what is your gardening dream - money no object?

[lindyloo]

i love to read these sort of threads... in an ideal world, if you could have any garden/ home set-up you wanted, what would you have?

me- an orangery attatched to house.

walled veg garden and an orchard,

a huge lake with island, and ducks, and a little boat, of course.

a "ride" through woodland, with thinly planted trees on one side, as, although i love trees, i like to see out of them (wimp)

a stumpery/ fernery

a traditional showmans wagon parked near the woods

a bridge over a stream

an area of huge craggy rocks and boulders with some appropriate planting ( a tribute to the old west)

an octagonal summerhouse made out of forked branches, filled in with smaller branches, with a steep pointy roof, and a big gothic-y wooden window, and double gothic doors. ( i have seen one of these, in shipston-on stour, warwickshire, and it is fantastic) think this better be by the lake!

paths and tracks everywhere to ride and drive horses along.


oh, if only!!!

[smallfrog]

lo Lindyloo you want it all!!!

Near mum and dads is a old vicarage.
It has a small wooded area
A courtyard
A vegetable garden surrounded by stones sheds. (They'd become the green houses)
A terrace which drops down three times and ends with a small orchard.
They have also brought the field at the bottom complete with stream and i think they still own field next to the house. Has chickens and lambs in at the mo.

That would do me and the house isn't bad either.

When it went up for sale i'd had been 7ish Mum, Dad and mum parents nearly brought it. So it could have been mine and there would be no way i'd have moved out.

i'd put in a water feature something along the lines of chatworth house:O)

[Nicos]

i'd put in a water feature something along the lines of chatworth house:O)

Well...you certainly can't be having Colin Firth as your pond ornament...cos I've already baggsied him!!!

[FionaH]

Pony I can see from the kitchen window
Courtyard to have breakfast in
About an acre to grow veg.
Stream would be nice with a bridge to play pooh sticks on

[bobleponge]

Great big stone longere in the French countryside.
Big veggie plot.
Chickens.
Maaaaaaassssiiivvvveeee front garden with loads of different fruit trees.
Natural pond with various local wildfowl visiting.
My own visiting owl from time to time.
And nothing visible out of my windows except countryside and a farm someway off in the distance.

[binley100]

Great big stone longere in the French countryside.
Big veggie plot.
Chickens.
Maaaaaaassssiiivvvveeee front garden with loads of different fruit trees.
Natural pond with various local wildfowl visiting.
My own visiting owl from time to time.
And nothing visible out of my windows except countryside and a farm someway off in the distance.

What he's got ...........
Failing that a house with plenty of land where I can keep some goats, pigs , ducks and grow loadsa veg and still have room for a flowery bit .

[kirsty b]

An orchard with lots of different varieties of fruit.
Walled veg garden, done out with raised beds and glasshouses for tender stuff.
Meadow, for wildflowers and wandering round with the dog, and a wood.
Chickens, ducks, geese, a couple of porkers and a couple of sheep.
Nice big pond.

Cottage-garden immediately outside the house growing flowers, medicinal and culinary herbs.


Oh...and waking up in the morning miraculously able to look after it all!!!!

[CaroltheCarrot]

ALL of the above and sheep if they havent been mentioned

[Glutton4...]

ALL of the above and sheep if they havent been mentioned

Ditto all that!

[rustylady]

Big old farmhouse, with enough room for all the family to come and stay. Walled garden for fruit and veg, field space for pigs, goats and chickens, and a pond.

[jackie j]

Just a nice house with a big enough garden instead of having two lotties, a field next door for daughter to have a horse. A cousin a lot younger than me has just bought a dream house but she works very hard as a letting agent and has her own business.

[Snadger]

An Island of my own!

[Bramble_killer]

Being able to garden without worrying about money (ie no need to have a job!!)

[Tomatoking]

Great big stone longere in the French countryside.
Big veggie plot.
Chickens.
Maaaaaaassssiiivvvveeee front garden with loads of different fruit trees.
Natural pond with various local wildfowl visiting.
My own visiting owl from time to time.
And nothing visible out of my windows except countryside and a farm someway off in the distance.

Well we have the veg plot and the chickens, but not the rest, however the views are not too bad!
MR TK

P.S Nice to see you back in the land of the living Bob.

[pjh75]

Being able to garden without worrying about money (ie no need to have a job!!)

Second that. To be able to spend as much of my time as I wanted gardening, be totally self-sufficient in fruit & veg and not have to go to work.