House names that suit the garden (or don't)
geum keenbutgreen
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I was just thinking about how many houses have names which reflect a defining feature in their garden - and how odd it is when that feature isn't there any more!
I live in Pear Tree Cottage. We have a small young pear tree, which I guess was planted by the previous owners who felt that the lack of a pear tree was something of an embarrassment. We do have a very large pair of yew trees which frame our gate and grow together as one, and I do wonder if maybe in the past the name was more about 'pair of trees' and got changed somewhere down the way? (It's an old house, dates to 1734).
Locally, we have lots of the usual suspects - Wisteria Cottage, with a wisteria; Japonica Cottage, Honeysuckle Cottage. Oddly though, every house I've seen recently called Ivy Cottage does't have any ivy at all, and I wonder if that's just because more recent owners have taken it down. I certainly take it off our house, as it's rendered and painted, so ivy is a massive hindrance to maintaining the exterior.
Does your house have a garden related name, and is it relevant to your garden now?
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29: relates to the variety of weeds in the front garden, I think
We call our house Concorde -
We have the 'e' on it because the pear does, and because it was spelt that way in Middle English, and because we like it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Only 29 weeds B3? you must be a very efficient weeder. Mine would be 129
In the sticks near Peterborough
My mum and dads house used to be called Tudor Rose, I always thought it was a nice name
Why spoil a good post with the truth
Our house is called Black Dog House, we have no dogs, we have cats. It's called that because of the legend of the ghostly black dog that is supposed to roam the Downs in the dark of the year.
The Tudor Rose
Ours is called Moorview, for obvious reasons, trouble is, so is everyone else's nearby.