Re: Plan or evolve?
Our garden is a bit of both. There were certain things we could not change when we bought the house - e.g. mature oak trees with protection orders on them at the bottom of the garden, together with a protected hawthorn hedge on the boundary. The garden is also on two distinct levels, with a stone wall across and steps down, cutting the garden in half which makes two gardens, both with lawns and borders. There is a large patio near the house and there is a cedar summerhouse at the bottom of the garden, which we use quite a lot. This also has a large patio in front of it, so we can sit. OH calls the summerhouse his mancave and he has put up a plaque saying "grandad's mancave" About 30 years ago we invested in a rhododendron bushes along one border (top half of the garden) and these are quite large now (also maintenance free apart from feeding them). I like to see cottage type plants and we have added in and taken out over the years. It's amazing to see them all growing again year after year after they have disappeared during the winter. I love roses and we have quite a few of them mostly shrub types and climbers, along with varieties of clematis growing through. We have tried a lot of plants over the years and have learnt what will grow in the garden, so we don't have as many failures. Apart from various shrubs, We have a lot of snowdrops, daffodils, wild cowslips, foxgloves, various varieties of perennial geraniums, poppies, aquilegia, etc. the sort of stuff which either self sets its seeds or spreads about. There is an order to it all, but the plants tend to do their own thing, until they get out of hand and have to be taken back a bit. Things always seem to be popping up unexpectedly and I am sure I never put them there. It's all quite casual really.Re: Plan or evolve?
Re: Plan or evolve?
During the time I was working a 12 hour day at the hospital and at University every night studying for my BSc - my garden evolved into an unholy wilderness which I have never managed to reclaim. Neighbours have reported seeing Tigers, even Japanese troops lurking in the undergrowth.Re: Plan or evolve?
Re: Plan or evolve?
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Planned it from the start. It was just a lawn with weeds to start with but I knew I wanted a pond and a shed. Did about five or six designs before we agreed on it and over all it has worked out OK apart from a few plants here and there not doing so well and being replaced.
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