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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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PatchouliRoseSenior Contributor
@CheerBear Thanks for the lovely compliment. Yes we have an extremely large yard even if you don't count the neighbors yard who we bought our home from which we take care of and has roses and a lilic bush and a mulberry tree. 🙂 Mulberry's are delicious. The best part or one of the best parts of all of that is that the yard our yard is well the backyard is completely fenced in so the dogs can roam around it anytime they like to and also chase birds and cats though the cats have learned to stay out of the yard now lol but that to me is very important, I cannot handle seeing dogs on chains outside year round but the dogs being able to run around is important too! 🙂 Keep on the sunny side of life~
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PatchouliRoseSenior Contributor
@frog That looks like a pine tree. Good luck! 🙂
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PatchouliRoseSenior Contributor
@Shaz51 Thank you. 🙂
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If anyone is planning a visit to the nation's capital from 30 June to 29 July there is a 'Warm Trees' installation at the National Arboretum - knitted flora and fauna of NZ.
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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PatchouliRoseSenior Contributor
@CheerBear I don't think that we do have magpies. We are very near three bird migratory spots. So we have a ton of birds come through every year. Ground thrushes are nice. A friend recently spotted a pair of humming birds in her yard. We had yellow billed black birds in our neighborhood. There were thousands of them. Peace out. Gotta take Frida out!
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
Mulberry's are delicious @PatchouliRose, we had a mulberry tree and my dog Tara used to go and eat them on the ground and she would have a big mulberry smile , she loved avacado , she would break them open and eat them 
Hello @CheerBear, @Former-Member, @Maggie, @frog, wonderful memories 
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
@ShanghaiMetro ..... 👋
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PatchouliRoseSenior Contributor
@Shaz51 There was a mulberry tree in our yard when I was a kid and my dad, brother and i would put a white sheet under it and shake the limbs until as many berries fell of as we needed to eat that day. Mmm. Mulberries. I should go check on our tree. I'll put that on my to do list! 🙂
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
Mulberries, yummmmm @PatchouliRose 
Hello @CheerBear, @Faith-and-Hope, @Former-Member, @Maggie
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