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Post by toonia on Sept 21, 2006 17:15:55 GMT
What's your style? We had the terrace extended and I insisted on a new bed either side. My idea was to keep them fairly formal, I've started a box hedge to separate the herbs from the flowers and put obelisks in the middle. I was looking at them today, and formal they are not! They've become like all the rest of my planting, I've stuck in as many plants as I could and they've all gone fluffy and flowing. As I have a modicum of creative flair and am not bad at putting colours together they look good, but not at all what I intended!
Does anyone else ever manage to stick to a plan?
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Post by MamIDdau on Sept 21, 2006 17:32:37 GMT
Plan?! What's one of them?! lol How can you plan when you don't know what plants you're going to be putting there... I just get whatever I fancy and whatever bargains I can grab.
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Post by jlottie on Sept 21, 2006 17:34:48 GMT
I've got the best of both worlds, everything neat and tidy and veg growing in rows on the plot and the garden sprouting and overflowing all over the place - just how I like it  |
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Post by Alicat on Sept 21, 2006 17:53:31 GMT
Plan?! What's one of them?! lol How can you plan when you don't know what plants you're going to be putting there... I just get whatever I fancy and whatever bargains I can grab. I agree. to a point . I re-plan the garden most days, but I never know what plants i'm going to put in them. I like bargin hunting and get a great satisfaction from bringing a plant back from the brink. But I don't always know where its going to fit... I do try to be sensible and only buy the plants that will like my soil. ( light & sandy) or that will fit in my colour scheme. ( which is rather broad.) But I do like it to gel. Alicat |
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Post by Plocket on Sept 21, 2006 18:05:25 GMT
PLAN??? Neat???
Actually my garden is pretty much to plan but I do it bit by bit, and that's more the shape of things rather than the planting. The planting is more hit and miss because I often fall in love with a plant and then have to seriously consider where it will fit!!! Hence lots of clems in pots because I haven't any more ground space. And like Alicat I have to be careful with what I get to go in the garden because we have acidic clay soil and lots of shade.
As for neat? Well there's an idea! I yearn for a neat and tidy garden but there are things littered about, particularly LPs toys. And when my clems get a bit rampant I get felco-fingers and yearn to cut them back, but keep telling myself to wait until spring (yes I want to prune some of them back NOW! I've got a long time to wait!!!)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2006 18:52:48 GMT
Messy probably ... I started off with a plan, but the garden had other ideas! ... cheers ...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2006 19:48:03 GMT
Organized messy for me too.
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Post by anneliesje on Sept 21, 2006 20:07:19 GMT
I always start with a plan, and pretty much stick to it. But then a day later a make a new plan, so half of the plants of my first plan, need to move.
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I'm trying to have a garden since 2003, I have had a lot of plans since... ;D
I feel new ones coming for the patio and a new border.
And after this, I'll need another plan!
A.
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Post by Plocket on Sept 21, 2006 20:30:28 GMT
As we are gardeners isn't there always a plan or idea to tackle? That's part of the fun of it - there's always something to be done!!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2006 21:18:52 GMT
I start with a plan to be neat but mother nature has other ideas ;D
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Post by chickadeedeedee on Sept 21, 2006 21:53:10 GMT
Neat? Messy? Yes! ;D Plan?  We do plan to do many things in the garden. We purchased a massive computer program that will help to design your garden using photographs of your garden. During winter days we play with this program and have so many designs on paper and in mind. Ahhh ... but the mind is willing where the body fails. Amazing how with each passing year the garden gets larger. Surely it could not be that we are getting older!  The garden was neat as could be not long ago but then life happened, as well as nature, and we have more of an organized chaos look about the space. It is a more natural wildlife friendly gardening plan! Yes. That sounds good. We planned all those weeds exactly where they grow. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!!! ;D 3DChick |
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Post by 4pygmies on Sept 22, 2006 5:38:15 GMT
And me! I LOVE formal gardens but I cannot grow one.....my garden is green and leafy with hundreds of plants in it but it is definitely chaotic - even the fences are wonky..........
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Post by magrich on Sept 22, 2006 10:46:47 GMT
The only neat thing in my garden is the patio.........paving doesn't grow does it? I think of a scheme....but then I see something I have just got to have!! I rarely visit someone's garden without coming home with a cutting. still .......... I like it!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2006 11:21:36 GMT
I think raising a garden, is very much like raising children, we spend a lot of time trying to get everything /everyone to do it our way but every so oftern we have to sit back and let nature do it its way.
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Post by sweetleaf on Sept 22, 2006 11:54:36 GMT
Plan? of course I do ;D Sticking to it is the hard part  , garden shows and centres, even Boot sales are my undoing and now the seedswop.... I Love it when a plan comes together, but some of the unexpected combinations can make you stop in your tracks, and realise that old mama nature is really the boss.... and thats how it should be. |
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Post by Auricula on Sept 25, 2006 23:27:16 GMT
A bit of both really. OH hates things which "escape" from borders onto his paths, or overhang where he walks - but the plants and me just ignore him and go our own merry way!! Stuck to plan for formal bits - herb garden, patio, dividing hedges - but the flower planting is blowsy and exuberant ( or crowded and messy depending on your point of view!! )
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2006 7:52:18 GMT
I feel really overwhelmed this morning, yes I have a plan, for about a week in the very beginning of Spring when things are just starting it looks as if it will happen, then growth starts, today it seems to have raine in the night, everything is huge and lush, flowers have come back after the summer, even the veg have gone mad and I cant find the paths this morning. But I like it like that, I think.
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Sept 26, 2006 9:36:04 GMT
I guess I'm neatly messy....or messily neat. I do like drawing up a plan...generally in the winter when there isn't enough to do. However it always goes to pot as I invariably get carried away buying far too many seeds. The front garden is quite neat, but isn't finished yet...need a proper fence and more plants, maybe a small tree...
I thought that my back garden was informal and quite messy...but when I first posted pics on the beeb MB I got a lot of 'What a tidy garden' messages...I am an obsessive dead-header...and I do a lot of close planting in my one and only border.
I wash my pots as well...not a good sign.....
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Post by Chuckles on Nov 6, 2006 22:30:58 GMT
I missed this thread somehow . My gdn is definitely MESSY but mother nature makes it look better than it is. Isn't she a wonderful friend to have in the gdn. Must start a Busy Bee Gdn Photo thread |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2006 9:32:45 GMT
organised chaos |
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Post by oldmoleskins on Nov 7, 2006 9:36:20 GMT
I like informal 'natural' (messy?) but ache for a dash of stunning architectural formality. In trying to combine the two I discover an unfortunate impediment - easy distraction.
While off doing other stuff, both the natural messy and stunning architectural blend into a sort of 'neglected best intention' look.
OM.
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Post by beanie on Nov 7, 2006 18:55:00 GMT
I tend to buy plants that I like and then try and fit them in somewhere. Orderly disorder is my name for it |
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Post by Plocket on Nov 7, 2006 19:06:30 GMT
That sounds like me with clematis Beanie! Sometimes you just HAVE to have it, and then work out where it's going to go!!!
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Post by Dutchy on Nov 7, 2006 19:46:37 GMT
The plan ... in the drawer
I do not buy on impulse ... when I am asleep
All plants behave ... on the dark side of the Moon
I know what I am doing ... honest
My garden is low maintenance ... when it is raining cats and dogs
There are no pests in my garden ... on a hot monday morning in January
I did however plan the hard landscape because our garden was just one big mud patch when we moved in. I never was any good at bricklaying and so on.
Dutchy
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, garden shows and centres, even Boot sales are my undoing and now the seedswop....
