No duck, my gardener charges £15 each visit and that includes doing next door’s horror show of a hedge. It’s the nightmare bank and in front of the shed that takes the time. The bank is all builders rubble and absolutely treacherous to climb up. In front of the shed what someone has done is put down two concrete strips, which have broken up, then they tried to fix it by putting two strips of tarmac down
Learnincurve, is that garden, back,front and side? A sea of grey concrete!, no, my garden isnt that!, its not grey for a start! We matched the paving blocks to the "beach" shingle we used", have half a dozen large concrete planters.will get my daughter to post pics when she is next here, we live off a village, the road is very narrorow, you have to park in your garden. The road is just wide enought for one vehicle, lorries delivery to the local shops, and some lorries passing through, go up on the grass verge ruining it. The gardening we do here isnt infectious, I wish it was. I have been away a couple of days, looking after grandkids. Got back yesterday, Hubby had been weeding our front border, (in the freezing cold, bit of snow, some sun, but biting wind) neighbour came along and aparently said their border was looking a bit of a mess (understatement of the year!!!) said he would probably put shingle down. Yup, he may well get round to that at some point. Like he did over another border next to ours, he just put chippings down, didnt remove weeds, (dandilions,brambles) or lay ground cover, just chucked the stones down, so you can imagine the "results!)
Yes that’s back, front and side Nanny, largest council house garden I have ever set eyes on.
Great minds and all that, bottom part with the trees has just had over 50 bushes of various sizes planted round it. The borders will probably get bigger over time so that the grass becomes pathways. When I moved in there was the yucca and grass and that’s quite literally it, need to grow plants from seed to fill borders before extending them as doing it now would just mean more weeding. empty spaces have spring bulbs in them, I’m putting in dahlia after the last frosts.
I was planning on making those two square areas circles of grass, but when viewed from above there would be a rather unfortunate issue....
No one here really has much of a front garden. It's a newish estate (15 or so years) and best they have like what I've linked in my other thread. There are a few houses that have tried to do their best, and we took a walk around looking for inspiration. Mostly it's just cars everywhere. Cars on driveways, pavement, grass, everywhere! Except in the garage.
I don't know what many back gardens look like, but it seems like people have the odd tree here or there. Once again, not a lot of space, and probably full of toys for the kids.
I don't really live on a street - half a mile down a farm track from an un-named country lane.
Nearest neighbour the farm about 300 meters away. No garden.
Next nearest is about another half mile further, if you are a crow! No garden to speak of.
There was an old lady lived opposite them, who had a lovely garden on the verge and kept it going into her nineties. When she died the new people sort of retained it, but it is a shadow of its former glory.
That's it. No-one else lives on the lane, next nearest farm over a mile away.
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Would it be less work to plant up the whole with shrubs and perennials that would be low maintenance? (Course, I know the well-kept lawn is a thing...
Learnincurve, is that garden, back,front and side? A sea of grey concrete!, no, my garden isnt that!, its not grey for a start! We matched the paving blocks to the "beach" shingle we used", have half a dozen large concrete planters.will get my daughter to post pics when she is next here, we live off a village, the road is very narrorow, you have to park in your garden. The road is just wide enought for one vehicle, lorries delivery to the local shops, and some lorries passing through, go up on the grass verge ruining it. The gardening we do here isnt infectious, I wish it was. I have been away a couple of days, looking after grandkids. Got back yesterday, Hubby had been weeding our front border, (in the freezing cold, bit of snow, some sun, but biting wind) neighbour came along and aparently said their border was looking a bit of a mess (understatement of the year!!!) said he would probably put shingle down. Yup, he may well get round to that at some point. Like he did over another border next to ours, he just put chippings down, didnt remove weeds, (dandilions,brambles) or lay ground cover, just chucked the stones down, so you can imagine the "results!)
Yes that’s back, front and side Nanny, largest council house garden I have ever set eyes on.
Great minds and all that, bottom part with the trees has just had over 50 bushes of various sizes planted round it. The borders will probably get bigger over time so that the grass becomes pathways. When I moved in there was the yucca and grass and that’s quite literally it, need to grow plants from seed to fill borders before extending them as doing it now would just mean more weeding. empty spaces have spring bulbs in them, I’m putting in dahlia after the last frosts.
I was planning on making those two square areas circles of grass, but when viewed from above there would be a rather unfortunate issue....
I'm probably not the only gardener, as I live on a street that is 60 km long.
No one here really has much of a front garden. It's a newish estate (15 or so years) and best they have like what I've linked in my other thread. There are a few houses that have tried to do their best, and we took a walk around looking for inspiration. Mostly it's just cars everywhere. Cars on driveways, pavement, grass, everywhere! Except in the garage.
I don't know what many back gardens look like, but it seems like people have the odd tree here or there. Once again, not a lot of space, and probably full of toys for the kids.
I don't really live on a street - half a mile down a farm track from an un-named country lane.
Nearest neighbour the farm about 300 meters away. No garden.
Next nearest is about another half mile further, if you are a crow! No garden to speak of.
There was an old lady lived opposite them, who had a lovely garden on the verge and kept it going into her nineties. When she died the new people sort of retained it, but it is a shadow of its former glory.
That's it. No-one else lives on the lane, next nearest farm over a mile away.
Buttercup that is my idea of heaven!