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CheerBearSenior Contributor
Being outside and enjoying the beautiful plants and flowers that are about is definitely something that's keeping me going at the moment, so I thought it might be nice to grow our own garden here where we can all enjoy it.
Please add any pictures, links, chats about anything you're enjoying in your garden, have found on a walk, wish you had in your garden etc. Or just enjoy wandering around 🙂
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Kitty just can not keep away from the Bull Frog, now look at this mess he is in?
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Bubbles3Senior Contributor
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frogSenior Contributor
You are inspiring me @Bubbles3 I have just moved into a tiny terrace with a small courtyard after having a big garden. Herbs are on my must grow list!
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
So glad to see a herb garden here @Bubbles3!
I'm adding some lemon balm to go with the other herbs because it smells so incredibly good!
And planting some tomatoes 🙂
What's you favourite flower @Bubbles3?
Hope you're settling in well @frog 🙂
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Looks like I will plant some catnip for them. They are one big beautiful family of Bengal cats! 
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MaggieSenior Contributor
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
My favourite of the plants in pots in my back courtyard was described to me when I got it as a 'noddy violet'. This is not a plant type I've been able to find easily on the web to show you. It may be a wildflower of some kind. In any case, I have it in a hanging pot and it has grown effusively, overflowing its pot and hanging down beautifully, almost always flowering, over the past year since I've had it. It looks something like this, except mine is wilder and longer...
Near this I have 'mother in laws tongue' (aka 'snake plant') growing in a pot on the ground. It looks something like this...
There is a planter box with a variety of succulents in it, looking something like this (except mine is much more overgrown, the plants are taller, and have grown messier in the box now, also overflowing really...
There's an aloe vera plant in a pot (also for medicinal purposes), looking something like this...
There's also another succulent in a solo pot and two bromeliads. The bromeliads seem sick. I haven't had any luck caring for them. I've passed on the care of them to C, who has a much more luscious pot plant garden in his courtyard, evidence of a greener thumb than mine. But neither of us are having much luck with the bromeliads. Any tips appreciated. 
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MaggieSenior Contributor
@Mazarita@Love the noddy violet, can't find it on the net. @CheerBear@Former-Member@frog@Bubbles3 Just planted some sweet peas in my garden, so I'm putting some in our community garden also.
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
It's so nice watching this garden grow 😊
I took some photos of plants today (some from the garden here and some from other gardens) and wanted to plant:
A different type of daphne, thinking of Maggie
Some Jonquils, thinking of Mazarita
A "Purple Glitter" azalea, thinking of another purple flower person here
And a whole bunch of different flowers (because I don't think we can ever have too many flowers).
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