Gardeners World

Living in a rented property and having to keep so many of my favourite plants in pots in case I have to move, I always find Gardeners World leaves me wanting so much. When I was married and we had a garden of an acre on the side of a Nursery I had every conceivable plant and shrub in there you could imagine shame I couldn't change the man in my life rather than the garden. You can only love so much though..........

Does Gardeners World leave you wanting?..........

 

Oh yes, only I could not afford the twenty gardeners to keep it up to scratch for me

I would then pop out on Friday to say how wonderful my tomatoes were this year
flash my Rolex watch and use my German tools at £200 a throw wearing my free
wax jacket and expensive wellington boots

I would then retire to a quality dinner in my rather large house with my wife and dogs laughing all the way to the bank

On an aside and JOKING You should have taken 50% of the acres

Jack McH

 

I want to smack him round the ear with a glove moyra!he never wears them so by his hands ya can tell he dont get stuck in often but does have lovely gardens
I feel for what you had to leave behind xx

 

John, I have planted stuff like lilac tree and roses, aralia, choicsea etc and they are quite big now but expensive stuff I keep in pots as in the lease I am not allowed to remove anything from the garden even if I have put it in!

Have been looking with a view to getting back into home ownership but at my age am unlikely to get a mortgage. I am hoping maybe with Steve they may agree it. But for the time being I have signed up to yet another year here.

 

I saw that garden on Gardeners World that was only 15 feet by I think they said 31feet but a mile high.Lol. I would love to do something like that mainly tropical but because it is so densely planted everything protects itself from the frosts. They even had a pond with fish in it.

 

You could always take the approach I did. I rented for years before I bought this place. The last 10 years of my life as a tenant was spent in the same house.

Tenancy agreements are typically ridiculous. My last few (original plus various differently worded renewals at the same house) were obviously written by a legal expert who'd never seen a garden, because one of the terms was that I had to maintain the garden in exactly the state it was when I moved in. In effect, I had to ask plants not to grow or die or suffer storm damage.

For the first few years I tried to stick to the rules as best I could, but then a time came when I thought flip it. I'm doing what I like with it, and over the next few years I turned it from a wasted space consisting of a bland lawn with massively overgrown leylandii hedge, into a perfectly respectable, pretty and productive garden. Then when we moved out, I dug up the plants I wanted to keep, let my dad choose some that he liked, and then told the old boy next door, who was a keen gardener, to help himself to anything that's left that takes his fancy.

 

Yes, there was very little in this garden when I moved in 16 years ago, now it is a well developed garden. I think when or if I move from here I will probably take cuttings from the plants I like, most of these where grown from cuttings I pinched from here and there.