I am a bad gardener.
I do a little rarely so my garden looks a bit sad.
I grew six tomatoes today from four plants, some calabrese broccoli from which I got two heads before it was comprehensively slugged, some purple sprouting broccoli which bolted extremely quickly, one courgette from four plants (eaten by slugs - courgette and plants), and freakish jerusalem artichokes growing at all kinds of angles which I'm a bit scared of now.
In the front, I've managed to grow a few flowers successfully, but the end result (because I didn't grow enough of them) is that they're scattered around on very unpromising ground. I should have planted it all up with lavender like I thought I should.

My garden is nothing great, nice bit of lawn, high shrubs either side. Pond/stream feature, looks 'natural' and designed to be frog-friendly. Birds bathe in the stream section, babbling brook is a nice sound, counters the whishing noise from the motorway 1 mile away. Oh and there's a shed at the far end  

Only got a winter shot on the net, must do one of the pond   which is in the foreground here

Not sure how the daffodils are going to do next year. They're in a tub and the squirrels dug acorns into it. They then sprouted into mini-oak-saplings and I had to pull them up .

The "garden" here is an absolute jungle. Everyone leaves it to its own devices and it becomes barely passable at times.

Sunny-ish window sills are in short supply too, Mort.  I live in a flat which only has 2 windows (!) - one in the living room (which has the kitchen at one end) and one in the bedroom.  The one in the living room is a pair of French doors onto one of those mini balconies that isn't actually a balcony, just the front of one to stop me falling out when I open the doors .  So it doesn't have a windowsill, and short of having a herb garden in my bedroom (which would seem a bit weird!) I don't have many options...

When I was house-sharing in a house with a sunny kitchen I used to have a thriving basil crop on the windowsll.

As it happens, I can now reveal that one of the reasons you've seen less of Ron recently is because he's been doing a bit of 'Groundforce' on behalf of the infamous Dode: whilst he's off on holiday in the Med, his daughter, son-in-law and I are busy turning his no maintenance garden into a low-maintenance one, as a surprise 60th birthday present.

This is what we had to start with:




It took three days, an industrial strimmer and eight large vanloads to get down to this:



- the blank canvas: more to follow.

Wow!  That's really impressive Ron.

Mort, btw, the Ceonothos is not really a Lilac - that's Syringa but the former is often called "American Lilac" or something like that (I didn't know this, I asked Lynn and she knew as she's a keen gardener - I just admire the results and help with heavy stuff)

Don't worry Mort, I do that with shell names all the time...!