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[ SECRET POST #3919 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3919 ⌋

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[The Magnus Archives Podcast]

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[Somali to Mori no Kami-sama]

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[Christopher from an old season of Project Runway]

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Someone was asking if FS had any gardeners the other day and a few people responded, so I've got a question for FS's green thumbs--if you could design and plant your ideal garden, what would you grow in it? Where would you plant it? Would you have a greenhouse? A waterfall? A giant hydroponic weed operation in a warehouse? Grow two hundred varieties of tomato? Recreate a famous garden? Creep out your neighbors with a lawn gnome collection?

My goal is a kind of permaculture backyard, where there's a lot more things growing that I can eat (or the birds, etc. can eat) than there is grass. I want more fruit trees, and eventually hope to have a few paths between the growing things that are made of wood chips or stones, so the ground is protected and getting built up. I have some things already planted, and I'm on the way, but it will take some time, and the plan may change along the way. Most of what I want to grow is fruit trees, berry bushes, asparagus: stuff I actually want to eat and won't go to waste. I don't like green peppers, hot peppers, a lot of things that grow easily in a tiny backyard garden that has to be replanted every year. Tomatoes are great, but a few tomatoes go a long way for me. I do plan to grow lettuce and a few annuals every year, and hope to introduce some wildflowers if I can as well.

I don't know if it will turn out as "proper" permaculture, but the idea of building up the soil and growing as much as possible in the space I have, like a natural system, a forest, which is perfectly healthy even with things planted closely together (and perhaps because of it). I've been inspired by reading and watching things about permaculture, and right now a huge inspiration is Colette O'Neill with her YouTube channel (Bealtaine Cottage), especially how she says to plant and let the earth decide what will grow, and to trust your intuition, and try things and find out. She basically grew a whole forest on worn-out land in less than twenty years without being an expert or listening to experts. She's very much about Mother Earth and healing the planet, and it's kind of amazing. I used to think stuff like that was kind of wacky but it's really speaking to me lately, especially as I'm so fed up with the way men in general and the masculine attitude of needing to "dominate" the earth seems so destructive. I want to work with the earth as much as I can, the way she does.

I have a lot less land, and am a lot more focused on growing fruit. It's really important for me to grow things; it seems to be something I need, emotionally as well as physically. (It's good exercise, if I pace myself and don't overdue, and I eat more healthily when I'm growing things myself.)

There's more but this is long enough!

Yeah I love the idea of permaculture but there's not enough natural water here for more than chaparral, so I want to plant the park strip and front yard with mostly drought tolerant plants and save the water hogging fruit and veggies and flowers for the back yard. There's a native oak and a native walnut out front already, but I want to add native currants and elderberries and maybe a native cherry. Macadamia, mulberry and olive aren't native, but can take some drought, so if I can fit them in I will. Good luck with your food forest.

Oh wow. It would be enormous and have many different parts, like outdoor rooms. I'd want a kitchen garden with tons of herbs, vegetables, etc. but done in an edible landscaping way. SO MANY heirloom tomatoes. Several fruit orchards, especially apples and cherries. A huge greenhouse where I'd keep lemon, lime, orange and avocado trees in winter. Hell yes to the waterfall. Japanese tea garden, complete with a tea house. A moss garden. A medieval garden. A hedge maze with creepy statues and dead ends. An English cottage garden. A garden that's just different types of greens for amazing salads. A night garden with fragrant flowers that bloom at night. A secret garden that's walled and has a locked door hidden behind a wall of ivy.

That sounds really lovely!

So you want to run a botanical display garden? I hope you have enough land and time to pull it off someday.

I guess that is what it sounds like, huh? It's not intentional it's just that I'm very indecisive and could never pick just one gardening style because they all seem so cool to me. If I were rich this would be what I'd spend my millions on... a beautiful house that I'd design myself and acres and acres of gardens.

nayrt, but...

Have you ever been to Dumbarton Oaks? Because it's almost exactly what you dream of. Or maybe some of the other gardens on Mount Desert Island. Beatrix Farrand, who designed Dumbarton Oaks, also worked on Thuya Garden and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden at Seal Harbor

Right now I am thinking of how you could incorporate a moon garden, medieval paradise garden, or secret garden into a hedge maze...

A little moss garden with pretty mushrooms and lichens here and there, and tiny waterfalls into a dainty pool lined with colorful pebbles. And strategically placed bonsai trees for maximum cuteness.

I'd love to do a keyhole garden: https://www.niftyhomestead.com/blog/keyhole-garden/ and then have the rest be drought tolerant. Maybe a few espaliered fruit trees.

Recreate the list of plants from Datura by Tori Amos, hahaha!

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