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Things you don't notice in your garden.

AchtungAchtung Posts: 159
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When I bought my house it had slabs inlaid into the lawn as stepping stones
Today I went out to tidy up and discovered that the slabs were actually 25% larger than I had previously seen due to the grass growing over them. I 'looked' at them every day But I hadn't 'seen' how much they'd changed in just a few years. Anyone else looking and not seeing? (apologies for italics and bold. Can't switch them off). 
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Ive been doing an archaeological dig in my garden and found the same thing. Also some low dry stone walls. I also found where the electric cable to the garage is situated so i can dig deep without worrying about getting frazzled 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    One thing that surprised me was that the concrete path down the side of the garden actually continues under the lawn (which steps down onto the path). If you stick a fork into the lawn, you hit concrete when it's 2/3 of the way in...
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    When I moved in about a third of the front garden was gravel.  After 5 years I discovered a flagstone path from the front gate to the front door and a concrete path from the driveway to the front door.  I'm now in the process of recovering the rest of the garden and planting it up.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I got very excited when I hit brick/stone/concrete at one side of the garden and thought I'd found an old well - halfway up a slope?!! Managed to get in touch with the previous owner who told me it was a brick/concrete slab for compost bins. I was soooo disappointed.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Digging up my front path I discovered where the main water pipe runs into the house. Which means I can now put in a tap in my front garden. Holy, holy, hallelujah.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    edited May 2019
    We just bought our house and the whole thing was covered in ivy so we stripped it all off and were standing by the side of the house on the drive saying maybe we should put some paving slabs down next to the house. husband went to lean on the spade and it went clunk.. yup sure enough a row of paving slabs along the house but under a good 20cm of compost from the ivy. We cleared it all off and when the previous owner came out to check boundaries (they are having to be redrawn) he admitted he didn't even know they were there and they had had the house 40 years!
    Lizzie. I've got an old well just off my property, open stone lined thing with a pump sticking out as well, but I am not convinced it's ever been filled in properly so I treat it with great mistrust!
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    I have a well in my conservatory, the previous owners found it when they added the conservatory and the builder persuaded them to glass top it instead of filling it in.  I love it and the grandchildren like to sit on it, but my daughter hates it, she says it reminds her of Silence of the Lambs.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I no longer notice the noise from the main road... I thought I'd hate it, and for a while I did, but not any more.  I swear the birds sing louder to compensate!
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    In my previous house there turned out to be five wells in our small front gardens of a row of terraced houses. Our basements were all very damp. Now we know why. A neighbour bought our next door house and knocked the two together and merged the gardens. In clearing the gardens (removing the lawns) he found the wells and inspired the neighbours to clear and find their own. It's hard to how anyone could miss a well, let alone five. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    When I was tidying up here I uncovered a beautiful large Cornish slate step, completely grassed over. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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