Green in Real Life is where we share our urban home garden activities, including growing guides and tips for fellow gardeners. If you love spending time in the garden or dreaming about future garden plans, you’ve come to the right place. You’ll also find creative projects, DIYs, and crafts here on the blog. Delicious recipes as well, often featuring ingredients fresh from our garden.
Hello and Welcome!
Hi there! I’m Laura and welcome to my virtual garden here at Green in Real Life.
We’ve moved a lot over the years, and so our home gardens have changed with time both in real life and here on the blog. At present, we’re located on a recently established suburban block in beautiful New Zealand, working to create a home garden that tries to combine the goals of being both pretty and a productive sustainable food source. Admittedly, I prefer spending my time on the productive side of things. Although I admire looking at beautiful sculpted gardens, I don’t love fussing about with pruning and shaping landscaping plants just for looks, so there is bound to be some trial, error, and the occasional garden eviction or reno required. Haha!
I’ve been gardening for as long as I can remember. My parents were (and still are) keen gardeners. When we were young, my siblings and I spent a lot of time enjoying the garden and great outdoors. I started growing my own little garden when I moved into my first home after college. It was a tiny rental with a mostly paved yard, but containers let me grow. I’ve nurtured many different gardens since, from apartment balconies to big suburban blocks, across several countries and continents. The edible garden, big or small, is where I’m happiest puttering about.
Green in Real Life isn’t about being perfect, and my years of real life gardening have yielded some great successes, but also some sad brown-thumbed fatalities. Like many gardeners, I’ve learned through a lot of trial and error over the years, as well as seminars, training, and plenty of reference books, websites, magazines, etc. Learning by hands-on doing and growing is, for me, by far the favourite and most rewarding way to build knowledge. I’m still learning all the time, especially moving between different regions, countries, climates, and growing environments.
I also love taking photos. My love of photography was the seed that started this blog. Sharing my nature photos, along with our experiences in the garden and other activities, is how Green in Green in Real Life first began many years ago. In addition to photography, you’ll see some of my other creative pursuits and projects here on the blog, including DIY and craft ideas and living greener outside of the garden. Thanks for stopping by to visit the blog. I hope you enjoy what we share on Green in Real Life, and I would love for you to follow along here or on our social media.
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I do indeed. I love photography. Although it’s been a lifelong love of experimentation and self-taught skills (with some great teachings early on from my Dad, who is a keen photographer), I also have Diploma in Photography and a Cert IV in Digital Design, specialising in photography. You can read more in the photography section of our Resources and Tools.
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