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"I'd not do without fragrance, as you can often smell the fragrances of flowers night and day. So much choice too - fragrant plants for all of the year, including winter honeusuckle. Some great climbers are incredible in a smaller space, adding their scents up to higher levels. Climbing roses can even count. My summer honeysuckles of different varieties and colours, are probably my top performers, as they completely fill the garden at night with their scent. Often not great in a very hot, dry part of the garden, as they can become prone to infection. Otherwise, dead simple. For a very hot spot, I'd probably take 1 of my jasmines. Obviously, unlike those 2 climbers, there are fragrant smaller olants of many typesm " I was just talking to a friend about honeysuckle and I think it was the first flower I sniffed as a child, I adore it and thanks for the reminder of evening fragrance I'm planning on being as insect friendly as possible, especially bees and want to plant at the edges and in large planters. I really have a love of scruffy plants, anemones, hellebores, nasturtium, anything that isn't uniform. | |||
"Probably the lawn and w**ds. The front garden over the summer I let the lawn go wild and always leave some w**ds in the back garden. Not so much designed but, apart from some purposefully grown plants, I wait to see what else might come up each year and go from there." Was supposed to say w-e-e-d-s  | |||
"Probably the lawn and s. The front garden over the summer I let the lawn go wild and always leave some s in the back garden. Not so much designed but, apart from some purposefully grown plants, I wait to see what else might come up each year and go from there." Fantastic isn't it! I've moved at least twenty times over the years and that's exactly what I do, wait to see what comes up. The most memorable was the garden of an Edwardian house I had, part in full sun, part in moist shade where amazing ferns grew. | |||
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"Probably the lawn and s. The front garden over the summer I let the lawn go wild and always leave some s in the back garden. Not so much designed but, apart from some purposefully grown plants, I wait to see what else might come up each year and go from there. Fantastic isn't it! I've moved at least twenty times over the years and that's exactly what I do, wait to see what comes up. The most memorable was the garden of an Edwardian house I had, part in full sun, part in moist shade where amazing ferns grew." I love ferns. Got about four (one just popped up in another pot) in pots which I have in a shady drop down bit where the patio ends. It's a bit of a 'dead spot' in the garden. But the ferns look good there. | |||
"My gazebo is a godsend ... got it from IKEA 3 years ago. Has the UV filter thing going on... keeps me dry if it rains... did have my hot tub under it, but that didn't come out this year, just table and chairs. Usually leave frame up all year round just take off the fabric during winter "It must be a really sturdy one then, I'll have to look on their site. | |||
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"I always have a nature area with plenty of bee friendly plants and bug boxes and I am also a tad addicted to acer trees in pots "I LOVE acers! It's a shame the well established ones are so expensive but at least one is part of my plan. Have you got a good variety? | |||
"I always have a nature area with plenty of bee friendly plants and bug boxes and I am also a tad addicted to acer trees in pots "I have loads of Acer's in pots at least 8 the oldest is 24 years old.... beautiful but now it's starting to loose its leaves winter is coming  | |||
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"Have just recently put up a greenhouse in preparation for the winter, so the plants and lemon trees can escape from frost. Love my wild garden area for the bugs and bees to enjoy. My hammock to chillax in while reading a book and sipping tea or wine. Finally, there has to be a shaded patio for breakfast and fresh coffee al fresco. " The shaded patio is the first thing on my list! I've been looking at all sorts of options but the best for price and practicality is going to be a stylish sort of car port. I had thought of an awning but the wall width restricts the canopy to only 2m and I want more shade than that. | |||
"I love trees, preferably planted into the ground, they give great shade and give great air quality, grass, some of which i let go wild, buddleia's, several of them, gunnera, roses and generally a big selection of plants, i also love bedding plants in large pots, mainly fuschia's and lobellia. Fruit and veg plants. We only have a small garden but pack a lot into it." I think a small packed garden is easier to manage, can't over do it. There are allotments about a three minute walk from the house, if I stop nomading around the country, I may just apply for one. | |||
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"Jasmines just for their heady scent at night. " There are very few plant smells I dislike but jasmine is one of them...and coriander! | |||
"Part of my job..love having a blank canvas and being left to it..dobe some amazing gardens with structural engineering reinforcing and terracing steep slopes and planting up..love it "Swoon! I hope you have pictures. | |||
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"Jasmines just for their heady scent at night. There are very few plant smells I dislike but jasmine is one of them...and coriander!" I agree with coriander yes a really dry sort of smell, I couldnt live without jasmine though  | |||
"Part of my job..love having a blank canvas and being left to it..dobe some amazing gardens with structural engineering reinforcing and terracing steep slopes and planting up..love it
Swoon! I hope you have pictures."I do but not on here...done a couple that involved abseiling etc..wkd and to see the plants later blossom and the perfumes on the air  | |||
"I'd not do without fragrance, as you can often smell the fragrances of flowers night and day. So much choice too - fragrant plants for all of the year, including winter honeusuckle. Some great climbers are incredible in a smaller space, adding their scents up to higher levels. Climbing roses can even count. My summer honeysuckles of different varieties and colours, are probably my top performers, as they completely fill the garden at night with their scent. Often not great in a very hot, dry part of the garden, as they can become prone to infection. Otherwise, dead simple. For a very hot spot, I'd probably take 1 of my jasmines. Obviously, unlike those 2 climbers, there are fragrant smaller olants of many typesm I was just talking to a friend about honeysuckle and I think it was the first flower I sniffed as a child, I adore it and thanks for the reminder of evening fragrance I'm planning on being as insect friendly as possible, especially bees and want to plant at the edges and in large planters. I really have a love of scruffy plants, anemones, hellebores, nasturtium, anything that isn't uniform." I've had some hummingbird hawk-moths around my honeysuckle - they're amazing and can be like clockwork, appearing at the same time everyday. They're definitely a great and very versatile plant. Our own native honeysuckle has obviously supported many types of wildlife for centuries, so the cultivars ee can buy are familiar to them. They carry red berries in autumn and winter, so feed birds then too. I'm with you on lack of formality and like the scruffy look of flowers. I have tons of hellebores, I let them selfseed, they firm new merged colours, their oversized leaves are great for the hedgehogs to mooch around in here for food. Some of the climbers are ideal in tubs - they definitely make the most of any space that's restricted. My non-fragrant climber I've been enjoying for a few years is a deep purple passion flower, which is covered in buds atm - I can pretend that there's a stronger scent 
My Nicotiana sylvestris is Flowering madly now. Normally an annual, it can live through winters with a little protection. It's a cousin of the tobacco olant, a really tall species that has a heady scent similar to carnations/Dianthus.
If you can have a winter honeysuckle near to the doorway, it's great to smell through winter, when little else is around. It's more if a shrubby bush, unlike the climbers that flower in summer that we know. It's great against a wall, will grow to 8' or so. | |||
"Jasmines just for their heady scent at night. There are very few plant smells I dislike but jasmine is one of them...and coriander! I agree with coriander yes a really dry sort of smell, I couldnt live without jasmine though "There are a few plants known as jasmine. Jasminum, the genus is I assume what we can only truly refer to as jasmine. Some colloquial 'jasmines' I assume were given their common names because they bore some similarities, such as strong scents and star like flowers. The type of the perfume can be very different, so some may like some, others different ones. I have a pink jasmine that is the must-visit plant for all bees in my garden. I don't like its almost invisible scent but bees presumably prefer its food supply. | |||
"Probably the lawn and w**ds. The front garden over the summer I let the lawn go wild and always leave some w**ds in the back garden. Not so much designed but, apart from some purposefully grown plants, I wait to see what else might come up each year and go from there. Was supposed to say w-e-e-d-s "Weeds will always find a way they were here long before most garden plants and If not before them there are certain ones you have to keep in check like bramble If along with any nettles you may have but If you have a spare corner for these plants and you manage them that is cut them back when needed you,ll create a small area for wildlife birds will nest in the bramble when its thick enough and any thorns in the branches will help to deter cats, nettles will encourage butterflies to lay their eggs on like small tortoiseshell butterflies along with others to that might pass by, similar to yourself I let my garden do its own thing for a while till I set about it for a bit If you can mulch the ground occasionally where dug with bark mulchings the ground will benefit from that. | |||
"Jasmines just for their heady scent at night. " Personally, I find jasmine too strong a scent. Probably because my sight and sound isn’t the best, this heightens my sense of smell (and taste) | |||
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"If my garden was bigger I’d have some hydrangeas. They were my nanas favourites. Love you nana "If you stick a penny in the soil on one half they go blue. | |||
".. Finally, there has to be a shaded patio for breakfast and fresh coffee al fresco. The shaded patio is the first thing on my list! I've been looking at all sorts of options but the best for price and practicality is going to be a stylish sort of car port. I had thought of an awning but the wall width restricts the canopy to only 2m and I want more shade than that." Can you use some fast growing plants or tubs for shade and a large sun umbrella, rather than having a construction built? A patio that has shade at varying times of the day is ideal, so a combination of sunshade and plants would be more practical? | |||
"If my garden was bigger I’d have some hydrangeas. They were my nanas favourites. Love you nana
If you stick a penny in the soil on one half they go blue. "Get the fuck outta here!!! She had ones just like that either side of her front doors. | |||
"If my garden was bigger I’d have some hydrangeas. They were my nanas favourites. Love you nana
If you stick a penny in the soil on one half they go blue.
Get the fuck outta here!!!
She had ones just like that either side of her front doors."I used to call them sleeping beauty plants because one side was pink, the other was blue and in the middle they were pink and blue mix. Like the dress when the fairy godmothers couldn’t decide what colour it should be  | |||
"If my garden was bigger I’d have some hydrangeas. They were my nanas favourites. Love you nana
If you stick a penny in the soil on one half they go blue.
Get the fuck outta here!!!
She had ones just like that either side of her front doors.
I used to call them sleeping beauty plants because one side was pink, the other was blue and in the middle they were pink and blue mix. Like the dress when the fairy godmothers couldn’t decide what colour it should be "That phenomenon is called incomplete dominance or co-dominance  | |||
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"I'd not do without fragrance, as you can often smell the fragrances of flowers night and day. So much choice too - fragrant plants for all of the year, including winter honeusuckle. Some great climbers are incredible in a smaller space, adding their scents up to higher levels. Climbing roses can even count. My summer honeysuckles of different varieties and colours, are probably my top performers, as they completely fill the garden at night with their scent. Often not great in a very hot, dry part of the garden, as they can become prone to infection. Otherwise, dead simple. For a very hot spot, I'd probably take 1 of my jasmines. Obviously, unlike those 2 climbers, there are fragrant smaller olants of many typesm I was just talking to a friend about honeysuckle and I think it was the first flower I sniffed as a child, I adore it and thanks for the reminder of evening fragrance I'm planning on being as insect friendly as possible, especially bees and want to plant at the edges and in large planters. I really have a love of scruffy plants, anemones, hellebores, nasturtium, anything that isn't uniform. I've had some hummingbird hawk-moths around my honeysuckle - they're amazing and can be like clockwork, appearing at the same time everyday. They're definitely a great and very versatile plant. Our own native honeysuckle has obviously supported many types of wildlife for centuries, so the cultivars ee can buy are familiar to them. They carry red berries in autumn and winter, so feed birds then too. I'm with you on lack of formality and like the scruffy look of flowers. I have tons of hellebores, I let them selfseed, they firm new merged colours, their oversized leaves are great for the hedgehogs to mooch around in here for food. Some of the climbers are ideal in tubs - they definitely make the most of any space that's restricted. My non-fragrant climber I've been enjoying for a few years is a deep purple passion flower, which is covered in buds atm - I can pretend that there's a stronger scent
My Nicotiana sylvestris is Flowering madly now. Normally an annual, it can live through winters with a little protection. It's a cousin of the tobacco olant, a really tall species that has a heady scent similar to carnations/Dianthus.
If you can have a winter honeysuckle near to the doorway, it's great to smell through winter, when little else is around. It's more if a shrubby bush, unlike the climbers that flower in summer that we know. It's great against a wall, will grow to 8' or so."Hedgehog holes! Thanks for the reminder. Very few cars in the area and the back of the house is quiet and not overlooked so I bet theres a few piggies around, they can hoover up the bloody slugs. The garden is all wooden fence so I'll put some holes in. | |||
".. Finally, there has to be a shaded patio for breakfast and fresh coffee al fresco. The shaded patio is the first thing on my list! I've been looking at all sorts of options but the best for price and practicality is going to be a stylish sort of car port. I had thought of an awning but the wall width restricts the canopy to only 2m and I want more shade than that. Can you use some fast growing plants or tubs for shade and a large sun umbrella, rather than having a construction built? A patio that has shade at varying times of the day is ideal, so a combination of sunshade and plants would be more practical? " I'll be constructing a kitchen in that bit (not a BBQ) and I'm very sun averse so I'll be looking for proper shade. It will have climbers all over it though | |||
"Probably the lawn and w**ds. The front garden over the summer I let the lawn go wild and always leave some w**ds in the back garden. Not so much designed but, apart from some purposefully grown plants, I wait to see what else might come up each year and go from there. Was supposed to say w-e-e-d-s Weeds will always find a way they were here long before most garden plants and If not before them there are certain ones you have to keep in check like bramble If along with any nettles you may have but If you have a spare corner for these plants and you manage them that is cut them back when needed you,ll create a small area for wildlife birds will nest in the bramble when its thick enough and any thorns in the branches will help to deter cats, nettles will encourage butterflies to lay their eggs on like small tortoiseshell butterflies along with others to that might pass by, similar to yourself I let my garden do its own thing for a while till I set about it for a bit If you can mulch the ground occasionally where dug with bark mulchings the ground will benefit from that."I'll remember that about the bark mulchings. In the back garden have a specific area for letting it go wild but haven't kept on top of all the s as well as I should do. But I find it has a certain charm with a slightly managed run down look. Feels like there is more life in it. | |||
"If my garden was bigger I’d have some hydrangeas. They were my nanas favourites. Love you nana
If you stick a penny in the soil on one half they go blue.
Get the fuck outta here!!!
She had ones just like that either side of her front doors.
I used to call them sleeping beauty plants because one side was pink, the other was blue and in the middle they were pink and blue mix. Like the dress when the fairy godmothers couldn’t decide what colour it should be
That phenomenon is called incomplete dominance or co-dominance " fancy!
And there I was calling them sleeping beauty plants  | |||
"I love trees, preferably planted into the ground, they give great shade and give great air quality, grass, some of which i let go wild, buddleia's, several of them, gunnera, roses and generally a big selection of plants, i also love bedding plants in large pots, mainly fuschia's and lobellia. Fruit and veg plants. We only have a small garden but pack a lot into it. I think a small packed garden is easier to manage, can't over do it. There are allotments about a three minute walk from the house, if I stop nomading around the country, I may just apply for one." I agree about small gardens we do have a fair sized area of grass still for the grandchildren to run about on.
Our garden is an unusual shape so some of our veg and fruit are in a secluded area away from the house but we have strawberrys, tomatoes and fruit trees near the house. | |||
