Simply Design Your Own Garden

13/9/2016

Now is your chance to start gathering favourite images online or from magazines for your own garden file - indulge your imagination as you answer the question..

How would you describe your ideal garden?

Romantic
Restful
Dramatic
Tidy
Private/secluded
Traditional
Attractive to wildlife
Muted in colour
Very colourful
Labour saving
Innovative/imaginative
Low maintenance
Other?

I am liking a little on the wild side..

12 Comments

Linda

13/9/2016 02:22:55 pm

Less rampant! West Wales gets a lot of rain, and things grow - in our garden they never seem to stop growing. We buy 'dwarf' shrubs - Hah! We prune, cut, even hack back. Go in for a cup of tea, look back, and it's ........ growing again. An element of control would be wonderful.

Freda

13/9/2016 02:34:15 pm

What an unusual problem Linda! Anyone got any answers to this one?

Madeleine Lawrence

13/9/2016 09:54:42 pm

I would like my garden to be tranquil and private. The neighbours hedge started dying a few years ago when we had a deluge of rain and it really has spoiled being in the garden for me. I am planning on planting an olive hedge along my fence to remedy this.

Madeleine.x

Freda

14/9/2016 01:12:33 pm

Oh that privacy is so importan. A fence of course is quicker, or plant sooner rather than later//

Julia

14/9/2016 01:50:08 am

Serene, private, with a few pieces of garden art that make one smile peeking out here and there....recently, a gardener painted bamboo poles with bright colors and stuck them in her rampant garden...i like that!....might cut down an old half-dead shrub and see what happens if i paint the limbs...:-)

Freda

14/9/2016 01:13:23 pm

Sounds fun and like a touch of Robert Dash..

Cristiana

14/9/2016 03:00:38 am

Restful and wild (me), playful (son) labor saving (husband).
I Know you've mentioned a while ago inspirational sources for gardens (books I think), do you know under what categorie it is? It would be very useful at this point!

Freda

14/9/2016 01:17:09 pm

14th August under Simply Grow Cristiana. Clarity about your needs is more than half the solution!

cathy

14/9/2016 04:12:39 am

have been quiet here lately...while I enjoy seeing a garden, I don't particularly like to garden. that said, I have recently read 2 books I'd like to pass along, not 'how to', just 2 women's experiences w their gardens. Unearthed by Alexandra Risen & Cultivate Delight by Diane Ackerman. Thoroughly enjoyed both w/o getting my hands dirty.

Freda

14/9/2016 01:18:32 pm

Thank you so much Cathy - I need some fresh reading and these sound delightful.

Lotta link

14/9/2016 09:29:40 am

I can feel an 'ideal garden' collage coming on... a nice project for a rainy day. (Not today, Summer has returned - 26 degrees - yay!) Loving 'a little on the wild side.' :-)

Freda

14/9/2016 01:20:22 pm

I wish summer would come back here :-(
A collage will be both fun and useful Lotta.

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