Garden Stories
I invite you to tell your garden stories.
I'm posting my stories and I invite you to post yours using the different forms below. If you're not sure where your story fits, post it in the nearest topic and if necessary, I can create a brand new form, just for you. :-)
Doug's Garden Stories
Doug's Rabbit Control System. Don't look in my garden if you're passing by.
Garden Story Topics.
I'm
not going to tell you what to write about - I'll let you be the judge
of what's important to you - important in your life that you'd want to
share with us around gardening. Stories about what you learned from other people. Thanks to my grandparents.
Stories about birds. And that silly oriole that liked to wake me up at 5am.
Kids in the Garden - tell me about your kids adventures in the garden. I'll tell my stories but my kids will chime in with theirs about a certain "head gardener"
Pets and how they keep you amused in the garden, (my Lab was the biggest tomato robber you've ever seen)
Happy Garden Stories. Funny garden stories. Sad Garden Stories.
Things I Learn in the Garden - how can I even begin to count the ways.
But most importantly - your garden stories.
Tell Us Your Story
If you're a gardener, I know you have a story :-) I never met anybody yet who had gardened for more then 5 minutes who didn't have one.
Want to tell us a story about something that amuses you? That delights you? That touches you.
Please consider sharing these stories with us.
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Here's What Other Readers Have To Say
Click on the links below to check out other garden stories.
SNAKES Last summer while I was weeding my garden a little wren, who had built a nest in our bird house, was fussing with me. I kept telling her we would not ...
Two Birds in the Hand Early one morning I needed to go to the store in town. If I was to have my cereal I needed some milk. I stepped out the front door and discovered one ...
Compost Enthusiasm When I decided to start making my own compost I became some what obsessed and dragooned my husband into making a pallet bin. Well, of course one bin worked ...
It's A Dog's Life (in the garden) We had 2 golden retrievers and then 2 years ago we got another retriever puppy, Sydney is her name. She thought the world belonged to her, including the ...
They aren't all bad! A few years ago hornets were making a biiiiiiiigggggggg nest over my strawberry patch.They are mean, territorial and pack a punch! How would I be able ...
cobwebs on my trees and Lugustrom bushes Wish I had taken a photo, but was so freaked out by what I saw I couldn't wait to get away! All over two trees by our lagoon was a web that completely ...
What's that AWFUL smell? It was a miserably hot Midwestern August when a gardener friend of mine and I volunteered to plan and plant a large courtyard area in our local middle ...
Why Do We Cut Down the Garden at the End of the Season? One fine October day, my friend and I were cutting down an extensive perennial garden that followed a picket fence around the borders of the lawn in front ...
Is this some kind of joke? We always had a big garden when I was a kid. One year my mom went kind of crazy and she planted about forty tomato plants. When the tomatoes became ripe ...
The Little Hummingbird
I just held in my hands a ruby throated iridescent HUMMING BIRD! I am thrilled.
I don't know what happened, but it was on the ground, I picked it up ...
A favourite garden story.
Hi Doug
A favourite but not original garden story. I don't remember exactly where I picked it up. I know it was on a collection of jokes but it isn'...
Late Bloomers This year our nation has had some wild weather changes. South Carolina's spring was great and we had lots of rain, then the land dried up and parched our ...
Fall in the South One day we had a fantastic clear blue sky. I took this picture through the branches of my dogwood tree. The birds have since stripped the tree of its berries....
The first thing you have to learn about gardening One of the first conversations during a garden consultation seems to always include an incidental reference to "lilies" whereupon it turns out that the ...
BBQ in the garden We had a pet rooster among the chickens who liked beer. As we often had BBQ in the garden "Gruts" got used to drinking from everyone's glass It would ...
Magnolia Story from Wild Bill A woman calls to tell me there is something wrong with her magnolias. They aren't growing the way they're supposed to. I arrive at her house to find her ...
A Small Bed
This is a small bed on a short side of a house.
This bed was planted three years ago. It was a new construction. I was the landscaper and designer ...
The Farm
The Farm
A couple years ago, I decided to retire and move from my neat, compact apartment in the city and move to the countryside. I dreamed of a place ...
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