Our local garden club organized a tour of six gardens in our area and I decided I really wanted to go because I am into gardening and really love seeing the gardens of others. I did not visit all six gardens, but I had a lot of fun and I am now thinking about joining a local garden club maybe since all the garden members at the different locations were very friendly and helpful to answering questions. I saw some amazing gardens!!!
I visited Gardens 3-6. Without further delay, here are the wonderful gardens!
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3. Taverniti Gardens
This garden was my favorite garden. The couple who owns it has worked on it for 20 years to get it to where it is today. All of the big palms were started from seed or from a small little palm. Also most of the rocks are from a gas station lot that was being torn down and the owner of the garden asked if he could have the concrete and they gave it to him for free so he was able to use it to build the waterfall and line pathways. My mom asked one of the garden club members there to answer questions if the owners were rich, but she said no so this is something anyone can do if you have a green thumb. I was lucky enough to talk to the owner and had a great conversation with him. I asked him how he waters all of the plants. Only the gated off gardens (the food gardens) were the ones that he has to have a sprinkler system for. The rest of the garden is hardy tropical plants so that he does not have to really give them much care. I tried to sell him some peacocks since I raise peafowl, and he said he used to have some but they would perch on his plastic greenhouses and scratch up the plastic so he sadly cannot keep them but he wishes he could. I think I would try and go with the tough plastic roof for a greenhouse to keep the peafowl lol. Can you imagine having such a garden to turn your birds into? He has a few chickens. I wonder if he ever lets them out? Well he is supposed to contact me because he knows someone who raises a kind of peafowl I really really want so I really hope he contacts me and I would love to learn more from him. This is my dream garden! So here are the photos...Oh and by the way, the first day I did the garden tours, I forgot my good camera so some of these are phone pictures and some of them are camera photos.
Sorry about the reflection, we were being directed to parking and this was at the entrance to the road to their house. I thought the skeletons added a Pirates of the Caribbean touch but my mom said it is probably to scare away people that turn down their road.
This is the area they have for growing vines.
Here is a passion flower vine growing up one of the fences in the above area. I should definitely think about getting one of these vines!
Here is the same photo but cropped closer on the flower. In my opinion this is one of the most fascinating flowers!
Here is a camp fire area. It sure would be fun to gather around this camp fire at night.
This looks like a path but it is actually a water drainage area. I love all of the ferns growing along the side of it!
Here is all the lush planting along the drainage area. Anyone know the name of that plant with the little red flowers mixed in there with the ferns?
This is a grape vine arbor. I really want a trellis or an arbor with grape vines!
They had a shade garden consisting mainly of clumping bamboo and when the breeze came through the little bamboo limbs would hit the stalks and make neat noises.
I was not sure if you can grow bird of paradise in our area, but to my excitement they had several birds of paradise around the garden.
As I wandered through the garden I found more than just plants, as you can see in this photo of a big tree frog on a philodendron leaf.
They did a lot of neat things with concrete and here is a butterfly stamped into some concrete near a gazebo.
I only saw cannas in one of their gated off gardens. I wish my cannas were this big right now.
Here are the chickens. They were in their own fenced in area with a little coop. I don't know if they are let out but I figure they probably are let out to roam around a bit.
The garden also has a little pond with an aquaponics greenhouse that grows mainly tomatoes.
We saw this little red eared slider in the pond.
This is the pond's waterfall.
Planting near the edge of the pond.
Here is a concrete tree they made to hold air plants. They also had two big concrete trees in the greenhouse (not the aquaponics one but a tropical greenhouse I will show soon).
Daylily- I am thinking about getting some of these because every single garden I visited had these and they looked really good!
Here is another plant I need to be identified. They had several bushes of this near the back of their house.
One of the many palms...This one was my favorite with those huge light green fronds! Anyone know the exact name of this one?
This is about the center of the garden. There is a rock compass on the ground between the palms.
Morning Glory! These were just beautiful climbing on some of the bushes.
Inside the tropical greenhouse...
Some more plant labels that were outside and not in the greenhouse...
Well that is it for garden #3. I will post photos and info of the other gardens later.
I visited Gardens 3-6. Without further delay, here are the wonderful gardens!
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3. Taverniti Gardens
This garden was my favorite garden. The couple who owns it has worked on it for 20 years to get it to where it is today. All of the big palms were started from seed or from a small little palm. Also most of the rocks are from a gas station lot that was being torn down and the owner of the garden asked if he could have the concrete and they gave it to him for free so he was able to use it to build the waterfall and line pathways. My mom asked one of the garden club members there to answer questions if the owners were rich, but she said no so this is something anyone can do if you have a green thumb. I was lucky enough to talk to the owner and had a great conversation with him. I asked him how he waters all of the plants. Only the gated off gardens (the food gardens) were the ones that he has to have a sprinkler system for. The rest of the garden is hardy tropical plants so that he does not have to really give them much care. I tried to sell him some peacocks since I raise peafowl, and he said he used to have some but they would perch on his plastic greenhouses and scratch up the plastic so he sadly cannot keep them but he wishes he could. I think I would try and go with the tough plastic roof for a greenhouse to keep the peafowl lol. Can you imagine having such a garden to turn your birds into? He has a few chickens. I wonder if he ever lets them out? Well he is supposed to contact me because he knows someone who raises a kind of peafowl I really really want so I really hope he contacts me and I would love to learn more from him. This is my dream garden! So here are the photos...Oh and by the way, the first day I did the garden tours, I forgot my good camera so some of these are phone pictures and some of them are camera photos.
Sorry about the reflection, we were being directed to parking and this was at the entrance to the road to their house. I thought the skeletons added a Pirates of the Caribbean touch but my mom said it is probably to scare away people that turn down their road.
This is the area they have for growing vines.
Here is a passion flower vine growing up one of the fences in the above area. I should definitely think about getting one of these vines!
Here is the same photo but cropped closer on the flower. In my opinion this is one of the most fascinating flowers!
Here is a camp fire area. It sure would be fun to gather around this camp fire at night.
This looks like a path but it is actually a water drainage area. I love all of the ferns growing along the side of it!
Here is all the lush planting along the drainage area. Anyone know the name of that plant with the little red flowers mixed in there with the ferns?
This is a grape vine arbor. I really want a trellis or an arbor with grape vines!
They had a shade garden consisting mainly of clumping bamboo and when the breeze came through the little bamboo limbs would hit the stalks and make neat noises.
I was not sure if you can grow bird of paradise in our area, but to my excitement they had several birds of paradise around the garden.
As I wandered through the garden I found more than just plants, as you can see in this photo of a big tree frog on a philodendron leaf.
They did a lot of neat things with concrete and here is a butterfly stamped into some concrete near a gazebo.
I only saw cannas in one of their gated off gardens. I wish my cannas were this big right now.
Here are the chickens. They were in their own fenced in area with a little coop. I don't know if they are let out but I figure they probably are let out to roam around a bit.
The garden also has a little pond with an aquaponics greenhouse that grows mainly tomatoes.
We saw this little red eared slider in the pond.
This is the pond's waterfall.
Planting near the edge of the pond.
Here is a concrete tree they made to hold air plants. They also had two big concrete trees in the greenhouse (not the aquaponics one but a tropical greenhouse I will show soon).
Daylily- I am thinking about getting some of these because every single garden I visited had these and they looked really good!
Here is another plant I need to be identified. They had several bushes of this near the back of their house.
One of the many palms...This one was my favorite with those huge light green fronds! Anyone know the exact name of this one?
This is about the center of the garden. There is a rock compass on the ground between the palms.
Morning Glory! These were just beautiful climbing on some of the bushes.
Inside the tropical greenhouse...
Some more plant labels that were outside and not in the greenhouse...
Well that is it for garden #3. I will post photos and info of the other gardens later.
