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Title: What does your garden say about you?
Post by: TightEnd on May 25, 2015, 10:59:41 AM
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9533912/our-privet-sorrows/

whether it is a window box or acres of land, please post pics of your garden for RED-DOG to appraise critically. (Roast potatoes not required)

extra marks may be given for self-sufficiency, vegetable gardens and green fingered brilliance. Or not, its RED-DOG.

Here is mine*:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Butchart_gardens.JPG)



* Possibly.


Title: Re: What does your garden say about you?
Post by: RED-DOG on May 25, 2015, 12:01:11 PM
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9533912/our-privet-sorrows/

whether it is a window box or acres of land, please post pics of your garden for RED-DOG to appraise critically. (Roast potatoes not required)

extra marks may be given for self-sufficiency, vegetable gardens and green fingered brilliance. Or not, its RED-DOG.

Here is mine*:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Butchart_gardens.JPG)



* Possibly.


Conifer on left too close to path. -.5

Clash of green and pink in herbaceous border. -.5

Signs of honey fungus on copper beech.  -1

Badly pruned chamaecyparis lawsoniana. (midground right) -1

No birds. -1

Sun in wrong position. -.5

Horizon obscured by mountain -.5

Visitors. -1.5


Total 3.5/10





Title: Re: What does your garden say about you?
Post by: Tal on May 25, 2015, 12:08:59 PM
Badly pruned chamaecyparis lawsoniana?

(http://cdn.meme.am/instances/43686046.jpg)


Title: Re: What does your garden say about you?
Post by: david3103 on May 25, 2015, 12:10:17 PM
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9533912/our-privet-sorrows/

whether it is a window box or acres of land, please post pics of your garden for RED-DOG to appraise critically. (Roast potatoes not required)

extra marks may be given for self-sufficiency, vegetable gardens and green fingered brilliance. Or not, its RED-DOG.

Here is mine*:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Butchart_gardens.JPG)



* Possibly.

Those gardens are magnificent, the fountains may not match the Bellagio and the firework display on Saturday evening may not match Vegas offerings,  but both are spectacularly good and in a wonderful setting.
One of my parents favourite excursions when they were visiting my sister.