My immediate neighbour can't garden anymore, and misses it greatly , she always comes out to see what I am doing and chat . Last year I was quite jealous as it was her first summer there and her garden did look better than mine but took solace in fact that I got to do mine whilst she had to rely on her son to do it! The other neighbours have ugly slabs but again talk to me quite often about my garden. This year will be my second full year in the house, so I'm hoping things wil start to take shape a bit more, though dissatisfied as I was last year I did get a lot of compliments so I must be doing something right, your always your worst critic ?
Freddies Dad, the rules and regulations concerning drainage etc, only apply to front gardens, bizzarely. I would rather my neighbours had some kind of hard surface, than the blindweed, dandilions,and brambles coming over. Their front drive (all paved,bar a small border) is a mass of weeds.
I'm a lonely gardener in a street of concrete drives! I love my clover-filled lawn, cheerful dandelions covered in bees, and lovely lavender and poppies that self-seed eveywhere. Lots of disapproving looks (my neighbour even throws any stray leaves that blow onto her immaculate drive back over my fence!) But in the summer I sit in my garden and watch all the wonderful birds, fat bumblebees, peacock butterflies and the squirrel that visits and I'm thankful every day that I don't have a sea of grey concrete! ?
Along my street (which is very short) I'm the only one lucky enough to have a front garden, which, although very small, allows some fun with a columnar crabapple, a couple of roses and other shrubs, and a few perennials and bulbs. I lived here for four and a half years before I was ready to plant it (now two and a half autumns ago). Up to that time I was waiting for my neighbours to do underpinning work which I thought would involve digging up the front garden. So as you can imagine I had all my planting plans ready to go! Now the new garden has started to mature a bit and I am amazed by how many comments I get about its brightening up the street. When I am feeling embarrassed out there with mud and an old jacket on people stop me and say that they pass it every day etc. I mention this not to blow my own trumpet but only to show how much, actually, people do appreciate what we do. It is infectious too, I get others coming up and asking for planting recommendations.
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My immediate neighbour can't garden anymore, and misses it greatly , she always comes out to see what I am doing and chat . Last year I was quite jealous as it was her first summer there and her garden did look better than mine but took solace in fact that I got to do mine whilst she had to rely on her son to do it! The other neighbours have ugly slabs but again talk to me quite often about my garden. This year will be my second full year in the house, so I'm hoping things wil start to take shape a bit more, though dissatisfied as I was last year I did get a lot of compliments so I must be doing something right, your always your worst critic ?
Is that the front garden Freddies Dad?
Freddies Dad, the rules and regulations concerning drainage etc, only apply to front gardens, bizzarely. I would rather my neighbours had some kind of hard surface, than the blindweed, dandilions,and brambles coming over. Their front drive (all paved,bar a small border) is a mass of weeds.
Sounds great lets have some pictures MrsGlaze.
I'm a lonely gardener in a street of concrete drives! I love my clover-filled lawn, cheerful dandelions covered in bees, and lovely lavender and poppies that self-seed eveywhere. Lots of disapproving looks (my neighbour even throws any stray leaves that blow onto her immaculate drive back over my fence!) But in the summer I sit in my garden and watch all the wonderful birds, fat bumblebees, peacock butterflies and the squirrel that visits and I'm thankful every day that I don't have a sea of grey concrete! ?
Along my street (which is very short) I'm the only one lucky enough to have a front garden, which, although very small, allows some fun with a columnar crabapple, a couple of roses and other shrubs, and a few perennials and bulbs. I lived here for four and a half years before I was ready to plant it (now two and a half autumns ago). Up to that time I was waiting for my neighbours to do underpinning work which I thought would involve digging up the front garden. So as you can imagine I had all my planting plans ready to go! Now the new garden has started to mature a bit and I am amazed by how many comments I get about its brightening up the street. When I am feeling embarrassed out there with mud and an old jacket on people stop me and say that they pass it every day etc. I mention this not to blow my own trumpet but only to show how much, actually, people do appreciate what we do. It is infectious too, I get others coming up and asking for planting recommendations.