If I had room for big trees, I'd also like to have a Liriodendron tulipifera, just rolling its name off my tongue gives me pleasure, no wonder one of us chose it as a user name. Also an Indian bean tree, such lovely flowers. I'd like the house across the road to have a big front lawn with a large and stately cedar in the middle. Wouldn't want them myself, but lovely to look at. Not sure whether to live in an Art Deco house, with a view of an Arts and Crafts house across the road, or vice versa.
It think on the whole I would wish for a cross between Dixter and Sissinghurst, with enough money to not worry how on earth I was going to fund the project.
I’d love an extra secret garden, wild in it’s feeling only a little tamed and a few abstract sculptures to discover along the way and a large lion head fountain on the wall dropping into a beautiful stone trough, surrounded by lush climbers.
I have a huge garden in Dordogne that I have spent over 20 years turning into an English style garden from a farmyard and a bit of a field. It was my dream when I was young, now it's getting too much. House is going on the market and my dream is a smaller garden with drought tolerant plants, easy of upkeep. OH, well, we, have a cottage in Norfolk with a patio and a small front border, we are selling it and buying a nearby bigger cottage with a garden. Looking forward to an English garden in England with English weather. Except that, at the moment Norfolk is hotter than Dordogne!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Ooooo what lovely ideas ever one has! Making my mouth water!!! I'd love a huge sweeping vista of a lawn, with great double beds like at Arley Hall (in Cheshre ). And a walled garden full of flowers and produce, and a Victorian glasshouse with underfloor heating (like Tatton Park - fantastic for a visit in freezing January! ) Oh and room for a monkey puzzle tree.... And if course 'Dumpkins' to do all the gardening for me. That's my Christmas list posted to Santa!🎄
I'd just love to be 20-years old again , with a wide knowledge of trees ; plant some rarities and live long enough to appreciate them . Alas , time is running out !
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A huge swimming pond.
.. and a shed. I really need a shed...sigh.
Some lovely Barbara Hepworth would go down a treat in my garden.
I really need to start doing the lotto to fund mine
I can actually see this in my minds eye so vividly. It just got added to my wishlist
That's my Christmas list posted to Santa!🎄
Alas , time is running out !