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A few garden features, that I hope will offer inspiration to others.

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  Posted by Eddie Jefferies (U14812826) on Sunday, 13th March 2011

  Hi,
  
  I stumbled across this forum, whilst searching for an idea that I have for a really off the wall garden project, that I hope will be very much unique. Thankfully I haven't found anything like the project that I am intending to build, but whilst here, I thought that I would share some of my other recent garden projects, which I hope may help to give inspiration to others.
  To me gardens should be about fun and access. Sadly, both are lacking in many gardens. I remember being bored brainless as a child when walking around gardens. My aim with creating this garden, which is still a very long way from completion, is to have something for everyone of all ages. I also want the garden to be fully accessible to every area for disabled people as well as able bodied.
  Gardens also very often lack one important feature, somewhere to sit and enjoy them. Again, this is a no no to me, and when finished, I expect to have approx twenty different seating positions which will follow sun and theme.
  All work has and is being completed by myself, and I hope to have it all finished within the next year or so, which isn't bad considering that I only started approx three years ago and I am having to do it all in evenings and at weekends.
  
  The log feature isn't quite finished, but you get the idea.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Here is also a few of my other projects.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I am more than happy to provide more info about the garden etc if anyone so wishes.

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  Posted by daintiness (U3887838) on Sunday, 13th March 2011

  Whoa! very inspirational, you have a lot of talent.The garden will be beautiful once the plants grow up around your wonderful features.
  I love the fir cone snake - how did you join the cones together?

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  Posted by Eddie Jefferies (U14812826) on Sunday, 13th March 2011

  Many thanks.
  
  The cone snake was made by threading thin stainless steel lockwire around each cone, then twisting the wire together with pliers. I have many more ideas for creating lots of differing pine cone animals, but sadly the cones are currently too tightly closed to make anything. You really need them wide open, as it just becomes almost impossible and hard work.

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  Posted by nanpickle (U14258493) on Monday, 14th March 2011

  What a clever man you are Eddie, and what imagination you have - you quite put my mundane garden to shame !!! Nan x

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  Posted by grassisgreener (U14569661) on Monday, 14th March 2011

  WOW that is lovely.
  Wish i had your imagination your garden looks huge.
  Sue,

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  Posted by Eddie Jefferies (U14812826) on Monday, 14th March 2011

  Thanks for the replies.
  
  Sadly I can't claim to own the garden, it's my mother-in-laws. I just get to come up with the features and do the work!!
  
  This is how it looked just a couple of years ago.
  
  Veg plot.
  
  
  
  
  
  Front area.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Posted by Twiggy (U3854938) on Monday, 14th March 2011

  Well, Eddie, when you have finished with MIL's garden, you are more than welcome to bring your marvellous skills to mine. You are very artistic. Beautiful work. Looking at what it was like before you started, it amazes me how you knew where to start.

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  Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Tuesday, 15th March 2011

  The log arbour is a neat idea Eddie.
  Have you creosoted every log before you put it in? If you have it should last 40 years, regularly creosoted.
  
  Other than that. What have you sown in the way of seeds or bulbs?
  
  There seems to be huge potential for a hundred thousand blue bell bulbs in that wooded area. Even they can cost a bob or two. (a few bucks.).
  
  I have got a quarter of an acre, and I am doing mine by hand! every centimetre of it, to a depth of 6' . I am not a photographer, guided as I have always been, by Aristotle's theories on reality!
  
  When the quarter acre looks really good I shall acquire another acre adjacent.
  My long term plans are over one and a quarter acres of rich soil.
  
  I am potting my seeds at the moment, planted my spuds, hopefully to show off later in the summer.
  
  Enjoy the plantings.

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  Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Tuesday, 15th March 2011

  As a prospective collector of plant specimens we have got a good many amazing collections of plant gardens in the UK. You would be thrilled to bits by them, and if you don't already see your way forwards, becoming a collector is the way to be.
  
  What specimen collections is the garden most suited for?
  
  Both the US and European countries have specimen collection guides and societies.

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  Posted by Eddie Jefferies (U14812826) on Tuesday, 15th March 2011

  Many thanks gardda, not least because you have now given me something to read about .. Aristotle's theories on reality. Thank You.
  
  In respect of the logstack, the logs are oak and I intend to cover the top/roof with a waterproof underlay, followed by timber to look like shingles.
  
  I believe that art of almost any form become stale and boring after a time, and that change is always a good thing and should be embraced. With this in mind, the logstack will only be around for a few years before I take it down to burn. I already have something in mind to replace it with.
  Ideas are easy, time and more often, money are the hard part. Where possible, my challenge and interest is to construct things from materials that are free and or being thrown out.
  
  As for the woodland area, I would like to fill it with Rhododendrons and Azaleas, which I dream of under planting with mauve Candelabra Primula. Sadly though, planting is very much restricted by lack of finance!!

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  Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Tuesday, 15th March 2011

  Eddie,
  Your carpentry art forms are marvellous but are you any good at working from seed or cuttings? if you are then the garden will not cost very much.
  
  I am building walls out of grass at the moment! I can't afford the brick and cement work, which I would do myself. I shall be rebuilding the sides of an ancient water well in the summer.
  
  If you know how to propagate by layering and by division of roots, creating new plants can be easy in some species.
  
  Rhodos usually revert to their vulgaris ,Ponticum purpurea forms when layered so that won't do!
  
  Daffs and primroses and blue bells thicken up nicely if well spread out for planting.
  
  I have just set nasturtium, geranium, and tomato seeds, some coming up in their mini pots already.
  
  Yes Aristotle was concerned with things like the representation of a flower made of wood, and these days you get things that are three or four times removed from the "real" thing! The flowers and plants are the real thing, not the representations of them.

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