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I'd love to have a hive or two of bees. And I'm thinking about growing hops in/ on the front hedge/ fence/ bank/ boundary. What would you like to have in your garden?
I'd like more bees,if not an actual hive - our bee box had no vacancies a couple of years back, barely any takers now. 🙁 More trees, a firepit and a permanent BBQ. 🙂
Less cats, please. I’d like more bees, but flowers are in short supply so far, and the garden centres are closed. A greater variety of birds, although we get quite a few on the feeders.
Bees. A man cave, or at least a covered and powered bbq area.
pump track
Sex
Hmmm. A firepit might not go amiss here. Ponders and wanders off....
A trail network, a man-cave/cinema, pump track and more wild life.
Boy #1 once set up a projector and sound system in the garden for a party. It was pretty good tbh, despite being displayed onto pebbledash instead of a proper screen.
A Henry Moore sculpture that I can look at while smoking opium, sipping absinthe and reading poetry
A pond for wildlife. I'll have a go at digging one shortly.
And a wildlife hide. I want to put some windows on an old shed, and make it comfy for sitting in.
Another blackbird nest somewhere I can see into it, I really miss those little guys
Talking of bees, we seeded a wild meadow area at the end of garden a couple of weeks ago, it would be nice if it starts growing soon.
I’m supposed to have a big shed built in garden by now, but obviously that’s on hold.
Keep thinking about a fire pit but haven’t got around to doing anything about it yet.
Sausages in the lawn
Fewer weeds, I'd concrete the lot front and back if I had the spare cash.
Boy #1 once set up a projector and sound system in the garden for a party. It was pretty good tbh, despite being displayed onto pebbledash instead of a proper screen.
I once went on a house holiday with maybe a dozen geeky couples. We decided to watch a film one night and long story short, between us we managed to rig up a 5.1 surround-sound outdoor cinema just using the crap we'd all happened to have with us. White buildings make for great projector screens.
A garden.
Just have a brick yard barely bigger than my bike shed.
Do live next door to our allotments though so that's good.
A door out to it instead of climbing out a window
Astroturf instead of gravel
Already has a herb garden, beer taps, pizza oven and BBQ
My cherry tree is hoaching with bees.
Nesting birds would be nice. Aim to have some options for the birdies of various incomes for next year
A 4 bed detached house with a double garage/mancave.
A natural swimming pool, a small wood and a big wildflower meadow.
A door out to it instead of climbing out a window
Thought you'd been told to stay off your downstairs neighbours roof.
2 medium sized trees, perhaps Rowan that I could sling a hammock between, banging some posts in with a parasol is just not the same.
A gardener.
Grass, it seems to given up on us this year...
I'd also like a small wood on a hill, pumptrack and downhill track for future lockdowns 🙂
No snails, no slugs, more bees.
A larger orchard. Only have apple trees at the moment, would like some pears as well. Oh, and more than one medlar would be good.
I have a very ugly conifer taking up a prime spot in my garden, I can’t decide if I should put a seating area, a pond or a Japanese maple there.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
A flat garden rather than stupid slopes and terraces.
A bit less patio and a bit more lawn in the back.
Sort out the lower concrete patio and put a permanent BBQ and/or firepit in.
Get the veg pat h up and running again.
Replace part of the heavy clay/sloping moss infested front lawn with an extra off road parking space
More sunlight - we are due north facing ex-railway embankment.
Flat ground. See above.
Summerhouse with rocketstove heated seating and pizza oven combined.
More ferns less reeds! Tiny garden, but it has all these massive waterside type plants that really shoot up this time of year. Had a bloke round last year (my mum sent him!) but he came wrong time of year so didn't see the bloody great reeds to get rid of.
But! I planted some ferns (I like ferns) taken from the local woods... and they died. Boo. But a year later they are growing! Hurrah! Might get some more later. That's about as much care as I take of my garden. Full of weeds.
Neighbour's garden is immaculate and at night it's lit up like some kind of silent rave! All these weird glowing bulbs, what's the bleedin point of that?!
But! I planted some ferns (I like ferns) taken from the local woods… and they died. Boo. But a year later they are growing! Hurrah! Might get some more later. That’s about as much care as I take of my garden. Full of weeds.
Neighbour’s garden is immaculate and at night it’s lit up like some kind of silent rave! All these weird glowing bulbs, what’s the bleedin point of that?!
Interesting, I'd love some ferns in the borders too.
I like subtle outdoor lighting, wee yin wanted some string LEDs for her room, I accidentally ordered solar ones instead, shoved them out in the garden round the bike shed eaves, they're brilliant, come on themselves around 9pm or whenever the light levels are low enough, I wa sup at half 5 on monday and they were still going.
I'll be getting some more, for sure. I like my garden to feel like a living area, another part of the house, lighting helps that.
[i]I planted some ferns (I like ferns) taken from the local woods[/i] - We have some ferns growing that MrsWCA wants moving (to another garden). If she still feels that same when the plague passes I am sure you can have some.
As they say when growing ferns - With Fronds like these, who needs anemones
Why do some of you want hives?
Much cooler than bees I am sure you will all agree
A portal to the beach would be handy about now...
I keep mentioning one of those swimjet endless pools to Mrs Dubs, but she's not keen on losing the lawn 🙂
That, sir, is an awful colour, does not do your handiwork justice.
Aside from the aspirational, I'd really like some birds to visit my feeders. Bought top quality food, squirrel proof feeders and tried loads of spots. Not a bird hath graced me with their presence. It's like sixth form all over again.
No grey squirrels and then I could put the bird feeders back up!
It's a bird feeder not a blinking grey squirrel feeder!
DezB - buy some ferns from a nursery or garden centre, don't take them from the woods please. The ground ferns in my local woods are starting into growth now and I know they will look magnificent in a few weeks time 🙂
DezB – buy some ferns from a nursery or garden centre, don’t take them from the woods please.
No. There's literally millions over the local woods and the water company are turning it into a reservoir in the next couple of years, so er, no. Mind yer biz 😉
Much cooler than bees I am sure you will all agree
Is that a Covid-19 scarer?
The funny thin about bee hives is (unless you take the lid off) you don’t really see a lot of bees as their forage radius is about 20 square miles.
There’s a bee keeper running 6 hives 50 yard from my front door.-.... we never see any honey bees.
there used to be large hover flies - black with a white band - that used to live in my garden in Glasgow and I’d love to have those again
Less borders. We bought the house from a retried couple, lovely garden but too much upkeep with a young family.
And a pump track.
I keep bees. It’s not as difficult or intrusive as you might think. They go about their business, you look at em once a week, then enjoy the spoils of their work in late summer. If you want to get started contact your local bee keeping association, through the British Bee Keepers Association and they’ll help you get started. Most run a theory and a practical course to get you going, then offer a mentor once you get your own hive. It’s a fascinating hobby.
The rusted remains of a Mk2 Ford Granada
pizza oven is all i need now....
A wood, an archery lawn and some peacocks.
Less woodpigeons nesting, and the magpie nest can **** off too. Do have blackbirds nesting too which is nice 🙂 .
an archery lawn and some peacocks
Peacocks are hideous creatures. Pheasants with a massive marketing budget.
Not sure a bow and arrow would be sufficient.
My wider family at a BBQ, sitting together and chatting happily
Peacocks are hideous creatures
Yes! That peacock (well, peahen) that nested in my garden was a right bastard! When I got rid of it's (rotten) eggs it came looking for me. I was scared!
Peacocks are hideous creatures.
The Peacocks are to fletch the arrows, silly!
I assume they've been banished from Flashheart manor?
I assume they’ve been banished from Flashheart manor?
Not banished exactly.
They were partners in Flashy's short lived foray into the world of convenience food for the upper classes.
KFP.
It never really caught on.
I really want a sauna, a tree house and climbing wall. That stuff would fit in my garden just about. If we are playing make believe I'll have a swimming pool a jump track and some of my groupies.
A pond.
Fernists see https://www.hardytropicals.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19040
A bigger veg patch and a slope at one end, for sledging down in winter.
Pampas grass out the front
Hot tub in the back
A robot that shoots water at the cat that looks like Hitler to scare it off, but leaves the other cats alone
I'd like my modest pond to be bigger, deeper and properly lined. Chances of this happening = zero; our two teenagers are still moaning about how I should have made it into a (small) swimming pool instead. So if I dare to go near the ground with a spade, or any potential spend is going to be shot down in flames (the ladies in the house want a hot-tub or one of those overblown paddling pool things).
Other than that - being realistic - another bee-keeper in waiting so some hives would be nice. I was signed up to the Sussex associations course this year but that's been cancelled what with everything going on. So the hives will have to wait until next year. Somewhere permanent and covered to leave the pizza oven and BBQ out. A decent outside furniture set would be nice.
If we're talking money-no-object; a garden designer would be good, then someone to come in to move the chicken run, lay a proper area of decking and then install one of those garden pods, complete with heating and lighting...