to have taken 47 years to realise I am not a gardener

[OrmIrian]

My mum has fingers so green she can make EVERYTHING grow. Ditto my big brother. I do not. Really. Not at all. i want to be a real gardener. I want to have seedlings and cuttings sprouting out of hundreds of random containers. I want to fill all the spaces in my garden with interesting plants tht don't instantly protest by dying on me . I even have a greenhouse now since we moved - it's full of dead plants that I planted last year with great enthusiasm .

Dad is like me. He likes wielding a mower, a rotivator and weedkiller and planting too many trees but he isn't a gardener.

I have realised that what I actually like is pottering and pootling. I do a bit of weeding, a little light seed-planting, some planting out and a bit of planning that comes to very little. That realisation has come as a big relief as it happens.

[Shakey1500]

I wouldn't know where to start, have zero interest even. Which is not good considering we've just moved to a house with a bigger garden

DH used to be a landscape gardener though you wouldn't know it so I shall leave it to him. As long as I've got my fancy decking with lights I don't care.

I even managed to kill the little plant thingy (no idea what it may have been) that DS proudly gave me for mother's day

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Come over to the come into the garden with Maud thread. We'll indoctrinate you offer useful and constructive advice.

[AgentZigzag]

I'm the same, with a similar family background of dedicated gardeners, and I've come to the conclusion that I'd like to be thought of as keeping our garden nice but in reality I just can't be arsed haven't got it in me

We've ended up going for lots of perenials (perennials?) and shrubs in the places that need weeding

[Shakey1500]

I always mx up the words "perennial" and "perenium"

Just as well I'm neither a gardener or a gynaecologist

I think I'll go for the "wild" garden look. Dig around a bit and throw some random mixed bag of seeds around, see what comes up.

[AgentZigzag]

YY to our garden being 'wildlife friendly' shakey

I often use that as justification to myself that I should sit inside and MN instead of grafting in the garden.

[McHappyPants2012]

i am rubbish at gardening, i cut the grass and even that looks like a very bad haircut lol.

my mum however buys plants that are close to death cost 5p and they come back to life, my dad is a keen gardener and grows all his own fruit and veg (very tasty aswell). I think i must of been adopted lol

[PoppyWearer]

Me too! I frustrate my mum so much because she adores gardening but has a small garden, whilst we have a larger garden but don't have a clue and end up paying a friend to come and sort it out for us (the big, messy stuff). I love growing stuff from seeds but nothing ever thrives under my care!

[neverquitesure]

"I do a bit of weeding, a little light seed-planting, some planting out and a bit of planning that comes to very little"

Sounds like a gardener to me. I aspire to this level