Problems with front gardens

[trousers]

we only have garden to the front/side of our cottage and grow the veg thier,we have a little patch for grass and flowers ,but the drive has the big girls green house on it and soon all our fruit ,bar one section for wellies truck to park on,we are now fairly secure after piglet willie cam down and wired us up like a belisha beacon

[Peter]

I have Acanthus (Bears Breech) growing in my front garden.
It is a beautiful and very vigerous perrennial.
Produces a gorgeous flowering spike up to five foot high with pale green, white and purple flowers all up and around it.

Sadly the whole spike is equipped with spikes.

Watched an annoying yob a year or two ago, wlaking down the road swiping at peoples plants. Swiped mine and walked off sucking his hand.

[madderbat]

the kind of people who go for walks in the country in Autumn and moan about the trees spoiling the view or the leaves decaying...tossers...apologies but it boils me blood.

We don't have a front garden so didn't think I could join in on this one, but don't get me going about chelsea tractor drivers who move into villages and complain about church bells; cowshit smells; cockerels crowing; leaves on the road; farmers using field access; horse manure on the road; Oooh I could go on!

Some people really should leave the planet. Did they never know, or have they just forgotten that we are human animals and the world is the way it is and has been like it from time immemorial? Unfortunately they seem to be changing things so fast these days, maybe I'm on the wrong planet.

Apologies for the rant/ramble, but it makes me so cross.

[Mrs Dobby]

Dont worry about the rant MB, I think quite a few of us feel the same way!

[madderbat]

Dont worry about the rant MB, I think quite a few of us feel the same way!

Thanks Suzanne, didn't know you were online. Love the new avatar and motto - are you trying to gee this lot up, or just having fun?

As far as idiots that live in bubble worlds go, I'd like to rub their noses in real life sometimes.

[Mrs Dobby]

Just having a bit of fun chuck, I saw the motto on a sign in one of the local graden centers, made me laugh, then when Nick commented on it (that perhaps I should post a piccy of me gardening naked!) I thought I'd retaliate with the piccy! lol!

[madderbat]

Go girl, go. It made us smile and brigthened up Mr MB's day - he went to fetch his glasses for a proper look!
Although I am a little jealous, my days of over exposure are long past!

[Mrs Dobby]

Lol! Its only the piccy angle that makes me look ok, it hides the big hips and bottom, plus the tummy! As I am now on the countdown to my 40th I recon my times of over exposure are also at an end!

[Alison]

Lol! Its only the piccy angle that makes me look ok, it hides the big hips and bottom, plus the tummy! As I am now on the countdown to my 40th I recon my times of over exposure are also at an end!

Nothing wrong with the countdown to 40 - damned fine excuse for a good party

[OverWyreGrower]

Beat my topiary!

Here is my front garden...


We have a 4-tier topiary tree thing and an armchair made out of privet...

Not my idea, they were in when we bought the place.

I hate them, but Mr OWG likes them, and says it makes it easier for people to find our house!

I'd like to tidy it up a bit, the previous owners seemed to plant very randomly, and stuff could do with thinning out a bit!

[JennieAtkinson]

My front garden is the only area that I can grow in as the wind from the south blasts what is the back garden (with the superb view). Mind you it is a large garden and looks great in teh summer with annuals and perennials, but not much structure in the winter, when it looks just like a dead patch of ground!

Because we are next to the Church and on the "visitor trail" I get really annoyed at the people who just walk into our front garden to take photographs of the view. Watched one woman actually pick some flowers out of a border once. B****y cheek!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hope you asked her for some money JA! Dexterdog

[Two_Sheds]

I used to live in a tall block of flats in Brighton. Our front garden was full of beer cans, polystyrene kebab boxes, pizza boxes, knickers (!) and so on when I moved in. I cleared it up, planted flowers, FINALLY got the council to put a litter bin on the street - so I had somewhere to put the litter that still got dropped in the garden. I hoped the yobs would appreciate the improvement, but no. It was great being up on the top floor though...I always had a watering can loaded and waiting...and one day got my chance - a youth got his tackle out and peed into the front garden...broad daylight...so I watered him, from a great height. Fan-bloody-tastic!

[bubblewrap]

I used to live in a tall block of flats in Brighton. Our front garden was full of beer cans, polystyrene kebab boxes, pizza boxes, knickers (!) and so on when I moved in. I cleared it up, planted flowers, FINALLY got the council to put a litter bin on the street - so I had somewhere to put the litter that still got dropped in the garden. I hoped the yobs would appreciate the improvement, but no. It was great being up on the top floor though...I always had a watering can loaded and waiting...and one day got my chance - a youth got his tackle out and peed into the front garden...broad daylight...so I watered him, from a great height. Fan-bloody-tastic!

ONLY a watering can He (IT) deserved a hosepipe ( of ice cold )

[rustylady]

I live in a rented cottage, back garden is lovely, private and well fenced. Front garden has been covered in pea shingle by landlord!!!! Little boys love it - they scoop handfuls over the low wall and chuck it at cars. Cats love it, they s**t in it. Passers by seem to think it is a rubbish bin. I work full time, so all I can do is clear up when I get home and I'm p*****d off with it. Sorry, but had to get that lot off my chest.