Types of gardens, what is your garden type?

**dilettante** · 30-01-2016, 07:59 PM

The only thing I can think to add is dry and wet gardens. You'll have to watch old Gardeners' World episodes to get more ideas. I suppose there are combos like woodland (dry and shady)

**Small pumpkin** · 30-01-2016, 08:03 PM

What about stoney. That would sum up my garden

**veggiechicken** · 30-01-2016, 08:10 PM

Is this your "homework" Evans?

Wooded
Exposed,
Terraced
Sloping,
Paved
Walled
Courtyard
Front
Wildlife
Waterlogged

I don't really know what you mean by the 2nd part of the question as nearly everything in my garden is homemade

**Nannysally99** · 30-01-2016, 08:12 PM

South facing, clay soil
On the homemade front is a teak two seater garden bench made by my late Father, he was clever with his hands

**Kirk** · 30-01-2016, 08:30 PM

Only half meant it to be "wildlife" but the trees have grown and the low down stuff has extended itself. So the wildlife appears to like it. OK, it is a mess.

Soil is poor, thin layer of clay-like stuff on chalk, suspect the builders took/sold the decent top soil and just put the subsoil back on as a poor excuse for soil. It has become better over the years from the leaves etc that have added themselves to it.

Best I have done is I guess the veg bed, that is easy to dig. Don't need a fork as a hand trowel is sufficent it is fine enough. Managed that by simply by adding anything and everything to the bed over time. Literally anything that looked as if it would compost down went in and on.

Having a shredder helps.

Anything grown in pots has the old compost added to it, or elsewhere around the garden.

Need to make a fruit bed soon.

**Compo72** · 30-01-2016, 08:44 PM

Heavy clay though south facing garden
Considering the amount of rainfall we had recently it's drying out nicely

We worked a lot of straw and manure in to try and break down the soil best we can
This winter I've mulched with leaves over the top where I can .

**4390evans** · 30-01-2016, 10:59 PM

Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post

Is this your "homework" Evans?

Wooded
Exposed,
Terraced
Sloping,
Paved
Walled
Courtyard
Front
Wildlife
Waterlogged

I don't really know what you mean by the 2nd part of the question as nearly everything in my garden is homemade

Haha sort of, I want to put some fresh ideas into the shop. We have 4 "rooms" in the midde of the garden center (outside) and since they were put up the have always been a coloured room. At the min there is pink, green, yellow and white... so if people are coming in and they want something.. pink, lets say they can have a look in that room where they will find most of the pink plants that we have in stock, but I find that people come in and say "I live near the coast, nothing lives that I put in the garden. What can I plant for me to have a nice garden to surviver" or "I would love a cottage garden but I have heavy clay" I dont recall anyone coming in saying "I want something thats pink, white etc" what do you recon I this a good idea? Or do ypu think the coloured rooms are best?

We need a change, people get bored of seeing the same thing year in year out I am in need of ideas... inspiration...

**veggiechicken** · 31-01-2016, 12:08 AM

If I go to a GC to buy a plant I usually have an idea of what I want before I go. I don't fancy "coloured" rooms at all, unless its a display. I'd be looking for, say, all the climbers to be together, or evergreens. herbs or bedding plants, cottage garden perennials..............that sort of thing.
TBH, I rarely ask advice at a GC but I do read plant labels and would expect them to tell me what plant is suitable for where.

**Small pumpkin** · 31-01-2016, 12:36 AM

I wouldn't know where to start with trying to rearrange a GC.
I agree with VC about plant labels. I even make small information labels for some of the plants I sell at the garden gate. Only for the more unusual things, I try not to insult people by telling them how to grow a cabbage

**mothhawk** · 31-01-2016, 09:45 AM

My garden is small bordering on bijou, heavy clay (but greatly improved now in the top say 12" - 15" with all the compost added, but below that, I could make my own pots

), and north facing, so no sun at all until end of April, when it begins to touch the bottom foot of garden, one side in the morning, t'other in the afternoon after the sun has gone round the house.

There is a 6ft fence one side, 7ft hedge the other. Well, I say hedge, but it's one buckthorn that I have encouraged to grow sideways plus two euonymouses, or is that euonimice?

Like VC, I like the GC to be ordered according to type. I'd love it if they sub-divided it into sections according to growing conditions, e.g. climbers for shade, climbers for full sun, but it won't happen as that would mean less sales and more stock carried.

My GC seems to reduce choice year on year, as it adds more franchises inside and out, and I find often I need to buy online where I can find the plants I want. But I suppose folk that have little gardening desire but want a neat patch have enough choice of basic stuff that will survive mistreatment

**4390evans** · 31-01-2016, 10:26 AM

We have areas divided into bits like VC says, so we have fruit, climbers, roses, alpines, a-z of shrubs, bedding that is under a canopy, A-Z of herbaceous, a band stand area where it is graveled and ornaments or stone seats are put, dometic trees, ornamental trees and a box area oh and fern/conifer area.

We were told the rooms are meant to be something that people can take inspiration from, but if someone finds a plant in there that they really want but then find that its not suitable fore their garden then I think it would put people off buying or looking further.

There is a massive new build up the road so a room for poor soild would be ideal too, I think that would be great to look into for one of the rooms for this year.

**bramble** · 31-01-2016, 10:50 AM

I agree with VC. I would expect to find the varieties in groupings. As in annuals, perannuals fruit bushes, rose bushes, herbs etc.
My main complaint is lack of information and pricing on the label.

**Lumpy** · 31-01-2016, 11:01 AM

I regularly visit the local farm shop/nursery as it is only small but they have what I call a special needs poly tunnel where all the plants either pot bound or unwanted because they are deemed out of season.

It is a true bargain hunters paradise as last week I picked up 2 dwarf? carnations, 2 salvia's and a grass thingy (bronze in colour) for �3.50. They were all pot bound and had spent the winter outside.

Bargain.

As far as the teeny weeny garden is concerned we have small, narrow raised beds (link a bords), tyres for strawberry's, gravel (well next month at least) and the OH is as I type making a 3 tier salad trench out of some old pallet wood.

Half moon wall baskets will have sugar snaps in them and the long window baskets will have a mixture of beetroot, radish and sugar snaps in them.

**4390evans** · 31-01-2016, 02:40 PM

I am in today I will get some pics, although it may be messy as it was windy last night x

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