@bede You have made various negative comments. You like to freely give your thoughts perhaps your suggestions for @mitchell.jamiers2luPHP would be more helpful after all that is what this thread is about. Your superior knowledge regarding Garden taste would be most welcomed by me who as you say has no understanding of the subject.
Sorry Jamie
Thanks, Suze. I'm just ignoring him from now on and I've reported a couple of his comments to the moderators. I'm sorry that he's insulted you too. I'm on various non-gardening forums and there are always trolls and keyboard warriors, but I expected people to be more sophisticated, educated and intelligent on a gardening forum. I was a little surprised to encounter this here but I suppose such people are ubiquitous. That said, everyone else has been wonderfully polite and helpful, particularly you, so thanks again.
@mitchell.jamiers2luPHP Thankyou, I think you are wise to ignore. I am used to @bede and his comments he often follows me around on here, this is the point that he leaves this thread and goes to stir up another that I have written on.
He won't be offering you any advice sorry to say.
Suze
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
He's made a habit of being rude to people and frequently gets reported. That's the best method of dealing with it, and perhaps the ignore button too @mitchell.jamiers2luPHP, although I'm not convinced the mods do enough to deal with persistent offenders. I know I'm not the only forum member who thinks so either. I'm glad you've had enough sense to see the reality, and to know how to deal with it. The vast majority of people here are very helpful -as you've discovered.
I hope you're getting some ideas for the site you have, but if you're able to add some photos for enquiries, that's definitely useful. Let us know if you're having bother with doing that - pix are best kept smaller so that they load. I redo all of mine to around 1mb or less.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Living plants don’t stay the same … they change through the seasons … even the plainer green ones like holly and bay produce flowers and fresh new leaves that change the appearance of the tree … it’s what they do … they’re alive.
I hope you don’t think I’m being rude … I certainly don’t intend to be …. I’m an artist and I understand how important it can be to achieve a desired effect … but I would re-examine what it is you’re trying to achieve and consider whether plants are actually the best way forward in this case.
And later: I haven't made a direct suggestion of any plants, that is for you to decide as you rightly say . I too have preferences, ultimately gardens should be green.
This is a more subtle, but less brutally honest summary of what I was thinking. Others said similar things.
I am also an artist and artists often debate what is "beauty". Equate taste with beauty.
A forum gives one the opportunity to say what ones best friend won't say: "B.O."
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."
Personal choice but I don't think you will achieve a natural look by planting four bright colours together. In a garden without the addition of green it will look 'manufactured' and to my eye wrong. There is a garden near to me that is terraced and has heucheras planted in a row all different colours. There is gravel/ brick and it looks false to the point of ridiculous. I don't think there are plants to fit your requests manybe mother nature says' no'
And here's another, from Suze this time.
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."
Personal choice but I don't think you will achieve a natural look by planting four bright colours together. In a garden without the addition of green it will look 'manufactured' and to my eye wrong. There is a garden near to me that is terraced and has heucheras planted in a row all different colours. There is gravel/ brick and it looks false to the point of ridiculous. I don't think there are plants to fit your requests manybe mother nature says' no'
And here's another, from Suze this time.
Well you’ve succeeding in missing the point in spectacular fashion! 😂
Are you able to see a difference between your choice of words and Suze’s? I can provide an explanation if you require it. I’m a maths teacher so I’m accustomed to patiently giving simple explanations to the less able. 😉
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Jamie x
I am used to @bede and his comments he often follows me around on here, this is the point that he leaves this thread and goes to stir up another that I have written on.
He won't be offering you any advice sorry to say.
Suze
I know I'm not the only forum member who thinks so either.
I'm glad you've had enough sense to see the reality, and to know how to deal with it.
The vast majority of people here are very helpful -as you've discovered.
I hope you're getting some ideas for the site you have, but if you're able to add some photos for enquiries, that's definitely useful. Let us know if you're having bother with doing that - pix are best kept smaller so that they load. I redo all of mine to around 1mb or less.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Are you able to see a difference between your choice of words and Suze’s? I can provide an explanation if you require it. I’m a maths teacher so I’m accustomed to patiently giving simple explanations to the less able. 😉