogger.com/profile/13715819899708384147noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8284944855633609232.post-40866332304932376302012-03-18T19:22:26.127+10:002012-03-18T19:22:26.127+10:00Oh Linda (without an M) I've done it again! I ...Oh Linda (without an M) I've done it again! I thought your reply was LindaM's second.<br /><br />How rude you must think I am, LOL, I wasn't ignoring you - just confused again as usual. ;)<br /><br />I agree with your comment of photoshopping garden magazines, like they do models. Most gardens don't look that perfect all the time, just like women, LOL.Chris https://www.blogger.com/profile/13715819899708384147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8284944855633609232.post-48633948689100975492012-03-11T13:38:20.830+10:002012-03-11T13:38:20.830+10:00I am no gardener, but I read. Only in the last six...I am no gardener, but I read. Only in the last six years have I planted or nourished anything AT ALL. Oh, I stuck some six-inch azaleas in the ground. They will live through anything. I think gardening has two parts--intuition and knowledge. Sometimes, when I have done all I know to do, I just wait and watch. I get a feeling that things will be okay and just wait awhile longer. <br /><br />All that landscaping in books is like food styling pictures in magazines. Food has often been sprayed with something inedible just to make a photo better. In gardening pictures, I know that the plant just the right size might be plopped down in a pot amidst other plants and not be actually growing there at all. It is all for a glossy picture to sell magazines. It is sort of like photoshopping an actress to make her look so perfect that ordinary women cannot compete with her looks. <br /><br />My yard is a mess and will stay that way...lol.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991571309786149363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8284944855633609232.post-83169840293272315172012-03-11T11:54:55.713+10:002012-03-11T11:54:55.713+10:00Definitely - live and learn should be our nature. ...Definitely - live and learn should be our nature. It's when we become locked into our own perceptions, refusing to budge, that we stop learning the valuable lessons of life.<br /><br />I'm actually glad to hear parts of our land look the same. To me it says, nature is working and we are not, LOL. Except for, as you say, in the edible parts where we benefit most from our labours.<br /><br />Happy gardening this coming Spring for my Northern Hemisphere neighbours. :)Chris https://www.blogger.com/profile/13715819899708384147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8284944855633609232.post-4937880075409298052012-03-10T02:14:34.295+10:002012-03-10T02:14:34.295+10:00Your garden looks like parts of my own land! There...Your garden looks like parts of my own land! There are spots we leave alone though we will let the llama and his future companions roam the area to help keep things controlled .<br />My food garden though...that is where we do our hardest work. <br />I don't think anybody as a brown thumb,...just an inexperienced one. Seeds will grow.....if they don't we hopefully figure out why...often it's the seed source not the gardener. Live and learn is a part of nature too.LindaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03624659670781181099noreply@blogger.com