Bated breath for the next one please……. We had a Hayter too, hate being the operative word. This was in Scotland where we had acres of ponticum, permafrost in winter and marauding red deer. There was also a pond, size and shape of a grave and made of granite boulders. Views were superb though.
Yep! Cover the ground and keep moving. Exactly how we have done it here too. It is working with nature, being less instant, less expensive and more sustainable. Going to have to grab my oatmeal for the next episode...
I think your point about one issue following another in gardens is well-made. So often one swaggers in with a phenomenal idea…and then resume a more thoughtful pace as all that swaggering has got in the way of thinking through that phenomenal idea at each stage and each permutation of each stage of its fruition.
And, oh man, your end result (not that there is an end result ever in gardening) after that long way (still more to read about it…)is fine indeed.
Yes - and thank you for your considered responses. Phenomenal ideas may work in the short term and then a whole rethink and rebuild is required - see the next posts on the Veg Plot, coming soon.
I hope you would find the endish (contemporary) result as good in the flesh as in photos.
Regarding things being worth more,I've two examples of this. It would be over 20 years ago as I was back in our old house. I had a China ornament that I'd bought in a charity shop for 50p or such. It was a cartoony tiger. The piece was about 6inches long by about 3inches round and it was like one of those old time fairings that got wildly popular in the 1970s. It was like I say,cartoony,amateurish and cheap looking but fun. So time came to move home and lots of stuff had to be discarded. Off went tiger in a box to another charity shop. So the next week on Bargain Hunt that Charlie Ross picks up a tiger JUST LIKE THE ONE I DISCARDED explains how a particular factory made them,but not that many and now they're very collectable and 'worth' about £200!. I can't remember if the one in the show validated that valuation. Kicking oneself time. But would mine have been 'worth' that sum? Also I had some books I bought on Amazon from an aspiring writer but found them unreadable. This author has talent but his early work was you could say,an apprenticeship. I wish I'd kept them now. So occasionally I see someone putting up for sale one of those books and asking yes,nearly £200. If they get it is another matter of course. My late Mum was always highly skeptical of those Antique Roadshow valuations. And on a show like Dickinsons Real Deal (I don't spend all my time watching old tat tv shows!),when the dealers are using their own money the valuations are much more down to earth!
This comment isn't about gardening but I'm impressed by the scale of the task you undertook with it seems,little resources or funds,but with resolve. Good for you both.
You’re right. I thought the same about the Ruth Stott book - whether anyone would actually get that amount. You do sometimes hear that an Antiques RS find has made a fortune, but rarely.
But I’m sorry about your tiger. Wonder if you had still had it whether you would then have tried to sell it, or held on in case the value increased?
I have been enjoying reading about your first years at the garden! Fascinating!
Thank you - helps keep me going!
Bated breath for the next one please……. We had a Hayter too, hate being the operative word. This was in Scotland where we had acres of ponticum, permafrost in winter and marauding red deer. There was also a pond, size and shape of a grave and made of granite boulders. Views were superb though.
That sounds really really tough!
Yep! Cover the ground and keep moving. Exactly how we have done it here too. It is working with nature, being less instant, less expensive and more sustainable. Going to have to grab my oatmeal for the next episode...
Nature isn't always being very co-operative though...
I think your point about one issue following another in gardens is well-made. So often one swaggers in with a phenomenal idea…and then resume a more thoughtful pace as all that swaggering has got in the way of thinking through that phenomenal idea at each stage and each permutation of each stage of its fruition.
And, oh man, your end result (not that there is an end result ever in gardening) after that long way (still more to read about it…)is fine indeed.
Whoops - veg Plot is not next. We have more disasters in the meadow first….
Yes - and thank you for your considered responses. Phenomenal ideas may work in the short term and then a whole rethink and rebuild is required - see the next posts on the Veg Plot, coming soon.
I hope you would find the endish (contemporary) result as good in the flesh as in photos.
Your determination to create something special is clear from the start. Keep the tales coming!
Thanks - at the moment it involves going through piles of analogue photographs. Feels very strange.
Just discovered you & your garden & thoroughly enjoying your story- you should publish it in book form 💐👏
I wouldn’t be able to use so many photographs in a book - I do appreciate being able to show you what I’m talking about.
I’m loving your garden story, Anne
That’s great to hear on a gloomy grey morning! Thanks for telling me.
Regarding things being worth more,I've two examples of this. It would be over 20 years ago as I was back in our old house. I had a China ornament that I'd bought in a charity shop for 50p or such. It was a cartoony tiger. The piece was about 6inches long by about 3inches round and it was like one of those old time fairings that got wildly popular in the 1970s. It was like I say,cartoony,amateurish and cheap looking but fun. So time came to move home and lots of stuff had to be discarded. Off went tiger in a box to another charity shop. So the next week on Bargain Hunt that Charlie Ross picks up a tiger JUST LIKE THE ONE I DISCARDED explains how a particular factory made them,but not that many and now they're very collectable and 'worth' about £200!. I can't remember if the one in the show validated that valuation. Kicking oneself time. But would mine have been 'worth' that sum? Also I had some books I bought on Amazon from an aspiring writer but found them unreadable. This author has talent but his early work was you could say,an apprenticeship. I wish I'd kept them now. So occasionally I see someone putting up for sale one of those books and asking yes,nearly £200. If they get it is another matter of course. My late Mum was always highly skeptical of those Antique Roadshow valuations. And on a show like Dickinsons Real Deal (I don't spend all my time watching old tat tv shows!),when the dealers are using their own money the valuations are much more down to earth!
This comment isn't about gardening but I'm impressed by the scale of the task you undertook with it seems,little resources or funds,but with resolve. Good for you both.
You’re right. I thought the same about the Ruth Stott book - whether anyone would actually get that amount. You do sometimes hear that an Antiques RS find has made a fortune, but rarely.
But I’m sorry about your tiger. Wonder if you had still had it whether you would then have tried to sell it, or held on in case the value increased?
😃never even think of that,it wasn't meant to be!
If only kikuyu could be defeated by mulching. Alas, it just goes from strength to strength.