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So are you upper or lower class??

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Gardens Illustrated? You're definitely posh!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    My parents had a Blue Moon rose when I was a child - it was pale lilac-mauve. Definitely not posh! White-collar workers I'd say.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    I grew up on a council estate, which has left me with a dislike of privet and cotoneaster, so much of it in gardens and council owned flower beds. 
    A shame as we have loads of ground cover cotoneaster in our garden, and the birds love the berries.
    Dont remember many flowers in our council house garden, probably would have been trampled by six kids and the dog, but I remember mum allocating us little plots to care for, and plant up. I remember choosing seeds of California poppies and Love Lies Bleeding, but I don’t think they ever came up! Loads of Golden Rod in the front garden though. Is that working class?
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I love my privet! It's common for good reasons - not fussy about the poor soil, can be cut back hard if needed and makes a nice green background. What's not to like? (Maybe I'm just showing my common-ness :D:D). I'd put badly-managed Leylandii much lower down the pecking order.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • janetfossjanetfoss Posts: 303
    That article is utter nonsense of course- I don't think it's meant to be taken seriously, is it?
    @pansyface you are not missing much!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    janetfoss said:
    ... I don't think it's meant to be taken seriously, is it?
    ,,,
    I don't think anything in that paper is ... it's just a cash cow for the owners who despise their readership.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • janetfossjanetfoss Posts: 303
    I couldn't agree more, Dove. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    The sooner the Daily Heil rag and its adherents fall into the sea, gone for good, the better for all.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Was this a serious article or the DM's attempt at an April Fool's joke?
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    I think as gardeners these days we are more about conservation and planting for pollinators.  So for me a posh garden with an immaculate wide expanse of lawn and nothing but topiary shrubbery is almost as awful as a new build 'little box' with plastic lawn and a plastic 3-piece suite on the patio.
    I do subscribe to Gardens Illustrated, hate the Daily Mail but boast that my grandfather was a coal miner so no idea what class that makes me!
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
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