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Post by wildlifefriendly on Feb 16, 2011 14:57:13 GMT
I was going through some old photos and came across a photo of my very first garden. There was only pavement at the front and the back was a three foot by four foot slab of concrete. I built narrow wooden planters around the edge which left just enough room to get in and out and my push-bike. It was a very low maintenance garden ;D Has anybody else got any photos of early gardens,
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Post by floydie on Feb 16, 2011 15:00:47 GMT
Youve seen mine . I didnt do much with the garden at the old house so dont have any photos . Its amazing what you can do with small spaces if you put your mind to it .
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Post by grindle on Feb 16, 2011 17:52:59 GMT
if I have, they will be in the loft but this was my second garden the year before I left
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Post by Geranium on Feb 16, 2011 18:19:39 GMT
I wish I had, WF - but I didn't have a digital camera then. I don't think I've got any still photos of our first garden, either! It was grass with a rose trellis in the front, and then grass with a border at the back, and that part was a triangle. I did grow some sweet peas, and also some tiger lilies!
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Post by Cherry on Feb 16, 2011 19:14:59 GMT
My first garden was in Scotland when I came for a visit. We bought three bedroom semi with a 100% council loan. I had a lot of Mimulus growing everywhere. I went back to Australia less than five years later and bought a new house and started a new garden. It was beautiful. I had Boronia, lots of natives, Sasanqua Camellia, Golden Elm and a purple Magnolia. There were already lots of gum trees and one tree fern. I was fond of my Nellie Kelly passionfruit.
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Post by floydie on Feb 16, 2011 19:44:53 GMT
A little about my old garden then i had a 20ftx20ft (ish) front garden that was a square lawn with small borders around, in those i had daffs in the spring, a clump of ornamental grass, something with rubbery leaves and pink rubbery flowers (forgot what its called), African Daisy's, dead nettle (the one i asked about) and ivy growing up the wall and a red rose bush in the center. (Its all been chopped down since we left ) Leading to the back garden gate i had a shaded lawn area i also planted daffs in there. The back was 60x30 all grass and a huge tree, i had a large wooden planter to-wards the top in that i grew Poppy's, snap dragons, Pansy's (anything nice and easy). I also had planters around the back door and along the path in those i had anemone's, cyrsanths, snap dragons, violets, again anything easy. I also had large planters for potatoes . We were never settled in the house as it was very small compared to the garden 2 up 2 down, this is why i had little time for the garden itself.
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Post by Cherry on Feb 16, 2011 20:20:31 GMT
You had a lot packed into a small garden Floydie. Because of this thread, I Googled my house in Australia and all my garden has been replaced with cheap low growing bushes. Mind, I left that garden 38 years ago. Time flies.
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Post by floydie on Feb 16, 2011 21:10:43 GMT
I walk past my old house alot and was shocked that everything had gone, mind i walked past today and daffs are poking through .
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Post by derekbrooks on Feb 16, 2011 22:04:16 GMT
I,ve only had one
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Post by merlin on Feb 17, 2011 7:54:56 GMT
Me too Derek, but what an interesting topic.
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Feb 17, 2011 8:11:22 GMT
I've lost count of how many I've had.
I bet you were sad to leave that garden Grindle.
I never stayed in a house long enough to get attached to a garden, it was always a case of getting them tidy to sell.
I'll see if I can find some of the others.
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Post by grindle on Feb 17, 2011 8:24:12 GMT
I've lost count of how many I've had. I bet you were sad to leave that garden Grindle. I never stayed in a house long enough to get attached to a garden, it was always a case of getting them tidy to sell. I'll see if I can find some of the others. I was, that's the one that's been completely stripped of everything
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Feb 17, 2011 8:36:05 GMT
That must be hard to see. I'd never want to come back and see this garden once I've left. All my other gardens wouldn't have bothered me.
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Post by peony on Feb 17, 2011 11:37:33 GMT
We lived in our previous house for 23 years so the children grew up there. It was a half acre woodland garden, ideal for children, but not so good for gardening. There were sweet chestnut, ash and hornbeam fully mature trees on the boundaries, a couple of old apple trees towards the centre and the rest was grass, apart from a border of hydrangeas down one side of the bungalow. We dug a small veg plot in a sunny area and I grew gooseberries, blackcurrants and runner beans, also planted some blackberry bushes at the side of the garage where they did really well, but that was all I had time for really, as I was at work most of the day. I never go back there because we sold to developers (our neighbours on both sides had already done this), and we had an offer we couldn't refuse They knocked the three bungalows down and built 6 large 4/5 bedroom houses. Its only about a mile from where we live now, but I prefer to remember it as it was, just a narrow lane with a few bungalows along it. My daughter went to see what the developers had done and said it had completely changed the whole area, and lots of the lovely trees had been felled.
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Post by Rosie on Feb 17, 2011 12:13:13 GMT
My first Garden was when i lived at Udny Green and i had all sorts in it. Emma bought me a lovely daphne which was in the front, when we sold the house the new owners ripped out every single plant and turned it all to grass, no plants at all I left the daphne as i read they don't transplant, wish i had just taken it now
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