how does your garden grow?

another questionaire to see if I can get as many of you as possible interested.

would you say your garden is MOSTLY

1. perennials - includes all plants that die down and come back

2. annuals

3. flowering shrubs

4. evergreens

5. tropical/exotic plants that are not hardy

6. hardy tropical/exotics

7. a good all round mixture of the above

This message was edited Monday, Jul 29th 9:55 AM

No.5 would be apt for me.

No. 1 for me, with quite a few bulbs into the bargain. 5 or 6 shrubs. Very few annuals.

Wintermoor

5 here too.

#5 here, with lots of daff bulbs and some tulips, though more on the way.

Ok, now it's a #1, no tropicals or exotic plants (some of the people are tad on the strange side!).

This message was edited Tuesday, Jul 30th 7:13 AM

#6 tropicals that I have to bring into greenhouse :)

5 here. But moving towards more drought tolerant shrubs. They are also easier to mulch around.

No. 1 for me. Some annuals too. First year. Cant wait for next year to see the progress!

1 plus a lil of the others..but for the most part #1

#1 is mine so far.. BUT I do have some tropicals.

forgot about me.

I'm #1

I get the impression you are talking only ornamentals

I have a mixture of annuals and perennials but a lot of my annuals are vegetables and my perennials are fruits plus a couple of roses, flowers and herbs and annual herbs and flowers. I have one tree (a forsythia). It's a rented garden so productive rather than permanent.

So how about
6. - mostly productive

1/7

This message was edited Monday, Jul 29th 9:58 AM

#5 for me but throw in tiG's #6 cause I also have that inside/outside thing going.

Gerdi if I added anymore possibilities It would go on forever

what perennials are fruits?

Perennial fruits are strawberries, rhubarb, blackcurrants, redcurrants and raspberries - okay, so some of those are classed as shrubs but they stay in the same ground year after year and so I think of them as perennials

Mostly 1 here, but I have a few of the others too.

ah but that has to be a veg patch then!?

mostly #1 but have some of all the others too :)

1,2,3,4 for me and a veggie garden! I've got a good mix of everything but tropicals.

In the garden 1 & 3 and tomatoes. The annuals I have are all in pots.

mostly #1 but a dozen or so roses and few other shrubs

but Mark, my veggies are in my gardens, there is no longer a separation - and my alpine strawberries were the first plants in the second rock bed.

#6

This message was edited Tuesday, Jul 30th 10:36 PM

mark!!! you changed it! now I'm a 5.

#1 for me. My garden is a new one only two years in the making. Lani

Mostly #1, but quite a few annuals as well, at least until I buy more perennials!

Number 7 for me. I have a bit of everything, but I didn't get too many annuals this year.

Alot of #1 some bulbs and rose bushes and annuals!

7 here......with an emphasis on the 5 & 6.


"eyes"

Mostly #1 with #2 used as filler. I am working toward more #1's

This message was edited Thursday, Aug 1st 5:19 PM