american who loves uk gardening

[ilovebritgardens]

Delighted to be on this forum. My husband and I garden in western New York State in the US. We visited the UK in 2007, enjoying western Scotland with a cousin and then touring Cornwall and the fabulous gardens. I am quite taken with the "gardening culture" in the UK. We live on a 100 acre farm and garden about 4 acres including ornamental gardens (mostly shade), veggies (which we call our "allotment") and fruit including pears, apples, mulberries, raspberries and blueberries. We live in a challenging location just east of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie, which brings us lots of wind and LOTS of snow. The concept of the winter garden here is 3 feet of snow.
I love Grow Your Own and look forward to it every month. I am looking forward to reading the advice of the other GYO readers.
BTW- I am just 2nd generation American. My father's family is British!

[Indigo23]

Hello and welcome to the vine.

[shepp726]

hello, welcome and enjoy, almost a full house of the colonies on here now. lol.

[Bren In Pots]

Hello and welcome to the vine

[Dusty Rhodes]

Delighted to be on this forum. My husband and I garden in western New York State in the US. We visited the UK in 2007, enjoying western Scotland with a cousin and then touring Cornwall and the fabulous gardens. I am quite taken with the "gardening culture" in the UK. We live on a 100 acre farm and garden about 4 acres including ornamental gardens (mostly shade), veggies (which we call our "allotment") and fruit including pears, apples, mulberries, raspberries and blueberries. We live in a challenging location just east of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie, which brings us lots of wind and LOTS of snow. The concept of the winter garden here is 3 feet of snow.
I love Grow Your Own and look forward to it every month. I am looking forward to reading the advice of the other GYO readers.
BTW- I am just 2nd generation American. My father's family is British!

Welcome! To get the real feel of UK gardening you need slugs. Can anybody here on the Vine send this lady a few slugs to get started?

[Tripmeup]

hello and welcome....
I can certainly contribute to the slug collectiion.......generously!!

[Glutton4...]

Hello, and welcome to the Madhouse!

[jayjaybee]

Hi there and welcome. Not sure how much help we can be to NY state but I'm sure we are all only too happy to help if we can.

[ilovebritgardens]

Guess I don't need any slugs, thank you! We have plenty, esp. if our rain arrives today!
I sure hope we do not ever see the giant slugs I have seen pictured in the garden magazines. It seems I read they came over from Europe somewhere??? Looks like they could eat a hosta in one meal!
I have resorted to dropping them into a cup of salt.
Thanks for the offer though!!