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what was your garden inspiration?

Kevin daleKevin dale Posts: 135
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Me ? Well it was my dad growing vegetables and watching the good life what's yours if you don't want to answer like Foster's I'm not bitter image

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  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Hi Kevin, pretty much the same for me, myparents always grew stuff, just a way of life, ive always done it image
  • Kevin daleKevin dale Posts: 135

    Thanks bekkie hey pansyface love it ! That's great by eck lass it sounds like Sean bean 

  • Kevin daleKevin dale Posts: 135

    Know what you mean a girlfriend of mine thirty years a go I thought she was fab my mum was not amused ! image

  • SalinoSalino Posts: 1,609

    ..buying a house with a garden, which obviously needed tending.... Hessayon's little book on roses set me off...all of a sudden I just had to have 'Frensham'... 'Silver Jubilee'...'Chinatown'...'Just Joey'...and who knows how many more...

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Pansy, that chap sounds like wallace, or gromit- you know what i mean image
  • Forester2Forester2 Posts: 1,477

    Just like Bekkie Hughes - my Mum and Dad - and we always had large gardens so I helped out.  I wanted to help them garden and as Bekkie says it was a way of life and I love getting dirt under the fingernails (they are scrubbed clean before cooking)image. 

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    I lived with the "in laws" for a while, they only had grass- i couldnt take it, they came home to me digging the edges up to make borders, luckily they are very good natured! image
  • Lily 3Lily 3 Posts: 49
    Wow Mike, I really enjoyed reading that, what a great life. I was really taken with this thread and was going to add something. But after reading that it seems insignificant. Really hope your keeping well. I lost my mum to cancer 2 years ago.



    I'm quite new to the forum ( which im totally hooked by ! ) so really look forward to picking up tips from your wealth of experience. All the best
  • Scott EdwardsScott Edwards Posts: 227

    My granddad (on my mum's side) inspired me. I can still see his traditional rose bed in the middle of the lawn, a large lavender growing by the old air raid shelter that he kept his tools in and his tiny veg patch at the bottom of the garden.

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    I think you would make a wonderful mentor/ teacher Mike image



    What were you going to say lily? image
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