Hi everyone, just joined the site this evening. Have been reading all the comments/ threads and you all sound so friendly and helpful . Im not at all an expert at gardening, just enjoy it when I manage to get out there. We moved to our small cottage just over 2years ago and are lucky enough to have 3 gardens (our main reason for moving). Most of the back garden was established when we got here apart from an area right at the bottom which we have fenced off and I am currently clearing in the hope of keeping chickens. We have built an extension to the front of the cottage, completed externally but lots to do inside yet and with months of storing building materials the garden has been in a mess so we are currently building low stone walls, creating beds etc. Not a very big front garden and we have managed to salvage some shrubs so its not completely desolate. We also have a 3rd area which is the other side of our neighbours garden! I know its sounds a bit daft but think it goes back years when people sold off areas of land when they were in need of money or unable to upkeep it (the cottage was built around 1896). This garden is where we have loads to do! we have dug just a couple of beds which we used last year for spuds, beans, onions etc and the rest has just been a case of mowing the weeds lol! Its all a bit of a mess. This year we are hoping to develop it a bit more, depending on time, weather and money! Ive done a rough design of what Id like, very amateurish im sure but I have to start somewhere I guess. Because we went on hols early April, Im very behind with my seed sowing and the current weather isnt helping either but hooray my beetroot seedlings are appearing so all may not be lost. Hope I havent bored you with such a long intro but Im hoping I will be able to call on you and pick your brains on a regular basis. Can I ask where you are all from? Im in South Glos. Hope to catch up with you all soon x
Welcome, Woo2, good to meet you. I am on the west coast of Canada, on a small island with a rural setting, and perhaps the slug capital of the universe! My property is just an acre, but I am beside a 1000 acre wild park, and have a view of the ocean. My property is steeply sloped, with little soil-sandy and gravelly, and limited water-it is all collected from the roof. My gardening is mostly in terraces and containers, lots of deck space. I am lucky to have a studio/greenhouse which is quite large, that I can heat if I can afford to!
Your garden sounds interesting--dont forget to take some "before" photos so you can appreciate the difference in a few years time. It makes for a good visual reference as well.Love to see some photos!
I have a 100ft garden in Kent that I started from scratch 17yrs ago but only recently managed to reach the bottom with landscaping, so my garden is a mix of very mature top and very new bottom. I buy plants whenever have spare cash and although I have read all the books and do plenty of research, I'm still learning. This forum is great for that, and so is GW on the Beeb.
Your garden sounds really interesting, would love to see it and would never get bored of discussing it
Hi Woo2, I've got a 90' walled garden in Devon on the southern edged of Dartmoor. The garden is on lots of different levels as there used to be 5 1up-1down stone built cottages in here, which were demolished in the late 1940s. I've been in this house for about 16 years, though rented it out for a few of them when I went travelling. Over the last couple of years I've become much more interested in growing veg and less interested in ornamentals. I've got a lot of climbing roses and honeysuckles as well as retaining the ornamentals that I love in the Borders. That's one thing I love about gardening, it's always changing! Mine is anyway...
Your garden sounds lovely figrat Barry always says that if we won the lottery he would love a walled garden - like the one featured on the programme The Victorian Kitchen Garden
Humph!!! I was just getting stuck in to some planting and guess what - it's flippin' raining
Thanks! The walls do give a lot of privacy - I'm right in the middle of town and not overlooked by anybody! They are grey granite, some about 15 ' high, and they act like giant storage heaters so I have my own little microclimate. Off to pick a garden posy - will be slim pickings I fear, mostly dicentra alba and pinky white aquilegias, I have a memorial service/ wake to attend at lunchtime, and we've all been asked to bring something from our gardens to decorate the table. Grey, chilly and overcast out there.
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Hi everyone, just joined the site this evening. Have been reading all the comments/ threads and you all sound so friendly and helpful
. Im not at all an expert at gardening, just enjoy it when I manage to get out there. We moved to our small cottage just over 2years ago and are lucky enough to have 3 gardens (our main reason for moving). Most of the back garden was established when we got here apart from an area right at the bottom which we have fenced off and I am currently clearing in the hope of keeping chickens. We have built an extension to the front of the cottage, completed externally but lots to do inside yet
and with months of storing building materials the garden has been in a mess so we are currently building low stone walls, creating beds etc. Not a very big front garden and we have managed to salvage some shrubs so its not completely desolate. We also have a 3rd area which is the other side of our neighbours garden! I know its sounds a bit daft but think it goes back years when people sold off areas of land when they were in need of money or unable to upkeep it (the cottage was built around 1896). This garden is where we have loads to do! we have dug just a couple of beds which we used last year for spuds, beans, onions etc and the rest has just been a case of mowing the weeds lol! Its all a bit of a mess. This year we are hoping to develop it a bit more, depending on time, weather and money! Ive done a rough design of what Id like, very amateurish im sure but I have to start somewhere I guess. Because we went on hols early April, Im very behind with my seed sowing and the current weather isnt helping either but hooray my beetroot seedlings are appearing so all may not be lost. Hope I havent bored you with such a long intro but Im hoping I will be able to call on you and pick your brains 
on a regular basis. Can I ask where you are all from? Im in South Glos. Hope to catch up with you all soon x
Welcome, Woo2, good to meet you. I am on the west coast of Canada, on a small island with a rural setting, and perhaps the slug capital of the universe! My property is just an acre, but I am beside a 1000 acre wild park, and have a view of the ocean. My property is steeply sloped, with little soil-sandy and gravelly, and limited water-it is all collected from the roof. My gardening is mostly in terraces and containers, lots of deck space. I am lucky to have a studio/greenhouse which is quite large, that I can heat if I can afford to!
Your garden sounds interesting--dont forget to take some "before" photos so you can appreciate the difference in a few years time. It makes for a good visual reference as well.Love to see some photos!
Nice to meet you, Woo2.
I have a 100ft garden in Kent that I started from scratch 17yrs ago but only recently managed to reach the bottom with landscaping, so my garden is a mix of very mature top and very new bottom. I buy plants whenever have spare cash and although I have read all the books and do plenty of research, I'm still learning. This forum is great for that, and so is GW on the Beeb.
Your garden sounds really interesting, would love to see it and would never get bored of discussing it
Good morning all, welcome Woo, I am on the border of Herts and London but I used to work in South Gloucs, lovely part of the country.
It is still grey and damp here
Here is my before picture
And it is a hello from me to Woo2-I am in Southampton
Same here on the weather front.
Hello Woo2 - I am in Surrey.
I am looking forward to seeing your garden
Kate - I am looking forward to your 'after'
I am going in the garden now - surprise,surprise - it isn't raining - yet!
I am going to make up some more tubs and baskets
Pam x
Your garden sounds lovely figrat
Barry always says that if we won the lottery he would love a walled garden - like the one featured on the programme The Victorian Kitchen Garden 
Humph!!! I was just getting stuck in to some planting and guess what - it's flippin' raining
