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Who is opening their garden this year?

FireFire Posts: 19,096
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I've love to hear about it, if you are opening, with the yellow book or other schemes. I plan to do a lot of visiting this year.
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  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Only with the village’s open gardens, wouldn’t dare to open on our own, the disappointment of somebody making a special journey would be too much to witness!
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    @Jellyfire Your pond thread has had over 2000 views. Imagine if they all turned up to look!!!  :dizzy:
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    plant pauper said:
    @Jellyfire Your pond thread has had over 2000 views. Imagine if they all turned up to look!!!  :dizzy:
    Lol, if I charged a pound a time I could build another one or three 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    We're opening for the Weston Village Open Gardens, Bath (NGS) four gardens on June 16th/17th so about 6 weeks to go! I think it's our third or fourth time but the stress still strikes. Our raised veg beds are still being constructed so the runner beans are sitting in the bath (only place left!). I love the adrenaline rush though of trying to get the garden as perfect as I can.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    edited May 2018

    I am also opening my garden on the 17th June, for the fairly new French Open Gardens scheme. I don't know if it will ever be ready, we've had so much rain this winter and we've also been in England quite a bit. Just got back from Norfolk and the garden has shot up, especially the weeds. Also I had a bad bout of sciatica 3 or 4 weeks ago.https://www.opengardens.eu/index.php

    Photo is a previous Open Day in May.



    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Wow. Such a gorgeous garden. Does it go back beyond the wall? Mature woodland?
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    There is a small paddock and mature woodland as the house is in the middle of a forest. There is another wall in front with a rose trellis and another lawn, apple trees, shrubbery and more beds, also to the other side of the house are cherry trees, another lawn and flower bed and the veg garden. 
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2018
    Sounds as perfect as it gets for me. Good luck to all with open garden prep.

    I run a local gardening group and several of our members are opening their gardens, so I am helping out (making cakes). Ours locally are generally very friendly affairs, with lots of questions flying, plant sales and shared appreciations. I don't like when they get snotty and unwelcoming (as they can). It seems the opposite, somehow, of the gardening community ethos. I also like the gardens best that don't have 'staff'. I feel most inspired by ones that I could emulate myself without having an army of gardeners at my back.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I don't have staff, apart from OH (the under gardener!) but I created the garden from 1991 and it's all getting a bit much for me now. Opening it is motivating. I serve cakes too, my daughters will be coming to help.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I'm not at all knocking gardening help. All these gardens are a huge amount of work.

    After some years, I now look at gardens in a whole new light - as I can see some of how much work must have been put in to make a perfect lawn, gorgeous roses, healthy trees, great borders. Just to get decent soil is taking me years, let alone anything that grows in it. Huge respect to those who have given so much of their lifetime to create something so beautiful. I can imagine there is a great sense of loss for those who have to back off the work, as it all becomes a bit much. My dad is coming that point, after 30 years of happy pottering.
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