Do people stop, stare and take photos of your garden??

Question

There's someone here in the neighborhood who takes snapshots of my garden when I'm not home. [someone told me] and neighbors come by sometimes to take a look
cats entertain themselves walking thru the cornstalks
and children have picnics next to it.
Do you have any fun stories about your garden, people, animals please??
it's nice to see people enjoying themselves

Answer 1

I once found a young man sleeping near my garden. And I thought the storks just brought *babies*!!!

Answer 2

Mine is the only residence in an area zoned commercial. My property is a green oasis in an asphalt jungle. People seem to think my gardens are public and it's not unusual to find someone sitting at one of my picnic tables, standing on the bridge over the pond or just wandering around. It's fun to play along as if I'm lost as well and hear there candid remarks, some times I let them in on the ruse, some times I don't. I've even had people knock on the door thinking I run a nursery or greenhouse. Sharing my gardens make all the hard work worth the trouble. RScott

Answer 3

There is a little old man from the neighborhood that walks his dog every day. He finally came and introduced himself and the dog so now he comes and sits on my garden bench when he is taking a break from his walk. I have gone out in the morning and he is sitting on my bench just staring out into the flowers. He says it's the most peaceful part of his day. I think I have started planting more just because of him.

Also, people have started bringing sick plants and leaving by my door. They usually leave a note saying something like "maybe you could do something with this". I usually can bring back to life and put into the garden. I don't know if they come back to see their orphaned plants.

Answer 4

I had a professional landscape artist use the yard for several of her works and one author used my roses for the backdrop to her bio picture for her dust jacket. I pot up extra plants for people to take regularly so people often stop by to ask if there is anything on the way and just talk flowers.
The artist started wandering by a few years ago when she move to America. She needed a place to begin working here and she liked the cottage look, it made her feel comfortable. So I told her of course she could paint here. What I didn't understand at first is that artists need dawn light. So for several mornings a month I would find her either photographing or painting before I was even up. She was always funny and I enjoyed having her once I got used to it. To thank me she gave me one of her paintings.
The dust jacket came about without my knowing. Michele lives a few doors down and we chat a bit when we meet. I knew she freelanced for magazines. Last time she came by it was to offer me a copy of her first book and to explain those are my roses behind her. When it came time for her dust jacket photo she wanted an outdoor backdrop. Then she decided to move the photographer down to my yard because it made her feel better to have the roses in the picture. She just needed a little more confidence and Blaze shining in full glory was just what she needed.
Another time was a bit sadder. Lane & I met originally because we have the same address just a different street so I kept getting her mail or she mine. Her father brought it by because he lived with her. Lane's father wanted to copy some of the planting groups. So he kept coming by to take pictures and then she would drop by to have me annotate them with plant names. Since then her father has died but she still flies his white pigeons. So every time I see the flash of white wings against the fir trees overhead I know he is still coming by to look at his favorite garden.
I would never have met so many of my neighbors without the garden so when I redid the support for Blaze I used a steel arbor that spans the sidewalk and takes the rose across into a dogwood tree. This intrigues all the children into coming and looking. I have had so many parents stop and chat while their little ones run under the rose tunnel. It is the best part of the street side planting.
Flowers make everyone happy.

Answer 5

No, but I have thought of doing it myself.Right now, I have a weed garden, but I have an idea of what I want my yard to look like, and when I see a yard that is beautifully landscaped, I think of taking pictures, to incorporate it into my scheme. If and when I do get it the way I want, I would feel honored that people stopped and stared, or admired.

Answer 6

My yard is completely fenced so people can't do that, but there is a bus stop a house down from mine and I do see people standing in front of my fence checking it out. The most fun I've had this summer is that I've grown Mammoth Sunflowers out front and people will stop their cars to take a look. I even heard someone, probably a child, say "Look at the sky scraper sunflowers". They are about 12ft tall and I thought that was a cute way to describe them. Made me chuckle.

Answer 7

i have a LARGE area that is filled with "verbena"--
tall/ leggy plants, with awesome purple flower clusters that attract
: bees--butterflies--finches-humming birds--
dragonflies and many other flying things
that i can't identify.-- great for photos--
i have had a few "drive bys" that stopped--none of them ever
left without a few plants of their own.