Hello, my DH, DS and I are due to move soon from our top floor flat and never having a garden to, FC, our family home with an incredible 150ft+ garden.
Please could you recommend me some good websites/books that may help a complete pair of novices like us get our head round a bit of gardening? Or any top tips from yourselves at how to reign a rather messy garden back in to shape and make it a little more young DC friendly?
We have only visited on rather dark and damp days but the garden seems to have lots of slightly unruly looking shrubs to the sides that are quite overwhelming and block the view from past the first 50m. Can't spot anything flowering, how long would buried bulbs etc take to spring up? We hate the idea of ripping the flowerbeds up if there are some lovely plants and flowers already established and just waiting to arrive.
Also my DH seems overjoyed at the idea of going to the garden centre and filling his trolley with every shiny pair of secateurs that comes his way. What would you say is really needed and what is phaff that'll collect dust in the shed?
Thank you so much and sorry for the waffling!
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Wibblytummy · 15/03/2013 12:45
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