In a milder climate I'd love to grow unusual coniferous trees ; i.e. Agathis , Dacrydium and Fitzroya etc . If much younger I'd plant a garden devoted to conifers . Superb trees .
For a stunning deciduous tree I'd wish for a mature Davidia involucrata .
Wonder why you didn't buy that cottage, @Pete.8... it sounds idyllic!
Lots of us would like room for really massive trees. I love old gnarly sweet chestnuts, and ancient beeches which are hollow in the middle. And anything with branches low to the ground so I can climb up it and hide, like I did with the hornbeam tree in my parents' garden when I was a child. Same idea as @pansyface's maze, really.
"The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life." Rabindranath Tagore
I would love to grow eremurus and white delphiniums just like the ones in @Simone_in_Wiltshire photos on recent thread. Eremurus need plenty of space and my soil is completely unsuitable. On the positive I do live near a wood so plenty of beautiful trees.
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A garden is an oasis for creation, available to anyone with a little space and the compunction to get their hands dirty.
I would largely stick with what I've got. But where I have one I would have groups of 3. More space, groups of 5.
What I really lack is not space, but space in full sun. I would have a heather garden. Little leaf colour variety, but gentle flower colour palette. To look as British Isle moorlike as possible.
location: Surrey Hills, England, cretaceous acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Putting aside all the lovely trees and shrubs that would be too large, there are perennials I love that would simply be too big to look 'right' in my garden - tall imposing Rudbeckia maxima, Eryngium pandanifolium, the really tall varieties of Eupatorium (I do grow 'Baby Joe'), Persicaria alpina. I also wouldn't mind one of those tree-dahlias.
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That's a silver birch or betula. The very white ones are Betula Jaquemontii.
Lots of us would like room for really massive trees. I love old gnarly sweet chestnuts, and ancient beeches which are hollow in the middle. And anything with branches low to the ground so I can climb up it and hide, like I did with the hornbeam tree in my parents' garden when I was a child. Same idea as @pansyface's maze, really.
for the fag ends of the aristocracy.
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I'll research this
A garden is an oasis for creation, available to anyone with a little space and the compunction to get their hands dirty.
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What I really lack is not space, but space in full sun. I would have a heather garden. Little leaf colour variety, but gentle flower colour palette. To look as British Isle moorlike as possible.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I ♥ my garden.