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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    The alarm on the battery of the newly installed solar system went off again yesterday morning. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    B3,it is indeed. Hubby has to go up in the loft and re set the thing. I can't even bring down the massive metal loft ladder!
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I was on another gardening site where somebody was complaining bitterly that the people who had bought their house had ripped out some of their shrubs.  They need to accept that once they sold the property is it no longer their house or their shrubs.  If the plants meant so much to them they should have arranged to take them with them. 
    I accept it is disappointing when new owners don't want the same look, but that's life.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Indeed @KT53. I feel disappointed when I see my old garden round the corner, because the folk who bought it removed the hornbeam hedge and replaced it with leylandii. 
    They removed the handrails from the deck in the back garden. Very odd - as it was about four feet from the ground. Their garden though. I try not to go past it if I can.
    There's another new set of people in it now, and at least they haven't chopped the Amelanchier at the front gate in half, like the first lot did...
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I found myself feeling ridiculously grumpy when the people who moved in next door ripped out the plants that the old lady who lived there previously had planted. Ridiculous because it's really none of my business.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I spent a fortune and many years creating my garden in Belgium, mulching and improving the oil, planting it with trees, shrubs, climbers, perennials, bulbs and a pond to provide food and cover for all sorts of wildlife from invertebrates to birds and hedgehogs to the point where rare species were listed by the local council.  The new owners have levelled it and put up a sleeper fence at the back boundary to separate it from the arable field behind which is now 3' higher.

    50+ clems, 50+ roses, 100+ shrubs and evergreens, over a dozen trees and countless perennials and bulbs, all ripped out without thinking to offer any to anyone interested. 

    Fortunately we are now 800js away and I can avoid going past it if we visit up there.

    Good job I brought some of my precious clems and roses and other treasures in pots!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    I’m sure the previous owners of our house are horrified at what we have done. We removed a huge bed of azaleas after a few years. They had a very limited flowering period, were in clashing colours, and got covered in dead leaves from the trees. The bed was so wide that it was impossible to get anywhere near the middle to remove the leaves or trim the shrubs. In our defence, we have put in lots of pretty alternatives.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    The only gardeners who were here before me were sheep, who kept the grass shorter than I do. I imagine they are a little sad to see how I've let it get all messy and full of flowers, but at least they don't stand by the fence and bleat about it.

    I did a lot of the 'damage' to Mum's garden myself - or got a gardener to do it. He dug over the large beds and put it all to lawn so it could be kept looking decent for the sale while I was too far away to actually maintain it. The lady who bought it basically had a tabula rasa with a few mature shrubs and an old apple tree. The nice perennials that came out - or parts of them - are in my garden now
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'm no more inclined to keep the garden previous owners leave behind, than leave their wallpaper , carpets or colour schemes.

    I've made the most of the flippin' wind, and cut the grass.

    Devon.
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