I don't really care. When I move, it's someone else's garden to do what they like with. I've moved many times, and I see it as a new opportunity each time.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
At the moment I would be very upset to leave my garden as I've been making it from scratch for the last 2 1/2 years and it's quite big.
If you had asked 10 years ago I would have been devastated. I had a very big garden in SW France that I had been making since 1991. I grew older and it became too much work. Got to the state that I was longing to move, not just because of the garden, the house was too big, too isolated, too expensive to maintain.
I moved in January 2021 and I love my new house and garden, still in SW France. I have to leave it regularly though because I met 2nd OH and he lives in England. I don't want to move as my family are in France. I care for OH's garden but I wouldn't be devasted to leave it.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I would like more space and the opportunity to do different things or things differently but there are some plants that would be very hard to replace without waiting a couple of decades for them to grow in again.
I love where I live and would hate to have to move. We have quite a lot of land and I only garden a small part of it. It's often overwhelming, but I like having the space so have taught myself not to feel like I have to manage it all. So it's not really the garden that I would hate to leave and anywhere I go, I can always make a garden.
REALLY don't want to move house again though
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
As everything is in containers I would love the chance to start again, especially if it meant finally having a real garden. The added benefit is that I could take all my “best bits” with me.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
We decided a few years ago we needed to "future proof" ourselves, and started looking for a bungalow. It took 2 years to find something that met most of the "must haves" on out list. The one thing that we didn't get was a "small manageable garden". What we got was a 1/3 acre plot that had once been very much loved but was now long neglected.
We moved in just before covid, and spent all of lockdown working in and on the plot: doing major landscaping, levelling, making raised vegetable beds, rebuilding the pond and then planting up a small orchard, fruit beds and flower borders. Only then did we begin the work inside, which is still not quite finished as we still spend most of our time in the garden. We joked the other week that we didn't buy a bungalow which happened to have a large garden, we bought a large garden that co-incidentally had a bungalow on the plot.
Hopefully we will still be able to tend the garden ourselves for a good few years, but we have identified ways to make it lower maintenance in the future. We love the bungalow , but we love the garden even more, and would hate to leave it
I would be very upset to leave all the fruit and nut trees I have planted, the walnut especially has been in 5 years now and it looks like it might give us the first few nuts this year. the Brambly has also been in 5 years, it gave 1 apple last year but has 6 on it this year.
But If the new house had established fruit and nut trees I would survive.
I’d be sorry to leave my gardens (front and back) as we’ve put a lot of work into making them what we want them to be (still work in progress, I think, as I’m always trying something, which either works or doesn’t). I really don’t want to move anywhere else, and unless circumstances dictate otherwise, won’t be. I’ve ticked “other”, but it doesn’t seem to be showing on my post.
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I've moved many times, and I see it as a new opportunity each time.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If you had asked 10 years ago I would have been devastated. I had a very big garden in SW France that I had been making since 1991. I grew older and it became too much work. Got to the state that I was longing to move, not just because of the garden, the house was too big, too isolated, too expensive to maintain.
I moved in January 2021 and I love my new house and garden, still in SW France. I have to leave it regularly though because I met 2nd OH and he lives in England. I don't want to move as my family are in France. I care for OH's garden but I wouldn't be devasted to leave it.
REALLY don't want to move house again though
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We decided a few years ago we needed to "future proof" ourselves, and started looking for a bungalow. It took 2 years to find something that met most of the "must haves" on out list. The one thing that we didn't get was a "small manageable garden". What we got was a 1/3 acre plot that had once been very much loved but was now long neglected.
We moved in just before covid, and spent all of lockdown working in and on the plot: doing major landscaping, levelling, making raised vegetable beds, rebuilding the pond and then planting up a small orchard, fruit beds and flower borders. Only then did we begin the work inside, which is still not quite finished as we still spend most of our time in the garden. We joked the other week that we didn't buy a bungalow which happened to have a large garden, we bought a large garden that co-incidentally had a bungalow on the plot.
Hopefully we will still be able to tend the garden ourselves for a good few years, but we have identified ways to make it lower maintenance in the future. We love the bungalow , but we love the garden even more, and would hate to leave it
I really don’t want to move anywhere else, and unless circumstances dictate otherwise, won’t be.
I’ve ticked “other”, but it doesn’t seem to be showing on my post.