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How would you describe your garden?
fidgetbones
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Time for "best kept garden" competitions again. Is yours a "best kept" or is it something else. An adventure for the grandchildren. Cricket/football pitch. Allotment for producing veg or cut flowers Cottage garden. Sensory garden. Rose garden White garden. Scented garden. Wildlife garden. One thing for certain, no such thing as the average English Garden. My friend lived in Pittsburgh for a while. She grew roses and what would be described as a cottage garden. One of the american locals said she was known as the lady with the "English Garden" The average american garden was known as the yard, and a patch of grass at the front.
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something else. always just short of a wilderness this year it's tipped over.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Over the years my garden has taken on just about all of your list, except of course "best kept". Now have plans for Water and Alpines!! Is there no end?
There are no problems in my garden, only challenges.. it's just that there are so many challenges that it's become a bit of a problem.
I can relate to that WW
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ours is 120 feet long, 40 feet wide. We have 2 GH's & a shed. Borders on both sides, and an ericaceous bed beneath an old apple tree. Small veg plot with some veg amongst flowers & stuff in tubs. No designated style of beds, just planted stuff I liked where it would go, initially planted shrubs too near together but wanted some swift height & privacy. Currently "thinning out borders". We have two areas of green, ( three, some out the front) can't call them lawns.
The garden is my sanctuary, I wander around especially in the morning and try and appreciate the lovely things. I don't always find gardening a pleasure, especially weeding, but love to sew, plant and watch things grow & love eating fresh veg. I'm still working on my plan that Sunday's we don't garden we just observe & appreciate. But you know what it's like, sit down for a few minutes and you always see something that needs attention.
In answer to your thread Fbones, I don't know how I'd describe my garden, I have some well loved common stuff, some unusual, some too big and in wrong place, but I think what matters is that we like it.
I'm looking forward to hearing what other members say, good subject for a thread.
OOPs amendment to garden size it is 120 yards x 40 ..NOT feet, never was any good at numbers.
A constant challenge. Always changing as I have never been totally happy with it. But that's what I love about it. If ever I got it perfect, what would I do.
Mainly shrubs, some evergreen, bushes, trees. Lots of ground cover. More needed. All types of climbers.
I think its great.
Think I'll take more water with it...the garden is in feet..it's a garden not an airport runway.
And don't get started on metres, etc, Kef.
...I like the sound of your garden Tina... full of interest it would seem..
overplanted but controlled, would be mine... I ought to put a sign saying ''full up'' around my borders, just to remind me, when next I go shopping...