@Palustris Had a look on Beth Chatto website the suggestion is it needs some shelter. It is in my note book for future reference. At least I now have it's full name Thank you.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
One of the best things about this site for me is a source of trusted advice about non gardening subjects. I've just posted something about ovens and I'm sure someone will put me right. Had advice on mites, cars, weevils, strange tools to name but a few. Oh and gardening.
. And yes, I have been told I’m to direct and honest sometimes for some British taste
For us foreigners, it's a great experience to be accepted in the forum for what we are and that we get the chance to learn in many ways
Today is my 16th anniversary, and I'm a bit sentimental. When I came to the UK, 65% of all 200k Germans were East Germans, for the same reason that I was here. It means so much to me being accepted.
As a newcomer and an American, I appreciate that I was welcomed despite these shortcomings. I've searched closer to home and honestly cannot find a gardening forum that is as active, friendly, and knowledgeable as this one. Gardening seems to be part of the European culture much more so than here, where it's seen as more of a hobby. If you say "I have a garden", most people assume you grow a few vegetables. I am thoroughly in love with the way Europeans consider the entire yard to be the garden, rather than the garden being a small plot within the yard. My hope is to emulate this style on my own property, and reading old and new threads has opened my eyes to endless possibilities.
New England, USA
Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
That takes me back. We had a yard as pansy describes. Oddest of all my father swapped a big garden for one with just a yard. He did not like gardening.
When I began teaching in London back along, I lived with an aunt and uncle in Plaistow, East London before it was demolished and rebuilt. They had a yard, with an outside privy, no hot water or bathroom. I went to the local baths where the world and his wife used to have their weekly bath. It was quite an experience, there was one regular who used to sing at the top of his voice, all the old London wartime songs, we had huge baths filled over halfway full of lovely hot water and a wonderful old lady used to look after the women's side, never investigated the men's side. The partitions between the baths didn't go to the ceiling so it wasn't exactly private. Friends used to go together and chat with each other while having their baths. I wonder what todays' teenagers would make of it if they had to catch a bus and go to communal baths every time they wanted to carry out their ablutions
I grew up on a farm, well we had the farmhouse and the farmer built a smaller convenient modern house with heating that worked for himself. I think of a yard as being somewhere with a concrete floor to gather cows.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
We used to live in a Suffolk village where several USAF families chose to live rather than in Base Housing. One family became particular friends of ours and they told us that they received a sort of ‘training session’ where they were taught to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ rather than just say ‘I’ll take one of those’ and never never NEVER refer to someone’s garden as a ‘yard’. 😆
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Had advice on mites, cars, weevils, strange tools to name but a few. Oh and gardening.
Today is my 16th anniversary, and I'm a bit sentimental. When I came to the UK, 65% of all 200k Germans were East Germans, for the same reason that I was here.
It means so much to me being accepted.
I ♥ my garden.
As @pansyface says, we're a funny lot ... still quite tribal in many ways 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I wonder what todays' teenagers would make of it if they had to catch a bus and go to communal baths every time they wanted to carry out their ablutions
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.