Garden. What do you think? (No gardening desires required)

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The word "garden" is drastically different around the world.

Last winter I was watching a gardening show from England. They think trees and grass is "garden." I mean like they actually pick trees -- big ones and huge ones and take them to their land to plant them. Where I lived, in America, trees are usually either there or they're not. If we buy a tree, it's usually a small tree -- fruit tree or willow. Or maybe we'll buy a live Christmas tree, and after Christmas is over plant it in the yard. We don't go our of our way for an elm, or a birch, or a chestnut tree. (It's rare to see birch around here.) Trees were already there when we buy the property, and our chief goal is to not have to take it down if it dies, and hope it doesn't crash into the house.

Mar is from such an exotic place, that she thinks tropical plants are the only kinds of plants there are. She's posted pictures of plants I've never seen before. Even fruits and vegetables. Ever try to explain the taste of a potato to someone? Well, I'm not all that sure she's eaten a potato, but she keeps showing plants that kind of look like potatoes, but they're growing on branches, instead of underground. And, poor lady, I'm asking what it taste like, and since neither of us eats the same kinds of food, it's a miracle if she can come up with a plant I've eaten to say, "it taste something like that, but..."

Now, I live in the Midlantic States. When we say "garden," most people think of two plants first -- tomatoes and peppers. I live across the river from The Garden State. (New Jersey.) If you ever see a sign for "The Garden State," there is going to be a tomato on there. You can grow a tomato in Virginia, but it's not a Jersey tomato. Illinois had the blackest soil I've ever seen in my life. Not dark brown -- black! You can grow a tomato there, but it's not a Jersey tomato. I can grow a tomato in my yard, but not a Jersey Tomato. Brandywine. A tomato created not far from here. It's good. It's really good, but it's not a Jersey tomato. (That stuff you buy at the store isn't really a Jersey tomato. That's a commercial tomato.) They also have orchards for apples and peaches.

I knew a woman in Hawaii. she grew passionfruit and bananas. And she hated wild boar because they like passion plants. That was her garden vermin. Ours are squirrels.

And people in the desert in the Southwest think cacti and agave is a garden.

So, when you think "garden," what do you think?
 
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Hmm interesting well I guess it would be a place used for the cultivation, this could be of manmade garden or say a universe garden.
 
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Go for it. What does Eden look like in your mind? I keep picturing a Northeastern American park with apple and peach trees added. For all I know, a banana tree could have been growing right next to a birch. lol

So how do you imagine Eden looking like?
 
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Hmm interesting well I guess it would be a place used for the cultivation, this could be of manmade garden or say a universe garden.
But what do you picture, when imagining the word "garden?"
 
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Wait. Venison comes into your yard and you're not thrilled at what's for dinner? :eek:

(We'd be eating squirrel for dinner if my next door neighbor wasn't 8-16 feet away. lol)
 
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Lots of flowing rivers of water - and the lion eating straw' - and the desert blossoming as the rose' -
we each may/can sometimes get glimpse of a 'non-fallen-garden', this is a heavenly gift to be cherished...
 
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Lots of flowing rivers of water - and the lion eating straw' - and the desert blossoming as the rose' -
we each may/can sometimes get glimpse of a 'non-fallen-garden', this is a heavenly gift to be cherished...
See there? I just never imagine a desert in a garden either. lol
 
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It depends on who is using the term and what context the conversation is in. If I am talking to folks around my local area, the word "garden" makes me think immediately of a vegetable garden. If I am talking to someone else in a different conversation, the term "garden" might make me think about manicured grass, shrubs, bushes trimmed into animal shapes, fountains, and the like.
 
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Garden to me means that green stuff outside the window, which very soon will
need mowing, weeding, and hedge cutting!

This was the front bit just as the leaves were dropping off everything.

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Go for it. What does Eden look like in your mind? I keep picturing a Northeastern American park with apple and peach trees added. For all I know, a banana tree could have been growing right next to a birch. lol

So how do you imagine Eden looking like?

This is the Eden project in the Uk.

What's here - Eden Project, Cornwall
 
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One thing I have learned....for Americans - if it has 4 legs or wings, you eat it! :p
 

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I have 4 raised bed veggie gardens. Last year I got more produce than you could imagine, all of it so sweet and good!

In Canada, we usually designate what type of garden it is. So I also have flower gardens, and various beds, and a large rose garden.

I would have an orchard, if we only had a bit more room for growing.

The deers destroyed my garden the first year. Despite netting, they picked the ripe tomatoes off the vines. So hubby bought heavy wire, 8 foot stakes, strung it all around all of my gardens, and no more eating my gardens!
 

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Well you can either have a vegetable, fruit garden or flower garden or a rock garden or a Zen garden or a secret garden that only you know about it and it has beautiful flowers and good food and your Husband and kid's can't find you when you're in there.

I can dream right?
 

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Well I live in the Phoenix area. Most folks are transplants. So we have a variety of different ideas of what a garden is . My wife and I have what most would call a semi conventional American garden. We have tomatoes,squash, spinach ,chilies (jalapeño habanero peppers) and cucumbers. We also have several prickly pears cactu plants that can be used to make a cactus salad called nopal . It's pretty good too .
Blessings
Bill

 

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One thing I have learned....for Americans - if it has 4 legs or wings, you eat it! :p
Yep that's what we here in the States call fast food. Ha ha ha
Blessings
Bill
 

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You know why there aren't as many birch trees as there used to be? My husband and I tore all their bark off when we were kids.