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Gardens in pictures - 2009

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  • nodwah
    nodwah Posts: 1,742 Forumite
    that looks amazing though! what a feature!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32201574@N00/3247046069/
    this is all there is to my front garden!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32201574@N00/3247265841/in/photostream/

    but at least we see some wildlife in the field opposite!
    Just call me Nodwah the thread killer
  • Beki
    Beki Posts: 917 Forumite
    But your garden is HUUUUGE rhiwfield! i was sitting here yesterday going green with envy at your pics :o

    Mine always looks big on pics, and it *is* a good size (roughly 85ft by 95ft) but it always looks SO much bigger in photos than it feels in real life!

    Plus the kids, chickens and dog take up most of it, so we're still limited with the space we can actually use... (ponders about boarding for the kids, chooks AND dog LOL :D )
  • Beki
    Beki Posts: 917 Forumite
    nodwah wrote: »
    that looks amazing though! what a feature!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32201574@N00/3247046069/
    this is all there is to my front garden!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32201574@N00/3247265841/in/photostream/

    but at least we see some wildlife in the field opposite!

    omg DEER!!! you are SO lucky!!! :D
  • rhiwfield
    rhiwfield Posts: 2,482 Forumite
    nodwah wrote: »
    that looks amazing though! what a feature!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32201574@N00/3247046069/
    this is all there is to my front garden!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32201574@N00/3247265841/in/photostream/

    but at least we see some wildlife in the field opposite!

    That takes me back! Had a large garden when I used to live near Saffron Walden and a herd of roe deer used to visit. Tore my hair out as they ate the new fruit orchard I planted :mad:
  • ok.... there are photo's in my blog - front can be seen on the most recent post and if you click on the 'back garden' label.. photos of the back in the summer will pop up (sorry.. no recent good photos of the back garden)
  • rhiwfield
    rhiwfield Posts: 2,482 Forumite
    Beki wrote: »
    But your garden is HUUUUGE rhiwfield! i was sitting here yesterday going green with envy at your pics :o

    Mine always looks big on pics, and it *is* a good size (roughly 85ft by 95ft) but it always looks SO much bigger in photos than it feels in real life!

    Plus the kids, chickens and dog take up most of it, so we're still limited with the space we can actually use... (ponders about boarding for the kids, chooks AND dog LOL :D )

    HUUUUGE !!??

    My back garden is 75ft by 48ft, so not really room for chooks and veg, while my gds have to take turns to play on the grass :D (which will be going if I put in the new veg beds!)
  • Beki
    Beki Posts: 917 Forumite
    Well, that's a nice size! But i think more than the fact it looks huge, you've utilised the space SO efficiently... there's so much packed in there... so tidy too! Like an area for everything! I wish i was so organised :o lol
  • Yategirl
    Yategirl Posts: 839 Forumite
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    rhiwfield wrote: »
    HUUUUGE !!??

    My back garden is 75ft by 48ft, so not really room for chooks and veg, while my gds have to take turns to play on the grass :D (which will be going if I put in the new veg beds!)


    you can squeeze loads in!! think of us poor mortals with tiny gardens!!:rotfl:
  • Yategirl
    Yategirl Posts: 839 Forumite
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    actually to add in.... I remember visiting my great uncle and aunt from about the ages of 2-14... their garden wasn't huge... small lawn area but the majority laid to beds and a pond - what I remember most was lots of paths between the beds and to the pond - I seem to recall we had great fun running round the paths playing tag and suchlike... so rhiwfield I reckon your gds will have just as much fun playing games like that as playing on a lawn! ;)
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    OK, I have never posted pics before, but I'll try to put some here of my old garden around the end of last summer. It's my old garden because I've sold & gone into rented for the time being.

    I tarted the garden up a bit a bit in spring 2008, because it was formerly part of our home-based nursery. Obviously, we had the structural plants around, but there was no lawn or veg plot as most flat areas were full of pots lined-out in trays. The pond was an inherited monstrosity made of breeze blocks that stuck up above the ground, so we raised the area around it.

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3278424320_aa5384b1e5_b.jpg

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3436/3278425902_ea199d037e_b.jpg

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3491/3278425250_db50b1ea98_b.jpg

    The main nursery was behind the fence at the back. I still own that bit!
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