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Early morning photo of my front yard. 10th of April, the herbs in the 'herb spiral' are coming on well. Rosemary is even blooming, as is the Red Currant bush (but those flowers are barely visible).

 
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Wow,
I really enjoyed you garden pics, and its inspired me.

I am not allowed to build a structure on my urban block where I would like to.
So I have been day dreaming recently about making a LIVING structure, and trying to find ways of turning trees into sheds, or covered gatehouse or verandah etc.

So your deadwood huts and  frames have encouraged me to think LONG TERM and make the living structure from vines over trees or such.  All possible just need to be patient, design well and stay patient.

Anyone else done this I wonder.
 
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Wow, I just love the rustic-city! and calm your garden, and there appeared to be something familiar.
Then i noticed you from France, then the Ah Ha, that's it, I have enjoyed the rustic lavish French garden style for years, and now your garden. Thank you for sharing, despite these pics being years ago.


 
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Alex, I agree, to the point that I just posted that same thinking prior to reading your post.
There is a certain style about French farm gardens etc. I love it.
 
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From some years ago but had nice outcome.

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garden harvest
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 beautiful yellow roses
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zucchini, beets, and beans from the vegetable garden
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beautiful zucchini from the garden
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a bee visiting a sunflower
 
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Hi fellow artists!  We need some of your great artwork, photography and/or quotes to add to products on our new online Permies.com stores!

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/permies and https://www.cafepress.com/permies

For more info on this please see this thread started by Mr. Wheaton: https://permies.com/t/174446/Throw-permaculture-art-pile-dedicated

You will need to grant permission for us to add your images, etc... to sell on products on the stores. However you are NOT giving up all your rights for your images/quotes, just "non-exclusive" rights for them to be used/sold on our store's products.

We can only use art/quotes that YOU fully have the rights to and created...not other people's art. The best images would be 300dpi and as large as you can provide us with...and if possble saved as a transparent PNG, but that is not written in stone!  Any of your works are greatly appreciated!

Again, please see this thread https://permies.com/t/174446/Throw-permaculture-art-pile-dedicated for where to send your art/quotes and "permission".

I can't wait to see what you all come up with!  Thanks again and God bless! Rose Santuci-Sofranko
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Hi Mark,
Thank you for your inspirational post encouraging people to show their gardens. I’m based is Essex in the UK. This is a video of life on my two organic allotments that I’ve had for about 7 years. At the moment I’m experimenting with a mandala permaculture design that’s working well. I shall post some pictures soon.
Best wishes,
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2023 Garden Goals:
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Yeah I can fit that new plant right here...
Yeah I can fit that new plant right here...
 
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Summer view at EcoCostel Garden

 
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You could click this link to watch my plants! Thanks for your view!
 
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Just noticed the rainbow.  
Can you see it?
Does it end here?
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Where the rainbow ends???
Where the rainbow ends???
 
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New super fancy (my son's creation) high tunnel nearing completion.  And this year we won a cityscapes beautification award for the garden.  ❤
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high tunnel construction in urban garden
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garden sign and statue
 
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What a great time to see this thread! Missing warm sunshine and in the waiting for true winter. Thinking of Spring and seed catalogs arriving in the mail, new chicks and sprouts. Here’s a few pix of our current location and the little garden I made in April. Started out with a rocky pasture with hard packed soil. Built up with a no till bed- cardboard and soil/compost mix and 2 loads of wood chips. I was greatly and pleasantly surprised at how beautiful it was! There wasn’t much rhyme or reason to anything so there were flowers and all kinds of herbs (new and old that I had dug up and brought with me) and lots of veggies. First ever watermelon- sugar babies- did great meandering through everything. It was a great season! I still have lettuce and chard and spinach under row covers and a sheet that still give us a salad now & then. 20’s some nights so won’t probably be much longer anymore.
Merry Christmas everyone!  
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Beginning
Beginning
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Growing!
Growing!
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mulched garden featuring flowers and veggies
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Veggie Roast on the grilll!
Veggie Roast on the grilll!
 
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Here are a few pictures from our farm from last summer to this spring.
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Flowers and herbs in bloom for the pollinators and for us
Flowers and herbs in bloom for the pollinators and for us
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Summer annuals garden with eggplant, squash and more
Summer annuals garden with eggplant, squash and more
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Iceberg Climbing roses
Iceberg Climbing roses
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Bumblebee on rosemary blooms
Bumblebee on rosemary blooms
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Evening sleeping congregation of numerous bumblebees on a sunflower
Evening sleeping congregation of numerous bumblebees on a sunflower
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Mama hen and her chicks walking the border of the garden
Mama hen and her chicks walking the border of the garden
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Purple tomatoes ripening
Purple tomatoes ripening
 
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Rebecca Rosa wrote:Here are a few pictures from our farm from last summer to this spring.



Beautiful, Rebecca!
 
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I've been aware of this thread, but I only recently took time to view it and discover its beautiful images and inspiration. Here's my contribution.
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Keyhole garden planted with potatoes and neighbored by yarrow and butterfly weed.
Keyhole garden planted with potatoes and neighbored by yarrow and butterfly weed.
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Pear tree, collard blossoms, and clover.
Pear tree, collard blossoms, and clover.
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Strawberries
Strawberries
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Corn and buckwheat
Corn and buckwheat
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Coreopsis and chicory
Coreopsis and chicory
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Kitchen and canning garden. I'm workng to get it well mulched before our hot summer dry spell.
Kitchen and canning garden. I'm workng to get it well mulched before our hot summer dry spell.
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Tomatoes, volunteer winter squash and volunteer lambs quarter
Tomatoes and volunteers: winter squash, lambs quarter, and violets
 
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I love this beautiful thread and thought I would add a few photos to it! If you want to follow my progress on our woodland garden, my other "project thread" is here: https://permies.com/t/217415/site-messy-fun
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So proud of these strapping young tomatoes... now as tall as me!
So proud of these strapping young tomatoes... now as tall as me!
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Squash growing off this teepee tomato
Squash growing off this teepee tomato
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Some pictures from my garden in Estonia (US gardening zone 4 should be similar)
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rock lined garden bed
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garden patio
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raised garden bed with rock walls
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thriving rock lined garden beds
 
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So many beautiful gardens, so little land (for me).
Below are few picks utilizing tree stump as removing it was too expensive and too messy. A cutting leaf bee made a home in the stump and it made me happy
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removing a stump by hand
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removing a stump by hand
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old stump garden
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old stump garden
 
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Well... after suffocating on a quarter of an acre in the suburbs, I've got my 10 acre homestead, and I'm ready to start dreaming of my permaculture garden.

I took a drone photo of my garden area and got a giant print-out that I put on a big cork board, and use thumbtacks and paper to plan out my plantings. There's a lot to see in the picture below! I want the 'main path' to have a shady insectary/wildlife 'wall' to the south, and an open annual / perennial herb bed to the north. Further north leads to fruit trees and shrubs and a resting / kid play area for the young ones. The northeast corner will be more forested with a canopy layer compared to the more sunny fruit tree area.

The property already has two existing productive apple trees, a happy lilac bush, a happy siberian crabapple tree, a swath of raspberries, and a big bed full of daylilies and irises. Plus about 18 blueberry bushes that produce pretty well but are planted too close together.

There's also a very healthy and very valuable wall white cedar trees on the north side of the property to protect the house and garden against the vicious cold northern winds. I know the fruit trees are going to cast some shade on them but I expect the wall will stay healthy since the same cedars do great in the dense dark forests nearby.

The other picture is how the garden looks today... my biggest flaw as a gardener is my lack of patience. I just want to go out and dig and plant everything right now! But we still have a few weeks to go....
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drone shot of future permaculture garden
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permaculture garden site covered with snow
 
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Alan Burnett wrote:Well... after suffocating on a quarter of an acre in the suburbs, I've got my 10 acre homestead, and I'm ready to start dreaming of my permaculture garden.


Alan, congratulations! What an exciting time for you. I think it would be great if you would start a new thread in the gardening forum to document your ideas and progress. I think many of us would love to follow along.

my biggest flaw as a gardener is my lack of patience. I just want to go out and dig and plant everything right now! But we still have a few weeks to go....


Every gardener's challenge! lol
 
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What a beautiful thread!  

I'm growing a tiny food forest in Eastern Spain 🇪🇸 and am starting, after three years, to see some signs of my early planning coming to fruition.  

We have a hugel which is not really working yet (too many creatures coming to pull it apart) but I'm going to continue trying.  

We also have two in-ground ponds and two bathtub ponds.

The biodiversity here has increased vastly, so I'm thoroughly enjoying watching everything going on out there each day.

It's a long way from producing even a heavy percentage of the food we eat, but I'm in it for tge long-haul, so that's okay.  I'm not using 'vegetable beds' but mixing mainly perennial fruits and vegetables in with the other plants, a little like an English cottage garden.

Water and heat are big challenges... we are already on a drought warning and I measured 50°c+ on more than one occasion last summer.

Here are some pictures!  
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Beans climbing up a male kiwi plant
Beans climbing up a male kiwi plant
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My first baby peaches!
My first baby peaches!
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Limes, and the beautifully scented flowers
Limes, and the beautifully scented flowers
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We have SO many frogs, dragonflies, snakes and birds using the ponds
We have SO many frogs, dragonflies, snakes and birds using the ponds
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My next job is to clothe the fences with edibles... this is a wine growing area, so there will be more grapevines and possibly fan-trained apples/pears etc
My next job is to clothe the fences with edibles... this is a wine growing area, so there will be more grapevines and possibly fan-trained apples/pears etc
 
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I wish I could show you the garden that I was working on, but the torrential rains have it under water. Yep, washed everything downhill into the pond. The upside of this is that the fish are loving the extra feed and the ducks are loving the fish!
 
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Alan Burnett wrote:Well... after suffocating on a quarter of an acre in the suburbs, I've got my 10 acre homestead, and I'm ready to start dreaming of my permaculture garden.

I took a drone photo of my garden area and got a giant print-out that I put on a big cork board, and use thumbtacks and paper to plan out my plantings. There's a lot to see in the picture below! I want the 'main path' to have a shady insectary/wildlife 'wall' to the south, and an open annual / perennial herb bed to the north. Further north leads to fruit trees and shrubs and a resting / kid play area for the young ones. The northeast corner will be more forested with a canopy layer compared to the more sunny fruit tree area.

The property already has two existing productive apple trees, a happy lilac bush, a happy siberian crabapple tree, a swath of raspberries, and a big bed full of daylilies and irises. Plus about 18 blueberry bushes that produce pretty well but are planted too close together.

There's also a very healthy and very valuable wall white cedar trees on the north side of the property to protect the house and garden against the vicious cold northern winds. I know the fruit trees are going to cast some shade on them but I expect the wall will stay healthy since the same cedars do great in the dense dark forests nearby.

The other picture is how the garden looks today... my biggest flaw as a gardener is my lack of patience. I just want to go out and dig and plant everything right now! But we still have a few weeks to go....



I just want to let you know that there is a computer garden design program called garden planner that you can use to make your design. I used it for both my backyard raised bed garden and our forest garden. They support 3d, so you can get a really good idea about what fits and looks good. You will be able to add plants too it and later print out what you added in list form. It made things a lot easier for me, especially since I keep making little changes to add more plants.
I have attached the plans I made.
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Forest garden
Forest garden
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Backyard raised beds & animals
Backyard raised beds & animals
 
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My garden is pretty much winding down, but the other day I managed to take a few photos of our end of the season pickings.
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picking bucket
picking bucket
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fall daikons
fall daikons
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sweet potato flowers
sweet potato flowers
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Kitty hiding in the sweet potato vines
Kitty hiding in the sweet potato vines
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sweet potato squash
sweet potato squash
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the corn is done but the corn stalks still make good bean poles
the corn is done but the corn stalks still make good bean poles
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bell peppers
bell peppers
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okra blossom
okra blossom
 
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