I absolutely love this thread, possibly one of the greatest threads on the internet (for me) !
I've been watching Oxford for over 40 years, and one of the lovely and fascinating things about this thread is the various posters I have agreed with, or disagreed with over the decades, and this thread just does away with any of that, incredible.
I am no gardener, and really only got into it around the last 5 years, mainly because I like the symmetry and life of flowers - it seems to rest my dyslexic mind. I work for myself, and don't have enough time to garden as much as I'd like, but when I do, it brings me a lot of joy, and I sleep well.
The reason I quoted this post, is because embarrassingly enough, I go on the Gardners World forum for much the same reason as the post - I don't really have any idea of what I'm reading, but I love it, even their daily diaries of what all the old folk get up too.
I really like that the majority of posters on this thread appear more into veg gardening - I am purely flower/ferns/cacti/pines and other plants.
We moved to Whitstable around 2.5 years ago with our boy, and the garden was like
the land that time forgot, and dangerous. The before photo is on the left, and the right hand photo is last December.
The black decking we put down brings me a lot of joy, every day.
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