Is this garden too much for me?

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I've found my dream home but it has a rather large walled garden. Being a complete townie I've never done any gardening in my life so my OH thinks it will be too much for me . All I can see is lawn to be trimmed and bushes to be cut but am I missing something? I really want to go and view the house but my husband is refusing even though he loves it too as he thinks it will all end up on his chore list!!
Please tell me if I'm being too unrealistic?
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Wow that’s a fantastic property.
Nah the garden will be fine! Or you could always employ someone to do it for you! Get one of those ride-on lawnmower and you’re set

Its a beautiful house. The garden doesn't look difficult to look after - its mostly grass and you could pay someone to cut it?

That is a beautiful house. Ask a gardener for a quote as the hedges and lawn will need regular maintenance.

lovely property- im super jealous of the huge garden. You will though need to probably get a ride-on lawn mower. Plus to keep it so green you may need to get a sprinkler/consider the additional water charges.

If you could afford those two things then i see no reason to turn it down- a load of flowers/ plants to tend to Id find more stressful

A walled garden is my dream garden . Just because you’ve never been a gardener doesn’t mean you can’t learn or won’t be good at it . Go and see the property . A ride on mower would soon sort that out . Grass doesn’t grow much in winter so it’s not a year round chore either .

That looks bout as low maintinance as it can get.
I like gardening so would be digging up a lot of that lawn for veggies and flowers but as a start can go at your own pace.Sit on mowers are fun!

oh how amazing!

the thing is, what do you want a garden to look like? I don't have one but I wouldn't want one to be perfectly manicured anyway.

I'd go for it!

You have enough room to plant lots of fruit trees , apples, plums, pear ( you’d need a south facing wall ) like a mini orchard . And then raspberries,gooseberries, tayberries, red and black currants . These are all easy to grow and might just get your husband into gardening too . Please go and see it, there’s lots of advise for budding gardeners about . It’s really the most wonderful hobby ever , especially if you can eat it .

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Looks amazing and garden not difficult, just that the size means it’s not a quick job. He’d probably love it if you got a ride on mower

Thank you everyone, you think the same as me! The house is stretching our budget but I think it has so much potential. I honestly don't even know what are weeds or flowers but I think because it's just lawn and bushes it's not daunting me yet! Of course it's a bit too much lawn for a push mower I hadn't even thought of that!

Awesome! But this isn't a garden, it's just lawn and trees. You'd have to mow the lawn and trim the hedges, that's all.

"Garden" is when you think carefully what to plant and where, what loves sun and what can live in a shade, when the blooms come and how to combine different colours, whether you like to attract insects, or love scented plants and shrubs. Gardening is also about aesthetics, not just maintenance, and the bigger the space to fill the more time and money you'll need if you want to create an amazing garden.

This property has a clean modern look, and the minimalistic (yet huge) garden reflects it. It's not going to be as much work as in, say, traditional "English cottage garden".

Weeds are just flowers in the wrong place...

You can get apps which tell you what plants are by taking photos of them.

However my rule is, if it pulls up easily it's a weed, if it has a bulb it's a plant, and if it's got a tuber for a root then it's a dandelion

Ooh that's nice 😍
You could always let the bottom half of the garden go 'wild' and put up a pretty fence to separate from the neat garden - very good for the environment, butterflies, birds etc

Buy it, that's gorgeous!

You cut the grass and get a gardener once a month to look at the bushes, until you can learn enough about how and when to prune them
give it to meeee

It’s beautiful. If we wanted to live as far north as that we’d be going to view it too. The garden is incredibly low maintenance, cut the grass April to October/November and that’s it. You could always turn a bit of it into wildflower meadow and you’d only have to cut that once a year.

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That garden is a blank canvas which you can use to teach yourself about gardening. Start small then expand your ideas as you become more confident. House is lovely too.

That is a LOT of mowing. it takes me an hour (twice a week in full growing season) to do our lawns but I would still happily move into that house. It is lovely.

That's a very easycare garden. Get a robot mower set up. I'm sure you can pay someone to set it up for you. The rest looks very easy to maintain.

God, that's a gorgeous bit of potential! It won't be a massive chore at all, but if it was mine, I'd have a whale of a time making it into one

You really won't need to water that lawn ever. Grass recovers. Green Thumb do a feed and weed 4 times a year for me and it probably costs less than buying the chemicals myself.

I would budget for one of those or gardener one or twice a month.

Seriously, check the prices in your area, they don't cost that much. I was surprised at how little we paid when I last had a flat and quite a lot of ground (shared by all the flats, nothing fancy)

It's a fairly basic garden in terms of maintenance, but it will take a good day every now and then to do it. Is your DH always so lazy that a big lawn will put him off something?