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A new garden in six weeks - HELP!
JennyC wrote:
"Steve North" wrote in message om... My house is going up for sale in six weeks and to improve its sellability I need to do a makeover of the totally neglected and bare back garden. Needless to say it must be as low budget as possible. I have tall brick walls to the rear and one side of the garden and the garden is just turfed with no flowers, trees etc. So, I would be grateful for any ideas for pretty, budget plants or flowers that will look nice. They only have to last for this summer but will obviously have to grow quick or be bought half grown for me to get it finished in six weeks. I particularly would like to hide the brick walls, so ideas for this would be good.. many thanks Steve As plants take years and years to get properly established, Not all. There's Ground elder, ivy, thistles, dandelions, mile-a-minute russian thingy, brambles, mint. probably not the effect desired though. Perhaps some creative thought is required he how about levelling the whole plot and filling it up with lots of gorgeous plants in pots that would look good at the new place? maybe you'd better call Ground Force :~) or Aneka Rice (sp)? -- William Tasso |
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A new garden in six weeks - HELP!
Steve North wrote: My house is going up for sale in six weeks and to improve its sellability I need to do a makeover of the totally neglected and bare back garden. Needless to say it must be as low budget as possible. I have tall brick walls to the rear and one side of the garden and the garden is just turfed with no flowers, trees etc. So, I would be grateful for any ideas for pretty, budget plants or flowers that will look nice. They only have to last for this summer but will obviously have to grow quick or be bought half grown for me to get it finished in six weeks. I particularly would like to hide the brick walls, so ideas for this would be good.. You are probably better off buying relatively fast growing, colourful annuals or half hardy plants. It is almost the season for buying them at the moment and with good choices you can have 2-3' of growth by midsummer. No point in going for expensive herbaceous stuff that won't get established quickly enough to be useful. Don't try and hide the walls you won't be able to do it convincingly - put things at the bottom that look good there. And maybe a few annual climbers like morning glory, sweet peas to break it up a bit. Your biggest problem is making it look established - best chance is fast growing annuals and a couple of bigger plants in pots. A standard datura in the sunniest corner would work well in perfuming a walled garden. Regards, Martin Brown |
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A new garden in six weeks - HELP!
(subbykins{Chrd}) wrote in message ...
On 2 May 2003 16:31:24 -0700, (Steve North) wrote: My house is going up for sale in six weeks and to improve its sellability I need to do a makeover of the totally neglected and bare back garden. Needless to say it must be as low budget as possible. I have tall brick walls to the rear and one side of the garden and the garden is just turfed with no flowers, trees etc. So, I would be grateful for any ideas for pretty, budget plants or flowers that will look nice. They only have to last for this summer but will obviously have to grow quick or be bought half grown for me to get it finished in six weeks. I particularly would like to hide the brick walls, so ideas for this would be good.. many thanks Steve Hi It might be worth buying plants in tubs, so the investment you make now won't be lost as you can take them with you. Perhaps you can paint one or more of the walls, and find something attractive to mount on them that again you can take away later, we've just bought a lovely verdi gris plaque of the head of a greek god, the kind of thing that you normally see as a fountain for only £20. How about some well developed ivy which is cheap and can be wound through a trellis mounted on the wall? Don't underestimate though how many people will be grateful for a neat but blank canvas that they can shape once they've bought your place. Good luck. I agree I got a fairly bznk garden myself recently and that was an advantage. -- Neil Jones- http://www.butterflyguy.com/ "At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog National Nature Reserve |
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"Sacha" wrote in message ... in article , Steve North at wrote on 3/5/03 12:31 am: My house is going up for sale in six weeks and to improve its sellability I need to do a makeover of the totally neglected and bare back garden. Needless to say it must be as low budget as possible. I have tall brick walls to the rear and one side of the garden and the garden is just turfed with no flowers, trees etc. snipped You might be surprised at what people will buy! I bought a place with a massive and overgrown garden. All I saw was the array of flowers and said gotta have it! Didnt get as far as the houseg By the way the house was equally unkept and messy ( not to mention smelly and grimey) But I didnt care , a bit of bleach in the house and mowing the grass down in the garden worked wonders. Most people of course wont be like me, but I suspect many will favour a neatly mown and edged lawn. Put some annual flowers in tubs by the door and you'll probably get away with it. |
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