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14-03-2006, 10:10 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 14/3/06 9:40 am, in article
, "garryac"
wrote:

I recently moved house a matter of two minutes walk down the lane, the
people who bought my old house commented how nice the front garden
was....it is a small terraced house and I had worked hard on the garden
over the space of 8 or nine years, lovley peonies, red hot pokers,
geraniums, ceanothus, hebes, old roses, a healthy privet and hydranger
hedge along the front it was very pretty, people would stop to look
when they walked past. I was going to dig uop some of the perenials and
take them with me, but left them becuase the new owners sais they
really liked them.

I walked past last night, and they have grubbed everything out, and are
in the process concreteing over it to make a parking space
It really upset me...irrational I know but there you go

That is truly maddening and just shows the old adage is true - "never go
back". Hard to manage that when you live so close by, though. My
grandparents' old house is on what was almost a lane when I was a child but
is now a busy main road. Just the same thing has happened to the little
front garden my grandfather so lovingly planted and looked after. Every
time I see Aubretia I think of him but not one blade or leaf remains, even
the little stone wall has gone and it looks utterly hideous.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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