yard? lawn? garden? property? None (actually, all) fit here, and I am never sure how to refer to it. Don't have a whole lot of land, so "estate" and "acreage" are out, but don't have a lot of grass lawn, either, so "lawn" isn't really appropriate. Got lots of individual gardens, most of them joined together, so "garden" doesn't quite work.
What do you call yours?
Beautiful picture Kathy!!! How about "my little greenspace", "my piece of the earth", "my yard", "my gardens", etc. LOL
gardens sounds good, and I love your photo. it is really a neat garden you have.
Lots of individual gardens? May I ask what that means?
In the UK we have a garden (despite the size), occasionally it might be referred to as a backyard but that's fairly regional and not often used now. The garden may then have a more descriptive tag like a courtyard garden but it is always garden in the singular (unless you have several properties!)
Well, I have a vegetable garden, a raspberry patch, a grape arbor, a thyme lawn, a scree garden, a perennial garden, a secret garden, etc. Most of these are small, individual areas where certain things grow. Most of them are joined to other gardens: the veggie garden is beside the grape arbor. The photo above is showing where about 15' of grass ends and the woodland (where there are many individual gardens) begins. The woodland extends about 130' to the property line.
Badseed, Pebble, thanks for the compliment :) Windsurffer took the photo when she came for a visit.
Greensward? LOL
I was trying to draw a map of where all the different plants are; trying to label each area is what got me bogged down. Kind of the way plants were named before Linneaus. I had things like "behind the railroad ties on the north side of the ivy area facing east".
Thanks Lupine! (and I did mean to add what a lovely garden you had but taxonomy had me distracted!)
Here, regardless of how many individual gardens you have, such as you mention, the whole area is still referred to as 'a garden'.
We have 5 acres of which about 1/3 is fenced in, directly around the house. In general, most of it is "the yard" with the following distinctions: The front yard is inside the fence, in front of the house; back yard is inside the fence, behind the house; the woods are outside the fence, behind the house; and what I call the "front-front" is outside the fence, in front of the house.
The planting areas are all inside the fence and I usually refer to them as this or that bed.
nice picture-very tranquil!
i live on the farm with the old farm house! ;]
bicentennial at that! No one here farms!
Nice "plots" you both gots. How bout what we call ours here in MD - a piece of "paradise".
Dori, your land is beautiful. Candee, I will go along with that: our yard? garden? land? is a bit of paradise too :)
Our land was never cleared until my parents had the house built in '68. The original owners had 500 acres deeded back in 1790's, and they kept it as woodland for hunting and fishing. They sold it as was to my parents. The builders got the job of constructing the house on the condition that they leave 50 of the trees my dad had marked intact when they put the house up. So in effect, the land is still virgin; it has never been used agriculturally. A huge rarity in our part of the world. When the other houses in the neighborhood were built, the land was clear-cut first ;( but it was still virgin land that had never been farmed. More than 100 acres of prime wetlands. Incredibly fertile soil.
Don't you find, lupine.....people with acreage, designate it as "their land", and some others, with smaller properties, call it their yard..unless the entire lawn has been taken out....."their garden" just a suggestion! Elaine
Why don't you just call it 'my place', then it sounds more personal than 'my ground(s)', or 'my gardens'.
easy-peasy..... my place
All the best with it all
Wintermoor
No matter how big or small your yard is I would call it "My Garden's" because you have several different area's with different kind's of flower's veggies, and herb's!
By the way I have the same planter (trellis) that you do out back by the pond!!!!!!
Great shot by the way!!!
sue
Your pond is fabulous ruby - so clear and calm. Do you have a few lanterns for the evenings?
i have 3 different garden areas the safe zone is the garden around my house the dogs can't get in so it is safe from being licked to death. then the veggie garden is by my gh. and the pasture garden which is new this yr and out by the pasture.
i think its the best pond around! ;]
Thank's for compliment's about the pond you guy's and yes we do have a few lantern's for night time, but I was showing the pic because Lupinelover and I have the same planter and I thought that was pretty cool!!!!
sue
Ruby, I love your pond, and your woods! How much land do you have? As you can see, my woods are much more "civilized" but I want it to eventually become like yours. Wild, untamed, beautiful. And yes, we do have the same planter. Small world, ain't it :)
We also have the same strawberry jar! I got mine a couple of months ago to plant the new Christmas Cactus that Indashade so wonderfully sent my dad. I have kept them inside, though; there is no way I will let whatever wild critters that ate the original one have these! I will have to figure out a way to have them outside next summer though. Maybe I will put them inside a chicken wire bubble.
Farmgirl, I don't have a dog, but one of my neighbors had your dilemma. Her dog kept eating her garden no matter what fencing she put around it. Not just her veggie garden, but any of the plants she installed. Even poisonous ones. How do you keep your "safe garden" safe?
Amazing how different words mean different things in different parts of the city, much less state and country. Words come and go in their meanings. Here, "lawn" is coming to be despised as what the pretentious people have. It implies that vast quantities of unsafe pesticides are sprayed on it continually, and that hordes of paid gardeners have to work at it every day. The implied meaning is that whoever has a "lawn" doesn't care about anything but appearances.
A "yard" is what the working class people have: full of weeds, seldom care for well.
A "garden" is a flower border. Usually very long and narrow.
A "bed" is where veggies grow (or where the gardener sleeps :)
Don't get me wrong: all the above terms and definitions are just how local people use them this season. Next season the meanings will change.
None of the above definitions comes anywhere close to describing what I have :D I know! I am "different". A little grass lawn in front, a thyme lawn, my veggie garden is in plain view; no foundation shrubs, but a foundation perennial garden, my shrub border is at the boundary rather than in front of the windows. And worst of all, no silver maple! (We had ours cut down 3 years ago, and good riddance to bad rubbish). Thankfully, our city put an ordinance forbidding developers to plant them in newly built lots.
So thanks to everyone for your suggestions: I will call mine "paradise", or "almost paradise" now that I see what a few others have shared.
Ruby, one question: how do you keep the leaves from ruining your pond? That is why I don't have a pond: too many trees shedding leaves in the water.
LL, when I had the small pond (150 gallon's) I was forever cleaning leaves and pine needles out of it. They would all settle at the bottom and I would just give up and wait until spring and then pump most the water out and remove all the leaves!!!
When I came home from work last Valentine's Day and found Mark putting in the BIG pond I begged him to cut some trees down, but he wouldn't!!!! With the big pond there is a filter system that suck's most of them right in and then I can empty it out! The pine needles are really a pain in the ***, they are everywhere and very hard to remove!!!
You can also get a netting to cover your pond in the fall and it is not too expensive ($6or$7) and it will keep the leaves out!
We don't have much ground at all it is less than an acre, but it is in the woods and I am glad of that or I would have alot of trouble growing my hosta!!!!
sue
I call mine "disater area"!
Just call it MY land!!
"eyes"
Anything wrong with "My Bit-'O-Eden"?
Sorry, I dont know how to edit. Should have been
"Bit O'Eden"
Would like to hear more about the thyme lawn. Does it tolerate full sun?
Thyme requires full sun here in the north, but probably would appreciate a bit of light afternoon shade out there in the desert. Woolly thyme would probably adore your dry heat though. It really gets the mugs here in summer.
A friend in Phoenix had her English thyme growing under her tomato plants on the north side of her house, and it thrived. Don't know anyone in AZ who had a thyme lawn, though, just individual plants of it.
Crestedchik, LOL. I heard a little about your garden from the wandering ladies and it sounded wonderful!
Ruby, about the netting: would the toads get caught in it? We have a few toads in the neighborhood, and I would hate my bug eaters to be hurt or trapped. And BTW, can you send Mark over to dig me a pond? *grin*
