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Old 23-02-2008, 20:47   #16
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?

emmmm i wonder who gave him that...
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Old 23-02-2008, 21:01   #17
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?

Right in the centre there are some 40 daffodils in a tight circle surrounded by bunches of 5 different coloured crocuses and these are surrounded by a ring of some 200 snow drops.

thats quite alot of bulbs to grow in such a small space..

Sadly only about 50 snowdrops poked their heads up so that sort of ruined the display a bit.

could be because they were planted too close together?


Over in the back right hand corner my personal bluebell wood is showing signs of life with a bunch of foreign bluebells at the apex of a triangle and over 100 bluebells filling up the remainder.

I hope you dont live near the countryside or near public parks as its not advised to plant foreign bluebells in the uk cos they are a more vigorous plant than our english one which is slowly dying out due to the foreign being more aggresive and more of a hybrid..



Alongside the fence on the left the Foxgloves have survived but I don’t think that the Hollyhocks and Lupins have managed to. But you never know there may be something underground just waiting for the warmer weather. I’ll have to re-sow them in April if not.

your hollyhocks may have gotten rust? thus bumping them off...or your soil wasnt quite correct..

The rest of the garden will be sown with meadow flowers come April and the perimeter will sport things like the yellow poppy and antirrhinums.

snapdragons are ace and you cant have enough of them in a garden..

I will try and dig out some snaps of my back yard..
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Old 23-02-2008, 21:31   #18
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some pics of my back yard...

every single bit of that yard re-done - it was a challenge for me to see what i could do with a square empty yard..
so I took up all the old flags (was fed up having them pinched, completely dug out by me, laid an 8 inch base for my new flags - which was done by me, all borders built up, filled, planted and maintained by me...took me 2 weeks in the sun and rain which is why it may look slightly rough but all done and I love it..
those pics were taken last year - regardless of what the date says..
I would love a big garden like jambuttys, I have too many ideas in my head when it comes to gardening, and after doing mine I still think about taking some bits up and changing them...
I reckon I could give any small gardening firm a run for their money if I were to go down that road.. I have customers,the contacts and the experience...but they dont need to worry just yet...one day though..







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Old 23-02-2008, 21:37   #19
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Looks very nice gg, just shows what a bit of hard work and some imagination can achieve
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Old 23-02-2008, 21:51   #20
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Glasgow you want to come and practice on mine? I've got 2 big gardens you can practice on.
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Old 23-02-2008, 22:44   #21
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I think Jambutty's garden shows a lot of promise. It can take quite some time to get things the way you want them, especially if you have to rely on someone else for the heavy labour. He did say, after all, that there are other things to be planted. As a keen gardener myself I'd be preparing the grassy bit for reseeding next month to really show off the flowers.
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Old 23-02-2008, 22:46   #22
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Not exactly kensington gardens though is it
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Old 23-02-2008, 22:50   #23
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So wheres your garden aleks?
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Old 23-02-2008, 22:51   #24
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I dont have a garden i shave love.
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Old 23-02-2008, 22:57   #25
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Dont ever call me love.

If you dont have a garden why say something like that about Jambutty's.
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Old 23-02-2008, 22:58   #26
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I dont have a garden i shave love.
really, didn't look like it in that picture of the little weed you sent me.

JB your garden is lovely, I agree with Glasgow guy about planting the bulbs a bit too close together, so the roots are going to all be fighting for the moisture, which judging by the look of the earth, is not plentiful.

I think it's promising though, so I hope you'll get the rest planted and we can see more pictures our garden is rubbish compared to yours
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Old 23-02-2008, 22:58   #27
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Not exactly kensington gardens though is it
I'll bet the Digger could give you a good haircut and get rid of that stubble in quick time.

When was the last time you tried to grow anything apart from that poor excuse for a beard?
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Old 23-02-2008, 22:59   #28
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This was my 1st real attempt at gardening last year
Had soooo many weeds to dig out after we moved in, didn't do it right tho cos they have now grown all over my nice flowers (the big pink 1 was my fav flower)
Will try again this year
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Old 23-02-2008, 22:59   #29
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Dont ever call me love.

If you dont have a garden why say something like that about Jambutty's.
I have to have a garden to have an opinion on someone elses?

If thats the case you cant comment on peoples sense of humour.
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Old 23-02-2008, 23:01   #30
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If thats the case you cant comment on peoples sense of humour.
At least i have one wheres yours?
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