Frank
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject: Silliest garden design you have seen? |
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We've all seen them. Gardens so ugly only their mother could love them. Usually the result of the owner having a over pretentious personality and a bad case of design blindness.
A mile or two from my parent's home in Ireland is a newly built house probably 2-3 years old which contains the worst garden I have ever seen. Just imagine a lawn. Now imagine 10 - 20 beds arbitrarily cut out in varying different shapes. It looks the cover of a really bad 80s album. Yuck! The sad part is they probably think it looks great 
Any design nightmares haunting your area?
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Seen some bad ones not enough care! Do u have any pic's of that one. Want to make sure I don't do anything ugly lol
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Apart from mine????  Yes, our next door neighbours have one of the ugliest gardens I've ever seen!!
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Gizmo wrote: | | Seen some bad ones not enough care! Do u have any pic's of that one. Want to make sure I don't do anything ugly lol |
Hmmm maybe I can do some stealth photography while they are enjoying their Xmas dinner. It will require some cunning  P.S only kidding!
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Polly
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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You guys may be talking about my yard. I have several beds here and there. Maybe I had better rethink my landscaping.
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Just what I was thinking Polly, sounds like my yard. Beds here and there, wherever there is a high piece of land. But then again, I plant what I like and how I like. LOL
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eerrrr, ummmmm, maybe I should rethink my plans for the front yard. 
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Hey guys, let's not rethink our plans. If we like them, who cares - if they are bad it keeps the neighbors from talking about somebody else.
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I'm with you, Polly, bad is in the eye of the beholder, just like beauty.
If your garden isn't the place to "please yourself" . . .
. . . well I just don't know,
plus if it drives the neighbors a wee bit crazy, hey that's gravy!! 
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I think everyone here has very lovely gardens!! I love to see everyone's!! I agree with you Polly and Zuzu!! Toni please don't change Fred he is great!!!!
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Oh, no, Julie, FRED is not changing except he is getting a bit larger this next spring.
But when I started thinking of plans for the front yard, my first idea was to have different shaped beds scattered around the yard....at least for starters. Then slowly enlarge each one till they were all joined into one big one.....very much like the way FRED started life.
When Frank started this topic I figured I would just razz him a bit. I would like to see pictures of that other yard tho. 
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jubabe296
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Oh thank goodness Toni!! Your front yard might just become Fredette one day!!hehehe! That would be great!!
I agree I want to see pictures of the yard Frank was talking about too!! It sounds interesting doesn't it?!!
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All gardens are beautiful, Even mine
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I haven't seen one bad looking garden posted by a member since the start so no-one has to worry And it is true what Zuzu said about bad being in the eye of the beholder.
Toni don't change FRED!
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I like the look of almost anything green, but I've seen a few things put into the ground that make me shake my head (What were they thinking??) - in the subdivision next to us, for instance... When I go walking I always pass a tiny little plot between two driveways that contains the metal cover for access to the pipes below. Someone, apparently wanting to hide the ugly access, has planted about 8-10 young cedar trees around it! Right now they are fluffy and aromatic and only about 4 feet tall, but can you imagine what a mess they will have in just a handful of years? So much for that access, or the driveways, for that matter.
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