I don't want the garden! Too contained, cluttered, enclosed, claustrophobic for me. It's surely possible to have all the plants but with space and light and air.
I do like some of the big terracotta pots but wouldn't ever want to move them or do the banana shuffle twice a year. I shall content myself with working out how to conjour up a serious potting bench instead. At the mo I have one of those wee aluminium jobbies in the PT and an old table under an outside shelter at the back of the house. The former is not conducive to doing much more than sowing seeds and pricking out seedlings. The latter is barely big enough for potting on 3" pots.
I need something bigger.........
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Thank you everyone that has put up a map makes so much difference the old one is great @Dovefromabove you can see how things have developed / changed
I feel I can walk around it now and its not so broken up as it some times appears as he walks around from plot to plot. I am going to keep a copy for reference.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
@Lyn oh yes & he has had to rip out a lot of his box plants. He is not the only one to do that though the gardeners where I volunteer have had to get rid of a lot of Box there too, combined attacks of blight & Box moth caterpillar have "done" for lots of it. If you read his comments over the years much of the space was bought as a flat field over 20 years ago (presumably the reason for the name). He enclosed it in trees & hedges etc to provide shelter & privacy but he admits now that much is too congested & he has had to start thinning it out.
As I recall, Barnsdale - Geoff H's garden - is divided into plots the size of suburban gardens and have lawns and spaces for play and none of the teeny passages between tall, dark hedge as favoured by Monty. Never had a sense of claustrophobia or imprisonment watching Geoof H.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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I do like some of the big terracotta pots but wouldn't ever want to move them or do the banana shuffle twice a year. I shall content myself with working out how to conjour up a serious potting bench instead. At the mo I have one of those wee aluminium jobbies in the PT and an old table under an outside shelter at the back of the house. The former is not conducive to doing much more than sowing seeds and pricking out seedlings. The latter is barely big enough for potting on 3" pots.
I need something bigger.........
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I feel I can walk around it now and its not so broken up as it some times appears as he walks around from plot to plot. I am going to keep a copy for reference.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw