I had an interest since we did planting of runner beans and cress in primary school. I was about 10. We had a pond in the school so i was quite interested in gardening.

First plant i grew at home was a sunflower.

When did you start and what was your first experience?

My Dad was the secretary of the local Allotment Society and had a couple of
allotments so I was interested from as early as I am able to remember. I had
a patch in our garden at home and I can still remember ridding the garden of
buttercups. Thinking about it perhaps that's why I never use a rotavator

dommy wrote:
: I had an interest since we did planting of runner beans and cress in
: primary school. I was about 10. We had a pond in the school so i was
: quite interested in gardening.
:
: First plant i grew at home was a sunflower.
:
: When did you start and what was your first experience?

dommy wrote:

I had an interest since we did planting of runner beans and cress
inprimary school. I was about 10. We had a pond in the school so i
wasquite interested in gardening.

First plant i grew at home was a sunflower.

When did you start and what was your first experience?--dommy

About 4.. there is a poicture of me in the garden taking a large
interest in a rose bush..;-)

Properly a bit ater.. Sunflower competitions at primary shcool etc..

Even more 'properly' at 21 when I studied Horticultural at University.
//
Jim

31 (last year!)

rpm

Hi

I was about six when I first planted a few seeds. My dad use to own a garden shop in Burgess Hill ( west sussex ), been hooked ever since.

Sparky

We were living in part of a house owned by the Old district nurse in North
Wales at the end if the war(39-45) and every Sunday I would go down To
"Nurse Owen" and would sit on her lap on a Sunday morning with a glass of
milk as she read me "Adam the gardener" from the "News of the World",
I had my own little garden, and started by sowing Cabbage seed, and as luck
would have it there were few cabbage plants around that spring so mine were
sold and thus I was started on gardening. It was about 4 years later when I
was introduced to Rabbit Snaring, and in those days the Rabbit man came
round 3 times a week buying rabbits which he crated up and sent by Train to
London, we used to get 1 shilling and 6 pence (1/6), which was a fortune in
those days.
How old was I? well this story started when I was just over 3 years of
age... and the rabbit part was just before I was 8 years old.
--
David Hill
Abacus Nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

Kay Easton wrote in
:

I started with cacti too, my first ones placed in my bedroom window by
my mother when I was about 6 .. by 10 I was an enthusiastic collector.

I'm not an enthusiast...But I do enjoy collecting the ones I like....
I have about 20 cacti spread about the house now....
Plus all my other plants....

When I first met my now wife I had a LOT more....I used to take 'fying'
plants off people and bring them back....Then people wouldn't want them
back....So I would keep them.....And I hate to just dump them.....
I gave a 10yr old Yukka to my Mother-In-Law....And she kept it alive for
about a year...Then proptly killed it.....

I went ballistic to say the least! B-)

I also had my own 'garden' which I neglected. So Mum started to buy the
odd plant which was 'mine' by dotted around the rest of the garden.

I never *really* had my own plants as such.....
I sometimes *ahem* 'adopted' plants and woiuld spend a little more time on
them....
But ither than that I just worked....B-)

In teenage years I started to help her more and more around the garden
and learnt the basics of veg and pruning.

I wish I had payed attetion to what my parents had said.....
I was more interested in indoor stuff....
The outside stuff was just one of my chores.....
A bit like washing the pots really!

But real gardening didn't start till I had my own garden, at 21.

I just started when I moved here last July

Strange, though - it feels as if I've been doing it all my life, and I
can't imagine what it must be like not to be interested in it.

B-)

In article 96f3435bd0545125d4d6f8720c00ac86@TeraNews, dommy dommy.mx4
writes
I had an interest since we did planting of runner beans and cress in
primary school. I was about 10. We had a pond in the school so i was
quite interested in gardening.

First plant i grew at home was a sunflower.

When did you start and what was your first experience?

Both my parents were keen gardeners so it was more or less congenital in
my case. A family fable has it that I pulled out, divided and re-planted
a clump of pinks in full flower at the age of four (over seventy years
ago now). One section of the plant was said to have survived the
experience. I have no recollection of the incident, but I strive to
improve on it!
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

In article , Rick McGreal
writes
Kay Easton wrote in
:

I started with cacti too, my first ones placed in my bedroom window by
my mother when I was about 6 .. by 10 I was an enthusiastic collector.

I'm not an enthusiast...But I do enjoy collecting the ones I like....
I have about 20 cacti spread about the house now....

Keep it like that! the rot sets in when you buy a greenhouse for them
;-)
We started by an embargo on buying new plants, and growing them from
seed only. That worked for a few years - but then the seedlings started
getting larger, and instead of one of each species we now had several!

But they do flower well in the greenhouse.

Plus all my other plants....

I forget about houseplants. They droop :-(


In teenage years I started to help her more and more around the garden
and learnt the basics of veg and pruning.

I wish I had payed attetion to what my parents had said.....

Well, I think everyone feels that! Maybe not about gardening but about
something!
There's a quote on the lines of 'when I was 20 I was amazed at how
little my father knew. When I was 30 I was amazed at how much he had
learnt in the meantime' ;-)


But real gardening didn't start till I had my own garden, at 21.

I just started when I moved here last July

Happy gardening! It gets better and better, the more you do.


--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

In article , Randall
P. McMurphy writes
31 (last year!)

There's hope for my children, then!
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

Kay Easton wrote in
:

Keep it like that! the rot sets in when you buy a greenhouse for them
;-)

Sheesh....I'm OK then....I don't have space for one!
The best I will get is a small coldframe!

We started by an embargo on buying new plants, and growing them from
seed only. That worked for a few years - but then the seedlings started
getting larger, and instead of one of each species we now had several!

I've not had many flower....As most of mine were in bad nick when I gpot
them it takes a while to bring them back....Many of my plants didn't flower
for a few years B-(

But they do flower well in the greenhouse.

*Sigh*
I know....I have sen pictures....I look in magazines and online and I want
to commit murder very frequently! B-)

Plus all my other plants....
I forget about houseplants. They droop :-(

I much prefer indoor to outdoor...
At least indoor I can control the enviroment a little better!

I wish I had payed attetion to what my parents had said.....
Well, I think everyone feels that! Maybe not about gardening but about
something!

Yup....What a world it would be if we only LISTENED!

There's a quote on the lines of 'when I was 20 I was amazed at how
little my father knew. When I was 30 I was amazed at how much he had
learnt in the meantime' ;-)

B-D

But real gardening didn't start till I had my own garden, at 21.
I just started when I moved here last July
Happy gardening! It gets better and better, the more you do.

Yep...And the more you do the more you WANT to do!

Does it ever end? B-)

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
...
In article , Randall
P. McMurphy writes
31 (last year!)

I was in my early thirties before I took any interest in gardening.

This was not because I was not exposed to gardening. Indeed as a kid I
was dragged round nurseries and such whilst my parents bought plants . My
mother was always ( still is) to be found in her greenhouse.

My grandfather was a Head gardener for a large house. he also had a large
garden of his own.

But I couldnt find any interest in it until I turned thirty ( my garden for
many years was nothing more than a piece of lawn - weedy lawn at that.)

"mick" wrote in
:

But I couldnt find any interest in it until I turned thirty ( my
garden for many years was nothing more than a piece of lawn - weedy
lawn at that.)

May I ask what turned you around?

On Sun, 04 May 2003 19:12:11 GMT, dommy
wrote:



When did you start and what was your first experience?

The first gardening that I remember was when I was about 3 or 4. My
parents were pruning a willow and I 'helped' by replanting all the
prunings round the garden, I think that most of them took so my
parents weren't too pleased ;-)
When I was in my early teens I used to do odd gardening jobs for
various people in the area, then when I left school I went to work on
a nursery. I've been working on the estate where I am now since the
late 70's. I've never had a garden of my own, but I've got about 15
acres of gardens here to play with so I don't miss it too much.

--
Pete The Gardener
A room without books is like a body without a soul.

"dommy" wrote in message
news:96f3435bd0545125d4d6f8720c00ac86@TeraNews...
I had an interest since we did planting of runner beans and cress in
primary school. I was about 10. We had a pond in the school so i was
quite interested in gardening.

First plant i grew at home was a sunflower.

When did you start and what was your first experience?


I only really got into gardening in the last few years (now mid-20s), once I
moved into a place that had more than a windowsill.

Though back in Australia I grew a fabulous crop of zinnias as a child. I was
extremely proud of them and have a great picture of me standing next to them
with most of them up to my waist in brilliant mixed colours. I learned the
names of plants (mostly Australian natives) from my mother who has a mad
fascination for banksias, and I picked up how *not* to prune rhododendrons


Does anyone know if banksias grow over here? (my mum would be so proud if I
managed one)

Regards

Elizabeth