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poliphiloI wish I had a garden.
It's not that I'm a great gardener; it's just that I'd like to have a space to potter in. With hedges. Very tall hedges.
The last time I had a garden was over twenty years ago. It was a vicarage garden and really quite big. It sloped down hill and was boggy in parts. I can't pretend I did a lot with it, but I used to cut the grass and once - very amateurishly- I laid a path.
I'd like to look out the widow and see very big trees. We have trees here in the back yard, but I have to keep them ruthlessly clipped or they'd bring down phone lines- and it's not the same.
Yesterday we went to B & Q and bought pansies. I think we left it a bit late because the plants were all half price and short of blooms- and when I got them out of their pots I found they'd been rooting furiously with nowhere to go. I've put them in the two planters in the front yard. They'll give me something to smile about as I go in and out the front door.
It's not that I'm a great gardener; it's just that I'd like to have a space to potter in. With hedges. Very tall hedges.
The last time I had a garden was over twenty years ago. It was a vicarage garden and really quite big. It sloped down hill and was boggy in parts. I can't pretend I did a lot with it, but I used to cut the grass and once - very amateurishly- I laid a path.
I'd like to look out the widow and see very big trees. We have trees here in the back yard, but I have to keep them ruthlessly clipped or they'd bring down phone lines- and it's not the same.
Yesterday we went to B & Q and bought pansies. I think we left it a bit late because the plants were all half price and short of blooms- and when I got them out of their pots I found they'd been rooting furiously with nowhere to go. I've put them in the two planters in the front yard. They'll give me something to smile about as I go in and out the front door.
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Re: Me Too
Date: 2008-04-10 08:59 am (UTC)It so happens I was watching a news item yesterday about a set of historic allotments that have just been awarded a £ multi million grant. They're going to restore the Victorian summerhouses and tidy up the hedges and clear ground that has run wild and attract new community gardeners. These particular allotments were in Nottingham and are among the oldest in the country- first established in 1836.