Garden picture exchange!

Early morning photo of my front yard. 10th of April, the herbs in the 'herb spiral' are coming on well. Rosemary is even blooming, as is the Red Currant bush (but those flowers are barely visible).

Wow,
I really enjoyed you garden pics, and its inspired me.

I am not allowed to build a structure on my urban block where I would like to.
So I have been day dreaming recently about making a LIVING structure, and trying to find ways of turning trees into sheds, or covered gatehouse or verandah etc.

So your deadwood huts and  frames have encouraged me to think LONG TERM and make the living structure from vines over trees or such.  All possible just need to be patient, design well and stay patient.

Anyone else done this I wonder.

Wow, I just love the rustic-city! and calm your garden, and there appeared to be something familiar.
Then i noticed you from France, then the Ah Ha, that's it, I have enjoyed the rustic lavish French garden style for years, and now your garden. Thank you for sharing, despite these pics being years ago.

Alex, I agree, to the point that I just posted that same thinking prior to reading your post.
There is a certain style about French farm gardens etc. I love it.

From some years ago but had nice outcome.

Hi fellow artists!  We need some of your great artwork, photography and/or quotes to add to products on our new online Permies.com stores!

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/permies and https://www.cafepress.com/permies

For more info on this please see this thread started by Mr. Wheaton: https://permies.com/t/174446/Throw-permaculture-art-pile-dedicated

You will need to grant permission for us to add your images, etc... to sell on products on the stores. However you are NOT giving up all your rights for your images/quotes, just "non-exclusive" rights for them to be used/sold on our store's products.

We can only use art/quotes that YOU fully have the rights to and created...not other people's art. The best images would be 300dpi and as large as you can provide us with...and if possble saved as a transparent PNG, but that is not written in stone!  Any of your works are greatly appreciated!

Again, please see this thread https://permies.com/t/174446/Throw-permaculture-art-pile-dedicated for where to send your art/quotes and "permission".

I can't wait to see what you all come up with!  Thanks again and God bless! Rose Santuci-Sofranko

Hi Mark,
Thank you for your inspirational post encouraging people to show their gardens. I’m based is Essex in the UK. This is a video of life on my two organic allotments that I’ve had for about 7 years. At the moment I’m experimenting with a mandala permaculture design that’s working well. I shall post some pictures soon.
Best wishes,
Gemma

2023 Garden Goals:

Summer view at EcoCostel Garden

You could click this link to watch my plants! Thanks for your view!

Just noticed the rainbow.  
Can you see it?
Does it end here?

New super fancy (my son's creation) high tunnel nearing completion.  And this year we won a cityscapes beautification award for the garden.  ❤

What a great time to see this thread! Missing warm sunshine and in the waiting for true winter. Thinking of Spring and seed catalogs arriving in the mail, new chicks and sprouts. Here’s a few pix of our current location and the little garden I made in April. Started out with a rocky pasture with hard packed soil. Built up with a no till bed- cardboard and soil/compost mix and 2 loads of wood chips. I was greatly and pleasantly surprised at how beautiful it was! There wasn’t much rhyme or reason to anything so there were flowers and all kinds of herbs (new and old that I had dug up and brought with me) and lots of veggies. First ever watermelon- sugar babies- did great meandering through everything. It was a great season! I still have lettuce and chard and spinach under row covers and a sheet that still give us a salad now & then. 20’s some nights so won’t probably be much longer anymore.
Merry Christmas everyone!  

Here are a few pictures from our farm from last summer to this spring.

Rebecca Rosa wrote:Here are a few pictures from our farm from last summer to this spring.

Beautiful, Rebecca!

I've been aware of this thread, but I only recently took time to view it and discover its beautiful images and inspiration. Here's my contribution.

I love this beautiful thread and thought I would add a few photos to it! If you want to follow my progress on our woodland garden, my other "project thread" is here: https://permies.com/t/217415/site-messy-fun

Some pictures from my garden in Estonia (US gardening zone 4 should be similar)

So many beautiful gardens, so little land (for me).
Below are few picks utilizing tree stump as removing it was too expensive and too messy. A cutting leaf bee made a home in the stump and it made me happy

Well... after suffocating on a quarter of an acre in the suburbs, I've got my 10 acre homestead, and I'm ready to start dreaming of my permaculture garden.

I took a drone photo of my garden area and got a giant print-out that I put on a big cork board, and use thumbtacks and paper to plan out my plantings. There's a lot to see in the picture below! I want the 'main path' to have a shady insectary/wildlife 'wall' to the south, and an open annual / perennial herb bed to the north. Further north leads to fruit trees and shrubs and a resting / kid play area for the young ones. The northeast corner will be more forested with a canopy layer compared to the more sunny fruit tree area.

The property already has two existing productive apple trees, a happy lilac bush, a happy siberian crabapple tree, a swath of raspberries, and a big bed full of daylilies and irises. Plus about 18 blueberry bushes that produce pretty well but are planted too close together.

There's also a very healthy and very valuable wall white cedar trees on the north side of the property to protect the house and garden against the vicious cold northern winds. I know the fruit trees are going to cast some shade on them but I expect the wall will stay healthy since the same cedars do great in the dense dark forests nearby.

The other picture is how the garden looks today... my biggest flaw as a gardener is my lack of patience. I just want to go out and dig and plant everything right now! But we still have a few weeks to go....

Alan Burnett wrote:Well... after suffocating on a quarter of an acre in the suburbs, I've got my 10 acre homestead, and I'm ready to start dreaming of my permaculture garden.

Alan, congratulations! What an exciting time for you. I think it would be great if you would start a new thread in the gardening forum to document your ideas and progress. I think many of us would love to follow along.

my biggest flaw as a gardener is my lack of patience. I just want to go out and dig and plant everything right now! But we still have a few weeks to go....

Every gardener's challenge! lol

What a beautiful thread!  

I'm growing a tiny food forest in Eastern Spain 🇪🇸 and am starting, after three years, to see some signs of my early planning coming to fruition.  

We have a hugel which is not really working yet (too many creatures coming to pull it apart) but I'm going to continue trying.  

We also have two in-ground ponds and two bathtub ponds.

The biodiversity here has increased vastly, so I'm thoroughly enjoying watching everything going on out there each day.

It's a long way from producing even a heavy percentage of the food we eat, but I'm in it for tge long-haul, so that's okay.  I'm not using 'vegetable beds' but mixing mainly perennial fruits and vegetables in with the other plants, a little like an English cottage garden.

Water and heat are big challenges... we are already on a drought warning and I measured 50°c+ on more than one occasion last summer.

Here are some pictures!  

I wish I could show you the garden that I was working on, but the torrential rains have it under water. Yep, washed everything downhill into the pond. The upside of this is that the fish are loving the extra feed and the ducks are loving the fish!

Alan Burnett wrote:Well... after suffocating on a quarter of an acre in the suburbs, I've got my 10 acre homestead, and I'm ready to start dreaming of my permaculture garden.

I took a drone photo of my garden area and got a giant print-out that I put on a big cork board, and use thumbtacks and paper to plan out my plantings. There's a lot to see in the picture below! I want the 'main path' to have a shady insectary/wildlife 'wall' to the south, and an open annual / perennial herb bed to the north. Further north leads to fruit trees and shrubs and a resting / kid play area for the young ones. The northeast corner will be more forested with a canopy layer compared to the more sunny fruit tree area.

The property already has two existing productive apple trees, a happy lilac bush, a happy siberian crabapple tree, a swath of raspberries, and a big bed full of daylilies and irises. Plus about 18 blueberry bushes that produce pretty well but are planted too close together.

There's also a very healthy and very valuable wall white cedar trees on the north side of the property to protect the house and garden against the vicious cold northern winds. I know the fruit trees are going to cast some shade on them but I expect the wall will stay healthy since the same cedars do great in the dense dark forests nearby.

The other picture is how the garden looks today... my biggest flaw as a gardener is my lack of patience. I just want to go out and dig and plant everything right now! But we still have a few weeks to go....

I just want to let you know that there is a computer garden design program called garden planner that you can use to make your design. I used it for both my backyard raised bed garden and our forest garden. They support 3d, so you can get a really good idea about what fits and looks good. You will be able to add plants too it and later print out what you added in list form. It made things a lot easier for me, especially since I keep making little changes to add more plants.
I have attached the plans I made.

My garden is pretty much winding down, but the other day I managed to take a few photos of our end of the season pickings.

These pics of my little garden plot are from 5 days ago, early July.  I was a couple weeks late in May getting transplants in the ground, but we had halfway cool, rainy weather through late Spring/early Summer, and everything has established well.  Though I'm pleased by the vigor and growth for this point in the summer, we shall see how much fruit I actually get.  Herbs and a few okra so far.  The primay problem with this garden location persists: just not enough light.  I'm working on that.

I have a much larger area - behind the camera and across the driveway - that I will eventually put into annual veggies like these.  My current little plot is the stopgap.  I also have a larger, sprawling food forest, which is much less tidy and photogenic right now, and much more "in progress."













A dragon on my basil, oh my!

It was 5 years ago I posted photos here! Isn't it about time to show some new pictures?!
Photos made this year, 2026.
First four photos of the allotment garden (that's where most of my vegetables and other edibles grow):

Apple tree in full bloom. 21st of April.

Apple blossoms close up.

View over some garden beds and the other apple tree. (sheds are in neighbouring gardens).

View in the other direction.

And two photos of the garden in front of the house (ground floor apartment):

'Rain garden'.

Flag iris (native plant here, growing along rivers and lakes) in the rain garden.

We just hit our 3 year anniversary of moving across country.  I had 3 hugels before the end of that summer. I tried growing food in this heavy clay, but it was just an experiment. The seeds popped but didn't get far.

Now I have 4 raised beds in addition to the hugels. Im slowly working on another, bigger hugelkultur bed. Clearing some of the flatter land has left us with piles of twiggy debris piled here and there that need to be addressed. A big part will end up in hugels or as biochar.

I know there are pics of my garden somewhere in this thread... time for new.  :)  3 city lot urban permaculture-esque, herb heavy (I am an herbalist ☺), with a lovely glorified unheated greenhouse/ gather space.

Woke up this morning to a wonderful gurgling sound on the slow, meandering river that runs near the house.  As predicted, the local beavers had swung into action last night an assembled a proper, but low height, dam across it just upstream from the back deck.  After a summer of drought, the river is recovering and the beavs are going to make sure there is some depth for their winter burrow!

I'm going to give a new name to the kale shown below 'Phoenix' ..... after the cabbage butterfly larvae this summer did their best to defoliate all plants and wipe out all but one cabbage, the kale is 'rising from the ashes' to produce nice fall leaves.  The more pale-colored kale is a Portuguese variety that is recovering as well, but both will need some frost and cold nights to reduce their bitterness and bring back some sweetness to the leaves.  Otherwise, th garden is winding down, but warm days and nights are keeping us in fresh peppers and tomatoes....even some of the zucchini is still producing young fruit.  Over-ripe cukes will go into 'Senfgurken' pickles along with some of the wax pepper abundance.  The chest freezers are busting with tomatoes....may do some salsa but will need to access cilantro in town since all garden stock long since dried up.  The warmth and late rains have brought some skeeters back, but frost will come soon and knock them back.  Best time of year for sure!....

Adding a bump post to this thread for an odd reason.  After posting the immediate above entry over the weekend, I thought it strange that it was not in the 'most recent' list on the Forum.  I considered it might be a temporary glitch, so let it rest a day.  The next day (Sunday I think....) it still was not to be seen (by me) in the 'Most Recent' column of the Permies.com Forum.  I PM'd the OP of this thread and inquired as to whether or not she was able to see the thread in that 'Most Recent' list and she affirmed that it was there.  But I still am unable to see this thread appearing in the 'Most Recent' list going back several days.  Is there something I may have done that would 'hide' the thread from my view?....Some accidental keystroke or combination of trackpad movements?  In order to type this current entry, I needed to either search on the title, find it in my profile, or look through the 'Like' notifications ..... which I could then click on to access the post.  Thoughts?  Thanks!.....    and now to see if what I'm currently posting shows up in the 'Most Recent' list!.....I can't stand the suspense!! ;-)

Edit: Nope....still not visible.  Have I somehow injured or offended the space-time continuum?? ;-?

John Weiland wrote:Adding a bump post to this thread for an odd reason.  After posting the immediate above entry over the weekend, I thought it strange that it was not in the 'most recent' list on the Forum.  I considered it might be a temporary glitch, so let it rest a day.  The next day (Sunday I think....) it still was not to be seen (by me) in the 'Most Recent' column of the Permies.com Forum.  I PM'd the OP of this thread and inquired as to whether or not she was able to see the thread in that 'Most Recent' list and she affirmed that it was there.  But I still am unable to see this thread appearing in the 'Most Recent' list going back several days.  Is there something I may have done that would 'hide' the thread from my view?....Some accidental keystroke or combination of trackpad movements?  In order to type this current entry, I needed to either search on the title, find it in my profile, or look through the 'Like' notifications ..... which I could then click on to access the post.  Thoughts?  Thanks!.....    and now to see if what I'm currently posting shows up in the 'Most Recent' list!.....I can't stand the suspense!! ;-)

Edit: Nope....still not visible.  Have I somehow injured or offended the space-time continuum?? ;-?

Hi John. It's strange: now I have the same problem! I can't find the Garden Picture Exchange anymore in the list!

... and even stranger: now I wrote this last post and looked again ... it was there, on top of the list!

Testing if it works...

Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:... and even stranger: now I wrote this last post and looked again ... it was there, on top of the list!

I have tested it right now, all seems to be working fine.

Now 12:14 pm North American CST.....not seeing this thread at all in the "Most Recent" list.  Most previous post was from Richard Gorny at 11:55:49 AM.  I accessed this thread via another poster 'Like' notification, but it is not appearing in the 'Most Recent' list.  Hmmmm....