Hello to all - and a plea for a bit of simplification!
Due to being flooded I moved to a new rental last year. Basically a block carved out of the side of a field in the middle of nothing. Big flat '[' shape of grass around the house, with a barbed wire fence and a bit of a ditch separating it from the field.
Because it's rented (and I earn close to nothing) I genuinely can't afford to spend cash on it. On the other hand, I love gardening and I can't look at this neglected space for the next few years. Last Spring I dug out a herbaceous border along the roadside fence and filled it with plants from the dead zones in B&Q and B&M (white lupins, six hills giant, some oriental poppies, lucifers, sisyrinchiums, a pulsatilla, ox-eye daisies and some other randoms). I've recently binged badly on the £3.49 fruit trees from Aldi and now have 5 fruit trees and a weeping willow up at the front bit of the front lawn.
But the rest... it's just tangled grass and weeds up through the wire fence and flat turf for two of the three sides - I can't afford to hedge all the way round (though I do have 12 half price beech heeled in waiting for a plan) and it SO needs a bit of shaping. Or something.
I've been looking at it for a year now and still inspiration hasn't struck - could I please ask you for help with any and all ideas you might have - preferably ones that involve labour rather than money...
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AthelstaneTheUnready · 21/02/2016 19:11
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