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Gardening
Topic Started: Aug 28 2014, 02:52 PM (219 Views)
Jessamy Bride
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Spent most of the summer gardening :)

We have cleared an area of scrub at the top of the garden...burned it all off and planted two trees...plum and pear
The advisor said they were self seeding so in a couple, of years they might have fruit.
The area has been covered with mulch and bordered by a rockery on either side.....accessed by a rose arch (Nothing on it yet but I'm thinking clematis)

We have replaced the worn out palisade fences with trellis fences. Balls on top of the posts, concreted in... and painted autumn gold.

I have dug everything out of the front terraces and covered them with weed killer. Will be planting the lot with red floribunda roses in the spring.
(got fed up with the current plants which had seen better days)

Smart new garage, concrete... with side door and windows. Not up yet but on the way.

Good feed, weed and mow on the lawn......and we'll be set for winter.

What have you been up to?
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I used to have beautiful gardens with interesting and often exotic plants, but now that my health is somewhat jiggered I have to leave my present garden to the tender mercies of others.
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I just mow the lawn when the dog gets lost in it and de weed the other bits with agricultural grade weed killer. Gardening is lost on me I'm afraid, my patch is 98% grass thankfully. We do have about one third of an acre of the garden under (very big) trees so October and Nov are one day a week collecting and burning leaves.

I do have a nice hardwood deck (80m sq) which is nice for surveying the area from, took me a whole year to build though.
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nute
Aug 29 2014, 10:49 AM
I just mow the lawn when the dog gets lost in it
Currently an elephant could get lost in the "lawn" at the back of my home.
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Jessamy Bride
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I have always liked a well kept garden...but it needed a bit of work on it this year.

Its not the best garden in the street......it just looks normal.

I envy people their green fingers because I just plant stuff in hope....but don't really know what I'm doing.
and sometimes it just dies.
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Mine's the same PS..I suspect I have a family of gorillas living at the bottom..

I hate gardening.. >:(
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marybrown
Aug 30 2014, 10:54 AM
Mine's the same PS..I suspect I have a family of gorillas living at the bottom..

There goes the neighbourhood, eh?
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I have a patio aria, a lawn about twenty by forty feet surrounded by unidentified bushy stuff and at the far corner an oak tree. I occasionally have a hack at the bushy stuff when it threatens to engulf me. The lawn is my guinea pigs job to cut with their voracious appetites and sharp teeth. The oak tree just sits there; it is sometimes used for climbing by the cat and occasionally hits me with acorns.
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Curious Cdn
Aug 30 2014, 11:49 AM
marybrown
Aug 30 2014, 10:54 AM
Mine's the same PS..I suspect I have a family of gorillas living at the bottom..

There goes the neighbourhood, eh?
Not really..I have declared it a ''nature reserve''..but I suspect I may have some Poles living in my shed.. ;-)
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If you can hear them chattering away all of the time, they are probably telephone poles.
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Aug 30 2014, 06:34 PM
If you can hear them chattering away all of the time, they are probably telephone poles.
No..my neighbour has reported jolly goings on in my garden when I have to work till 10pm..

Booze..drugs..

He said '' what goes on in your garden a night..A hot drugs scene?''

I am a bit p*ssed off..I could have charged them an entrance fee!
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Jessamy Bride
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I could give you some good tips on fences.
Other than that... get cctv...a Rottweiler and phone the police.

I wouldn't be standing for that for a second.
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