Never a good idea to return to old haunts - 9 times out of 10 you will be dismayed/horrified by the changes/decimation. It's what happens when you move on from one property to another. Bear in mind that you may also have a previous owner who happens to pass by and is horrified by what you have done to "their" garden
There wasn't a garden before us. Cow pasture all the way up to the back and side of the house and tarmac at the front for the tractors. Our old neighbours visited us here last October and gave me the glad tidings. They'd have loved to take plants to save them from the massacre.
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)."
A woman who lived along the road from me, spoke to me one day, as she knew I'd lived in that house. She said she'd told the new people what a mess the garden was and it had been beautiful. I didn't really know what to say to her! I just said that it was nice of her to say the garden had been lovely, but it didn't belong to me now. There was no garden here when I moved in, apart from a few shrubs, so if the previous owner walks by, she can't say too much @philippasmith2
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Our NDN has just told me that they intend to cut down their old walnut tree in the front garden - fair enough as it is dying, but will also plant four large trees alongside our drive where they have already planted a laurel hedge in front of a row of buddleias. Can you tell they are not gardeners?! Am I naughty to feel gratitude that the laurel is not prospering? Trouble is that if and when all that grows, my main front border will lose the late afternoon sunshine.
They are also proposing to install large grey metal electric gates which I think are going to look very industrial to say the least.
It always makes me smile to see 3ft walls with gates that would do credit to Buckingham Palace. Do they think an intruder would stop,at the gate rather than climb over the adjoining wall?
@Lizzie27, what exactly are you doing in your garden that your new neighbours are so anxious to screen off with so many layers of plants?😊 Fortress style gates too - they're definitely hiding something!
There are a couple of houses not far from us which have lions on the gate pillars. They look ridiculous on a driveway just about long enough for one car, and on a semi-detached house. Not being snobby as we live in a semi.
There's a street on my estate that's all bungalows and they seem to have had a competition to see who can have the best gate pillar ornaments. There's big lions, dragons, owls, pineapples, all sorts really. The kids love walking down there and seeing them all. I like seeing personality in gardens so I don't really judge people for that sort of thing. I will tut at tat though, especially if it's plastic.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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It's what happens when you move on from one property to another.
Bear in mind that you may also have a previous owner who happens to pass by and is horrified by what you have done to "their" garden
I just said that it was nice of her to say the garden had been lovely, but it didn't belong to me now.
There was no garden here when I moved in, apart from a few shrubs, so if the previous owner walks by, she can't say too much @philippasmith2
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
They are also proposing to install large grey metal electric gates which I think are going to look very industrial to say the least.