#virtualgarden

[ipts69]

Some of the first fowers of the Spring season, Scilla.

[ilaaaaaaan-blog]

Further #adventures in the land of @cryptovoxels. A sort of tribute to #robertoburlemarx, #franklloydwright and #yayoikusama in #virtualgarden form. Like any good garden, it's not finished. A continuous #wip. https://www.instagram.com/ilan_katin/p/ByYLslNohL6/?igshid=1uk74w3jeel7a

[pearlistrippin]

HAPPY HOLYDAYS SOUL HEALERS😘 #BeeWell #PollinYAYators Join me and our Come-Unity Joy Garden expansion in a virtual Pollinator Partnership. Join the conversation as we continue to build healthy food alternatives and learn to grow our own food. Even in Winter? Yes, even in Winter.😃 https://www.changex.org/us/pollinatorpartnership/chicago-il-usa-cook-county-4/about Pearl The Neighborship NetWork  https://www.facebook.com/comeunitynetwork/ #Aeroponics #Towergarden #Bees #ChangeX #VirtualGardens #NeighborshipNetwork #CommunityGardens #ComeUnityGardens https://www.instagram.com/p/CJMHK2dHC2N/?igshid=li2kdbpott4m

[pajarosparadisos]

Great start to our annual #enrichmentweek // Using #arduino and #sensors to help us #garden and grow healthy food Hopefully we'll be able to dig our #rooftop #greenhouse out of the #blizzard2017 #sep #sepnyc #virtualgarden #makerbot #cs4all #nyc #softwareengineering @cs4nyc @nyccte @innovation_hs_ @arduino.cc (at East Harlem)

[sunshinegardencenter]

Hey folks, drop your biggest houseplant questions below for a Houseplant Q&A live video this week. #houseplantclub #houseplantquestions #independentgardencenter #virtualgardening — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3bgyKpS

[onlinelandscapedesigns]

I’m set up to consult with you online via video chat, draw designs, and deliver your landscape plans with absolutely no in-person interaction. I’ve been working this way for the last few years, so the kinks are all worked out! The only things exchanged are great ideas and solid plans that will get you started on the path to your dream garden. Whether that’s a regenerative food forest, a fully functioning homestead, or a small meditation garden where you can relax during stressful times. You can read more about my online landscape design and consultation services on my website (onlinelandscapedesigns.com) or shoot me an email if you want to chat. Paige@onlinelandscapedesigns.com Use some of this “down time” to create a plan and start building an outdoor space you love. Let me know how I can help! . . . . . #onlinelandscapedesign #onlinelandscapedesigns #onlinelandscapedesignservice #gardendesign #foodforestdesign #ediblelandscapedesign #permaculturedesign #onlinepermaculturedesign #workfromhome #sustainablelandscape #growyourown #landscapedesigner #onlinelandscapedesigner #onlinedesigntools #virtualdesign #virtuallandscapedesign #supportsmallbusiness #designyourgarden #diygarden #onlinegardendesign #virtualgarden #landscapeplan #onlineservices #onlineresources https://www.instagram.com/p/B96obNNjK6V/?igshid=mnic6ast4x00

[topsoilturnarond-blog]

Virtual Roses Are Perfectly Scentless

  I lost my last true garden when I left a small town just north of Seattle. There was a dalliance with a pair of Valencia Orange trees and Night Blooming Jasmine in the hot, humid, and bug-ridden Southern USA, but the heavy, sandy clay that lay just below the bare inch of topsoil resisted all efforts at cultivation.

  Without an actual garden, I pursued plants and dirt intellectually; signing up for the NV Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program, there was hope for some amelioration of garden withdrawal. In a virtual environment, called Second Life, I created gardens; formal, informal, English Cottage, Shinto, and Chinese walking gardens. Matching architecture, plants, climate to create everything from snowy, craggy escarpments above rustic cottages to sun-drenched Tuscan fields with stone and tile, eventually recreating many of the places I had lived in, or traveled to, over a lifetime.

  Virtual roses do not suffer thrips, nor rust. There are no soil imbalances to fix, no early spring sudden thaws and refreezes, let alone hail stones the size of baseballs that shred every tender leaf. But, virtual roses do not grow, they do not change, they stay where you put them never encroaching outside of their pixels. Above all, they do not do that thing that makes a garden; they do not live and breathe.

  I need a garden. It’s not just a wish to have a place to grow some vegetables, or a lawn to slave over (or hire someone to slave over) just to impress the neighbors. A garden has early frosts and late freezes. A garden has aphids on one end where it’s too wet, and spider mites on the other where it’s too dry. It has weeds, some are just volunteers that you’d rather not see in a certain spot, while others are demons brought to this earthly plane that will defy all attempts to remove them short of planetary apocalyptic events. Bind-weed, or ground morning glory is one that reminds me of the cockroach; it will be here in the end. 

  The virtual world is a truly magnificent invention. It allows exploration limited solely by your imagination. In the real world, I now reside in an apartment, with a north facing balcony in the suburbs of Chicago. In the summer it gets searingly hot sun in the late afternoon, gentle morning sun, and deep shade most of the day. After observing for a couple seasons, always a good thing to do by the way when planning a garden in a new place, I think I’ve got this one figured out. My fingers have been itching to get started. It will be ephemeral. It will die and be gone before Thanksgiving. That’s alright with me, nature works that way too. 

[halfagarden]

The actual garden is still a building site, so I created a virtual version, which gives me an idea of what I can look forward to... #virtualgarden #photoshop #gardengoals https://ift.tt/2QjZeRB