Conifer screening

[JoceAndChris]

I'm sure that Juju and I and perhaps Joss? both feel the same as you do - much nicer to be out there than inside! The NGS is a fine ambition, I secretly have that too but think it's around 20 yrs away. Very sensible of you to buy such a pretty house with a lovely garden, I think you've tweaked it to perfection. We inherited the opposite - an acre of unplanned overgrowth which just 20 years ago was a wood. I do what I can ( and Chris also works in London so there's only the weekend for the power tools) but what I really need is a week or two of the services of a stump grinding man, a path-layer, a folly-builder, a lake digger for the field we bought, a pond-maker, and a team of tree surgeons who have chainsaws ten times the size of ours and who can climb 100 feet. Then I could properly get it shaped for the planting. No funds for that as yet, but hopefully there will be. In the meantime I just have to plod on with things like the screening and ornamental hedging ( though even that's a nightmare with gigantic trees in the way), and try not to get too depressed with it all - the house never gets me down these days (probably because I ignore the faults), but the garden makes me occasionally question the sanity of our purchase.

It's nice to see the standard of yours and know it can be achieved.

 

[Alex]

Joce, if you go to the RHS website you can go to their plant selector page. Type in which type of plant you want (tree, climber, shrub), soil type (clay, sandy, dry), whether you want it to flower or evergreen etc. They then suggest plants which will suit your garden conditions. I think there is also a section to tell you where you can buy them.

P.S. I am hopeless at putting links in, I have attempted to do it below so if it doesn't work it must be a technical problem but if it does work, it was just my natural skill :wink:

http://www.rhs.org.uk/plants



Edit - I am not at all jealous of Tobydogs garden.