Mine too. Like Bookertoo I like to let plants go where they want to go although last year I did have to referee when so many invaded the wood chip path in the woodland corner while I was out having my neck fixed that I had to go in with heavy weaponry to clear a way through.
Having started with grand ambitions to have all sorts of unusual plants and thus lost a small fortune to bad winters and indiscriminate weeding by OH, I am now only too happy to let what wants to grow grow more or less where it wants.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
My planting is very much as it wants but the general tidying of the garden is very tidy. Im a bit OCD with it but I think thats out of the feeling of need to always be doing something in the garden rather than sit and enjoy it. This year, I have decided to sit on my hands and flatten my wheel barrow wheel so Im not so tidy. I want through the year interest and more wildlife. It will be a challenge but I think Im up for it hehe
Do I keep a tidy garden!!!! This is the business end
The problem I have is that the garden is huge, probably third to half acre, gardens on all sides of the bungalow, but when my dad couldnt manage it any more, it run to grass or rather moss, and overgrown shrubs, I am now trying to get some shape and flower borders in, but I dont get any help. well hardly, beloved is not keen! so I am finding it all very slow and hard work.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I have agsrden that like my house is lived in
When I have constructed anew bed or dug a bed out I can't wait for it to beccome lived in.
Mine too. Like Bookertoo I like to let plants go where they want to go although last year I did have to referee when so many invaded the wood chip path in the woodland corner while I was out having my neck fixed that I had to go in with heavy weaponry to clear a way through.
Having started with grand ambitions to have all sorts of unusual plants and thus lost a small fortune to bad winters and indiscriminate weeding by OH, I am now only too happy to let what wants to grow grow more or less where it wants.
My planting is very much as it wants but the general tidying of the garden is very tidy. Im a bit OCD with it but I think thats out of the feeling of need to always be doing something in the garden rather than sit and enjoy it. This year, I have decided to sit on my hands and flatten my wheel barrow wheel so Im not so tidy. I want through the year interest and more wildlife. It will be a challenge but I think Im up for it hehe
I agree Verdun
do you mean tidy in clean or do mean organized.
the two are not mutually exclusive.
Do I keep a tidy garden!!!! This is the business end
The problem I have is that the garden is huge, probably third to half acre, gardens on all sides of the bungalow, but when my dad couldnt manage it any more, it run to grass or rather moss, and overgrown shrubs, I am now trying to get some shape and flower borders in, but I dont get any help. well hardly, beloved is not keen! so I am finding it all very slow and hard work.