Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

I can hardly believe it, and maybe you can’t either, ;-) but I might be able to top all previous recommendations:

Lonicera similis var. delavayi

I first planted two specimens in August last year to see if and how they stay evergreen through the winter and have now ordered four more plants. According to current planning, these will not be the last.

It is referred to as a "novelty," although I don’t know how to interpret this designation. Please feel free to write to me about the disadvantages of this plant, as it seems perfect to me so far.

Plant passport attached.

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It’s not really new. That’s marketing. It is simply evergreen and climbs. Otherwise, it has little to offer ecologically. If it doesn’t have to be evergreen, native honeysuckles are better.

I’ll also throw the field rose into the ring.

Hello everyone,
I am new here and want to join the discussion. I haven’t read all 437 pages – but so many amazing gardens have been presented here, incredible! Unfortunately, it will still take some time before we can tackle the topic "garden" – we are just at the very beginning and only have the appointment with the notary next week.

What I really like: you all grow so many things to harvest yourselves, I will definitely steal a lot of tips from you here.
One question at the end: What was/is your absolute must-have in the garden? Whatever it is, whether greenhouse, whirlpool/pool, tomato plantation – what has an indispensable added value for you?

Best regards

For me, an absolutely essential thing is a seat in the shade, an herb garden, and a small vegetable garden.
Personally, it was also important to me to compact and concretize as little as possible. Of course, you can't see that, but it gives me joy (especially during heavy rain when the neighbors fear that the water will come over the threshold. For me, it seeps away quite quickly under the terrace). For that reason, I have more (weed) herbs on the terrace, which in turn are easier to remove because the substrate is looser.

Furthermore, if the house allows it, I would also plan the kitchen by the terrace.

In my opinion, a pool is overrated. Mostly it just deteriorates. A pool requires a lot of maintenance and costs a lot to set up and quite a bit to maintain. If I could, I would create a large natural swimming pond.

Important to me are native plants and the associated animals. Furthermore, the compost heap is almost indispensable for me. With the compost, I boosted my vegetable bed in spring. That was great, a little self-contained cycle. :-)

Indispensable for me is a covered terrace to be able to sit outside even in the rain. And my garden pond, where so many animals live, nothing is fed there, it is its own biotope.

What was/is your absolute must-have in the garden?

If I disregard the must-have of the covered terrace that belongs to the house, and I may only name one must-have for the garden, then it is a cozy corner for lounge chairs in green and varied planting with some shrubs and bushes so that this corner is not visible from outside.

Pool and (flowering) plants. Both help me to unwind. I like my chaos. And when a message pops up on the phone saying, "Your garden looks like a Swedish garden. Beautiful," you feel happy.
Hardly any sealed surfaces, it blooms and buzzes.
My tomatoes are important to me. There are 20 varieties this year.