My Garden

Hello, my name is John, I'm a teenager, a student, and rather oddly, a gardening enthusiast. Recently I've been hoping to expand on my efforts and branch out with some more diverse greenery in the tiny space we have, but this won't be easy for me, as like with most students, I'm flat broke. All the same, this hasn't deterred me from trying to build up a bit of greenery over the years, as I want my garden to be something beautiful. Again, this won't be easy, as compared to what we used to have, our space is now mainly taken up with a socking great driveway that looks awful.

Currently my garden is set out something like this:


So I've had to cram in as much as I can in the available space, all the same it's still doing nicely, I have Lilies and Daffodils, they're new this year. Unfortunately I also have a ton of dandelions. Happily however, Alys Fowler has recently exposed they go nicely in pancakes. I may have to do some harvesting. That said, I don't find the idea of eating dandelions too appealing, as a child I used to have an irrational fear of them. Not that I do now, you understand.

I'm also a big fan of recycling, there seems to be something very zen and karma-like in the idea you may see that bottle again. However my garden has taken to slightly different ways of being green. Now I know what you're expecting, I'm gonna start rabbiting on about how when my plants die they give back to the earth, this is all good and true, I have some well established reeds that are a great example of this, but my green gardening comes in a much more modest form.



This, until recently was my favourite coffee mug. Sadly after a drunken night out I came in and knocked it over, resulting in a large crack, rendering it unusable. However, it's perfect as an alternative to plant pots, which I admit I'm in no short supply of, but it seemed too good an idea to pass up. The mint you see sitting happily in the remains of my caffeine fixes was dirt cheap, pardon the pun, because I bought it from the produce isle in Morrisons and saved myself a good 40p on what Homebase was asking next door, and trust me, it'll thrive. But then again, if you can't make mint thrive, chances are you're the grim reaper.