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Plant ID please: what does this front garden have to offer?

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  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    Thank you so much @nutcutlet and @Bilje. The owner will be delighted to hear that news 👍😀

    I ♥ my garden.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited February 2023
    I agree too - and some can be quite thuggish, so the owner may need to do a bit of 'pruning'  ;)

    I meant to say to you @Simone_in_Wiltshire that I thought of this thread the other day as I went past a Pieris. It's a variegated one, but like many variegated shrubs, it's reverting to plain green, and has very little variegation left now. Not a problem for the owner of 'your' one, but might be something to bear in mind if you get one yourself.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    Despite being tired I didn’t hesitate to cycle to the owner and bring them the good news. 
    They also agreed that I can show you pictures of their front garden considering data protection of course. 
    I will do that tomorrow or the weekend. It will be interesting for everyone who wants to have a garden full in flowers with maintenance done at the end of January. 

    I ♥ my garden.

  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Simone_in_Wiltshire said:
     Because it was 2:15, I knocked on the door. 

    So face-to-face contact with locals does work.  

    We Brits are not that unfriendly.  Though I am not sure I would like a stranger to photograph my garden without  asking first. Or did I get that wrong?
     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."
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I think I would be rather flattered by someone taking photos of my front garden but not posting them publicly without asking, especially if they showed my house. I had a house sitter once who took photos of my house and garden and posted them on Facebook. I wasn't happy.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    No worries @bédé and @BuzzyLizzie I’m familiar with photo-editing software. You would just see the plant area. 
    As I said, they agreed that I take pictures and show the one or other picture here just as an example of how such area can be vital for wildlife without interference. 

    I ♥ my garden.

  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    bédé said:
    Simone_in_Wiltshire said:
     Because it was 2:15, I knocked on the door. 

    So face-to-face contact with locals does work.  
    She confirmed that she is not amused if I knock the door at 7 in the morning. 
    I think I have done everything right and on time, @bédé.  Just leave the judgment to the people involved 😉

    I ♥ my garden.

  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    After getting the approval for the kind of my pictures, the owner is delighted that I  show the changes of the front garden over 12 months.

    This front garden has developed over the last 40 years to what it is now.

    January

    Everything is still as it was in December.



    Keeping the ground as it is, means that a lot of different species can survive, and there is new grow.



    First bulb plants try to make their appearance and announce the new year.



    February

    The clearance is done around the 1rst of February.



    The stems looked to me like a Buddleia. Now, it's cut back.



    And there is new grow everywhere. It makes sense to have the clearance once a year, because it will be impossible in later months to enter that area.



    Soon being continued ...

    I ♥ my garden.

  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    It is interesting what you are doing @Simone_in_Wiltshire. I will be watching.
    Gardens can be the start of friendships too.

    Luxembourg
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We don't do an 'autumn tidy up' in the flower beds, shrubberies etc here either ... and then in the winter we watch the birds feeding on the seedheads we've left for them ... and if we're careful how we tidy in the spring, then there's lots of dried grass leaves for the sparrows and starlings etc to gather for their nests  :)

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





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