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Talkback: My first garden

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"I see something that I know really well but cannot for the life of me remember what on earth it is called."

Oh yes. I can relate to that. :)
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  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    my first garden was in my mothers. it was not a big garden. i always wanted a fish pond. at the time i did not have the money to pay fore a liner. well i worked on the building so i built a concrete pond. it was 10ft x9ft x 5ft deep. i used waterproofing pouder in it. when that was done.all the kids in the around came in and used it like a swiming pool fore a vew days. then i planted it . i now live in my own house and got a pond ther. maid with a liner. but i still think that concrete pond was the best one.
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    My Dad let me have my own border in his garden, back in the 1950s, which I filled with pansies. I still love their little faces today and always have at least one tub of them somewhere in the garden.

    As for forgetting things it's called a CRAFT moment - Can't remember a flipping thing!!! I have them all the time.
    Lorrie
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    I was allowed to look after some alpine strawberry plants and eat the fruit but they all got concreted over when the extension was built. :-(
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    I bought my first house when I was 28(after a tenement flat) and it had a huge back garden - that's where I got the gardening bug. Selling the house to move in with my hubby wasn't a hardship - not being able to take the garden with me was :-( If ever there was proof how much I love him ...
    I've told my hubby that with this garden there's no way I'm ever moving - too much blood, sweat and tears has gone into it (ok, the tears are just down to my hayfever)
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    im 55 and just got my 1st garden and i love it having lived in flats all my married life this is our first house due to ill health im not able to do much myself but i enjoy just pottering about ,not realy knowing what im doing ,just wish i had a garden years ago keith
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    Some London Pride in the school garden, alyssum at home and some pink lavatera which I absolutely adored.
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    I was sitting here having a CRAFT moment then Ruby jogged my memory. Yes I to grew London Pride, Alyssum,Sedum and Candy Tuft. My Mum worked at Carters Tested Seed Company at Raynes Park, before I was born, and my dad was a part time gardener, so I've always had the bug, from as young as I can remember. Umpty tumpt years ago. Now I love all flowers , shrubs etc.
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    my dad let me have my first plot! I remember planting radish,spring onions and lettuce as for my first garden it was probably hardy geraniums which were a gift I find them very forgiving
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    i currently have my first garden. it is the big family gardenn and at the age of 13 it's a big challenge! it is ridden with a lot of weeds but i have made a start. with many elaporate plans i hope to have completed my grand plan in a year or so but it's more likely to take 2!
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    6yrs old at home alone after school (back in the day when that was okay) watering my own Gladiolas (thought fairies lived in them) with hose water every where.

    Big trouble when folks got home from work, not for the mess, but because their was a drought and water restrictions in effect.
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