Hi. A little mix here. Thanks for the kind comments ref my plot - my site name is very apt - have loved my gardens (3) for all these years and have done as much reading about it all as the actual work. Next ref the Fairygirl Verdun comments I am bearing in mind that I also will have to watch my step with all this "Wandwork" floating about - could not see myself as a Frog at all sitting on Lily Pads all day. Have an interesting story to tell some time of Frogs in my last garden, I saw it and was amazed. Salino. Interesting your comments but I do not think really that men make better gardeners than the lassies - perhaps they are more fussy but that would depend on their general over all outlook I would guess - for myself I have been a soldier and the standards of fussiness (bull) which had to be observed there have stayed with me all my life in all things ( Fairygirls wand would have to be highly polished or whitewashed). Just think some of the best gardeners ever have been gals as we have been talking of two of them recently, Mrs. Fish ( you must read about her), Mrs Chatto and of course Gertrude Jekyll, think also of the lady presenters on TV etc etc - no overall I think it is very much "even stevens" and if you are a gardener you love it regardless.
I think when I wander about walking the dog that you can see the old soldiers gardens. All those red salvias in straight lines like bandsmen.
Last saturday, Nottingham hosted the armed forces day, with marches in the centre of the city, representing all the old, current forces, and upcoming cadets. A magnificent sight, that cannot be equalled in any other country in the world.
Whilst I do not agree with the current situations our armed forces are in,(I'd bring the lot home tomorrow) I admire the dedication of every last one of them.
Every mother or wife who has a loved one out there, lives on tenterhooks, just waiting for the day when they will be home safe and sound.
My garden has very little in straight ordered lines. My dad and the other half have the theory that paths are for walking on. I see a wide path as being overflow area for trays and pots. So long as I can get through, whats the problem?
Mr Titchmarsh admits to being a bit OCD. If a leaf falls on his newly mown striped lawn, he has to go out and pick it up. We used to have a neighbour with a bowling green lawn. All us kids used to joke that a weed would never dare to grow in it. It would be pounced on and eradicated at once. Of course, he didn't have kids playing football on it, never lounged on it, and apart from maintenance, only ever looked at it.
We have division of labour in our garden. OH does lawns, hedges(straight lines), and occasional rotovating of veg patch. I do growing, planting and titivating and weeding.
So yes, Verd, behind every great female there's a good man, but actually, if he wasn't around, we'd manage anyway. Ask Fairygirl.
Hi. Good comments. our gardens are our gardens and we all have our own ideas and methods of achieving what we want in them and how we use them, it all has to work in with the circumstancres which prevail in each. T'would never do if they were all the same. My plot in a pic does perhaps look fussy but it it is not really though it is very tidy - I can make a difference between the two. Comment was made ref Montbretia and I mentioned the old (as was) Antholiza - here it is providing height and contrast with the plants around it though still
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Can't be angry with you for long Verdi!
But you're a very naughty boy...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
...trouble with Cornishmen is that they do it 'drekly'.... too slow for me...
Hi. A little mix here. Thanks for the kind comments ref my plot - my site name is very apt - have loved my gardens (3) for all these years and have done as much reading about it all as the actual work. Next ref the Fairygirl Verdun comments I am bearing in mind that I also will have to watch my step with all this "Wandwork" floating about - could not see myself as a Frog at all sitting on Lily Pads all day. Have an interesting story to tell some time of Frogs in my last garden, I saw it and was amazed. Salino. Interesting your comments but I do not think really that men make better gardeners than the lassies - perhaps they are more fussy but that would depend on their general over all outlook I would guess - for myself I have been a soldier and the standards of fussiness (bull) which had to be observed there have stayed with me all my life in all things ( Fairygirls wand would have to be highly polished or whitewashed). Just think some of the best gardeners ever have been gals as we have been talking of two of them recently, Mrs. Fish ( you must read about her), Mrs Chatto and of course Gertrude Jekyll, think also of the lady presenters on TV etc etc - no overall I think it is very much "even stevens" and if you are a gardener you love it regardless.
Whoever said gardeners don't like to live dangerously?
I think when I wander about walking the dog that you can see the old soldiers gardens. All those red salvias in straight lines like bandsmen.
Last saturday, Nottingham hosted the armed forces day, with marches in the centre of the city, representing all the old, current forces, and upcoming cadets. A magnificent sight, that cannot be equalled in any other country in the world.
Whilst I do not agree with the current situations our armed forces are in,(I'd bring the lot home tomorrow) I admire the dedication of every last one of them.
Every mother or wife who has a loved one out there, lives on tenterhooks, just waiting for the day when they will be home safe and sound.
My garden has very little in straight ordered lines. My dad and the other half have the theory that paths are for walking on. I see a wide path as being overflow area for trays and pots. So long as I can get through, whats the problem?
Mr Titchmarsh admits to being a bit OCD. If a leaf falls on his newly mown striped lawn, he has to go out and pick it up. We used to have a neighbour with a bowling green lawn. All us kids used to joke that a weed would never dare to grow in it. It would be pounced on and eradicated at once. Of course, he didn't have kids playing football on it, never lounged on it, and apart from maintenance, only ever looked at it.
We have division of labour in our garden. OH does lawns, hedges(straight lines), and occasional rotovating of veg patch. I do growing, planting and titivating and weeding.
So yes, Verd, behind every great female there's a good man, but actually, if he wasn't around, we'd manage anyway. Ask Fairygirl.
Hi. Good comments. our gardens are our gardens and we all have our own ideas and methods of achieving what we want in them and how we use them, it all has to work in with the circumstancres which prevail in each. T'would never do if they were all the same. My plot in a pic does perhaps look fussy but it it is not really though it is very tidy - I can make a difference between the two. Comment was made ref Montbretia and I mentioned the old (as was) Antholiza - here it is providing height and contrast with the plants around it though still
a third to grow yet height.