Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

RAS

lir

You are the client; you decide.

lostinrates

RAS wrote: »

lir

You are the client; you decide.

Well, I am committed to my plan. . But I don't have the experience of building gardens from scratch like this.

I just put things in bits of ground really. . Not had the opportunity to. Be so 'free' and decisive.

I like the play of pockets of spaces and light and shadow and IMO, if you are building up, ruddy well build up......don't be fey, or polite.

lostinrates

Oh, hops update.

After a much slower start Saaz put on a tremendous growth spurt and pretty well caught up with cascade and fuggles, but has had almost double the shoots. So far not much flower.

Fuggles and cascade are both in flower, fuggles looks a bit lame compareds to cascade with is a foaming mass of glorious fluffy flower.


Only slight problem is, it grew behind a gutter, so how we'll get it down will be interesting.

Also. Depressingly, I cannot smell them,....at all!

I_have_spoken

But I don't have the experience of building gardens from scratch like this.

Which way is south? TBH, looks fine to me so long as the long raised bed along the wall gets sunshine.

I've been to the Glasgow Dobbies garden centre to see what's in the bargain bucket. Picked up pelargoniums for £1 each, they flower until Xmas in my conservatory, an unnamed perennial daisy also £1, huge Siberian iris for £7 down from £18 [which I'll divide] and a fecus rubber plant at £7 down from £10.

They also had a standard rose 'Iceberg' at £10, down from £35 which I hummed and hawed over but left. I'm just not that keen on roses!

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Spoke...

Haven't thought of this 'un for ages.

Liriodendron chinense


Or what about this, its meant to be very tough? Staphylea holocarpa 'Rosea'. I don't know it though.

The Liriodendron got sick here and had to be put down.

I don't know the Bladdernut either.

What about this?

http://buckingham-nurseries.co.uk/acatalog/product_10377.html

Outlaws + BiL and his family have now gone home and we are left, somewhat shell-shocked. A huge amount has been done, with the caravan now proudly sitting on its pad, all plumbed-into the barn's septic tank, water supply and electric. The depressions in the garden and orchard have been filled with soil, the stone pile is no more and the drainage by the woodsheds has been improved.

Up here the oil tank is sitting on a temporary base and we have all the fuel in 25l containers + a clean water butt!:o We'll have to clean out the filter and re-connect to the Aga's supply pipe in due course, but the huge hole needed for the foundations of a new porch are there, partly where the tank was, saving us many hours of digging. :j

We should be able to demolish the horrible existing porch and close up the current front entrance when we start the next phase.

lostinrates

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Which way is south? TBH, looks fine to me so long as the long raised bed along the wall gets sunshine.

That is the mint and fiddle head fern bed. . You spotted the flaw of the garden instantly.

I have tried shade like ing things in pots there for the last few years. It gets a bit of east light an a bit of west light, I think the trickier bits, will be the lower pockets of the middle beds on kitchen facing side. But I have plans. If they don't work, well........tiered moss garden? :eek:

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

:j:j:j I achieved loads :j:j:j
However my planting plans did not work out the way I wanted them too

Glad you had a productive day.

I will let you into a secret: planting never works out exactly as expected, but the great thing is that there's always next year, when it will be right! :D:D

Had the camera on the wrong setting so picture is poor, but it won't matter too much:



Oh, and we met the heating engineer/plumber this afternoon. He seems pretty much perfect. BiL grilled him for us! :rotfl:

RAS

Davesnave wrote: »

BiL grilled him for us! :rotfl:

So you got the barbie going as well?

Busy folk. I think sometimes that 4 people together can acheive 6 times the work as the 4 working separately.

Rummer

LIR It is your garden and the design sounds well thought out and ideal for your needs. If you have thought over what he has suggested and feel you are still happy with the original plan then stick to it! I am so looking forward to seeing it when it is done

Dave You are right, there was no great expense and the plants that didn't work in the area (and survived) have been moved to more suitable places. I just don't wan tot have the think about it again :rotfl:

I Have Spoken What great bargains! I too have little time for roses, I love the flowers but really dislike the plants.

Davesnave

RAS wrote: »

Busy folk. I think sometimes that 4 people together can acheive 6 times the work as the 4 working separately.

People who know what they're doing can do so much more than those who muddle along, like me.:o

Sometimes, it's also about having the right kit, such as a good laser level, but mostly, it's skill and confidence.

For example ,I would've spent a week designing and making a temporary stand for the oil tank, but my BiL and his Dad took about an hour, recycling free wood from the old garage roof and paving slabs from the yard.

Mine would have been totally over-engineered! :rotfl: