What do you do if you have a decent sized garden which needs attention - and you a) hate gardening and b) don't have time for it, and c) can't afford a gardener?
I don't know a lesser-spotted fritillary from winter-flowering jasmine. I can just about tell you what a rose looks like. I HATE trimming hedges. I LOATHE mowing the lawn. I find plants and flowers nice to look at but so, so boring to maintain. We bioth work, and the last thing we want to do at weekends is go out and do back-breaking garden work.
Next door one side (young couple) are the same and employ a gardener on a regular basis. We had him twice, and it cost an arm and a leg.
Next door the other side is retired and his garden is his pride and joy - he spends every daylight hour in it, making it look wonderful. Neat lawns, lovely flowers, boxy trimmed hedges.
So it's us letting the side down with our jungle!
We have a lot of shrubbery-cover, so the weeds don't get too rampant. But they are pretty bad at the moment. The lawn was looking awful, but I've been out to mow it and it looks OK now. Still a bit ragged and amateurish compared with next door, though!