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HI ANN WITH KINGS PARK YOU DONT NEED A GARDEN GO UP THERE AND LOOK DOWN TOWARDS THE SWAN THAT IS ONE OF THE BEST RELAXING VIEWS THAT IS HEAVEN WITH LUCK AND A FAIR WIND I SHALL BE THERE NEXT YEAR IT IS ONE OF THE FIRST PLACES I GO WHEN I GET TO PERTH BARNEY B

First things first Fee, The garden will come later. One of my boys began to be really interested in the garden from an early age. He is now a profesional gardener

Di I can se your garden in my minds eye. I find mine a tranquil haven. My friends love it and we always head for the purgols in the summer evenings.It is so peaceful. We ahve our own resident toad who loves it. Rose

We,ve got about Threequarters of an acre,with lots of Trees,one of which is a very Large "Ginko Biloba" with lovely Fan Shaped Leaves, lots of others including Quite a few Fruit Trees,Lots of Roses,The nicest one,I think,Is "Cardinal Richleau" it has a beautiful smell. At the moment the garden has got lots of leaves all over it,and needs sorting,but thats the price you have to pay for the enjoyment of it. Hard work,But in the summer,sitting outside with your friends and a few bottles of wine,its worth it. Hal.

it appears that most of US would love to have a beautiful garden but are not able or willing to make the effort I live 1800 feet above sea level in the Med where every type of weather occurs without fail but a garden transforms even the ugliest surroundings,however it does mean lots and lots of hard work to create and to maintain the garden. Very few other activities can give you a life times pleasure I have a two acre garden which gives immence pleasure to everyone who visits my home. If any fellow members have a similar creative obsession, drop me a line DRB

Hi Ann, Our garden would be lovely if I actually went out and weeded it and cut the grass but since having our son,I find it hard to get the time.We have a front and back garden and a lovely rockery in the back garden which could be lovely(when my parents fly over to visit,they tidy it up so I know it could be great!)just having the inclination to get out and do it!

Di how can I look at your photos .ANN

Hi Di we also have a sexy rexy rose it just come into flower and will flower for months if we cut the dead flowers off I just love it ANN

mine is not its best either, moved here exactly a year ago now, grass is too long cos my lawn mower packed up(it was 5 months old) and byt he time i got a replacement the weather had turned too bad, had two large trees (42ft high and 23 ft high removed yesterday which has left sawdust all over the wet grass and whilst there departure gives me more garden it has left a lovely view of the two delapidated old garden sheds that were hidden behind them.

Whereare you Roxanne. I am on PORTLANDas I am sure you all know by now,and usually we have a very mild Autumn and Winter I still have escalonia in bloom and the bissy lizzies now given that grand name of Impatiens are hanging on in there.It is a tiny garden but I designed it a few years ago as part of my Garden Design Course and I thought a lot about what we needed. I have a lot of shade as I can't take direct sun. Some medication I am on is sun sensative.So I can't sit out in it. IMIN Doors had a Maori grandmother and it is Coffee and Cream with the two of us n the summer.It is just time to cut back the Vines and that job takes weeks. I have a shredder,but it is still my least fav.job.Plant list; a penstemon collection,a geranium collection,jerusalem sage,4 different escalonia, bridal Veil, Laurel, Bay.ceaonothus,which I massacred and it has come back from the base just fine, Honeysuckle and two or three clematis and two tree peonies. Lots of other annual stuff. We have been through the garden wrecking dog phase. Now onto grandchildren phase,so may have to cover over pond Yes Love my Garden Rose

Same as yours Anne, beautiful..until mid morning when gale force winds hit and now everything is a mess and all broken. Two months ago we had the worst hail storm I have ever seen and it took three days for it to melt, what a mess that was..everything shredded. I'm about to give up! it doesn't help that we are on water restrictions either.

Very small... in fact so small it doesn't exist :-) becx (who lives in a 1st floor flat)

a LOT smaller than our previous gardens. Joy

My garden is covered in leaves and looks a total mess , I suppose thats a job for the weekend when hubby`s around to help. Cann`t wait for spring for all the new bits to come up in the garden. Liz

You wouldn't want to know !

That sounds lovely, Ann. At the moment ours is very windswept. The grass is too long to leave for the winter but far too wet for a mower. Leaves off the silver birch are everywhere today with just a few left on the trees. The Michelmas daisies want cutting down and in general it needs a good tidy, - if the weather gets no worse today.

Ann At the moment it looks a bit of a mess with winter round the corner. But, like you, I love my garden especially in Spring and early Summer when the plants come out to play. Its hard work but well worth the effort.

mines covered in leaves, next doors cat poo and pot holes with half a kitchen dumped at the bottom! ran out of summer to sort it all! next year hopefully x

this morning oldest son called in to see us, we sat out in our back garden, its spring here sun shining, birds singing and nesting in the manderine tree, roses lavender you name it out in bloom our little bit of paradise, after working so many years, we now have time to really enjoy it. ANN