Where I live, from the moon!...

[SueG]

The only challenge is keeping the seeds and the compost in the pots when I take them outside - in the end I left them on the floor and will take them outside tonight when I get home.
The other good task is discovering that none of the (very) many gardening books I have say anything about the seeds I'm sowing and I don't have the internet accessible from home - still it gives me something to do with my lunchtimes at work!

[ian mcenery]

Just worked out how to do this. Here is a piccy of where Pam the cat and I live

Moderator's note, Mrs McEnery is Pam, the cat is Charlie

[Casalima]

I live in (and garden on the balconies of) a boring flat in a rather nice little town in north Portugal (Apto on the town view - the town is Ponte *de* Lima, not Ponte *do* Lima ...), but I have a wee bit of land out in the country - almost 10 acres One day, after all sorts of legal etc things are settled, I hope to actually be able to rebuild the house and DO SOMETHING with the land. It's the elephant head shaped land on the last picture, including big ear and wonky trunk. The larger L-shaped house is mine and the other house tucked into the ear is a neighbour's. I hope it doesn't turn into my own white elephant ...

Chloe

[annew]

I can see lots of elephants - and no I haven't been drinking! What are the interesting circular things that look like cropmarks?

[Casalima]

I can see lots of elephants - and no I haven't been drinking! What are the interesting circular things that look like cropmarks?

Oh dear, can you see my elephant head? Should I have marked it on the photo?
The "cropmarks" are made large rotating sprinklers!

Chloe

[Ian Y]

We can see a nice parrot, around the sprinklers! I think we've got your house, how far does your ten acres take you?

[Casalima]

We could play hunt the elephant head, Maggi-style, with a virtual bottle of Port as a prize, but ...

Chloe

[Maggi Young]

Oh, THAT elephant head!!
Pity about the port, though, eh?

Looks like a lovely piece of land, Chloe. Perhaps you could develop a camp site for sun-hungry alpinists?

[Paddy Tobin]

Chloe,

That is a most attractive elephant, very Portuguese!

Paddy

[KentGardener]

I am sure his trunk is rather enlarged - maybe he has got elephantitis?

Maggie - thank you for explaining about Pam the cat - I had read it as just Ian and the cat living together.

John

[Joakim B]

Chloe looks like a nice place . Do You alredy have plans for it?
What are the trees? They look to big to be citrus or olive trees (or You have some mighty ones )

Good luck with it, it seems to have a lot of potentials ,maybe it already is great. It is hard to say from the picture.

Good luck
Joakim

[annew]

Oh, THAT elephant. What a fantastic place, it looks like a ready made golf course! What potential! Good luck Chloe.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 

No good pictures from where I live folks - more blurry pix without anything identifiable on them... Google obviously still has some work to do.

[Casalima]

Looks like a lovely piece of land, Chloe. Perhaps you could develop a camp site for sun-hungry alpinists?

That is sort of my idea, B&B of a type, aimed at plant lovers. Maybe camping facilities too, who knows?

What are the trees? They look to big to be citrus or olive trees (or You have some mighty ones )

Lots of them actually are olive trees that the neighbours laugh at and say they look like chestnut trees - they haven't been pruned for years and years. There are also lots of chestnut trees, plus walnuts, the odd oak, cherry, wildish apples, pears, and near the house peaches, oranges, lemons and tangerines, and Cordyline australis which is grown here for its leaves to be used as "string" to tie up bundles of cabbages etc for the market. And far, far, far too many brambles 

Oh, THAT elephant. What a fantastic place, it looks like a ready made golf course! What potential! Good luck Chloe.

I hadn't thought about that. It would be hill golf, as each of those fields is on a different level, the house being at the top of the land. 

Chloe

[Alpinejan]

Hello KentGardener,  image Holland07 is just 10 km too small to show your residence,think your my closest Forumneighbour in the UK. I live 30 km east of Rotterdam just under the "untitled Placemark". The area was a swamp,made into land by the ancestors.The image Reiger 10 shows under the untitled placemark  among others ;house,greenhouse (2.5 X a showercabin) ,garage and 60 square meters Alpinegarden found in Front- +  Backyard.The lot is cramped on a plot measuring 224 sq. mtrs, that density,that's why we developed nice negociating models in Holland, a tight lifestile end so on. What about a new topic "who has the smallest G ' I guess the picture was taken August 2005, around noon. Hope the fitting in of the pics. will succeed, because it's stormyweather,jan [/img]