[Lupin]

Hi all, firstly, Im new to this forum and its the onlly and first forum I have signed up to.. I am also new to gardens, as I used to always live in flats, but got my first house, with a massive corner garden... honestly its like a football pitch.

Ive lived here for a cauple of years now and Ive slowly been waiting on fencing being pulled down and new fencing being put up etc.
Finally my garden is now free from these section fences, which used to split it into 3 parts.... one area was used to grow veg and more recently, light bonfires... the second was used to cultivate brambles for jam.. the bramble bush had got soo out of hand you could have easily stored a car underneath it and I did actually find various car parts beneath them... and lastly the third part was the main area where the last owner used to just hang the washing out....
This garden has not been touched in 30 + years (apart from when it was used to grow veg in it... there is still a rhubarb patch struggling to survive from od knows when, its over 5 years old atleast ) , it is all grass/weeds/nettles/brambles/weeds etc the ground is solid and extremely uneven with dips and lumps all over it....

There are several small trees 9 i have no idea what kind they are, but the smallest is very old and thorny and about 15 foot i think... while the biggest is made up of serveral smooth barked plain trunks and stands a good 20ft maybe) along the back fence, which were heavily covered in the "out of control" brambles, i have however since cut most of the brambles out of the trees, and only one is left with dead bramble remains to high for me to reach.

Now you have a rough back ground of the garden Im faced with, onto my problem......

I really want a garden i can enjoy and Im really eager to get out there and make something of it, but due to its sheer size I cant afford to do anything grande enough that will look good in a big garden and it just overwhelms me basically, I have no idea where to start or what i could do with this garden.

Its a blank canvas, so I can do pretty much anything with it and plan it out from scratch, but I honestly dont know what to do with it and where to start, plus lack of funds makes the options even smaller.

So could you all please give me some brain storms of what you would do if you had a big garden and could start from scratch on a budget.
whether its little things I could do in the corners, along the fencing, or dedicate an area to a theme... ahh I really dont know

All advice, opinions, suggestions, anything, its all welcomed and maybe it will give me some great ideas I hadnt thought about

thank you in advance
Lupin

[Bob Hobden]

"Lupin" wrote

Hi all, firstly, Im new to this forum and its the onlly and first forum
I have signed up to.. I am also new to gardens, as I used to always live
in flats, but got my first house, with a massive corner garden...
honestly its like a football pitch.

Ive lived here for a cauple of years now and Ive slowly been waiting on
fencing being pulled down and new fencing being put up etc.
Finally my garden is now free from these section fences, which used to
split it into 3 parts.... one area was used to grow veg and more
recently, light bonfires... the second was used to cultivate brambles
for jam.. the bramble bush had got soo out of hand you could have easily
stored a car underneath it and I did actually find various car parts
beneath them... and lastly the third part was the main area where the
last owner used to just hang the washing out....
This garden has not been touched in 30 + years (apart from when it was
used to grow veg in it... there is still a rhubarb patch struggling to
survive from od knows when, its over 5 years old atleast ) , it is all
grass/weeds/nettles/brambles/weeds etc the ground is solid and extremely
uneven with dips and lumps all over it....

There are several small trees 9 i have no idea what kind they are, but
the smallest is very old and thorny and about 15 foot i think... while
the biggest is made up of serveral smooth barked plain trunks and stands
a good 20ft maybe) along the back fence, which were heavily covered in
the "out of control" brambles, i have however since cut most of the
brambles out of the trees, and only one is left with dead bramble
remains to high for me to reach.

Now you have a rough back ground of the garden Im faced with, onto my
problem......

I really want a garden i can enjoy and Im really eager to get out there
and make something of it, but due to its sheer size I cant afford to do
anything grande enough that will look good in a big garden and it just
overwhelms me basically, I have no idea where to start or what i could
do with this garden.

Its a blank canvas, so I can do pretty much anything with it and plan it
out from scratch, but I honestly dont know what to do with it and where
to start, plus lack of funds makes the options even smaller.

So could you all please give me some brain storms of what you would do
if you had a big garden and could start from scratch on a budget.
whether its little things I could do in the corners, along the fencing,
or dedicate an area to a theme... ahh I really dont know

All advice, opinions, suggestions, anything, its all welcomed and maybe
it will give me some great ideas I hadnt thought about

Welcome to this Newsgroup.
The first thing you need to do is write a list of what you want in your
garden, sunny patio, bbq area, pond, pergola, fruit, veg, flowers, washing
line ....... etc and if you live with others then they also have to write a
list, but seperateley. You then need to combine all lists into a definitive
need/want list.
Whilst some things may not be possible right away (a swimming pool perhaps)
you need to consider them in your plans and provide space for them in
future.
You can then start to design your garden and it becomes easier as some
things will probably only have one place they fit, a sunny patio that get
evening sun for when you finish work for example. Once you decide where all
the hard landscaping will go then plants are next, but plants can be moved,
hard landscaping can't.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

[Donwill[_2_]]

On 23/04/2010 20:39, Lupin wrote:
Hi all, firstly, Im new to this forum and its the onlly and first forum
I have signed up to.. I am also new to gardens, as I used to always live
in flats, but got my first house, with a massive corner garden...
honestly its like a football pitch.snipped

thank you in advance
Lupin





Years ago, (1969) when I was faced with a field for a garden, well an
overgrown paddock of about 1/2 Acre,
I purchased a new book which I found really useful, it was hard backed
copy of :- CREATING YOUR GARDEN by IAN G WALLS, I don't know if it's
still in print but you may find a second hand copy on Amazon or similar
places. If you fail to find one you can buy mine as I have no further
use for it.Contact me on this Newsgroup if you're interested.

Regards
Don

[geo]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:39:02 -0400, Lupin
wrote:


Hi all, firstly, Im new to this forum and its the onlly and first forum
I have signed up to..

Sorry but this is not a forum and you do not have to sign up. This is USENET
newsgroup and you are posting to the newsgroup via a website that tries to pass
it off as its own work.

Better luck with your gardening though :-)

--
Geo

[Muddymike]

"Lupin" wrote in message
...

Hi all, firstly, Im new to this forum and its the onlly and
first forum
I have signed up to.. I am also new to gardens, as I used to
always live
in flats, but got my first house, with a massive corner
garden...
honestly its like a football pitch.

Welcome Lupin.

Parts of my garden were very overgrown, and had been used as a
dump. I hired a mini digger for a weekend as a first step to
creating a manageable garden. It was not expensive but was great
fun to use. It certainly made short work of digging out unwanted
shrubbery, brambles etc and levelling ground I wanted to be level
as well as building up and area I wanted banked. I also dug a
great big hole and buried all the builders rubble and other junk
that had been dumped in there.

Mike