hidden in plain site

[artfog]

I was reading a blog about hiding plants. https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=87188 & I have used and still use many of the plants shown on that blog to mask my garden. But one other that usually works best is attaching cheap plastic flowers to the plants. Don’t use large exciting flowers they attract too much attention, the more common the better. Also it works best if the flowers are small. I usually get my best selection from the dumpsters in cemeteries. They are free and there is a good selection of mundane flowers. I keep them in a box and change them throughout the summer then store them for next season.

 

[Mikell]

Excellent idea! I believe Sam does the same thing with greenhouses, makes it look like you're growing flowers from the air

 

[armedoldhippy]

I have read about folks using paper mache tomatoes before...

 

[artfog]

Actually I have guests over and some of the plants are growing as close a several yards away from them. They just walk past. Of course there are more interesting plants around.

 

[DJbigbud]

In my experience, any flowers draw attention. Maybe not from a distance, but once you get close, people always wanna look at flowering plants/bushes and ask questions about them. I would suggest pruning/training to keep plants low and surround them with like colored foliage. The more unkept and messy the area, the less likely people will notice anything specific about the plants growing there. An overgrown garden with a few MJ plants in it, tied down to keep the branches below eye level and people wont notice a thing. What people will notice tho, is a big plant that gets to eye level or higher. Keep it low and people wont know!

 

[Grownomenal]

This made me think of cheech and chong nice dreams. Cover it all with a blue tarp and a pool raft!

 

[DoubleTripleOG]

This made me think of cheech and chong nice dreams. Cover it all with a blue tarp and a pool raft!

Swimming on a ladder!!!!!

 

[Kygiacomo!!!]

lol that movie was a classic for sure..my fav part is when they are in the car smoking down and the law comes up to the car

 

[vostok]

My last line of defense, is the plastic chillies I've painted green and red, to deter nosy peeps from my grows, they gotta work there way thru many obstacles to get them peppers tho ...lol

 

[Snook]

and what does one tell his guests when the colas are as big as my arm and just the smell can get you high? hybrid tomato's!?

my wife tells me how much she can smell 'the room' in the rest of the house. I think that her mind has been alerted to the reality of the smell but others may overlook the smell or think that our house smells weird, we cook with allot of garlic when guests are expected.. well, actually we cook with garlic all the time.

 

[vostok]

You may need to up grade that compost heap ....some...and turn it over being ready for spring and all, then the smells hits you and many guest prefer to hang around the pool or inside in the shade....lol

 

[dickcorn]

Lots of fake tomatoes etc online for cheap. Gonna troll eBay in a bit. I'd love to hear others suggestions or clever hidden in plain sight grow ideas. Good thread idea.

 

[artfog]

I sometimes attach ferns or various leafy plastic plants to stakes or branches sticking them in the ground and winding them through my pot plants.
I always have a surplus of Plastic flowers on hand they are always being tossed out somewhere (usually seasonal) year around but the waste baskets at cemeteries has the best selection. I recycle most of my starter pots from the cemetery also.

 

[Snook]

big , paper mache bees nest, keep some dead fish in there, for cover smell and the flys the fish draws will look like bees?

orrr. pigs! ina pen in front of the plants, definite cover smell and a way to get rid of plant byproducts and, if you don't name them, you can sell them to the market when they get big.

 

[stoned-trout]

no thanks..flowers stand out ..anyone with a computer and friends knows what weed looks like nowadays..in the city I just didn't let folks in my back yard much...yeehaw

 

[Snook]

big , paper mache bees nest, keep some dead fish in there, for cover smell and the flys the fish draws will look like bees?

orrr. pigs! ina pen in front of the plants, definite cover smell and a way to get rid of plant byproducts and, if you don't name them, you can sell them to the market when they get big.

I didn't mean dead trout, trout.

 

[artfog]

My friend use to picks up 'road kill' and put it in his garden sometime even a skunk. I wouldn't go that far but I have used incense that doesn’t smell exactly like itself, ‘café’ is one scent I have used. Just stick a few it in the ground near the edges and burn them. It dissipates in the air masking w/out being to outrageous. I do this when there is heavy traffic. Besides the plants only have a couple of weeks of strong scent.

 

[artfog]

Did I mention the 3' -12' Sun Flowers. They line the open side of my garden. Some of them bend over the path way. People visiting are overwhelmed w/ meandering sand stone path. I will try to get a photo in here this w/ years growth.

 

[f-e]

I have stood in many a clearing, wondering where the plant is that I'm treading on.

People generally don't see what they are not looking for. It's a bit lazy. We just process what we need to. Dog walkers care about their dog. Other dogs. Other people. Treading in things. They are not looking for planes falling out the sky or cannabis plants. They would need a good memory map of what a plants looks like, to notice it on a green background they are not interested in.

One year my plants went nuts. I walked up to the clearing and wondered where it had gone. Had someone somehow stolen my clearing? This was the illogical thought I had, finding my clearing was so stuffed full of cannabis plants I didn't recognise the place, or see the plants I was looking for. I stepped back when I realised.

Hidden in plain sight is a very real situation. One site in a clearing, no longer has any ground cover as the bushes around it have turned to trees. When people walk pass, I hide behind my pot plants. One eye closed.

 

[Swamp Thang]

In my experience, any flowers draw attention. Maybe not from a distance, but once you get close, people always wanna look at flowering plants/bushes and ask questions about them. I would suggest pruning/training to keep plants low and surround them with like colored foliage. The more unkept and messy the area, the less likely people will notice anything specific about the plants growing there. An overgrown garden with a few MJ plants in it, tied down to keep the branches below eye level and people wont notice a thing. What people will notice tho, is a big plant that gets to eye level or higher. Keep it low and people wont know!

Thanks for the low-down, if you'll pardon the pun.