The Poultry Keeper The Independent Forum for Poultry Keepers    FAQ   Search     Register   Log in  few piccies from the garden Goto page Previous  1, 2          The Poultry Keeper Forum Index -> Grow Your Own Author Message Clucky Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 2129 Location: Shropshire Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:35 am    Post subject: What a beautiful garden....fancy coming to plan our patch for us....we are desperate for ideas Back to top mcleod-girls Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 1345 Location: Banff, Aberdeenshire Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:51 am    Post subject: Clucky wrote: What a beautiful garden....fancy coming to plan our patch for us....we are desperate for ideas We have some beautiful "plans" and loads of "ideas", spend hours thinking about it, but are quite lacking on the actual man hours committed bit!! hence a "wildflower" "natural" garden, or chicken paradise as we prefer to call it! LOL! Back to top kittoch Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 150 Location: glasgow Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:22 am    Post subject: gardens with hindsight, i wish id left more "natural" garden........................for hens etc!! ......................but mine wasnt planned................just trial and error of "theres a space, plonk that plant in there", and rough idea in my minds eye as i was doing things..................made ooddles of cock-ups, and still will no doubt!! Back to top the walrus Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 20 Location: Anglesey Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:13 pm    Post subject: What is your secret? I notice there is not so much of a munch in your Hostas so how can that be when mine get decimated within minutes and the same with my Lupins. Do you not get slugs and snails in your garden or are your Hostas plastic ? Back to top kittoch Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 150 Location: glasgow Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:00 pm    Post subject: piccies dont get many snails................mabye due to soil being quite acid, and them needing calcium for shells??........................slugs....well thats a different story!!! ........................some hostas dont seem to get touched.............some seem to get munched, so its been a case of the survivors have survived!!.........................also, ive a very healthy toad, frog and newt population that must help, plus hedgehogs etc. only plant i have to throw a few pellets at first thing in the year are round leaved ligularias that i find get trashed by them early on. Back to top nigel Moderator Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 2305 Location: Skåne, Sweden Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:22 am    Post subject: love those wooden ducks in the last picture, and your garden is fantastic are you in the yellow book? Back to top Gilly C Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2178 Location: South Cumbria Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:14 am    Post subject: I love your garden, a real pond wow, I love my gardening and have created one everywhere we have lived but not in your league ! Back to top kittoch Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 150 Location: glasgow Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:45 pm    Post subject: garden thanks gilly................can be a real noose at times too though!! ....nigel, have done the yellow book last year as a private opening.................before that i used to keep parrots in aviaries, and was bit paranoid with strangers being round and security for the birds, with parrot theft very common. now ive only budgies and finches left, so seriously considering the yellow book general. opened it this year for friends etc for mcmillan cancer relief one sunday in june and made £1800 so well pleased. Back to top layla Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 524 Location: West Midlands Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:17 pm    Post subject: beautiful garden looks like you could really get away from it all and lose yourself .............fabulous Back to top Dusty Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 405 Location: St. Asaph Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:32 pm    Post subject: Lovet the wooden ducks, so realistic. Back to top vanessa Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 1137 Location: Correze Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:11 pm    Post subject: Don't know how this has escaped me up to now! What a fantastic garden! It really does look on a parallel with the gardens of stately homes, where they have an army of gardeners looking after the place. Us mere mortals can only dream ... but what a wonderful inspiration, thank you for sharing it with us. Back to top hollowlegs Joined: 04 Nov 2007 Posts: 34 Location: Hampshire Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:15 am    Post subject: What a heavenly garden you have. You must be a very happy family - plants don't grow like that without love & caring - I bet your chooks look just as good!! If you are'nt in the 'Yellow Book' you jolly well should be! Congratulations, a plot to be proud of. Back to top Duckie Joined: 24 Sep 2007 Posts: 198 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:51 pm    Post subject: it is gorgeous - if you ever fancy a holiday in somerset..... And where did you get the big spider web? That would be great as part of a screen we need to put up in ours! Back to top Viv Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 264 Location: Northumberland Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:04 am    Post subject: Its luverly, luverly sheer bliss. Oh how I wish !!!!!!! Lots of hard work and dedication, you must enjoy it so much Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         The Poultry Keeper Forum Index -> Grow Your Own All times are GMT + 1 Hour Goto page Previous  1, 2 Page 2 of 2 Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group