jonty
Australia
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 8:14 pm Post subject: How old is your garden? |
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I have been looking at the beautiful pictures of everyone's gardens and wondered how long it took you to create your masterpiece.
My apartment pot plant garden is a pretty little baby at three years old.
Looking forward to hearing your story. 
Best wishes
Jonty
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marlingardener
Central Texas, zone 8
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Jonty, we have three vegetable gardens, all of which are four years old; two herb beds, one two years old and the other three; one backyard flower bed that is four years old; one front yard flower bed that is two and the other two beds are three years old.
Some of the plants in the flower beds are older than the beds. When we moved from town I brought cuttings and starts with me, including several of my favorite roses.
The orchard area is four years old, but since we are slowly adding trees, some of the area is new this year, and others are two or three years old.
The asparagus bed is three years old and we harvested quite a bit this year, for the first time. Our gardens are truly a work in progress!
Front flower bed ( photo / image / picture from marlingardener's Garden )
half of large vegetable garden ( photo / image / picture from marlingardener's Garden )
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Pianolady
Zone 5a USA
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I've lived at our current residence 14 years now, but some of the landscape is from when I grew up here as a child, so I know it's at least from back in the 1970's. I've added gardens , ripped them out (transplant most), and been in various stages since then.
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cherylad
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S. Liberty County - Texas
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The lily beds in front of the house have been there since my childhood. Last spring I planted the flower bed in the front yard.
Some of the plants I've had for years... just didn't live in a place I could plant them. But my garden area was just started this spring! So basically my garden is only a few months old!
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Jerry Sullivan
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Chelmsford MA
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We planted the first flower bed in 1978, the first plant, a Veronica spicata is still where I planted it 33 years ago.
Jerry
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Netty
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Southern Ontario zone 5a
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My gardens range in age from 1-8 years. I seem to add a new one each year!
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Capt Kirk
Ohio, USA
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Most of my beds are between 20 and 30 years old. I do have one Mock Orange bush that probably dates back to the early 1800. This land was first recorded at the court house in 1836. The Mock Orange is right near where the original homestead once stood. I know where the basement was. When they put in my septis system, they dug into the original cistern. It was made of brick and was perfectly round and was plastered on the inside. I knew it was there, but had forgotten about it.
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Philip Nulty
The Midlands,Ireland
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I moved into my present house in 2004,..there was just grass in the garden back then,..so after 7 years its nearly looking the way i want it.
( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden )
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carolyn keiper
northern ohio
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| Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 12:42 am Post subject: |
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The garden was here when we moved here. We've been here 20 years. We still garden in the original garden (and then some).
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jonty
Australia
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| Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 12:52 am Post subject: |
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This is just fantastic,thank you for your interesting stories and beautiful gardens, can now look at them with more knowledge as to age in your location, love it!
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eileen
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Scotland
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We moved here 26 years ago and we didn't have anything that you'd call a garden.  My daughter (two years old at the time) kept getting 'lost' in the chest high grass and weeds.  There was an old, mouse infested, broken down aviary covered in ivy and not much else. Now after lots of hard work we've created a wildlife friendly, organic garden that looks like this:
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KK Ng
Malacca, Malaysia.
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I started just about 4 years ago and I called it a mini-farm I had no experience and interest at all at that time, just wanted to reduce my cholesterol level because I just hate exercising. Now I can never get enough of it, it is interesting and very rewarding.
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Kay
Lincoln, Nebraska
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 12:22 am Post subject: |
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It's fun to hear everyone's stories! 
We moved to our current home in the fall of 2006, so I began gardening in the spring of 2007.
I had a pretty blank slate to work with, as the previous owner of 40 years must not have wanted any part of gardening. There were just the 7 trees, and some big Yews, all but 3 of those have since been removed. I have been doing a bit each year. I am trying to focus on shrubs to create the backbones, and create privacy...of course I get sidetracked onto all kinds of plants  It's just so much fun.
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dooley
Texas
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 1:09 am Post subject: |
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We just moved to this place a year ago. It was all woods and the owner just bulldozed an area for the mobile home. We fenced the lot to keep out dogs, deer and other wildlife. I've been cutting roots, digging stumps and trying to get a garden started. I have a small vegetable garden in the back and a yard with small trees for our dog and in the front I've planted some trees and made three flower beds, so far. I, also, have a vegetable area in the front.
My small garden just keeps getting bigger. I only wanted a small garden. It's dry here and we have to water everything. It takes almost an hour to do it by hand. I don't like to sprinkle stuff.
dooley
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