symyjym
Banned
Here's a picture of my garden, it won't help you much, but I like it.
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It's a sun trap, the trees are trapping the sun outside your garden.
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Gardens.
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It's a sun trap, the trees are trapping the sun outside your garden.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Sometimes it's laziness, sometimes it's funding. When we moved in our garden was an absolute state. 4 large trees meaning complete coverage so no sun, something that used to be a pond, tonnes of buried bricks, glass and metal and fully overgrown. It's taken us 6 years to get it into some semblance of shape and there's still about 15% left to dig, level and turn into a garden!! We've done it a bit at a time but it's been much harder and much more expensive than we expected.
That said, now we have a lawn, it's completely changed our summer.
One thing I do not need though is a picture of our garden 5 years ago... I'll never want to go back to that.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Your garden is probably larger than mine and I appreciate some people are stuck with what they inherit to an extent when they move in, if major work is needed. Fair play to you for knocking it into shape.
But none of the gardens where I am are particularly large, and they'd all be improved immeasurably if someone could just be arsed spending an afternoon with a mower and strimmer. Where there's a will there's a way, but if there's no will, then thats when you end up with a dump out back.
We moved from a flat to a house with a garden, and it was a godsend for the kids. We didn't have much money to spend back then, but I made sure we made the most of it, and always have (they're grown up now). Now I've been able to do more with it, and I like nothing more than chilling out on my patio with a few beers now, I practically live out there in the summer. I can't comprehend how some people let their own space just go to rack and ruin (and none of the neighbours are elderly or incapacitated).
skipper734
Registered ruffian
I'm sure there is a shot of your garden here, if you could just mark the spot with an X ( bit like spot the ball) then we would know where to look for some photo's at a lower altitude.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
This. A garden is a refuge, from work, from the kids, from the outside world and sometimes from home. I've got a relatively small garden but I manage to have about 4 places in it to escape to. It's lovely on a warm day, to sit in the shade and drink a cool glass of Guinness.
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HastingsSeagull
Well-known member
It's simple, stick plenty of Cortaderia Selloana in there and the neighbours will start talking about something else....... hey you might even make some new friends too
