Simply..photography and your garden....

2/5/2016

As well as recording the loveliness of the garden the camera can be a very useful design tool.

Yesterdays photograph showed me that the narrow borders I was cutting around the front lawn look mean and pinched - I only realised it when I looked at the photograph. The camera is completely objective. Next time I cut I will make them twice the width of the mower.

I have in the past recommended photographing your garden in the snow for the way it shows up the form of everything - the contrasts between solid and lacy, between clipped and loose, between bold and delicate - variety and balance in these things make for all year interest. Unless you are reading this in the southern hemisphere you may have to wait a while to try this (though you never know!).

Apart from grass cutting, what would you say are the most time-consuming and labour intensive jobs in your garden?

Roll on summer!

13 Comments

rusty duck link

3/5/2016 12:27:07 am

Weeding, without a doubt. My focus this year will be to get more planting done, covering some of the bare earth I've cleared!

Freda

3/5/2016 01:50:33 pm

A bit like housework - never done!

Linda

3/5/2016 12:44:08 am

Time-consuming must be my greenhouse, starting with the seed sowing and leading up to hitting my head on overhanging cucumbers and pricking out of side shoots of tomatoes, but I love all of it, so that's not really work.
What I do hate, and have to spend a fair amount of time on, is weed control on a stretch of crazy-paving which runs along the back of our house. I've tried everything I can think of, but eventually it will have to be replaced - meanwhile it's just a yearly battle.

Freda

3/5/2016 01:52:58 pm

Flame gun? Or once a year Pathclear if you don't mind weedkillers? They do have their place and crazy paving is one place I would use it I think. (I love my greenhouse work too!)

Linda

4/5/2016 01:06:37 am

I have a gas flame gun, which kills weeds for a week or so, but there are always plenty more, and it keeps going out when there is the least little bit of wind, which is nearly always here in West Wales.
As far as weedkillers go, I would use them, but we have a little cat, and would not risk it.

Mary

3/5/2016 03:09:16 am

TIme to admit I spend almost no time in the garden...such as it is. We have about an acre, but between commuting and working, there is very little time (or energy) left during the week and weekends seem to be spent catching up on everything else that needs done in the house. Maybe when I retire...

Freda

3/5/2016 01:53:45 pm

One wild acre sounds lovely to me!

Cristiana

3/5/2016 05:27:56 am

Photography is very useful to give us a new look of things, in the garden and in other areas too.
I wish I had a list of time-consuming things I do in the garden, but being it very small and having little time to take care of it, there isn't anything in that category yet. This past month we planted some vegetables and I am anticipating having to devote quite some time weeding... I hope the excitement of seeing them grow will get me though it.

Cristiana

3/5/2016 05:32:09 am

... through it!

Freda

3/5/2016 01:55:00 pm

Oh it is exciting growing things - wishing you success!

Sarah link

3/5/2016 12:14:02 pm

The most time consuming jobs in the garden change as the season progresses. At the moment there is lots of activity in the greenhouse, later in the year it will be watering, harvesting and picking up slugs and snails.
I know exactly what you mean about the snow showing up the landscape in a completely different way. On the way to work, in the early morning, a heavy frost highlights the way fields have been used in times gone by. Sarah x

Freda

3/5/2016 01:57:23 pm

I sow far too many seeds every time then run out of space when they need pricked out! But I do love it....Watering can be very time consuming in a hot summer - here's hoping!

Julia

4/5/2016 04:08:11 am

I use my ipad camera as a design tool with my art work, and in designing a room....i'll take pictures of each idea and then quickly move back and forth between the photos of my two ideas. It is much easier to see which way works with the piece of art, or with the room design

Simply..photography and your garden....

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