Well alright but just the brambles by the back door. We'd be here all week if I was to post all the shameful bits. I would like to point out that the leylandii you can just see in the background belong the house who's roof you can see and aren't mine. It's not THAT shameful.
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Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Wouldn't have even spotted the leylandii if you hadn't mentioned them. Too busy admiring the stack of roof tiles you have saved for a rainy day. A good hoarder is always welcome on the "GOS", we never throw anything away.
Raisin, you have star potential. Don't be shy. There are other threads where we display the perfect bloom with the blackspot, rust and weevilridden leaf just out of focus. This is the reality thread.
Come on you lurkers post your pics and give us hope!
It's dark now, so it'll have to wait, but that's not a stack of roof tiles. That's a couple of spare ridge tiles. There's whole pallet of roof tiles round the back of the veg patch. And a couple of dozen fence posts. Hard to spot at the moment because they are so overgrown with feral raspberries and the ubiquitous stinging nettles but I may be able to snap just the corner of the pallet.
The hose is a bit left over from when we were trying to pump water out of the sludgy ditch that we are imagining might be a pond one day.
I should explain, perhaps. About 7 and a half years ago, OH and I bought this
And ever since, OH has been trying to make a house out the barn and I've been trying to carve a garden out of the acre and a half of sheep pasture we bought with it. Grand Designs it aint - we don't have any money. So we've had to do it all ourselves and there's still so much to do. But we do have indoor plumbing now and a few bits of garden in the cleared spaces amongst nettles, docks, buddleia, goat willow and sedge.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Thing is, I only generally take photos of the bits that look half decent, and I have to get into some very odd positions and be very free with the 'crop photos' button to even get those, or where we are actually doing some work. If you pan right in the second photo you can see a bank of nettles topped with a nice goat willow. And I even left the buddleia in the front corner (can't get away from them).
Its dark now, so I can only offer some more artistic compositions:
Dog, with crocosmia looking nice to the left, cement mixer, old bit of screen mesh to the right. This was from my 'blue pipe' phase.
Or docks, cow parsley gone to seed, poor benighted walnut tree and digger, from my sunshine on mud period:
And then of course my latest. Sludgy ditch (with nettles and bullrushes) from my excessive parenthesis collection:
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Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Well alright but just the brambles by the back door. We'd be here all week if I was to post all the shameful bits. I would like to point out that the leylandii you can just see in the background belong the house who's roof you can see and aren't mine. It's not THAT shameful.
Last edited: 28 August 2016 18:06:33
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Magnificent
Wouldn't have even spotted the leylandii if you hadn't mentioned them. Too busy admiring the stack of roof tiles you have saved for a rainy day. A good hoarder is always welcome on the "GOS", we never throw anything away.
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Loving it raisin. Check out those Budds.
If you're uncertain about posting, go back to the first few pages of this thread. I dare you to come up with anything better/worse.
Raisin, you have star potential. Don't be shy. There are other threads where we display the perfect bloom with the blackspot, rust and weevilridden leaf just out of focus. This is the reality thread.
Come on you lurkers post your pics and give us hope!
It's dark now, so it'll have to wait, but that's not a stack of roof tiles. That's a couple of spare ridge tiles. There's whole pallet of roof tiles round the back of the veg patch. And a couple of dozen fence posts. Hard to spot at the moment because they are so overgrown with feral raspberries and the ubiquitous stinging nettles but I may be able to snap just the corner of the pallet.
The hose is a bit left over from when we were trying to pump water out of the sludgy ditch that we are imagining might be a pond one day.
I should explain, perhaps. About 7 and a half years ago, OH and I bought this
And ever since, OH has been trying to make a house out the barn and I've been trying to carve a garden out of the acre and a half of sheep pasture we bought with it. Grand Designs it aint - we don't have any money. So we've had to do it all ourselves and there's still so much to do. But we do have indoor plumbing now
and a few bits of garden in the cleared spaces amongst nettles, docks, buddleia, goat willow and sedge.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We've got conifers - several. OH is a big fan. Just not leylandii. Ugly brutes. The birds love them though
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Raisin, it looks wonderful; worthy of the posh threads.
Show us the dark underbelly so that we may be saved from the sin of envy and can commune , nay wallow, in the camaraderie that is sloth.
I'm expecting things to hot up a bit soon as the cloak of summer flowers fades to expose the fruits of our idleness
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PP, how's the burren doing?
Thing is, I only generally take photos of the bits that look half decent, and I have to get into some very odd positions and be very free with the 'crop photos' button to even get those, or where we are actually doing some work. If you pan right in the second photo you can see a bank of nettles topped with a nice goat willow. And I even left the buddleia in the front corner (can't get away from them).
Its dark now, so I can only offer some more artistic compositions:
Dog, with crocosmia looking nice to the left, cement mixer, old bit of screen mesh to the right. This was from my 'blue pipe' phase.
Or docks, cow parsley gone to seed, poor benighted walnut tree and digger, from my sunshine on mud period:
And then of course my latest. Sludgy ditch (with nettles and bullrushes) from my excessive parenthesis collection:
Last edited: 28 August 2016 21:33:26
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”