A Plantsman's garden????

[hamsterqueen]

We have been looking at houses (my husband gets itchy feet every 5 years or so!) Have seen one which looks good on paper, but is described as having a "plantsman's" garden. Tiny picture looks extremely formal, low box hedges etc. What would you expect from that term

I am strictly an "If you can;t eat it don;t bother" gardener!

[zazen999]

Plantsman's garden; tidy and neat with boring shrubs and an array of blousy flowers.

I'll get into trouble for the 'boring' and 'blousy' bit; but I don't care.

[Flummery]

I would have assumed that it had lots of different plants (rather than drifts of 3 or 5 as you are advised by the garden designers to do.) I'd envisage it as a collection. However, not all people use a phrase the same way!

[hamsterqueen]

hmmm, maybe not expand on how I want to dig it all over and plant veg then

[Eco-Chic]

I think a Plantsman's Garden would be very formal and tidy with a lot of specimen plants.

When I was house shopping many years ago, my father commented that I appeared to be paying a lot of money for a garden and perhaps an allotment would be more appropriate

[Snadger]

I would assume it's been cultvated by a retired council parks gardener...........similar vews to Zazen I'm afraid!

On the positive side a true plantsmans garden could be filled with all manner of exotic plants he's personally brought back from the four corners of the earth!

[Glutton4...]

Email the Estate Agent and ask them what they mean! You may be able to sell/give away any decent specimen plants anyway.

Did you hear about the couple who bought a house just because it had a fantastic garden that they fell in love with? The day they moved in they realised the vendor had taken most of the plants with them to their new property

[Two_Sheds]

I imagined it to be quite a formal garden? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/...ns-garden.html

I googled one, have a looksee: http://www.hobbsparker.co.uk/Images/...818_DOC_00.pdf

[Jeanied]

What would an estate agent think is a plantsman's garden? My guess is it has a few plants they don't recognise and it is tidy! They exaggerate about everything else!

[hamsterqueen]

What would an estate agent think is a plantsman's garden? My guess is it has a few plants they don't recognise and it is tidy! They exaggerate about everything else!

P.S.Two sheds I have sent you a PM!

[Pumpkin Becki]

Gosh, if it looks anything like the one in TS' estate agent details, I'd be frightened to touch it. Sometimes gardens can be too perfect can't they. I'd feel I was just a custodian of the garden, not its owner.

[Eco-Chic]

The Bunny Guiness one made me feel quite sick (with horror) and the estate agent one made me imagine the householders are Stepford Wife and Husband.

[SarzWix]

A 'plantsman' is basically someone who loves plants, and often has far more than a traditional gardener would have in the same space. Heaven only knows what an estate agent means by it though, probably just that the garden is owned by a keen gardener who knows what they're talking about.

[Snadger]

Is a 'plantsman' not a sexist term? Food for thought that's all!

[SueA]

It sounds a bit like a 'parterre' garden from what you say Hamsterqueen but you could easily turn it into a 'potager' garden making use of the low box hedges instead of raised beds & mixing in herbs, flowers & veggies. I would assume a 'plantsman's' garden was just one with lots of plants in & maybe some unusual ones but then I'm not an estate agent!