Cannoisseuras
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Thats a beautiful piece
Radogast's Non-420 Garden Creation Thread
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The yard is coming together quite nicely Rad!!
I came across something I just had to share with you. I know you've got a sweet spot for glass so I think you will enjoy. My wife was down in Italy and picked this up for me last week. Hand made Murano glass. Saving it for a super special smoke session!
Isn't that just gorgeous. The young lady of the house said "I know what I'm buying next time I go to Venice!"
I've had my eye tuned in to Murano glass for years.
Just for fun I went to look at Murano Glass at the Antique store in New Orleans Murano Glass Water Fountain - Venetian, from M.S. Rau Antiques - YouTube
RheinRover
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Thank you!
I must say it was quite the surprise, I had no idea they made pipes.
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The volunteer sunflowers (from birdseed) have formed nice border along our front sidewalks
The tiny bees love them
Not outside, but we have a lot of these little praying mantis right now. I even saw one in my basement.
This hummingbird was taking a bath in our front fountain
The tiny bees love them
Not outside, but we have a lot of these little praying mantis right now. I even saw one in my basement.
This hummingbird was taking a bath in our front fountain
What a delightful area you've created there Rad. Wildlife gravitate to Snow White's home, don't they? 
I absolutely love the fountains, particularly the one with the bench next to it. Have you visited KR's off-topic garden? If not, I suggest you track him down. You two think alike in many respects.
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The front porch floor after scraping, planing, sanding, and painting.
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Well since you asked ... Backyard Garden Update
My typical morning, before or after breakfast, starts by stepping out on the back porch, turning on the fountain pump, and taking a scan of the yard.
Beside the porch is a garden arch with papyrus and moonflower vines (grown as annuals.) The moonflowers have yet to take off.
Beside the house, my wife and I like to poke and prod the morning glory vines into position.
Then do the same for the morning glory vines in the back yard.
Just past the morning glories are hollyhocks, started from seed this spring.
Turning towards the fountain, the flies really like the red yarrow - which is good. It keeps them off us!
Partly because I will be putting in a paver patio soon, and partly because of a hailstorm, I've been harvesting the yarrow in batches.
I've also been using ,my old clonebucket to start some lemon verbena cuttings (planted yesterday) and some rock rose type weed I scavenged from our robohamster friend's yard.
The first stage in drying yarrow is as flowers in the front entryway.
The silver lace vine was the first vine to reach the top of the trellis. A morning glory is growing with it.
I was planning for many more vines, but I ran out of steam shopping for plants, so planted morning glory seeds everywhere.
I've also started chopping back the comfrey. I took it down from 5' to knee high about 10 days ago and it came back like a weed.
Roma tomato in front of the butterfly bush planted last fall.
One of 5 chili plants scattered in the back yard.
Spotted Joe Pye weed in front of sage.
Corn (it was knee high by Fourth of July) with some volunteer tomato plants. There are 3 other tomato plants in the yard.
Tassels just showed up 2 days ago. I guess I should read about assisiting fertilization, athough the bugs seem to be on the job.
Thunderstorm from 4AM until 6AM this morning knocked down one of the tall sunflowers
So I tied up the sunflower.
Sunflowers standing back up in a row.
As I go back inside, look back to see a scruffy looking robin on the arbor trellis in upper left - seconds before he was using the second tier of the fountain as a bird bath.
Ya know.... I was envisioning your back garden as a much more artistic kinda space with plant bits well manicured and designed more for aesthetic importance.
I see now that the jungle model is afoot. Very nice indeed! Busy busy busy!
I see now that the jungle model is afoot. Very nice indeed! Busy busy busy!
It's starting to look a lot like I envisioned it. You have a very similar style to a neighbor I had when I was a kid. They had an antique business and their home was filled will all kinds of treasures. I didn't understand at the time how they could spend so much time gardening and not have the neatly manicured, evenly spaced plants like I had always seen. It was more of a natural look but with well defined spaces that were great for kids to play around and explore. I'm sure the adults enjoyed it too. It seems like they were always out on a bench in the evenings enjoying some wine. Yours will be an amazing space very soon.
RheinRover
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Beautiful update Rad! Happy to see such an abundance of flowers, after that dismal year you had in the NE.
Like a few others have said when I first think of a garden I imagine straight rows with neatly trimmed grass blah blah you get the idea. Well thats changed, I love how free and flowing things are. I can hear the water drip and the leaves blowing. Even better when I look at your yard I see fun and love. Not something you bitch about that must be cut every Saturday and weeds pulled so your jackass neighbor is happy.
Like a few others have said when I first think of a garden I imagine straight rows with neatly trimmed grass blah blah you get the idea. Well thats changed, I love how free and flowing things are. I can hear the water drip and the leaves blowing. Even better when I look at your yard I see fun and love. Not something you bitch about that must be cut every Saturday and weeds pulled so your jackass neighbor is happy.
That's my kinda place. Good job Rad.
Another year or two and you'll have the foundation plants all set. That red yarrow is a dream. We have yarrow planted as a decorative in the local shopping district, but it's typical yellow and pinks. They have a nice lavender plant right next to it. That's my first viewing of red. That's what I like about your family, you never take the path well-traveled. Lol!
Wonderful job on that porch. Makes the chest puff a little every time you walk across it, right? Go ahead, you can admit it.
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That's my kinda place. Good job Rad.
That red yarrow is a dream. We have yarrow planted as a decorative in the local shopping district, but it's typical yellow and pinks. They have a nice lavender plant right next to it. That's my first viewing of red. That's what I like about your family, you never take the path well-traveled. Lol!
Wonderful job on that porch. Makes the chest puff a little every time you walk across it, right? Go ahead, you can admit it.
Close up, the red yarrow has a purple cast to it. I was reading that yellow/white yarrow was the original color and that purple/Red Yarrow is only popular in the United States. I have white (short) yarrow the other side of the fountain and yellow (medium) yarrow in the bed beside the front porch. I'm thinking of dividing the red (tall) yarrow and planting some of it in front. It had longer lasting, much showier blooms than the other two. The yellow yarrow might be stronger next year. It was was planted this spring, while the other two were planted last fall.
The porch paint has just a touch of sand texture which gives stability as well as a touch of stimulation to the bare feet. I haven't noticed my chest puff out, but I have felt like the porch was a noble dais raised above the masses on the sidewalk below
It's almost large enough to perform a stage play. We had 8 teenagers on the double bench side of the porch last night and I was able to sit at the other end and avoid them
We had 8 teenagers on the double bench side of the porch last night and I was able to sit at the other end and avoid them
I like the yardstick you use to size up that situation. Put some fans in to blow the sweaty young one's 'odors' the other direction.
Locally, we see lots of ceiling fans on front porches... it helps keep the bugs away. I think you need a few... but I'm generally a touch too opinionated.
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I had ceiling fans in Arizona, but this black fan from the swamps of Massachusetts works darn good.
Not pictured, but I have a large square of plastic screen and magnets to hold the screen on the intake side. In times of high bugs, the flying things get sucked up against the screen and are held helpless.
We have many, lemony, minty, catnip, and other mosquito repellant plants in the ground near the porch.
I recently made a couple of clones of the lemon verbena, and plan to divide or clone some more plants. Barely seen a mosquito this year, and we've had lots of rain.
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Notes from the front door :
Yellow finches look great on yellow sunflowers
When the rain falls straight down. The canopy of a tree makes a very good umbrella
Yellow finches look great on yellow sunflowers
When the rain falls straight down. The canopy of a tree makes a very good umbrella
gtrmike470
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Thought I'd throw my veggie garden in here. I'm in Ontario. The cherry tomatoes on the left would've been an absolute monster if I had not come home from the weekend and found it laying on the ground last week. I'm lucky she's alive. Aside from that, wow. 4 site RDWC, 8 site NFT, and a passive DW tub.
. I love growing things. All things. Very zen. 
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Thought I'd throw my veggie garden in here. I'm in Ontario.. I love growing things. All things. Very zen.
Thanks for sharing. I like the looks of the plants in the tube - brussel sprouts? (I have very little experience growing food.)
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Today in the back garden.
A monarch on the butterfly bush- it spent about 15 minutes there.
The first Morning Glories opened up today
The tall sunflowers are just over 10 feet high. Growing 4-6" per day. They survived major winds and thunderstorms last night.
The corn was knee high 4th of July, now just about 6' tall
There are actual corn shaped husks growing on the cornstalks. I've never grown corn before
A monarch on the butterfly bush- it spent about 15 minutes there.
The first Morning Glories opened up today
The tall sunflowers are just over 10 feet high. Growing 4-6" per day. They survived major winds and thunderstorms last night.
The corn was knee high 4th of July, now just about 6' tall
There are actual corn shaped husks growing on the cornstalks. I've never grown corn before
RheinRover
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Hey Rad are you having any issues with the Japanese Beatles this year? Heard they are out in force. Had a few friends gardens hit pretty bad.