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Cottage gardner
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are you allowed on this forum to provide details of your house and garden which is up for sale?
the problem is that many people don't want to buy a house with a big garden, beautiful or not. Our house will only appeal to a gardner because it is otherwise just a bit too big at almost 1 acre. It has been developed over tha last 10 years or so with dry stone raised beds, pergola, arches, vegetable patch, fruit trees, hardy vine, perennials, trees, bushes and bulbs and is as easy to look after as it can get - no garden being easy.
we live on the Southern edge of Bradford within 2 miles of the M62 and M606
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I do understand your point and thank you for making it. Unfortunately, gardening magazines don't seem to advertise houses for sale, which is why I thought of this forum.
is this forum any different from trying to get interest in your house by advertising on Rightmove, for instance? Our house is already there but, we need a garden lover to buy it and it seems that, these days, fewer people want or are able to cope with a largish garden.
I am open to any creative suggestions.
The Garden RHS magazine has a property section in the small-ads at the back - I've a feeling the National Trust magazine does too.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was going to say the same as Dove. The RHS magazine often has adverts for gardens with a house attached. Good luck. I think you're right in that most people these days don't want a large garden. Builders tend to look at them as building plots, which is why my other half bought next door, to stop builders sticking another house on the garden and ruining our privacy.
If I was going to live near Bradford, I would be knocking on your door.
What a shame you don't live near Bradford then. I have particular trouble boring people to bits with my talk about seedlings, trees etc, anything for the garden. We have a Green Fingers Garden club nearby where I am free to talk my head off. It's wonderful. We also swap plants completely without cost - what a bonus to find homes for my surplus and benefit from other's cast offs. In addition, we have a free source of wood shreddings which never seem to dry up and I will be leaving this behind!
Back to moving pots - I will check out the RHS magazine so thank you for that tip.
This was my first day of taking part in this forum and it has been so worthwhile. I will continue to use it, as a result, after we move. Many thanks to you all.
I rang the RHS and found it is very expensive for any decent size advert. However, we might do a small one and see what happens.
i emailed the National Trust and a helpful gentleman said it would be far too expensive for a not very expensive house like ours but, suggested Gumtree, where you can advertise for nothing; not so, unfortunately, but it is considerably cheaper than the RHS £25 for 7 days and it looks as though you can enter quite a lot of info.
this has all been very helpful. Thank you.