I'd like at least part of the garden to include a steep hill so that we can have a spot to look out over the rest of the garden and the surrounding views (which will of course be stunning). It is the best thing about our own plot. But in the fantasy garden I'd like to install a (very chic and bijou) cog railway so that all heavy goods and people can be transported to the top rather than having to be pushed up in wheelbarrows.
a swimming pond - not a pool but a pond you can swim in!
a large hot house (Eden project size would do nicely, if not Kew's palm house) to keep all those plants that I really want to grow but can't because I've only got a little greenhouse
a hydroponics greenhouse to grow all the fruit and veg I can eat, at all times of the year!
a strong gardener or two to do the weeding so I don't have to!
A fountain where the spray will blow in the breeze to cool us (remember East Ruston Old Vicarage folks?) and while we're remembering that lovely visit, what about a desert garden like their Desert Wash?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There would be beautiful large troughs of sempervivums like the ones we saw at East Ruston and some areas of pebble paving incorporating an arty design.
The swimming pond (which would always be cool enough to be refreshing on a hot day - yet warm enough to entice one in most days) would have a large jetty at one end with really comfortable loungers and a large fire bowl. That is where I will soak up some rays and in the evening I will sit watching the setting sun, feet dangling in the water, G & T in hand with a really good steak barbecuing over the fire.
No midges, no wasps.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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I'd like at least part of the garden to include a steep hill so that we can have a spot to look out over the rest of the garden and the surrounding views (which will of course be stunning). It is the best thing about our own plot. But in the fantasy garden I'd like to install a (very chic and bijou) cog railway so that all heavy goods and people can be transported to the top rather than having to be pushed up in wheelbarrows.
I think I have that collection currently hibernating in my windowframes Dove......happy to donate
a swimming pond - not a pool but a pond you can swim in!
a large hot house (Eden project size would do nicely, if not Kew's palm house) to keep all those plants that I really want to grow but can't because I've only got a little greenhouse
a hydroponics greenhouse to grow all the fruit and veg I can eat, at all times of the year!
a strong gardener or two to do the weeding so I don't have to!
A fountain where the spray will blow in the breeze to cool us (remember East Ruston Old Vicarage folks?) and while we're remembering that lovely visit, what about a desert garden like their Desert Wash?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Did I mention that all the seasons come together just like they seem to do at Chelsea.
So I walk through the Arch
to the snowdrops on the edge of the woodland
and up the hill to the bluebells.
I do like some of these old gnarly trees
That's cheating verdun as you are just describing your garden in the summer! You forgot to mention the billowing swathes of astrantia
lovely thread fidget
Oh and gorgeous pics
There would be beautiful large troughs of sempervivums like the ones we saw at East Ruston and some areas of pebble paving incorporating an arty design.
The swimming pond (which would always be cool enough to be refreshing on a hot day - yet warm enough to entice one in most days) would have a large jetty at one end with really comfortable loungers and a large fire bowl. That is where I will soak up some rays and in the evening I will sit watching the setting sun, feet dangling in the water, G & T in hand with a really good steak barbecuing over the fire.
No midges, no wasps.