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Name: Elizabeth Bohland
Location: Monroe, MI
Gardening experience: I'm a serious hobbyist
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Chiz Gardens Monroe, MI

Our old farmhouse sits on an acre and a half of gardens with an old barn as its background. The house has many window boxes with a variety of flowers. There is a large pond with a waterfall designed by my husband. The pond is by a patio with a Victorian style gazebo... » more

Last updated: May 06, 2012
Garden type: back yard

Garden Inspirations Monroe, MI

I love to garden. Besides gardening, I love to attend garden shows. go on garden walks, and visit public gardens. Many times these visits have inspired me to add something different to my own garden. » more

Last updated: March 26, 2012
Garden type: garden visit

Bohemian Garden Monroe, MI

My vegetable garden is getting a makeover this year! Not only will I be growing more heirlooms, but the area where they will be growing will have a Bohemian flair.....colorful, artsy, fun, and perhaps a bit of the unexpected. I have been thinking about this... » more

Last updated: May 21, 2012
Garden type: Grow It Forward: Heirloom

Forest and Garden of Kew Gardens and beyond. Kew Gardens, NY

by GardensbyRenata

http://mygardenandhome.blogspot.com As a volunteer gardener I created these gardens for myself and our co-op community.

eclectic country Fremont, CA

by noweeds

Have a seat. Enjoy the view.

painter Reana garden - Biella - Italy Biella, Italy

by ReanapaintersGarden

my garden is not far from montains, The Alps. I started it 15 years ago: at the beginnig there was only wood and grass. I have been working hard, by myself, to get plants, rocks, rocks walls and steps. Now I love it,...

Laurie's Garden~ St.ClairShores, MI Saint Clair Shores, MI

by Lauri

Supergites France

by supergites

At our mill in the north of France we grow an 65.000 square feet experimental garden with orchard, flower court and wetland.

poppydreams 62020 Gualdo, MC, Italy

by carola

since 2 years i am working this beautiful land. we have around 10 acres, mainly woods on steep ground, but around the house i am creating a flower garden, and a field with all the veggies we wanna eat.

Downunder Dry Tropics Courtyard Garden Townsville, Queensland, Australia

by Bernieh

I garden in a dry tropics zone in north-eastern Australia which is characterized by a very long dry spell over autumn to spring (around nine months of the year) followed by a short wet spell during summer (if it's not...

Margot place Victoria, Canada

by ryansenechal

A backbone of strong structural conifers with evergreen understory, deciduous contrasting shrubs, and pockets of perennials. A production berry, vegetable garden and cluster of fruit trees round out our multi use...

Our Grounds Des Moines, IA

by Groundskeeper

Ornamental, beds and borders where evergreen conifers and deciduous shrubs mingle with perennials, bulbs, and a few favorite annuals. Some Iowa prairie plants such as side-oats grama grass. A still-water, self-maintaining...

berkeley hills backyard garden Berkeley, CA

by marilena

It is a backyard garden with ginkgo, lemon, apple, birch trees and kiwi, oleander, lavender, camelia, jasmin and more.....

Butchart Gardens Denver, CO

by irxprt

These are a few from my trip last year...it is quite lovely and a zone 8, believe it or not.

Ivy Street Garden Denver, CO

by irxprt

Garden of Eden San Antonio, TX

by Bernessa

http://decoloresstudio.com

Allotment on the dike Schellingwoude, Netherlands

by Claire

After years of being on the waiting list, on 4 June 2011 I finally got a garden allotment (known as volkstuin in Dutch). It's just a 15-minute bike ride from home, at the back of an old Dutch dike - and has a little...

Belinda's Secret Garden Rangeley, ME

by mainegarden

My ex-husband and I got back together...while I was selling my house, he built this beautiful veggie garden and the greenhouse/potting shed in lieu of a diamond....

Mother Nature's Garden & Guests Rangeley, ME

by mainegarden

Have you ever looked at the colors of a forest in fall, or watched the water tumble down some rocks, look at a view and think wow...Mother Nature did this...or watch the wild animals and their beauty???

Green Kathleen's Chicken Junction Arlington, TX

by greenkathleen

My garden began with one raised bed. I grew up in Ohio where you could pretty much stick a plant in the ground and it would grow. I now live in Texas where the "soil" is not soil. Its clay. I think they...

French kitchen Garden Titusville, NJ

by bugtussle

My garden started out a mess when we bought our home in 2005. I decided to make a kitchen garden in the french potager style. I spent one year studying all about french kitchen gardens before starting. It took me...

French kitchen Garden Titusville, NJ

by bugtussle

Susan's Plots - Franklin Park Community Garden Tacoma, WA

by Queen_of_Green

This garden is part of Franklin Park Community Garden in Tacoma, WA. I adopted and built up this part of the garden on an unusable space. It was full of 4 foot tall quack grass and weeds and 2/3 of it under water during...

The Heirloom Garden of Eatin' Tacoma, WA

by Queen_of_Green

I redesigned my vegetable garden last year at Franklin Park Community Garden with the Vegetable Garden Planner on Mother Earth News. I am implementing the full plan this season and it will be a lot easier to tend and...

Ravis Retreat Winthrop, WA

by SolarBizzi

Heirloom plants were first iintroduced to our garden during 2011 growing season. The existing pictures are from that harvest.Growing season 2012 is expected to be more heirloom plants than the previous year, but I...

Stone Cottage Farm Garden 2012 Mayville, MI

by StoneCottageFarm

Hi! I'm the Stone Cottage Farm Garden 2012! I was brand new two years ago when Farmer Dave and Farmer Christina broke new ground in what used to be the back farm yard. I'm hoping this year, now that they got their 2011...

Tupelo Valley Atlanta, GA

by JOShields

I try to grow all the vegetables and fruits our small family needs in this little garden.

Corazón de Maria Orphanage Garden Izalco, Sonsonate, El Salvador

by sonomagarden

Founded more than 12 years ago by the Hermanas Carmelitas of Sonsonate, the Corazón de Maria Orphanage meets the nutritional, educational and medical needs of 98 children (interns...

Corazón de Maria Orphanage Garden Izalco, Sonsonate, El Salvador

by sonomagarden

Founded more than 12 years ago by the Hermanas Carmelitas of Sonsonate, the Corazón de Maria Orphanage meets the nutritional, educational and medical needs of 98 children (interns...

Suburbia Haven San Antonio, TX

by CreativeGreenThumb

We bought a house six years ago in the suburbs of San Antonio Texas. We don't have alot of space so I had my husband build me a garden box right outside of the back door. Since then, he's built me another garden...

Fluttering flower garden Westland, MI

by flower_lady

I have various pocket gardens in my urban space. I have a raised garden that takes up half the back yard. Planting heirloom tomatoes and veggies. I also do many herbs.

Raisin' the Veg Westland, MI

by flower_lady

My raised garden. Backyard gardening

Lisaland Otricoli, Italy

by YourGardenShow

This is the continuation of the Le Corone garden here on YourGardenShow, renamed in Lisa's honor. We want to carry on her legacy of great gardening practices and it's going to take a few of us to do it. The team here...

CompanionPlantingCowGirl Centerville, TX

by EmmaRose

My garden is 10 foot by 19 foot and has flax, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, squash, gourds, borage, onions and lettuce.

Little Stone HIll Toronto, Canada

by Lorraine

For the past 15 years or so, I've been creating a series of garden rooms. The most completed, although a garden is never really complete, is my cottage garden. I'm a freelance writer, writing primarily in gardening...

Punkie Pie's Garden Apalachin, NY

by PunkiePies

My garden and backyard here in upstate New York

East Texas Linden, TX

by RoriTx

We grow,can or freeze 90% of all the vegetables we eat. I've decided to start saving our own seeds so this year we will plant as many heirloom varieties as we can.Breaking News:Facebook you've been replaced!

The Peaceful Prayer Garden Goodview, VA

by linzelu100

I'm going BIG this year! I decided to give up a career as a helicopter pilot to be a stay at home mommy. I want to feed my family the best food possible so I am finally growing a big vegetable garden. We moved to a...

Ramos' Disorganized Garden Floresville, TX

by Clenram

The success of our gardening has been great, with some disappointments due to the learning curve. We are learning what we can do when we have 4 months of temperatures over 100 and no rain. Our soil is all sand! We...

All Around the House Evanston, IL

by Gracefulwoman

My gardens began in earnest in 1990. I began tearing up the backyard and over the years it has undergone many transformations, including a major renovation in the summer of 2011. I then began tearing up the front lawn...

My Escape Upper Sandusky, OH

by PYehl

My 30'x70' piece of paradise. Nothing makes me happier than to work in my garden and get lots of dirt under my fingernails. I spend almost every day in the cold Ohio winters dreaming of how I will plant my garden,...

Sweet Heirlooms Hastings, MN

by SweetDomesticity

A Grow It Forward heirloom garden

YourGardenShow Busy Bee San Francisco, CA

by The-Busy-Bee

YourGardenShow.com - the social network for gardeners, by gardeners

Favorite gardening books:	Brugmansia and Datura
Favorite vegetable:	Pea pods
Favorite flower:	Angel trumpets and poppies
Favorite tree / shrub:	Hydrangea
Gardening organizations:	Local garden club
Favorite park / arboreteum:	The Huntington Botanical Gardens

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sarahgarden replied 11 days ago
	Hey Liz i am loving your chiz garden they are so beautiful. when ever you have the opporunity you should check out this greenwork tools it has been incrediblely helpful for me and other garderners. http://bit.ly/KJ66Qx

PYehl replied 14 days ago
	Looks like you guys are getting a good amount of rain today... this storm is going JUST above us... but I saw it was getting you guys. I think Mother Nature is trying to make up for the dry April....

Liz replied 14 days ago

@PYehl: It's a nice rain with occasional thunder.....just wish I would have been able to get more seeds in the ground yesterday! Just what the garden needs after all the wind we've been having lately. Maybe the rain will swing down your way.....good luck or at least happy Monday gardening! I figure maybe I can catch up a bit on YGS and go grocery shopping and maybe hit the greenhouse to see what new variety of flowers they have this year.

loveylola replied 20 days ago
	Hey, Liz thanks for checking out my garden. I think I would like to follow your gardensI noticed that you where a teacher what grades I also work as a sub Teacher and an Educational assist. I work with behaviorally challenged children, I have done this for the past 34 years in the same school and I love it . Thanks Lola

Liz replied 20 days ago

@loveylola: Hi.....I've taught 1st through 5th grades and 9th grade English. At the beginning of my career, I taught mostly 1st grade and before I retired I taught 4th grade for the last 12 years. I enjoyed teaching school and even started a school garden with the children. Working with children is interesting.....you never know what they are going to do or say. I think I left at the right time.....I can look back and have fond memories of teaching. In our state they are trying to privatize the schools, pay teachers and other employees less, and treat it like a business to make a profit. So now I spend most of my time working in my garden or visiting my 3 sons who all live out of state. I enjoyed visiting your garden this morning. It sounds like we have a lot in common. Liz

MaryLarson replied 26 days ago
	I will be following your garden. You are an inspiration!

Liz replied 25 days ago
	@MaryLarson: Thank you! I'm very passionate about my garden.

MaryLarson replied 25 days ago

@Liz: I'm in Wisconsin so we should have similar weather patterns. I love gardens but I do not have a lot of time because we run a used tire business. I do what I can. I just put in a new garden by my backdoor entrance so I can keep a better eye on things. Otherwise, I tended to get in my garden when it was already a little too late to pick the particular veggie. My husband is trying his hand at beekeeping too.

Liz replied 24 days ago

@MaryLarson: I understand about time in the garden. I retired from teaching a couple of years ago, so I have lots of time in the garden now. When I taught I didn't do nearly as much as I do now. That is a good idea to have your veggies where you can see them. I meant to pick our asparagus and kept forgetting. Now it's too late. This was going to be the first year for actual picking.....so we'll have to wait until next year. Good luck with the bees. Since we have honey, I am using less and less sugar.

purplewashermonkey replied about 1 month ago

Of course, I'd like to have everything . . . peaches, pears, plums, lemons and apples. Have to source them out yet and see what will grow best here. I don't know anyone locally with fruit trees, but they must be out there. That salad bowl is really for two of us, but we get through it in about 3 days. Makes it easy to grab when you're hungry.

I see you and dreamwanderon commenting on the GMO stuff that's been happening. I've read lots and watched all the movies I can find online about our "controlled" food sources. It's going to take "we, the people," to get things turned around, and there's been some great fighters out there.

Liz replied about 1 month ago

@purplewashermonk...: I've been reading labels for years because my husband can't have anything with gluten or MSG. I'm amazed at what is in our food. Then add GMOs to all that. It annoys me to no end that our government allows us to be guinea pigs for the GMO industry. You've read my comments on dreamwanderon's glog so you know how I feel. I'm doing what I can to spread the word, but sometimes it just doesn't seem enough. this needs to be stopped before it is too late.

purplewashermonkey replied about 1 month ago
	There is so much great info on here! Along the line of aches and pains, I've got sore calves from digging and loading up my cakey manure for my berries. Nice Garden you've got!!

dreamwanderon replied about 1 month ago
	@purplewashermonk...: My off-the-wall sense of humor read your comment and thought you were talking about sore cows (calves) ! My calves are big enough to be cows ! Hahaha ! ♥

Liz replied about 1 month ago
	@purplewashermonk...: There is a lot of great info on this site. I know all about aches and pain, I've been lifting concrete blocks.....I must be crazy! Thanks!

dreamwanderon replied about 1 month ago
	Did you hear anything about this ?: http://www.naturalnews.com/035372_Michigan_.......htmlThe link won't work...I'll send it through facebook !

Liz replied about 1 month ago
	@dreamwanderon: Craziest thing I've ever heard of, but to be perfectly honest it does not surprise me.......the state of Michigan is going crazy. I listened to the farmer speaking in front of the agriculture committee and he knows his stuff. Pretty soon, the citizens of MI will not have any rights at all! A felon for raising pigs after a certain date.....OMG!!

dreamwanderon replied about 1 month ago
	@Liz: I can't believe my ears (or eyes) that I'm finding out ! Has the whole world gone nuts?!

Liz replied about 1 month ago
	@dreamwanderon: I think so!

JJS replied 2 months ago
	can you help , i got these tomatos under 2, 400 w meatle halide lites can't get them to turn red , have turned the lites to a 12 on 12 off is there any advice would be helpfull jjs

Cookiefish replied 2 months ago
	Your garden photos are spectacular!....you are an inspiration, ....Thank You.

Liz replied 2 months ago
	@Cookiefish: Thank you!

runningfree replied 3 months ago

Liz, you had asked where I got my golden raspberries. I ordered them from www.indianaberry.com They're the Fall Gold raspberries. The article says they are fall bearing but they fruit all the way through the summer for me, except for maybe a few extremely hot and dry few weeks in the middle of summer. Gosh....I miss them so much! Summer please come fast! All this talk of raspberries is making me hungry :P

Liz replied 3 months ago
	@runningfree: Thanks.....I'll look into it.

lfin replied 11 months ago

Hi Liz, I linked to your photo essay and post about Consumer Day in Facebook yesterday. It got a good response and thanks for all your great Garden Inspirations! Here's the text of the post: 'Garden Inspirations' is Liz's series of garden adventures outside her own backyard. She reports on her trip to Proven Winners Consumer Day in Michigan this week, which is a gardener's treat - and also like seeing the future since many plants that won't be available until next year. Check out her photos - and if you're nearby next year, mark your calendar.

Liz replied 11 months ago

@lfin: Thanks...I actually did see it...then I shared it on my FB...and I also made a comment about the Proven Winner Four Star Greenhouse gardens being open all summer long for touring. It's nice to have a place like this so close to home....10 to 15 minutes away. I will post pictures of the gardens later in the summer. Thank you for starting this website....I love it....I have learned a lot since joining.

Onie replied about 1 year ago
	Liz, you have a beautiful garden... it's like Paradise.. Wow! wish I can go there to see your garden..anyway, If you interested for some Poppies seed just let me know I have 4 color of poppies.

Liz replied about 1 year ago
	@Onie: Thank you....also that is very kind of you to offer seeds, but I did order quite a few different kinds of poppy seeds from a place called One Stop Poppy Shoppe....I'm afraid I got a bit carried away and ordered too many different kinds....maybe in the fall if I'm successful we could trade seeds.