Jellyfire. The pictures taken are not close up pics. Also there are our little trees in tubs that have just been put in the garden since we’ve recently moved and nothing is set up right. The table and chairs are just plonked there too. I had planned to take close up pictures to ask folk what plant it was as I’m. It the best at knowing. I mentioned feeling like it needs chopping away but I won’t do this fully but when you get to see the close up pics you will and so will others see that there is just too much planted and there is no room for any space or even the plants to breathe. I feel it all needs thinning down. I won’t get rid of everything but I want to know what each plant is and I will then decide what to keep or not to keep I guess. The hedge at the back needs trimming up as it’s too high for us to trim so will need a gardener I think to do this.
The pictures taken are not close up pics. Also there are our little trees in tubs that have just been put in the garden since we’ve recently moved and nothing is set up right. The table and chairs are just plonked there too. I had planned to take close up pictures to ask folk what plant it was as I’m. It the best at knowing. I mentioned feeling like it needs chopping away but I won’t do this fully but when you get to see the close up pics you will and so will others see that there is just too much planted and there is no room for any space or even the plants to breathe. I feel it all needs thinning down. I won’t get rid of everything but I want to know what each plant is and I will then decide what to keep or not to keep I guess. The hedge at the back needs trimming up as it’s too high for us to trim so will need a gardener I think to do this.
That’s sounds a very sensible approach to me, you’ll have no problem getting the ids, it always amazes me how many of the users on here can name a plant from the least promising picture of a bit of root or something
@lizzie27 Thank you for your message. Initially I was unable to see a reply box or find somewhere to reply back to. It only allows me to start a new conversation. I pressed on each persons name but this didn’t seem to work either. I am unsure if you are seeing this to yourself or for everyone.
@Plantminded i believe the last owner ended up just planting anything and all around. There was no method or design etc. when you see it all close up it’s very cluttered and all the plants are just blended into each other and I am sure they cannot breathe, a small tree began leaning and tonight when I got home it’s gone over now. Really unsure what’s happened there and I’ve never seen anything happen like that before.
Your thread isn’t individual conversations @mdmradford, so everybody can read all the messages. You just reply as you are doing that’s fine. (Take a look at one of the other threads and you’ll see how it works if that helps, people will just dip in and join in the conversation if they have anything to add
@WhereAreMySecateurs new neighbour is a lovely guy. Very caring and friendly and very welcoming. The lady used to go to him for advice and she told him she was just buying plants and putting them all over. She asked him about planting a cherry tree sapling she had bought in a little pot, regards planting it in the garden. He said they can grow to the size of your house and also as we are surrounded by wildlife, birds, squirrels etc that there wouldn’t be much cherries left to eat or use as the wildlife would eat them. He suggested she kept it in the pot it was in and keep it under control that way. Then one day she planted it. When we moved in here I think the tree was only half the size it is now. As it’s all of a sudden grown and bushed out. It overhangs and looks a mess and there is no real shape to it either. It’s been left to just grow and as there are other plants and trees around it, we feel it’s suffocated amongst other plants/ trees etc. we do love sitting out there when we get time and the birds tweeting away is so blissful and relaxing too. Thank you for your message.
@Cecelia-L thank you for your message. The soft green and yellow are our own little trees we brought from our last home. We’ve just plonked them around the edge of the garden on the patio, like the table and chairs and benches. They’ve all just been put there and not arranged or organised yet.
The hedge at the back definitely needs trimming and lowering. When I take close up pictures you will see it’s too much. You will see how crowded the plants are. There is no space for gaps or anything. There is no real organised planting here.
Like I mentioned to another person on this post. The new neighbour is a lovely guy, very caring friendly and so helpful. The lady used to ask him for advice with the garden but she often then did some odd things.
I am not too keen on over hanging trees or plants as if I am j def them and any sap etc falls, I know about it as my skin is sensitive to anything like that. I’m not a sun worshipper but like to go outside in the garden. I just don’t want to be sat under all these unfamiliar plants and trees.
@JennyJ thank you for your message. We feel for a distance the garden looks nice but when you actually get down into it, it’s just a mass of plants all suffocating as there is no room for sideways growth only upwards growth and maybe that’s why they are all growing upwards not outwards. We have lived here a few months now and each time I go outside as expected things a have grown more and it’s feeling like it’s getting g enclosed too much for me. I really cannot cope sitting under trees and any sap falling on me will make me itch. I had issues last year with the fruit trees and I came out in a red blotchy itchy rash from the initial blossom that grew. The table and chairs and benches have just been plonked in the garden so it’s all blending in and looks messy I feel. We feel,it all needs cutting back in places and it needs better setting out. I plan to take close up pictures of plants - to get to work out what they are and also to show you all how squashed everything is.
I think you need to work out what YOU like but avoid chopping down anything really special! It sounds like all that lush growth and overhanging branches isn't your thing at all. I'm guessing you like open space and tidy beds with gaps between the plants. And if that's what you like, do it! But check what you've got first!.
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Thank you for your message. Initially I was unable to see a reply box or find somewhere to reply back to. It only allows me to start a new conversation. I pressed on each persons name but this didn’t seem to work either. I am unsure if you are seeing this to yourself or for everyone.
i believe the last owner ended up just planting anything and all around. There was no method or design etc. when you see it all close up it’s very cluttered and all the plants are just blended into each other and I am sure they cannot breathe, a small tree began leaning and tonight when I got home it’s gone over now. Really unsure what’s happened there and I’ve never seen anything happen like that before.
new neighbour is a lovely guy. Very caring and friendly and very welcoming. The lady used to go to him for advice and she told him she was just buying plants and putting them all over. She asked him about planting a cherry tree sapling she had bought in a little pot, regards planting it in the garden. He said they can grow to the size of your house and also as we are surrounded by wildlife, birds, squirrels etc that there wouldn’t be much cherries left to eat or use as the wildlife would eat them. He suggested she kept it in the pot it was in and keep it under control that way. Then one day she planted it. When we moved in here I think the tree was only half the size it is now. As it’s all of a sudden grown and bushed out. It overhangs and looks a mess and there is no real shape to it either. It’s been left to just grow and as there are other plants and trees around it, we feel it’s suffocated amongst other plants/ trees etc.
we do love sitting out there when we get time and the birds tweeting away is so blissful and relaxing too. Thank you for your message.
thank you for your message.
The soft green and yellow are our own little trees we brought from our last home. We’ve just plonked them around the edge of the garden on the patio, like the table and chairs and benches. They’ve all just been put there and not arranged or organised yet.
thank you for your message. We feel for a distance the garden looks nice but when you actually get down into it, it’s just a mass of plants all suffocating as there is no room for sideways growth only upwards growth and maybe that’s why they are all growing upwards not outwards. We have lived here a few months now and each time I go outside as expected things a have grown more and it’s feeling like it’s getting g enclosed too much for me. I really cannot cope sitting under trees and any sap falling on me will make me itch. I had issues last year with the fruit trees and I came out in a red blotchy itchy rash from the initial blossom that grew. The table and chairs and benches have just been plonked in the garden so it’s all blending in and looks messy I feel. We feel,it all needs cutting back in places and it needs better setting out. I plan to take close up pictures of plants - to get to work out what they are and also to show you all how squashed everything is.