Where do people live... please talk with me!!đ„°

Hi everyone,
I would like to know where you reside? I am interested in seeing the difference of plant growth and survival dependent on where we all live!
I live in Greater Manchester in a small village valley named Shaw. We are just at the edge of Saddleworth Moors and The Pennines, we see a lot of wet and windy weather. I am quite high up! My rear garden is rather exposed and South South West Facing.
i am searching for like minded people who would talk and chat to me regularly about gardening and nature because quite frankly none of my friends love it like I do!!
i really hope you will find the time to reply and talk about our gardens!! Thank you in advance. MumNat
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I would like to know where you reside? I am interested in seeing the difference of plant growth and survival dependent on where we all live!
I live in Greater Manchester in a small village valley named Shaw. We are just at the edge of Saddleworth Moors and The Pennines, we see a lot of wet and windy weather. I am quite high up! My rear garden is rather exposed and South South West Facing.
i am searching for like minded people who would talk and chat to me regularly about gardening and nature because quite frankly none of my friends love it like I do!!
i really hope you will find the time to reply and talk about our gardens!! Thank you in advance. MumNat
x x x
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Youâll find that many of us put the approximate location of our gardens in our Profile, so it shows up when we post as mine does. This is also helpful when we are answering queries because as you say so much depends on âweatherâ. Â Of course some folk prefer to keep their location private and thatâs fine as wellÂ
Have a look in the Potting Shed for chat, both gardening and non-gardening. đÂ
Shaw not to for away from me, just the other side of rochdale. Similar condition here in Rossendale. Easy to grow moister loving plants .
Hello MumNat.
Not everyone likes to say where they live on a public forum. Some will mention just the county or north or south.
I live in SW France, Dordogne. I have thin, but clay, alkali soil on top of limestone rock. Over the years I have added a lot of manure and compost. I have a large garden which I have planted English country style, not always easy here as the summers tend to be hotter and the winters colder.
My OH has a cottage in Norfolk, we go there quite often. We were both widowed and he was moving back to England when I met him. Bit complicated. His grandchildren are in the UK and mine are in France. The climate in Norfolk is dryer than most parts of the UK and the soil is dark, deep and sandy, much lighter and easier to work with than my soil in France, but I add compost to help stop it drying out. So I'm lucky in that I have two gardens, but I would rather live in England and have one. My French house is for sale but that can take years in France. You can guess what I think about BrexitÂ
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I have been posting on this forum for years. For chat I go to Hello Forkers, there are other threads for chat too.
My soil is heavy, flinty clay so an awful lot of time has been spent digging stuff into the soil to make it less like a slippery mud bath in winter, concrete in the summer and to improve water retention. 7 years on there are signs of improvement...
Keep trying to kid myself I'm trying to make the garden lower maintenance - that will only really happen when I stop buying plants. Bought 50 perennials the other day...đ€
I live in Bath, Somerset on the side of a valley which occasionally gets high westerly winds straight off the Bristol Channel. Our garden mainly faces south and although clay underneath has been cultivated for many years so is not too bad. I love herbaceous perennials, roses and clematis but am thinking of simplifying the workload as arthritis getting worse.
I also have an allotment the soil is reasonable and fertile about 18 inches deep with the old gravel river/seabed below this so water retentive but free draining.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
We live on the Surrey/Hampshire border, in woodland. Â We are warmer than you, but are in a frost pocket, which has its challenges.
Happy to talk about gardening all day, every day, but like you donât have many friends who share that interest. Â This Forum is great for filling that gap đđ». Â Look forward to seeing you around đ