What type of garden have you got?

[Yuwipi Woman]

I just spent an hour pulling weeds in mine. I've been working so much this summer that its really gotten away from me. The squash is doing well. The tomatoes are a bit late because of all the rain and mellow temps weve had.

 

[Pingu]

pictures

this is standing on the patio looking out toward the main garden (through the arch) this is the bit we have just started work on the pond is just behond the conifer on the left.

speaking of which the pond pretty much looks like is atm...

taken from underneath the arcway. the path is about 150m long and goes right to the top of the garden

looking right from the archway

standing looking from the first tree in last pic down the garden. the red\yellow stuff is the dogs agility kit

 

[Pingu]

taken from the end of the picture before last looking up to the top of the garden again

again looking up one of the paths

and agian.

i really wish I was a gardener as I can see the potential and with the space (2.5 acres) we could do a lot. but I am only good at cutting stuff down I am afraid and dont lnow anything about what can go in diff soil types (its acidic heathland aparantly)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Here's a pic of our's:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laracroftbb/2558649584/

It looks very long and thin

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

taken from the end of the picture before last looking up to the top of the garden again

again looking up one of the paths

and agian.

i really wish I was a gardener as I can see the potential and with the space (2.5 acres) we could do a lot. but I am only good at cutting stuff down I am afraid and dont lnow anything about what can go in diff soil types (its acidic heathland aparantly)

That's a great garden. I love it. It looks more like a walk through the woods than a garden

 

[Pingu]

That's a great garden. I love it. It looks more like a walk through the woods than a garden

tbh thats what we have tried to do with most of it. mainly cos its really low maintannace (just mow the paths every week or so) but also cos we have loads of wildlife there which we like (apart from the moles)

however we do also want a "garden" bit and so this year have started work on doing that.

 

[seeformiles]

We're really lucky as our garden is fucking massive - over 100ft long with huge holly trees at one end, a giant willow tree about half-way down and high hedges and apple trees on both sides - probably the main reason we bought the house (as the house is pretty pokey). It hasn't got a pond but it's got an old wheelbarrow with rainwater in it that the birds like to splash in. Great at this time of year as there's total privacy from the neighbours and is pretty soundproof. I mow the lawn occasionally and trim the hedges naw and again - but I'm too lazy to do too much to it. Anything growing is in pots on the patio (chillis, tomatoes, etc.)

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Don't have decking. We have a concrete terrace about 10ft wide which was here when we moved in. The rest is proper garden and the terrace isn't so bad.

It's obviously been constructed by someone more used to building nuclear bunkers, so it has huge thermal mass, which with the high walls and generally warm location means we can grow stuff which should die during a UK winter.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

tbh thats what we have tried to do with most of it. mainly cos its really low maintannace (just mow the paths every week or so) but also cos we have loads of wildlife there which we like (apart from the moles)

however we do also want a "garden" bit and so this year have started work on doing that.

Do you go camping in your garden?

Have you got a treehouse?

 

[Pingu]

yes (and some urbanites may be doing so this sept - see transport forum for details)


no cos I am crap at building things

 

[trashpony]

my garden

 

[Idaho]

pictures

You lucky git!

 

[girasol]

Pingu, that's not a garden, that's a ground!

lovely lovely lovely, you are so lucky!

 

[Firky]

With a proper garden behind where the photograph was taken (don't have a proper photo to hand).

 

[El Jefe]

I have a very small balcony, about 6ft x 3ft.

It's shit.

 

[Firky]

I always wanted a roof top garden in a trendy part of london are newcastle. A friend had one near covent garden and it was amazing, noisy and a bit smoggy but amazing

 

[sojourner]

Kinell pingu!! Do you have a Groundskeeper Willy?


I have a small concreted yard, that I started filling with green stuff last year, and it's looking a lot better these days. Barely a flower to speak of, but I am growing some tomatoes and chillis, and have a massive sage bush, a rosemary, two mint, and 4 coriander plants on the go too Made up that I'm managing to keep stuff alive these days!

 

[*Miss*Sparkle*]

We're an end terrace so we have garden round all 3 sides. We had a gravel driveway put in part of the back garden, which has a border round it that we intend to plant fruit trees in to disguise the ugly fences out the back. Also out the back is a tatty patio (a tatty-o?), and a raised vegetable bed.

Round the side we have what we refer to as the fallout bunker - it's a little shed made out of yorkshire stone, with really thick walls and a concrete roof. Behind that is the compost heap and the wood pile from when we had to cut down some big hawthorns and a hedge to get the drive and one of the fences put in.

Out the front we have a lawn and some trees. There are about 5-6 firs, a big lilac and a eucylyptus (sp?). We have hedges round most of the garden and I love them - there are so many birds that live in our hedges - ideally we wouldn't have got rid of one of the hedges out the back but our old neighbours were a bit of a nightmare and their kids would run through the hedges all the time and trashed one the one we took out.

I really love our garden, but it's a shame that we can't do much more with it as some of the kids round here are little darlings who nick anything that isn't nailed down. I'd like to put out pots, some more plants and some garden furniture but they'd just get nicked

 

[boohoo]

No garden, no "bit of concrete", not even a window box....

you have plants? Unless you killed them all.....

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I have a very small balcony, about 6ft x 3ft.

It's shit.

Don't be ungrateful. I haven't even got a balcony

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

2 views up garden (one with added vests)

Wild bit

The cat heap

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Was curious after reading the other thread who nowadays has a proper garden or access to one.

PS: PICTURES OF YOUR GARDENS WOULD BE NICE

Why isn't there an option for a normal garden? You know a garden that isn't communal and had grass, flowers, bushes, trees and sheds etc with a patio or whatever?

 

[Hellsbells]

I live in a rented house but I've always been lucky enough to have a garden. I don't think I could bear not to. Well, now I've got cats, a garden is essential anyway.
My current 'garden' is a paved area with a rocky shrubbery type border. It looked lovely a couple of months ago, with loads of overgrown, jungle like flowery weeds. But now they've all died and it's a bit of a mess.
I'd love a proper, big garden with a lawn and a shed and some apple trees. Hmmm, maybe one day.....

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Why isn't there an option for a normal garden? You know a garden that isn't communal and had grass, flowers, bushes, trees and sheds etc with a patio or whatever?

There's always one

You can tick this option

"I have decking, paving, flower beds, trees, plants AND a pond" (without the pond)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

We share a garden but the beighbours never use it.

Have you got a cold?

 

[ScallyWag II]

Why isn't there an option for a normal garden? You know a garden that isn't communal and had grass, flowers, bushes, trees and sheds etc with a patio or whatever?

There's always one

You can tick this option

"I have decking, paving, flower beds, trees, plants AND a pond" (without the pond)

Make that 2! I ticked other. No pond, just a small raised patio with lots of pots and a table and chairs, grass, borders with shrubs and flowers, a birch tree in one corner and a delapidated shed

 

[sojourner]

Have you got a cold?

heh

I've just sent some pics to me email but not come through yet

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Make that 2! I ticked other. No pond, just a small raised patio with lots of pots and a table and chairs, grass, borders with shrubs and flowers, a birch tree in one corner and a delapidated shed

blame the mods for only letting us have 12 options

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Why isn't there an option for a normal garden? You know a garden that isn't communal and had grass, flowers, bushes, trees and sheds etc with a patio or whatever?

'Other' option? Your description is what most gardens i've seen actually look like innit. So make it 3

 

[moomoo]

I've got a small front garden with lawn, shrubs, flowers and a drive and a big back garden with swings, slides and a trampoline, an overgrown veg plot behind the sheds and a nice patio.

Looking towards the house..

The patio looks a bit bare this year as I've not done much out there...