Garden size

Strapped

Country estate should do it ;-)

Caroline_a

My garden isn't too small, manageable with a larg-ish patio. However, it became the best garden ever when I replaced the manky grass with artificial grass. Wasn't a cheap option, but it always looks fantastic, no mud, no maintenance apart from the odd sweet/leaf-blow and even with 2 large dogs it's really easy to keep clean. I indulge the gardener in my with lots of pots and baskets.

Wasn't cheap and I had it professionally laid, but worth every penny...

captainhindsight_2

Large garden, but be prepared to pay for a Gardner if you cba or go away for a few weeks in the summer. Its worth it just for the privacy even if you dont use it.

jonewer

captainhindsight wrote: »

Its worth it just for the privacy even if you dont use it.

This. As I said before, you dont need to manicure every inch. Perennial border are easy and there even nothing wrong with having a bit of a meadow!

I'd quite fancy a garden like this

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30499134.html

moneyistooshorttomention

My personal pov is I will take the biggest and best garden I can get my little hands on and the house is secondary to that (though extremely important).

THE three basics to me are:
- what is the garden like?
- is it detached?
- is the area quiet/at least decent?

I'm prepared, if I darn well must be, to take on a dump of a house if the garden and location are correct. Though, goodness only knows, having taken on a house in need of renovation by anyone's standard (except the EA/vendor/etc who regarded it as "ready to move into" - huh! yeh right!) I would like a normal house or, better still, a fantastic one.

I've been there lusting after a house in home area this morning that was "normal" (by my standards)...but "Cor...that garden".... I was mentally buying one house on the spot (thanks to its garden) and if I had had the money to buy it...until I checked out its exact location...errr...nope then...

THE two criteria I input on RightMove are "detached" and "garden" when I am checking properties out personally.

If a garden is "too big" (is there such a thing??:cool:) then the "surplus" can always be left for the local wildlife to "have a ball" in the name of having some "wild garden" and that's exactly what I would do (chance would be a fine thing...:().

Also there is the very "practical" point of "The bigger the garden, the further away the nearest neighbours are:D".

pimento

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

If a garden is "too big" (is there such a thing??:cool:)

There is if you don't have time to keep it looking good.

moneyistooshorttomention

pimento wrote: »

There is if you don't have time to keep it looking good.

You don't want to know about my Dream House then (still up for sale) and just how much land it has. Make that some acres of land and I'd have it if I could in a heartbeat... Wildlife Sanctuaries R Us....

jonewer

pimento wrote: »

There is if you don't have time to keep it looking good.

As before, you dont need to keep all of it looking like the chelsea flowe show.

Let it grow, let it grow :cool:

sleepymans

jonewer wrote: »

As before, you dont need to keep all of it looking like the chelsea flowe show.

Let it grow, let it grow :cool:

I'm not sure I agree that land can just be "left to grow" or "left to wildlife".

I think brambles, nettles, ragwort, Japanese knotweed and many more "bullies" will take over far too quickly. I've lived in rural areas and those that manage the land are often working round the clock.


However I do accept there is a compromise to be had.


The cost of plants, garden tools, compost, feed, pest control etc all make a dent in limited income and the last time I needed my lawn mowed by someone else (I was recovering from surgery) cost me £50!

rosyw

Having had almost an acre of garden at my last place I thought my current "small and manageable" garden would be a doddle to look after - how wrong could I be! Give me back my acre of garden, ride on mower, complete with trailer to cart the hedge clippings, weeds etc., to their respective places out of sight any day I'd forgotten just how much of a PITA mowing the lawn can be with an ordinary everyday mower, and once the brown bin and compost bin are full, how do you get rid of that pile of weeds you've just dug out, or the grass cuttings if the brown bin won't be emptied for another week? A large garden is much easier to maintain IMHO.