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

Following up to "garryac" :

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

"rational" does not always equal "right".
I know how you feel.
--
Tim C.

In message .com,
garryac writes
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 a shame. The same thing happened to an old man who used to live
near us. They may come to regret. Never mind. Enjoy your new garden.
--
June Hughes

"garryac" wrote in message
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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

Not irrational at all. At least you will not have to see the garden
declining into a tangled tortured mess, complete with discarded rubbish.
Best of luck with your new garden and the pleasure it will give you and
others.

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
)

On 14/3/06 11:31 am, in article ,
"Janet Baraclough" wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

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.

My grandmother's family had an ancient farm on the banks of the Wye
called "Green Farm" after a local Green Man legend. As late as the 70's
the farmhouse and yard were virtually unchanged for centuries, cider
orchards, a courtyard of lopsided barns stacked to the roof with ancient
implements, a cider house etc. No electricity, sewage, piped water etc.
The last time I passed through the village, a developer had bought it,
separated and electric-fenced the immensely valuable fishing-rights,
cleared the buildings and erected a hideous red brick MacMansion with
black and gold security fencing, electronic gates, "Victorian
gaslights", and a block paviour driveway. And a poncy name on the gate;
"Badger's Crossing".

Oh dear, oh dear. We see much the same sort of thing in Jersey, I'm afraid.
Lovely old farmhouses built in granite, or the 'cod houses', are taken over
and gentrified and made into something they were never meant to be. Some
have 'House' or 'Maison' tacked on to make them appear grander than they
were ever built to be. Very soon, a lovely old farm whose fields march
alongside us, will be on the market and we reckon it will go for a million
or more. It has wonderful granite barns too and our one fear is that it
will go in that direction, too. English Heritage have been to look at it
and it is thought that they have said they won't countenance it being split
up and the barns built as several different 'dwellings'. However, as
farming is slowly sliding into oblivion, I can't see anyone buying it to
farm except perhaps as a sort of 'hobby farm'. It's tragic to look out of
our windows and see sheep grazing where once there were cows.
A couple of years ago we went back to Upshire in Essex, where Ray lived all
his life until 1981. He gazed in real horror at one farm he'd known which
had been tarted up to the nines. It had just the sort of gates you
describe, plastic windows and crowning horror, a huge ornate fountain with
some socking great simpering female standing there, pouring water out of an
urn but *outside* the gates, as if to point up the wealth of the new owners.
It was gilded and twiddled and "footballers' wived" to within an inch of its
poor life.
BTW, Ray's grandmother came from Ross on Wye but all we have on her is that
she was born Lydia Smith in about 1887. Not a lot to go on!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
)

"garryac" wrote in message
oups.com...
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

it just reminds me that gardeners are caring and deeper souls, and more and
more people are becoming bovine and ignorant and have little regards for
history, nature, land that has managed to outlast mere humans for centuries.
I wonder how these idiots will feel when one day as we've passed on to our
sleep, they stand and ask themselves "where did all the trees and flowers
go??"

Over here where I live now, it's the same as it is all over from the sounds
of it (we could bash this subject to bloody pieces, but it only makes our
hearts ache) China is dynamiting area's of their country all in the name of
"progress" which I understand, but you'd think they'd consider things before
blundering forwards. (I bring to mind something I heard on PRI radio about
a leeching system that has worked for thousands THOUSANDS of years, and now
they want to build the dam six miles up which will destroy a system that
ancient Chinese people devised and figured out that worked, and was
harmonious to both nature, the people who relied on the food the land gave
back and everything else.

The lands here are being stripped of trees, bulldozed, houses built that
won't stand up in a good fart of Mother Nature's when she really has a shit
fit (tornados, which are already starting early seasons this
year.......funny, Mom's Nature seems to just get tired of the little human
fleas and flicks us off, I just wonder if she can control us before we
totally undo all her work and magesty). the houses here are built quickly,
are smaller, and I couldn't afford one if my life depended on it, if I'd
have it.

I don't want to beat this dead horse, but the solace that I find in my heart
for now is that gardeners are compassionate, and then there's the other
people.........................I get ****ed everytime I hear someone talk
down about a "tree hugger" but it's been those "tree hugger's" that saved
forests, and entire species. California might have over-protected some
things to rediculousness, but eventually Mom's Nature will even the balance
given her schedules which don't work in mere minutes but millennium. If
left to their devices, mankind would scrape and burn and destroy everything
all in the name of "progress". wouldn't it be wonderful if our life-span's
were longer, say a few hundred years so that we could appreciate how the
rest of the world needs time to mature and blossom and fulfill? Tree's take
hundred's of years to attain maturity. An oak tree has to be FIFTY to begin
producing acorns! If I were a tree, I'd just now be in the fertile time of
my life instead of middle aged and gone to seed and careening towards my
composting time. I just hope my desires to live to a ripe old age don't
reach up and bite me on the ass as I see more and more stupidity towards
this planet that has nurtured us and now if given a choice would rid herself
of almost every infestation if she could.

I've stopped grieving over these things, I'm mortal and like I keep saying,
make the magic where you are. Rejoice in your gardens while we can, take
care and steward what we're capable and know we've done our best. If some
bovine human doesn't appreciate the loving efforts, we can't change them.
We can pity them and go on with our enriched life. I live my the "Eleventh
Commandment"
" Thou shalt inherit the Holy Earth as a faithful STEWARD, conserving it's
resources and productivity, from generation to generation.

Thou shalt conserve thy fields from soil erosion, thy living waters from
pollutions and drying up, thy forests from desolation, and protect thy hills
from the overgrazing of thy herds, that thy decendents might have abundance
forever.

If any fail in the STEWARDSHIP of the Land, thy fruitful fields shall become
sterile stony ground and wasting gullies, and thy decendents shall decrease
and live in poverty and perish from off the face of the Earth. Amen.
I pledge Allegiance to the EARTH,
and all the LIFE on which it supports.
One PLANET, in OUR CARE, IRREPLACEABLE,
with SUSTENANCE and RESPECT for ALL.

grow and garden where you are, and hold these to you as healing memories and
let the asshole go about their day. They don't have the quality and respect
for life that you do. Such is their loss. You can at least have the
memories of these past plantings and make a newer garden. I wish you all
the best in your efforts.

madgardener, up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler overlooking English
Mountain that has more and more lights in the night to remind me that more
and more people are moving in HERE as well, in Eastern Tennessee where at
least I still have a corner of pristineness that I appreciate for however
long it remains. I will never destroy the land around me and after I am
gone, I can only hope it remains and provides a home for those that were
here before me. The wild turkey hens this morning fled my vehicle as I came
home in the bright morning and it lifted my heart that they are still
here...............I slowed down so as not to make them fly, and crept down
the driveway, appreciating that someday these memories might be all I
have.But for today, I rejoice.

michael adams wrote:
"madgardener" wrote in message
...

"garryac" wrote in message
groups.com...


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,


...

Maybe you should have asked. Not that people move house that often,
so its not the sort of thing you'd think of at the time.

...


but left them becuase the new owners sais they
really liked them.


...

They may have said that as a way of being polite. When people don't
really know what they're looking at, but want to pass a compliment
they may say "I like this, its really nice " - meaning more often
than not that they don't positively dislike it, and don't wish to
give offence.

...


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


...

It may be stating the obvious but the thing about plants - mature
trees and shrubs being the exception, is that they'll all grow for
you again in the new house. Even if they do take a few years to
come to their best. Maybe if you'd have had to leave a horse behind
in a paddock behind the house, which they said they'd look after,
only to find they'd shot it the moment your back was turned, you'd
feel even more upset.

All this stuff grows again, every year. Giving us a chance
to avoid last years' mistakes, maybe.

Maybe they could be adjudged philistines for choosing hard
standing for their car over a garden you'd spent years on.
But there again, maybe the need for a parking space was something
they only realised once they'd moved in. And not having a clue
themselves, maybe they didn't appreciate all the effort that had
gone into the plants they were so casually throwing away. Or the
fact that many of the plants could have been moved to a new location.
Otherwise they might have done you the courtesy of letting you know.



michael adams

...





I always take cuttings of my favourite plants just before putting the
house on the market - that way it doesn't become an embarassing
situation - they just get told everything in pots comes with me...

Maybe they transplanted a lot of the stuff round to the back garden -
you never know...But I do know how you feel - after me and my ex split
up (he bought out the house) he "weeded" the garden - all those years of
planning and growing stuff gone...I don't think it was spite it was more
he had a different view of what a garden is about...

Gill

"garryac" wrote in message
oups.com...
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

I had a similar experience. We bought a house with a landscaped garden, pond,
terraces, windy paths - lovely. I worked on it for 5 years and the new owners
took everything out and grassed the lot!

He Ho - I shall ask the next time I sell what their plans are. That way I can
take even more plants with me than I perhaps intended :~)
Jenny

I we move again..I'll roll the garden up and take it with us......
At least we have a new 'blank canvas' to work on now..as the last
owners of our new house where a grass over everthing couple, and the
front garden is about 5 times as big as the last one!

On 15/3/06 10:50, in article
, "garryac"
wrote:

I we move again..I'll roll the garden up and take it with us......
At least we have a new 'blank canvas' to work on now..as the last
owners of our new house where a grass over everthing couple, and the
front garden is about 5 times as big as the last one!

Last time I sold my house, I told the buyers exactly what I was taking with
me. As I was marrying a nurseryman, it wasn't much! But I did list and
take the troughs and pots I was particularly fond of. Luckily, the buyers
are very keen gardeners and with the exception of filling in one small pond
I'd made, they loved the garden as it was and look after it beautifully. But
I think anyone could identify things they particularly want to take with
them or at least ask the new owners to let them know if they intend to
re-model the garden and thus remove plants and shrubs. Then the sellers
could get first refusal of re-homing them!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
)