How important to you is a garden?
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To me...Very important. I spend a lot of time and money keeping several gardens looking good all summer.
I love my garden i would hate to have none !
Ver important, my gardens not very big, but it's great in the summer to invite friends over for a bbq or just sit outside in the warm summer evening and have a drink or two.
A garden is extremely important to me, as I live on the 2nd floor. I dont have a garden, and I wish I did have my own little oasis that I could retreat to in the summer, and watch the leaves come down in the Autumn. I hate having to watch all the adverts leading up to the summer as they are nearly all selling garden furniture, pretty umbrellas and garden lights etc, barbecues and pools and all the things that I cant have.
Oh well, maybe one day...lol
With British weather - not a lot, as long as I have sufficient space in my house to relax and a park nearby to walk through. I like to at least be a moving target for insects! I'm not a big fan of just sitting outdoors, although I do like to watch birdlife from the window when I'm doing the washing up.
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rather. i know live in an apartment and i have no place to grow flowers. i used to like to plant seeds and of different kinds and see when they would all come up . all along the summer it was kind of fun each day almost something new to see . now i see the walls only and they dont change.
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Its everything ... i live in a small village in Linconshire ( 10 houses 1 church ) ..But i have over 3/4 acre of garden with ash trees and silver birch. im always walking around it looking at the pheasants and the Barn owls that fly over late evening...
So YES its very important to me.
I want my lawn and garden to look neat and different. I use the plants as a way to enhance the look of the house and to show my pride in finally having my own house (well, the bank owns most of it still).
Putting in the plants and doing some minimal maintenance each year helps teach the kids about nuturing growing things and the value of hard work. Hopefully it will also teach them to finish college so they don't HAVE to break their backs for a living.
One a scale of 1 to 10, i'd make the garden an 8. I'm trying to get in all perennials and evergreens etc. to cut the maintenance down and enjoy it more without constant attention.
Is long as it look neat and tidy that's ok for me.
None whatsoever. I hate gardening. In fact I turned my garden into hard standing for 3 cars and a patio.
Its my life.
This year I'm working hard in my back yard.( grass and flower area). I worked on the front of the house last year. I also have started a small garden.( veggies and annual flowers). So I have tomatoes, eggplant, green peppers, onions, climbing beans, yellow squash, zucchini, cukes-- and am looking forward to fresh food this summer.
In the flower area along the cedar fence I left 4, 40 year old ( yes, 40 year old) shrubs and started planting other perennials and annuals trying for a balance with structural things-- an armillary, a small windmill ( US farm type), an iron sculpture scissor tail fly catcher bird ( state bird of Oklahoma) and some trellis'. This week I've been spreading cypress mulch to a depth of 3 inches and my back hurts! There is still much to do-- I wish one of you apartment folks could come "help"-- and enjoy.
My idea of "the good life" in my retirement is sitting on the patio in the rocking chair, watching and listening to the birds at the feeders, listening to the wind chimes and water falling in the bird bath, watching the weeds, flowers and veggies grow and talking to my cat. I even built a small fire in my chimenea the other day just because I like fires and wood smoke.
I wish more of you could come visit-- we'd have iced tea and try to figure out how to keep the sparrows from nesting in my patio!
Enjoy your summer.
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