WAB Members' Garden Photos

[naturelover]

Originally Posted by kshotton45

Hi, naturelover. I'll have a go at guiding you through the process. It's one of those things that's hard until you've done it the once!
At the top of the screen select 'Gallery'
select 'Upload'
Select 'Browse'
now you can search your own hard drive to find and select the file you need.
Then scroll down and find 'Image title' and give your photo a name.
Scroll down further to the 'Category' and scroll that down to near the bottom of the list and select 'Forum Image'
At the very bottom click on 'Submit' - then wait for your image to load.
Scroll to ' Forum Image Code' now copy this code , go back to your message and paste it in the message.
You should have a photo to show us !
I look forwards to it !!

Keith.

thankyou keith i will give it a go after dinner and boy if i manage to do it there will be lots and lots of garden and wild life,keep your fingers crossed for me as i am a bit thick when it comes to p.c. betty.

[kshotton45]

Originally Posted by naturelover

thankyou keith i will give it a go after dinner and boy if i manage to do it there will be lots and lots of garden and wild life,keep your fingers crossed for me as i am a bit thick when it comes to p.c. betty.

Hey Betty ! What went wrong !!!

[kshotton45]

Originally Posted by Dan Salter

Excellent Keith ! the members of WAB are genius ! first we had the "woolwells"..great , simple idea...then ( ok it wasnt our idea but hey) the Wildlife Tower ( stack of pallets thing) and now growing house bricks !....splendid.
I am lucky enough to have around 20 or more of these type of bricks kicking around...i think they are called engineering bricks? either way...they have 3 holes in like you said. I shall give it a go. ( have a large wildlife garden / pond project planned for next year)

I've just 'trawled' back through all the garden photos, They're all cracking plots !
Dan, I was after your references to the 'woolwells' and the Wildlife tower, where are they ?

Keith.

[nightshade]

Woolwells were mentioned in a thread; wild life gardening works
Towers are somewhere on this thread I think

[kshotton45]

A few more photos of planted bricks............................
I went into the garden and rounded up my brick collection! As you can see,the colours vary depending on where they were sited. Some were sheltered, some had more sun and less water etc. Some have empty holes where the birds/squirrels/cats/sun have destroyed them.



The next photo may look just like a few Sedums planted in an old Bonsai dish ...........
Here's the story - I had some odd pieces left over and decided to experiment with them. I filled the Bonsai dish with pebbles and filled the gaps in with silver sand. Then I planted them to see just how harsh the conditions had to be to finish them off! But...........the first time that I watered them all the sand washed out through the bottom!!
The plants you're looking at have been there for over 4 years. I did site them in a bit of shade. In last years heat, they virtually died, but here they are, probably looking the most healthy of the lot! and they're still only growing in pebbles! Look carefully at the nearest corner and you can see one of the larger pebbles - in fact it's a small stone.




This last photo is of 3 hand made ridge tiles (over 100 years old from a place where I worked). So I turned them into a planter. The bottoms are not too well sealed and over the past 6 years the ants have been steadily emptying the soil from the base. As the soil level sank, the plants tried to grow up! At the moment the ants are winning, but I'm going to step in one day, as they deserve to survive.




Keith.

[naturelover]

hi keith as always i did something wrong they have gone into ( my Gallery,my images )also they are much too big you loose half of the picture when you click on,dont know what i have done but there you are thats me,i dont know how to get them on here,you are welcome to have a look if you want to, by the way i love your bricks, betty.

[kshotton45]

Originally Posted by naturelover

hi keith as always i did something wrong they have gone into ( my Gallery,my images )also they are much too big you loose half of the picture when you click on,dont know what i have done but there you are thats me,i dont know how to get them on here,you are welcome to have a look if you want to, by the way i love your bricks, betty.

I don't think you're far off. Find the photo in the 'my images ' section, double click on it and it'll open to full size. Scroll down and you'll find the 'Forum Image Code'. When you initially upload, that's where your images are stored.
If you paste the code in a message, it will display the photo on the thread when you click on 'Submit reply'.
I think it may display the image full size initially, but the sites software will resize it (I think).
Keep trying Keith.

[colincurry]

Originally Posted by jennyb

Colin, what a lovely set of photos. Since I started taking "Macro" (I hesitate to use that word after the "macro" thread!) photos of flowers I have realised how exquisite some of our flowers are. Each is a work of art in itself and some so tiny that you can hardly see them with the naked eye. By taking "macro" shots, it is possible to really study the intricacies.

Your garden must be a mass of colour at this time of year - any photos of the garden itself?

Jenny

Well, Jenny, you asked for it!

I have tried to give a flavour of our garden which is larger than average for an estate house, but not that large. The layout is quite strange but makes for an interesting set up with several small gardens appearing as you change perspective. There is a normal back garden on the west side of the house that ran down to a fence with a gate leading to the garage forecourt. Beyond the forecourt and alongside the further garage wall was a long strip of garden averaging 6 feet wide and which we could not see from the house because of the fence. We took the fence down and converted it into two double pairs of gates that then ran on from the main fence separating us from the accessway. This had the advantage of including the narrow strip within the visible part of the garden and providing privacy when working in or outside the garage. There is also a 6 foot strip of garden running along the western side of the house.

This first view is from the back door straight down the garden



The next is from half way down the back garden and across to the garage - note the heron



This is from the same view point but squarely across to the eastern fence



This is a reverse view to the back door from just inside where the original fence used to be



This is from the garage forecourt and shows the planting where the original back fence used to be - you can catch a glimpse of the 40 foot ash tree that came with house. There is a honeysuckle in the foreground and a pair of blackbirds reared two broods in a nest that was 3 feet from the back gate. They seemed quite unaware of the traffic.



This is a shot from the front of the garage across to the eastern side of the house and plot, and shows our 'water feature' - I was not permitted to consult Charlie Dimmock. The fir tree was given by a friend whose son planted the seeds from a cone brought back from Tenerife - I expect this was illegal at the time but the tree seems happy enough



Now we are looking up the eastern side of the house. We keep the water butt and compost bins here but they are obscured. There used to be grass all along here. We originally took up most, leaving a path and using the rest for vegetables. Poor sunlight and aridity made this hard work with not much return. So we decided to make something of a dry garden that would still allow us to get to the butt and bins. It also cut down the level of gardening - we are both (very active) pensioners - so this was a practical decision all round.



Here we look from the east towards the garage. Two sets of great tits reared broods in the nestbox on the wall



This shows the garage forecourt and the 'wild' garden that we have started at the bottom of the garden - our wild flower seed was not very successful, but we shall persevere



Finally, this is our fruit and veg part alongside the garage. My guv'nor has had good crops of lettuce, radish, beetroot, raspberries and broad beans. The cultivated thornless blackberry has just started to produce fruit. I have built a small fruit cage on one side, and our latest venture is the raised bed on the right. Right at the bottom, are some rhubarb, two hawthorns and a hazel



No doubt things will change and the aim is to make the soil invisible.

Colin

[jennyb]

Colin, that's a really interesting garden. You've got a bit of everything!

Jenny

[colincurry]

Originally Posted by jennyb

Colin, that's a really interesting garden. You've got a bit of everything!

Jenny

Thanks Jenny - all we need now are muntjac and roe deer

Colin