i am only starting to garden again after about 10 years, have also taken on an allotment after my dad passed in feb. i would love to be neat and tidy but my mind wanders and things just get left where i was using them, i usually end up putting plants where i think they look nice not where they should be, if it doesnt work u can move it later its only starting so as of yet my garden is an individual lol i think
I`m the same, there is no order or plan or design in my garden, I get plants I like and find a space put it in. I am no good at organising or sitting down with garden plans working out what goes where, wish I could but get distracted far to easily.
Chris, sorry to hear about your father, is it his allotment you have taken on? Welcome to the forum. I, too, move plants about all the time, sometimes I move them back again! Enjoy both your garden and allotment, and chatting on the forum too.
Sarah, garden plans, I do when it's wet or cold, rarely seem to follow them though, the mood at the time always takes over.
Lizzie, I can just see you in your garden, happily wandering.
Mrs garden thank u, yes it is my way of trying to hold on to him, yeah i know wot u mean my mrs thinks im mad when she sees me put somthing back where it was six months ago lol, my worst habit is going out to do something sitting down and then my mind wanders off somwhere else lol
In the house I am very neat - a place for everything etc etc. In the garden, although I am neat-ish ie tools always put away, hose always rolled up, my borders are a cottage garden so I reckon the word voluptuous describes them best. All curvy and spilling over but grass cut regularly and edges done and weeding done. Every winter I think I have overdone the clearing up and pulling out and every spring the garden just explodes!
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
Having been brought up in an exceptionally tidy house and garden - my Mum would go outside in her dressing gown because rose petals had fallen on the patio and pick them up one by one - I have a much more relaxed approach. I sometimes overdo things in the garden and haven't the energy to tidy up so there may be a tub of weeds and a trowel hiding under the outside table to keep dry overnight
The garden is evolving gradually as I make mistakes with choices and colours of plants and spacing etc but I am enjoying it
As Verdun says we all have to be happy with the space we create for ourselves.
Chris, gardens are great connections with those we have loved and lost. And time spent in the garden is always meditative and healing. Hogweed, I like the sound of your garden. I would aspire to that. There is going to be a lot of moving stuff before next year here.
I'm fairly neat and so is my garden, its a work in progress and I'm trying to correct the mistakes I make initially but its basically a mish mash of plants I like; the trees and large shrubs are the only permanent planting, so this spring I have been focusing on trying to stock it with perennials, but I like instant impact and am not very patient so end up with some plants far too close together, as I haven't allowed for the herbaceous plants room to actually grow. But I'm slowly learning, and I quite enjoy moving plants around.
Anyhoo I digress - neatness! Sometimes I am inclined to leave tools where I'm working, as I garden between other doing so many others things and I'd rather do 15 mins of actual gardening than 10 minutes of gathering and putting away tools. I always try and put things away at the end of the day, of at least out of my sight from the house, otherwise it bugs the life out of me.
I'm not the type of person that can just sit in the garden I try but then my mind starts racing and planning of what I want to do next, the list of plants I want for the next season or I will see a job that needs doing and will have to get up and do it there and then. I do find weeding really therapeutic but my most favourite thing is filching bits of lawn to expand borders as I really am at my happiest playing in the dirt.
...I do find weeding really therapeutic but my most favourite thing is filching bits of lawn to expand borders as I really am at my happiest playing in the dirt.
OMG I nearly choked to death on my apple. Oh lordy. I'm not sure what you actually meant but my undstanding of that is very different.
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i am only starting to garden again after about 10 years, have also taken on an allotment after my dad passed in feb. i would love to be neat and tidy but my mind wanders and things just get left where i was using them, i usually end up putting plants where i think they look nice not where they should be, if it doesnt work u can move it later its only starting so as of yet my garden is an individual lol i think
I`m the same, there is no order or plan or design in my garden, I get plants I like and find a space put it in. I am no good at organising or sitting down with garden plans working out what goes where, wish I could but get distracted far to easily.
Chris, sorry to hear about your father, is it his allotment you have taken on? Welcome to the forum. I, too, move plants about all the time, sometimes I move them back again! Enjoy both your garden and allotment, and chatting on the forum too.
Sarah, garden plans, I do when it's wet or cold, rarely seem to follow them though, the mood at the time always takes over.
Lizzie, I can just see you in your garden, happily wandering.
Mrs garden thank u, yes it is my way of trying to hold on to him, yeah i know wot u mean my mrs thinks im mad when she sees me put somthing back where it was six months ago lol, my worst habit is going out to do something sitting down and then my mind wanders off somwhere else lol
In the house I am very neat - a place for everything etc etc. In the garden, although I am neat-ish ie tools always put away, hose always rolled up, my borders are a cottage garden so I reckon the word voluptuous describes them best. All curvy and spilling over but grass cut regularly and edges done and weeding done. Every winter I think I have overdone the clearing up and pulling out and every spring the garden just explodes!
Having been brought up in an exceptionally tidy house and garden - my Mum would go outside in her dressing gown because rose petals had fallen on the patio and pick them up one by one - I have a much more relaxed approach. I sometimes overdo things in the garden and haven't the energy to tidy up so there may be a tub of weeds and a trowel hiding under the outside table to keep dry overnight
The garden is evolving gradually as I make mistakes with choices and colours of plants and spacing etc but I am enjoying it
As Verdun says we all have to be happy with the space we create for ourselves.
Chris, gardens are great connections with those we have loved and lost. And time spent in the garden is always meditative and healing. Hogweed, I like the sound of your garden. I would aspire to that. There is going to be a lot of moving stuff before next year here.
I'm fairly neat and so is my garden, its a work in progress and I'm trying to correct the mistakes I make initially but its basically a mish mash of plants I like; the trees and large shrubs are the only permanent planting, so this spring I have been focusing on trying to stock it with perennials, but I like instant impact and am not very patient so end up with some plants far too close together, as I haven't allowed for the herbaceous plants room to actually grow. But I'm slowly learning, and I quite enjoy moving plants around.
Anyhoo I digress - neatness! Sometimes I am inclined to leave tools where I'm working, as I garden between other doing so many others things and I'd rather do 15 mins of actual gardening than 10 minutes of gathering and putting away tools. I always try and put things away at the end of the day, of at least out of my sight from the house, otherwise it bugs the life out of me.
I'm not the type of person that can just sit in the garden I try but then my mind starts racing and planning of what I want to do next, the list of plants I want for the next season or I will see a job that needs doing and will have to get up and do it there and then. I do find weeding really therapeutic but my most favourite thing is filching bits of lawn to expand borders as I really am at my happiest playing in the dirt.
OMG I nearly choked to death on my apple. Oh lordy. I'm not sure what you actually meant but my undstanding of that is very different.