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Book of gardening cartoons

July 16, 2019 by chrismadden

gardening cartoon book

A Funny Year in the Garden
Gardening cartoon book

Versions of many of the gardening cartoons on this site can be found in my book, A Funny Year in the Garden.
My gardening cartoons appeared for many years in the pages of the Irish Sunday Independent newspaper.

The book contains about a hundred of my cartoons in black and white.
The book is available through Amazon.
Such as at:
Amazon UK
Amazon USA

Filed Under: Autumn gardening, Books, Flower Gardening, Garden design, GARDENING, Spring gardening, Summer gardening, Trees and bushes

Garden cartoons – noisy neighbours cartoon

March 4, 2013 by chrismadden

Gardening cartoon - noisy neighbours cartoon

Noisy neighbours cartoon

Cartoon showing problem neighbours hanging a loudspeaker outdoors in a tree.
A gardener is hanging a bird nesting box in a tree. The loudspeaker looks very similar to the nesting box, which is part of the joke

A humorous observation about neihbors from hell, encouraging birds in the garden, inconsiderate neighbours
Cartoon reference number: a578

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Filed Under: Birds, DOMESTIC, GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Topiary cartoon

June 19, 2012 by chrismadden

topiary gardening cartoon

Garden cartoon
Topiary cartoon – gardener creating a topiary chair

Cartoon showing a gardener relaxing in a chair that he has clipped as a piece of topiary from a bush. He is reading a magazine called ‘Topiary Monthly’

A cartoon about topiary art, clipping hedges, topiary animals, garden furniture, garden chairs, relaxing in the garden.
Cartoon reference number: a296

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Filed Under: Garden design, GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Gardening cartoon – a cartoon about data-obsession and looking forward to spring

June 19, 2012 by chrismadden

measuring spring buds cartoon

Garden cartoon.
Cartoon about obsessive data collection

Cartoon showing a gardener measuring the length of a bud on a tree and determining the progress of the seasons as a result.

This is a cartoon about people who feel a need to measure things as a way of feeling that they are in control of their lives and environment.
This cartoon isn’t a criticism of the data collecting urge. After all, where would we be without the people who do it? It’s due to them that we can predict what will happen in the future (The man in the cartoon is precisely predicting the time till the arrival of spring).
A cartoon about control freaks, creating order, psychological personality types.
Cartoon reference number: a291

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Filed Under: GARDENING, Spring gardening, Trees and bushes, Winter gardening

Gardening cartoon – garden seating cartoon

June 19, 2012 by chrismadden

spiral staircase up tree cartoon

Garden cartoon – garden seating up a tree cartoon

Cartoon showing a garden seat high in the branches of a tree

There is a spiral staircase going round the trunk of the tree, providing access to the top of the tree
A cartoon that refers to the recent trend to construct aerial walkways or arboreal walkways through the upper branches of trees, allowing people to explore the tree canopy. Examples include the Xstrata Treetop Walkway in Kew Gardens, London.
The cartoon also refers to the tree houses built in trees by children (or their parents).
Part of the joke in the cartoon is that the two people sitting on a bench in the tree are old people rather than the young and agile people you’d expect.
A cartoon about garden seating, garden chairs, relaxing in the garden, suburban gardening.
Cartoon reference number: a290

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Filed Under: Garden design, GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Gardening cartoon about cutting a branch from a tree – and forward planning

June 17, 2012 by chrismadden

saw branch off tree - cartoon

Garden tree cartoon – sawing a branch off a tree while sitting on the branch

Cartoon about the cliche of a man sawing a branch off a tree while sitting on the branch.
In the usual version of this cartoon cliche the man is sitting on the part of the branch which will fall to the ground when cut – a joke about human stupidity.

In this version of the cartoon the man has realised this danger and has sat on the part of the branch that will remain attached to the tree.
However, he’s overlooked the fact that his ladder was leaning on the branch and has fallen to the ground, stranding him on the stump of the branch high in the tree.

A cartoon about hubris, the law of unforeseen consequences, insufficient planning, foreword planning, flawed planning strategies, flaws in reasoning.

Cartoon reference number: a281

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Filed Under: GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Fruit growing cartoon – pear tree producing gluts of fruit in the autumn

June 17, 2012 by chrismadden

pear tree fruit glut cartoon

Fruit gardening cartoon – a glut of fruit on a pear tree

Cartoon about the problem of gluts of seasonal food or the over abundance of seasonal crops

The gardener complaining that all of the fruit on a fruit tree arrives at once.

A cartoon about fruit gardening, vegetable gardens, harvesting fruit, pear trees, garden fruit, allotment gardening, autumn gardens, fall gardening, fruit picking.

Cartoon reference number: a279

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Filed Under: Autumn gardening, GARDENING, Trees and bushes, Vegetable and fruit gardening

Gardening cartoon – you sometimes only notice trees when they’re in blossom

June 16, 2012 by chrismadden

only notice trees when in blossom - cartoon

Gardening cartoon – how blossom imposes itself on your senses

Cartoon showing gardeners commenting on how plants can go unnoticed except when they are in flower

The gardener is saying that it’s amazing how a tree stands there unnoticed all year – then it comes into blossom and you can’t take your eyes off it.

A cartoon about blooms, flowers, colour in the garden, attention-seeking flowers, attractive blossom, cherry blossom time, flowering trees, summer gardens.

Cartoon reference number: a278

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Filed Under: GARDENING, Spring gardening, Trees and bushes

Autumn leaves blowing off a garden tree – into a neighbour’s garden

May 20, 2012 by chrismadden

autumn leaves blowing to neighbours - cartoon

Cartoon showing autumn leaves blowing off a garden tree – into a neighbour’s garden

Cartoon showing a gardener saying “Always plant trees so that the prevailing wind blows the autumn leaves next door”

A cartoon about the importance of planting a garden taking into account the direction of the prevailing wind

As well as the direction of the prevailing wind the gardener needs to take into account other aspects of the orientation of the garden, such as the direction in which it is facing in relation to the sun.

Cartoon reference number: a244

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Filed Under: Autumn gardening, GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Topiary cartoon – bushes clipped into the shape of pointing hands

May 7, 2012 by chrismadden

topiary of pointing hands - cartoon

Garden topiary cartoon – bushes clipped into the shape of pointing hands

Comic illustration showing bushes in a garden or park trimmed to the shape of pointing hands

The people are looking in the directions that the bushes are pointing in
Cartoon reference number: a226

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Filed Under: Garden design, GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Airborne sycamore seeds invading a garden cartoon

May 7, 2012 by chrismadden

sycamore seeds invading garden - humour

Gardening humour – airborne sycamore seeds invading a garden

Cartoon showing sycamore ‘helicopters’ fluttering down into a garden on a gust of wind.

The gardener is saying “Isn’t nature wonderful? All those sycamore seeds fluttering over our garden – and every last one of them fertile”

A joke about invasive species of trees, seed propagation, evolved seed dispersal strategies.

Cartoon reference number: a224

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Filed Under: GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Gardening humour – planting plants in the neighbour’s untidy garden

May 7, 2012 by chrismadden

cartoon - planting plants in neighbour's untidy garden

Suburban gardening cartoon – planting flowers and shrubs in the neighbour’s neglected garden

Joke showing a gardener sneaking into their next door neighbour’s overgrown garden to plant a bush or tree

A comic illustration about extending your garden into next door’s garden by secretly planting bushes and trees.

Cartoon reference number: a217

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Filed Under: GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Cartoon about fruit trees – collecting windfalls from a pear tree

May 7, 2012 by chrismadden

pear windfall - cartoon

Gardening humour about fruit trees – collecting windfalls from a pear tree

A windfall fruit is falling straight into a bag labeled ‘windfalls’

Windfalls are normally associated with apples and apple trees, however I’ve used pears in my cartoon because they are a more interesting and recognisable shape.

Cartoon reference number: a215

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Filed Under: GARDENING, Trees and bushes, Vegetable and fruit gardening

House name cartoon. Turning Oak Cottage into Primrose Cottage

May 7, 2012 by chrismadden

oak cottage - primrose cottage - joke

A cartoon about house names. Turning Oak Cottage into Primrose Cottage

Chopping down an oak tree in a garden means that the house name needs to be changed from Oak Cottage.

There’s a primrose in the garden, so the house name is changed to Primrose Cottage.
A humorous illustration about garden trees, felling trees, chopping down trees, garden flowers, wild flowers in the garden, natural gardens, tree stump in garden.
Cartoon reference number: a214

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Filed Under: Deforestation, ENVIRONMENT, GARDENING, Trees, Trees and bushes

Christmas gardening joke – a Christmas present for a gardener

May 6, 2012 by chrismadden

gardening christmas present joke

Christmas gardening cartoon.

A cartoon showing a keen gardener receiving a Christmas present – a “grow-your-own” oak tree. In other words, an acorn.

A joke about men’s hobbies and pass-times, planting trees, re-establishing woodland, conservation, green Christmas presents.
Cartoon reference number: a206

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Filed Under: Christmas cartoons, GARDENING, Trees, Trees and bushes

A novel use for unwanted Christmas presents

May 5, 2012 by chrismadden

christmas present for gardener joke

Garden cartoon. A novel use for unwanted Christmas presents

A cartoon showing a gardener using an unwanted Christmas present (a tie) to secure a sapling to a stake.

Cartoon reference number: a200

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Filed Under: Christmas cartoons, GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Dangerous tree branches – mind your head joke

May 3, 2012 by chrismadden

mind your head joke

Garden cartoon. Low branch – mind your head

Showing a man walking under a branch on a tree in a park or garden that has a warning sign “Mind your head”

The man thinks the sign is to warn against low hanging branches that might bump your head, but it’s actually about the danger of falling branches.
A joke about health and safety, – and the danger of falling branches.

Drawn: June 2006

Cartoon reference number: a174

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Filed Under: GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Autumn gardening cartoon – gluing fallen autumn leaves back onto a tree

May 2, 2012 by chrismadden

autumn leaves cartoon

Autumn gardening cartoon

Autumn or fall gardening cartoon – gluing the fallen autumn leaves back onto a tree.

The leaves are being stuck back onto the branches of the tree with glue so that the branches aren’t bare during the winter and so that the trees can provide some winter colour in the garden.
The man in the cartoon is saying “I’m gluing the fallen leaves back on so that we get autumn colour right through the winter.”

Cartoon reference number: a163

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Filed Under: Autumn gardening, GARDENING, Trees and bushes, Winter gardening

Fruit Gardening Cartoon – modern children are no longer interested in stealing apples

May 2, 2012 by chrismadden

scrumping apples cartoon

Gardening cartoon

Fruit Gardening Cartoon – children are no longer interested in scrumping (stealing apples)

Cartoon showing children walking under an apple tree laden with apples, and not being interested in picking any of them because they are too engrossed in modern technological devices such as cell phones or other hand held electronic devices.

Cartoon reference number: a161

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Filed Under: Autumn gardening, Children, GARDENING, Trees and bushes, Vegetable and fruit gardening

Cartoon. Supermarket food replacing homegrown or locally sourced

September 14, 2011 by chrismadden

Supermarket food replacing homegrown

Food supply cartoon
Supermarket food replacing homegrown or locally sourced produce

Woman picking organic apples from a tree in the garden, with man buying fruit in supermarket

A cartoon about organic food, home grown fruit, supermarkets, shopping

Cartoon reference number: env113

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Filed Under: Autumn gardening, ENVIRONMENT, GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Pesticide cartoons: how pesticides can increase apple yield

September 14, 2011 by chrismadden

Cartoon - pesticide increases apple crop yield

From my selection of environment cartoons
Pesticide cartoons
How pesticide increases apple crop yield

A cartoon about using toxic agricultural chemicals for pest control

In this cartoon the pests being controlled are generally young children who steal the fruit from the trees.
Crop yield is increased by deterring people from stealing the apples off the tree (scrumping).
The cartoon is partly inspired by the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Cartoon reference number: env117

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Filed Under: Autumn gardening, ENVIRONMENT, GARDENING, Trees and bushes

Gardening cartoons: hanging baskets in trees

September 9, 2011 by chrismadden

Gardening cartoon: a hanging basket in a tree, obscured by the tree's leaves.

Gardening cartoon
Hanging basket cartoon

A hanging basket that was placed in a tree in the spring before the leaves came out on the trees, with the flowers in the basket obscured by the tree’s leaves in the summer.

Cartoon drawn: 2009
Cartoon reference number: gar027
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Filed Under: DOMESTIC, Flower Gardening, GARDENING, Trees and bushes

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