Wonder why you didn't buy that cottage, @Pete.8... it sounds idyllic!
Lots of us would like room for really massive trees. I love old gnarly sweet chestnuts, and ancient beeches which are hollow in the middle. And anything with branches low to the ground so I can climb up it and hide, like I did with the hornbeam tree in my parents' garden when I was a child. Same idea as @pansyface's maze, really.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I would love to grow eremurus and white delphiniums just like the ones in @Simone_in_Wiltshire photos on recent thread. Eremurus need plenty of space and my soil is completely unsuitable. On the positive I do live near a wood so plenty of beautiful trees.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I would largely stick with what I've got. But where I have one I would have groups of 3. More space, groups of 5.
What I really lack is not space, but space in full sun. I would have a heather garden. Little leaf colour variety, but gentle flower colour palette. To look as British Isle moorlike as possible.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Putting aside all the lovely trees and shrubs that would be too large, there are perennials I love that would simply be too big to look 'right' in my garden - tall imposing Rudbeckia maxima, Eryngium pandanifolium, the really tall varieties of Eupatorium (I do grow 'Baby Joe'), Persicaria alpina. I also wouldn't mind one of those tree-dahlias.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
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That's a silver birch or betula. The very white ones are Betula Jaquemontii.
Lots of us would like room for really massive trees. I love old gnarly sweet chestnuts, and ancient beeches which are hollow in the middle. And anything with branches low to the ground so I can climb up it and hide, like I did with the hornbeam tree in my parents' garden when I was a child. Same idea as @pansyface's maze, really.
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What I really lack is not space, but space in full sun. I would have a heather garden. Little leaf colour variety, but gentle flower colour palette. To look as British Isle moorlike as possible.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I ♥ my garden.