Livy learns to garden
By Livy
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I’ve been passionate about gardens for a long time. Passionate in that a good garden lifts my spirit like nothing else. But I have spent years dabbling, not knowing. Now the proud owner of a very wild allotment and equally wild largish London garden, I’ve enrolled a Garden Design Course and have made it my purpose in life to learn to garden! I mean properly learn. I want Latin plant names to slip off my tongue and I want to live and breathe gardens, every inch of them. This blog will chart some of my journey.
21 Mar, 2008
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Hallo Livy - well done for your ambition! You will find help and inspiration on this site, it has such lovely people who share your passion and find the answers to questions you might come up with! Glad you found us.
21 Mar, 2008
good for you livy. you can keep us all posted about how your getting on
21 Mar, 2008
Welcome and Good luck Livy. You are going to love this site.
21 Mar, 2008
Hi Livy good luck on the course, I enrolled on a garden design course a few years ago. I was living in rented accom at the time so I was limited as to what i could grow plant etc. Now we have our own garden (it is 2 years old this May) When we moved here it was just lawn. have a look and see what a garden design course has taught me. Let me know what you think.
Good luck on the Latin names. As I sit here on this site i have a couple of books open when someone puts up a pic of plant I have not heard of I have a quick look.
Good luck.
21 Mar, 2008
Hi Livy, keep us updated, please, with blogs and pics. This is going to be really interesting to follow.
22 Mar, 2008
HI LIVY,WELCOME TO G O Y ,GOOD LUCK WITH THE COURSE AND ENJOY IT ,IVE BEEN GARDENING FOR A FEW YEARS NOW AND I THINK EVERYONE WILL BACK ME UP ON THIS AS I SAY I LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY SEASON AND ITS GREAT.MY SPIRITSLIFT AS THE SPRING COMES AROUND AND CANT WAIT TO GET STUCK IN.SEEYA.
23 Mar, 2008
You will learn most about gardening by getting out there during the daylight hours and reading about other gardener's exploits at night. Take whatever is written on a plant label with a HUGE pinch of salt and go and see how I created my garden (Winsford walled garden) with 3000 varieties in less than nine years via the web. It's also open daily to the public now.
23 Mar, 2008
Many congratulations on a fantastic garden restoration project, Muddy! Also on the beautiful website!
23 Mar, 2008
Livy - I posted a blog a few weeks back about how plants are named. You might like to check it out and impress your tutor with your knowledge. As for Latin plant names, you probably know more than you think you do already - narcissus, hydrangea, rhododendron, chrysanthemum, forsythia, fuchsia... Learn one a week and that's another 50 in a year. Good luck, Andrewr
25 Mar, 2008
Good luck with it Livy. Will look forward to reading about your progress. Oh and welcome to GOY
21 Mar, 2008