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Which one are you?

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  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    My garden looks as if my whole family jumped out of the car, put whatever they fancied in the trolley then rushed home and planted it.
    @pansyface is that your garden?  It's beautiful!!
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    All of the above.  I've been working on my garden for nearly four years and it looks no better than when I started.  However, it supports wildlife, mostly birds and invertebrates, and occasionally produces something worth eating.  (Last summer's raspberries were scrumptious and mother was full of praise for the beetroot.  The rhubarb's good, and reliable.)  And I enjoy every minute I spend in it.
  • Beaus MumBeaus Mum Posts: 3,554
    My garden is a well balanced, carefully thought out dream and could pose for fancy magazines.
    I voted a as I do put a lot of time and effort in and it is my passion. Not that I think it could be in a glossy magazine 😄 And b and c wasn't true of mine at all 😊
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    edited April 2018
    My garden looks as if my whole family jumped out of the car, put whatever they fancied in the trolley then rushed home and planted it.
    @Fidgetbones - I'm with you on that one. My gardens - front and rear - are designed with wildlife in mind not passing strangers.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My garden looks as if my whole family jumped out of the car, put whatever they fancied in the trolley then rushed home and planted it.
    Mine is like an explosion in a paint factory, I like it like that.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    My garden looks as if my whole family jumped out of the car, put whatever they fancied in the trolley then rushed home and planted it.
    Lyn said:
    Mine is like an explosion in a paint factory, I like it like that.

    It's the only way @Lyn. My planned bits are usually just ok and the bits I shove in willy nilly till I think of something better are sometimes gorgeous.  Works for me!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My garden looks as if my whole family jumped out of the car, put whatever they fancied in the trolley then rushed home and planted it.
    Mine tends to sort it’s self out really, in the Spring and early summer it’s all pinks and lilac colours, with delphiniums foxgloves and a few others, then in the late summer and autumn it’s reds, yellows and orange,  it just seems to work on it’s own like that.



    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    edited April 2018
    My garden looks as if my whole family jumped out of the car, put whatever they fancied in the trolley then rushed home and planted it.
    WOW! That is gorgeous! 
    Toooo many variables for me. Flowering time, colours, height, conditions...the reason I play jenga and hate chess!!!  :D
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    My garden is a well balanced, carefully thought out dream and could pose for fancy magazines.
    @Lyn, what is the plant/dwarf shrub, bottom left with the white flowers?
    SW Scotland
  • None of them I'm afraid! Nothing in the garden in Oct when we took over! A tumble down dry stone wall,and a dozen overgrown Leylandii.  So veering towards buying cheap perennials,and plenty of climbers!  One dead straight path,no grass!!
    The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
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