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Southport Flower Show 2004 - 'Rejoice' a garden designed by Mark Fenton.
Facing a new challenge?
Moving house often presents gardeners with both problems and challenges. If your house has just been built you may be faced with a building site or something akin to one. There may be some rough landscaping amounting to grass and paving if you are lucky.
On the other hand you may be moving into a house which is not new, with the garden designed by someone else. It may be neat and tidy or it may be overgrown and strewn with weeds. Many people agree that having a clean canvass is much better to work from and that could be a plus with a newly built house.
However, we all need to stamp our identities on our gardens in the same way we do inside the house, so basically no matter whether the garden is neat and tidy or just a tip, you will want to get out there and make it your own. We don't always feel comfortable with a kitchen designed by someone else and the same can apply to a garden.
Younger gardeners may want to adopt the latest style trends and possibly want to go for a more clinical approach - stainless steel and grasses! Older gardeners may wish to be more traditional - the cottage garden approach and possibly a lawn and rose beds.
Or indeed as we get older still raised beds and pots may be more to our liking as we find heavy work more tiring and difficult. I will no doubt be accused of stereotyping here but I'm sure you get my drift. See our checklist of do's before starting your garden.
Reckless gardeners can have a tendency to just rush to the nearest garden centre or nursery and buy loads of plants without really giving much thought to what they want to achieve. Hopefully we can give you some ideas which might temper your recklessness and save you money. Also, don't forget to check out our plant list for different climates and conditions.
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