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    A Plantsman's garden????

    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!
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    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.

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    • #3
      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!
      Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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      • #4
        hmmm, maybe not expand on how I want to dig it all over and plant veg then

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        • #5
          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
          If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing to excess

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          • #6
            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!
            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

            Diversify & prosper


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            • #7
              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
              All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
              Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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              • #8
                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
                Last edited by Two_Sheds; 04-11-2009, 07:26 PM.
                All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                • #9
                  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!
                  Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Jeanied View Post
                    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!

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                    • #11
                      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.

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                      • #12
                        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.
                        If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing to excess

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                        • #13
                          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.

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                          • #14
                            Is a 'plantsman' not a sexist term? Food for thought that's all!
                            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                            Diversify & prosper


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                            • #15
                              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!
                              Into every life a little rain must fall.

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