Comments on: My Biggest Gardening Regret – Photos Not Taken

By: Kristal Rosebrook

Kristal Rosebrook — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:40:34 +0000

Great web site thank you. I’m enjoying this thread as well.

Kristal Rosebrook

By: Garden Fountains Enthusiast

Garden Fountains Enthusiast — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:39:09 +0000

Let’s see, there’s a 12-step program for Alcoholics Anonymous, one for Narcotics Anonymous, another one for porn addiction, and believe it or not, a 12-step program for blogging addiction (no joke!). I doubt there will ever be a 12-step program for garden addiction because this is one â€œdependencyâ€ that is good for a personâ€™s physical, psychological, and spiritual well being. Besides, it sounds like you are planting the seeds that could possibly lead to a fruitful relationship with your neighbor!

By: chuck b.

chuck b. — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:13:00 +0000

I *wish* my neighbors would let me work in their gardens. That would be fabulous. But my boyfriend would never see me, so it wouldn’t work.

I only remember I want to take a ‘before picture’ right after I get started. And by then I don’t want to stop. So what I do instead is walk around the garden every week taking random pictures of things I don’t like figuring eventually I’ll be fixing those things anyway.

By: Pam J.

Pam J. — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:47:36 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Today I bought a disposable camera (tells you what kind of photographer I am) and took a bunch of pictures of my little garden spaces. I’ve been in this house for 20 yrs and I consider these my “before” pictures. I have high hopes for the future. Between GardenRant and TakomaGardener I have all the guidance I’ll ever need.

By: Kasmira

Kasmira — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:05:24 +0000

I find my best “before” photos as little bonuses in the background of other photos. Sometimes it pays not to do a lot of cropping. You never know when that background will come in handy!

By: Annie in Austin

Annie in Austin — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:55:03 +0000

All of this is too true, Susan! Can’t keep from gardening wherever we go, and never remember the before photos.

Some technology helped me out – although I’d taken very few B4 stills when we moved here, my husband took old-fashioned, non-digital video for our out-of-state families. You tech people may laugh, but it took me this long to find out that a video capture card can take a frame off the video and turn it into a photo file. Before photos! Yay!

Annie at the Transplantable Rose