A Garden should be a persons outdoor haven, it needs to be a persons place to go to relax and escape the worlds pressures. Many peoples gardens are just that, places to retreat; however, a garden can be so much more, it can be beautiful, wholesome and practical, many gardens are either beautiful or practical; neither needs to be mutually exclusive. If you live in Melbourne I implore you to visit Heronswood, the home base of the diggers club, it is a semi formal garden around an old estate, much of which is edible.
To have a productive edible garden is much easer than it seems, vegetables can easily be layered, short at the front, lettuces, spring onions, dwarf beans etc all the way up to Globe or Jerusalem artichokes and climbing beans. To help this along Vegetables give us a hand, so so many of them have beautiful flowers, beans with dainty little flowers of purples and reds to eggplants with strong purples, from zucchini with bright yellow trumpets to winter savoury with unassuming tiny white clusters of snow. Surprisingly enough the scent of a productive garden is the single most appealing part of it if one takes the time to smell the... tomato plants, so many of the vegetables and herbs smell at least as wonderful as the greatest flowers, with the added benefits of tasting good.
My wish is to have each of my fences covered and dripping with vines of grapes, climbing chillies, kiwi fruit and espaliered fruit trees, I want to have beds of vegetables and herbs rolling down my block, I want to hear the chickens busily going about their business with intent and I want to hear the industrious drone of a hive of bees as the diligently ensure my continuing harvest. I also want to walk around my small orchid planted out in my front yard and look up at the flowers and developing fruit in spring and summer, and most of all I want to do it all any time I want.
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