I'll show you mine, if you show us yours (1 Viewer)

[funflair]

Gardens I am talking about

I can't think of anything that is less compatible with the motorhome lifestyle than gardening, you just get it all sorted and looking OK and then you go away for a few weeks/months just to have to come back and start all over again, OK @Popeye and others have staff for these menial tasks and they can keep it nice all year round but some of us have to DIY.

Anyway I think our is looking OK at the moment so I will start it off with a few pictures, so why not post some of your own

Martin

 

[movan]

Oh I've gone all green .. not for being a gardener .. with being envious!! How beautiful.

 

[jumartoo]

Beautiful.

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[Madeinengland]

Looks absolutely luscious

 

[funflair]

Oh I've gone all green .. not for being a gardener .. with being envious!! How beautiful.

Come on Joy you put some pictures on a few weeks back and your's looked lovely.

Martin

 

[Fil of Ferry]

Stunning. Bet you dont get to far looking after that little lot.

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[lorger]

i hate gardening what a waste of time

 

[Carol]

Love the Dove Coat, Irises, looks really peaceful .

 

[scotzsue]

Love nice gardens, hate gardening, in heavy clay anyway. will not be posting photos of the wildlife sanctuary we have.

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[Janine]

From your absolutely sublime garden to our absolutely ridiculously overgrown garden.
We got home yesterday after over 3 weeks away and we've obviously had perfect growing weather. Even the flowerpots have disappeared in a mound of weeds!
I've managed to mow the lawn today - will tackle the rest of it another day

 

[funflair]

Stunning. Bet you dont get to far looking after that little lot.

To be fair we don't do flowers and all the open ground has bark chippings on to keep the weeds down, the lawn is watered with beer so it come up half cut so all in its fairly easy maintenance. the only problem is we have Tomatoes, Cucumbers,Peppers, Lettuce etc in the greenhouse and then peas and beans etc in the ground as well as the fruit trees and bushes so we don't want to miss too much of that, we good neighbours though who will water every now and then and eat any strawberries that are ready

Martin

 

[funflair]

Love nice gardens, hate gardening, in heavy clay anyway. will not be posting photos of the wildlife sanctuary we have.

Oh go on, pictures of the wildlife will do, a week ago we had three Pheasant chick in the garden with Mum but then the b----y cat from down the road came in and they are no more I fear.

Martin

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[funflair]

From your absolutely sublime garden to our absolutely ridiculously overgrown garden.
We got home yesterday after over 3 weeks away and we've obviously had perfect growing weather. Even the flowerpots have disappeared in a mound of weeds!
I've managed to mow the lawn today - will tackle the rest of it another day
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You will soon have it "ship shape" and ready to go away again.

Martin

 

[funflair]

i hate gardening what a waste of time

I won't argue with that

Martin

 

[Robert Clark]

Great garden Martin
Got any chickens?

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[Enword]

Our Wisteria has been good this year, the weed's as well

 

[CazPaul]

This is all I have of ours so far this year, its a difficult to manage garden on the moorland. Hardly anything bleeding grows apart from heather. The grouse love the garden though.

 

[andy63]

Beautiful garden Martin. .. there's years of work gone into that I'm sure... never mind the general upkeep. ...
Here's mine...

I run the brush over it every now and then.....
Andy

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[Ralph-n-Bev]

We had a big lush garden at our last house. Although it was beautiful ( not as much as yours though! ) it took a lot of looking after.
When we moved to a bigger house smaller garden , we decked, patioed ,mulched , hard standed and gravelled ! Even though we leave the two remaining kids at home , they wouldnt see to planted pots , bedding plants hanging baskets or greenhouses . So we have minimalistic now !
We've been away since Friday till tomorrow tea time this weekend . Not long but it's been hot. Busters ( dog) burnt his belly bless him. We know to put block on him next time.
If we still had all the lovely plants ,bedding , and greenhouse. It would all be dead when we got home. The lads have all on washing up and making sure it's hoovered etc !

 

[funflair]

Great garden Martin
Got any chickens?

Next door but one has some, used to have about 200 at Mum's before we were married, a mate had a bout 30,000 but now rears pig's instead as more cash in them apparently.

Martin

 

[funflair]

We had a big lush garden at our last house. Although it was beautiful ( not as much as yours though! ) it took a lot of looking after.
When we moved to a bigger house smaller garden , we decked, patioed ,mulched , hard standed and gravelled ! Even though we leave the two remaining kids at home , they wouldnt see to planted pots , bedding plants hanging baskets or greenhouses . So we have minimalistic now !
We've been away since Friday till tomorrow tea time this weekend . Not long but it's been hot. Busters ( dog) burnt his belly bless him. We know to put block on him next time.
If we still had all the lovely plants ,bedding , and greenhouse. It would all be dead when we got home. The lads have all on washing up and making sure it's hoovered etc !

The like wasn't for Busters burnt belly

Martin

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[Minxy]

... a mate had a bout 30,000 but now rears pig's instead as more cash in them apparently.

Martin

Living 'piggy banks' ... interesting!

 

[funflair]

Beautiful garden Martin. .. there's years of work gone into that I'm sure... never mind the general upkeep. ...
Here's mine...

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I run the brush over it every now and then.....
Andy

I do fancy one like that every now and again Andy, wanna swap.

Martin

 

[Ralph-n-Bev]

It

The like wasn't for Busters burnt belly

Martin

Its black , bless him . He's 9 soon and he's never burnt it before ! Wouldn't have thought it was that hot

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[Bryden]

Our Cronus is growing well this year - unfortunately our daughters dog tends to kill/ fertilise the lawn when visiting ruining the lawn

 

[gus-lopez]

Love nice gardens, hate gardening, in heavy clay anyway. will not be posting photos of the wildlife sanctuary we have.

I 'm with you. Absolutely hate it.Bad enough having to pick olives every year. We are fortunate in having non-green fingers & helpfully , even what people class as weeds like mint etc, we can kill. We go in any garden centre & you can see the flowers visibly wilt in the hope we won't choose them to be planted & die.

This is all I have of ours so far this year, its a difficult to manage garden on the moorland. Hardly anything bleeding grows apart from heather. The grouse love the garden though.

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that's lovely. My sort of garden.

 

[funflair]

This is all I have of ours so far this year, its a difficult to manage garden on the moorland. Hardly anything bleeding grows apart from heather. The grouse love the garden though.

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Who needs a garden when the moors are straight out the back door all the benefit and none of the work.

Martin

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[Anthea M]

Stunning garden ! ours is just overgrown bushes and lawns!

 

[Minxy]

As I was fed up of coming back home and having to spend a week tidying up/cutting back and weeding after every holiday, last year I put weed suppressant membrane/old carpeting/curtains on our beds and covered it all in large chippings in the 'inner garden' and bark mulch on the rest ... not a massive amount of weeding to do now but it hasn't reduce the workload much as I still have to cut back the massive amount of growth that some of the plants have put on and although the weeding is a lot less this has been replaced by a year round chore of sweeping the mulch back onto the beds where the birds have raked it off!

Also since Tazzy 'discovered' frogs on our last holiday I've had to make the pond even more 'dog proof' than it was before so she isn't tempted to try to go to close and fall in trying to find them!

Gonna have to be really ruthless with some of the stuff in the garden as I'm fed up of having to keep working on it, the conifers at the end of the garden are probably gonna go, or at least get cut down a lot more to make the job of trimming them easier and I've got a large holly tree that desperately needs a good thinning ... might get our 'garden buddy' Danny in to do some of it though as I don't want to knacker my hands up again!

 

[andy63]

I do fancy one like that every now and again Andy, wanna swap.

Martin

Yes please lol....
Still can't believe you can have a garden like that without spending all your time in it...

I'm not a Gardner but I do mum and dads each time I visit...
Mow the lawn cut the hedge weed the flower beds etc... then I get a bollocking for doing something wrong...
I did scalp the lawn once with the mower set too low.... never been allowed to forget it..
Andy

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