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B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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I was looking at my garden today and realised that I don't have any real emotional attachment to it. I was wondering how other gardeners feel.
In London. Keen but lazy.

Would you be…… 42 votes

Devastated to leave your garden
54%
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Happy to start again somewhere else
28%
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No no emotional attachment but don't fancy the work involved
0%
Concerned about unexpected issues
0%
Other
16%
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  • gjautosgjautos Posts: 429
    Devastated to leave your garden
    I'd be devastated. Don't really care about the house, but I've put loads of work into the garden and it's almost how I imagined it when i started it 7 years ago. I've also got a few roses that are no longer available. 
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    Devastated to leave your garden
    Same. I don’t think I would have the energy to start again, not considering how I feel at the moment.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Other
    I'm married to someone with itchy feet, so have moved house fairly frequently to keep him happy.  (I'd rather stay in the same place for ever, but there we are...)  Each time we've moved, I've found it difficult to leave the garden - but enjoyed the challenge of making a new one with different conditions etc.  Don't want to move again though!
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • clematisdorsetclematisdorset Posts: 1,348
    Devastated to leave your garden
    Why is that, @B3? Does it concern you that you feel like this?
    Sorry to witness the demise of the forum. 😥😥😥😡😡😡I am Spartacus 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @clematisdorset so much has died with the dry summers and hosepipe bans that I'm not inclined to plant things too far from the house. I only really cultivate half the garden or grow things in containers now. My patio looks like an explosion in a florist's shop , which looks ' a trifle sudden', for my taste, to quote Jeeves.   It would be nice if I could spread the plants around but what's the point?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • clematisdorsetclematisdorset Posts: 1,348
    Devastated to leave your garden
    Oh no @B3! I like your Jeeves' quote though. Would you contemplate a conscious wilding of the other half? Alot depends on what havoc the weather wreaks I suppose. Must admit, the watering issue is probably going to get more intense really.  :'(
    Sorry to witness the demise of the forum. 😥😥😥😡😡😡I am Spartacus 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Other
    Good question. This garden can be a real challenge even with my laissez-faire maintenance regime. It will need some expensive and time consuming work soon so in that respect I'd happily leave it for someone else to deal with. I'd be sad to abandon the wildlife habitats I've created and worried that the next owner would raze the lot in favour of plastic grass as everyone else seems to do now. I'd like to do another new-build and start from scratch with a better idea of what I'm doing this time though. I'd need convincing to leave but I don't think I'd be too sad.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's wilding itself at the moment.  I do some basic  thug clearance but apart from that, it's doing its own thing.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
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    I like my garden and I don't fancy the work involved with moving generally or with starting again with a new garden, but I wouldn't be sad to leave the poor soil and low rainfall for something richer and damper.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    edited June 2023
    Happy to start again somewhere else
    It would be a shame to move (which we are in the process of doing), but a new garden offers new and exciting opportunities.
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