Garden size

Strapped

sleepymans wrote: »

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!

Round here, you just let the neighbours stick their sheep on it for a few days...

fairy_lights

ladyabouttown wrote: »

Live next to a large park then you don't need a garden. Plus someone else cuts the grass etc.

it's not quite the same...people object if you try to grow potatoes in the park.

SailorSam

My last house the garden was small; shady and clay. It was forever flooding if we had heavy rain, so i was never a gardener. But since moving here i've got a large sunny garden and it's nice ground i've really got into growing-my-own and now always want a big garden. However as i get older there are days i look at the new-build flats up the road and think how much easier it would be living in one of those.

Bart1

Small and paved over for me.

woodworm001

Bigger the better. When I'm too old to manage it then bigger will still be better - I'd rather look at an overgrown jungle than next doors patio

Davesnave

Jason_Harper wrote: »

t. By the way , very few people have time to tend to their gardens.

What? You mean compared with Victorian times, when people use to come home from the pit or the factory and wonder what to do with themselves?

Or are you thinking of a more recent Golden Age?

I wonder when that was.

Loopy28

My main priorities when looking at the garden is that there is somewhere that gets the sun all day, that there is enough room for a shed, for a BBQ and some garden furniture and room for some grass and plants.

I don't like anything too high maintenance or with too much grass to cut but I don't like a small all paved/gravelled garden either. I wouldn't want a large garden unless I felt I could afford someone to come and look after it for me

woodworm001

Jason_Harper wrote: »

.... By the way , very few people have time to tend to their gardens.

twaddle, only the lazy or incapable don't tend to their gardens, I have a decent sized garden and it only takes less than an hour a week to cut grass, prune and generally tidy up.

BabyBoots

Thread reopened today after several months by newbie with 4 out of 5 posts to date advertising artificial grass:spam:

cloo

Update on last post on this...

The house we're buying has a very marginally larger garden, currently not nicely arranged (dark trees at back, mostly paved, back part of garden screened off) so if we do manage to get through the sale my husband will be having a field day! He transformed the garden here, which has paid off at the sale, and he'll really have to work on this one.

Plus we'd have a park at the bottom of the road, so large green space is at hand.

We like to have big enough to have a party in occasionally. Not wildly bothered about being overlooked. We have small kids, so capacity for sandpit and/or paddling pool is good, which we'll have.

We've certainly found disproportionately small gardens offputting; some houses around here have been massively extended to the point that the garden's barely a yard.