Do you have a front garden?

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lostinrates wrote: »

Chamomile lawns are idea for non mowers who don't mind a tiny bit of annual maintaining I think...tending to any patches. And it likes the sun. . We are making a chamomile area too:D.

Again, the reason grass is popular is because its durable and tough, unlike these alternatives. Not great for people with small gardens and active children and dogs. Ours are young in areas our dogs do not need access to and are a pain to get to with the sit on mower.

Top tip from James Wong. Buy Chamomile teabags and seed with this. Much cheaper than buying packaged seeds. Rip open the unused tea bags and sprinkle on the ground as usual.

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We have a large front, side and back garden. The front has hedges, flower beds, trees, planters etc. We have a gravelled parking area which merges into planted areas to soften the look.

When viewing houses to buy we would like a house and then go into the garden and change our mind. You can gut and radically change a house, but hard to change the aspect, shape, soil etc. of a garden.

seven-day-weekend

Yes

In my street, the majority of the houses were built before anyone had a car, therefore there is nowhere to park any,. The street resembles a linear car park, on both sides. It has got much worse the last few years. There have arrived loads of white vans, and many households have several cars. It's one of reasons we are moving.

Where we are going to live we can park two cars on our drive, more if there were a couple of small ones. Most houses have a drive. But guess what? Our bungalow is right opposite the only family in the avenue who have four cars and don't use their drive for any of them

We have one car and a motorbike. I hate how the car has taken over.

SingleSue

Yes

Traditional front (and back) garden here. Would love to use half of it to have a driveway and I have permission to drop the kerb but alas, I don't have the pennies to do it. It wouldn't be a huge loss, the back garden is 140ft long!

I hate gardening with a passion and I can't do it now anyway. My brother is supposed to be my gardener but since getting a full time job (he was self employed before as a gardener - great pay in the summer, not so great in the winter), his time is limited and he is only able to do a few of his customer's gardens.

Marisco

SailorSam wrote: »

It's a shame but lots of people find it necessary to pave over their gardens just to have somewhere to park the car. I think i'm very lucky living on a corner plot with plenty of space.

Totally agree Sam, and if I ruled the world, I'd make paving over front gardens illegal.

iris

Yes

We have a large front garden, but no lawn;)


We have lots of shrubs and a copper beech tree. There is a large drive and we can turn our car round on our own drive. We also have a garage and we use it for our car.


We have a block paved/slabbed area with shrubs to one side of our bungalow and the other side has a couple of raised beds for growing salad/veg and a shed for garden tools etc. However, our rear garden is not very big, but we do have two block paved patios, which our conservatory opens onto, so there is plenty of outside sitting/relaxing areas.


We made a decision when we purchased this bungalow that we didn't want any grass to mow, especially as we are retired and wanted to keep garden management as simple as possible:)

paintbrushes

Yes

I do have a front garden with, at the moment, beautiful roses in full bloom, and two lawns, and hedges,plus my own drive.

suki1964

Yes

We have a massive front garden, open to the road. Grass verge alone is 100 metres long and as it's within our boundary we have to cut it. Then we have a side lawn which is nearly as long. That's planted with trees. We have another lawn area in front of the windows. Also have a cobbled drive to the front of the house and a stoned drive up to the garage and car port. We have parking for up to six cars. I also have a small garden to the side which is a sun trap, it's gravelled, planted with sun loving plants and it is where we feed the birds- over looked by the kitchen window

Our back garden over looks fields so is totally private ( to all but tractor drivers going up the back lane). That's grass and patio and vegetable beds. With lots of potted plants and just one flower bed.

It's a nightmare getting rid of grass cuttings. This year we bought a mulching machine but so far only had one dry enough day to use it. Means the car gets loaded with cuttings and a 8 mile trip to the dump

oldhenry

Yes

I have a fairly large front garden with gravel parking for five cars but a lawn and a wild area of bushes and shrubs . Also a pond and various trees. The whole plot is around one third of an acre and I like gardening and would never concrete any of it over more than is already as I have car ports each side of the house as well as a double garage.

mustang121

Yes

Sort of, its small, buts its got grass and shrubs that seem to attract birds for nesting and feeding. Two of my few requirements of a garden was something to help birds and bees.