Top of the morning to one and all, my first blog

Welcome to GOY Andy. I look forward to photos and blogs of your 'garden', or is it a park?

It is a very large garden which ends with a beautifully constructed ha-ha, so that the garden seamlesly blends with the paddocks to give the illusion of the horses being in the garden! the paddocks were planted up, i would guess about ten years ago with many select trees so eventually it will have a more parkland feel.
the maintained garden is approx 9 acres, with an orchard, kitchen garden, courtyard with pond and formal rose garden.....

Hi Andy...
Welcome to GoY :o)))
Looking forward to seeing your photos.
What type of soil do you have in your garden ?
Sounds like you have a good variety of plantings ...

Hello Andy and welcome to, grows on you, the garden you work in sounds really nice, i am a gardener myself and get to do many gardens, i work for a chap with a similar garden to the one you work in, its not the typical bog standard garden with the usual plants, over many years he has planted many unusual trees and shrubs, with vast sweeping lawns and huge borders, through the year i give him a couple of hours a week and then he and his wife do all the general pottering, its such a joy to work there, look forward to seeing the pcitures.

the soil is on the most part a very free draining sandy loam, although in certain parts there is a seam of blue clay not that far below the surface and its just the acid side of neutral, its perfect for all the acid lovers my employer adores!

welcome to GoY Andy ~ hope you will find as many happy hours on here as i do ~ but if you did you wouldnt get the gardens done!
that sounds a lovely garden ~ i would love to see the acer pictures ~ beautiful trees and shrubs, my soil is slightly acidic luckily, i have a couple of small acers which i love. just hope the horses dont escape and eat those lovely plants.

Hi Andy and welcome to GoY. I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures and picking your brain. I've just got a couple of fuit trees and another acer so your tree expertise may be required! My garden isn't as big as yours so your horsey knowledge is an area I probably won't need (not many horses roaming our close. lol)

Hi Andy & welcome,looking forward to your photos..:o)

Welcome from me too, your 'little' plot sounds fascinating, and with animals too I look forward to the pictures.

Welcome to GOY hope you enjoy being with us all.

Hi Andy welcome from me too, look forward to your pictures, especially the acers, love them but something I can't grow here, far too exposed, have tried but after murdering two gave up.

Sounds like an interesting garden to work in Andy. Julien, I'm not sure that I know what a 'typical bog standard garden' is.

Sounds a grand place to work, I`m looking forward hearing more about it and seeing some photographs....

hello andy,another brain to pick,this is my first garden,dont look at the pics far too depressing,would love to see your pictures tho,welcome christine

Welcome Andy.....and enjoy......I shall look forward to seeing your photos as and when you add them....

Welcome to GoY :o)

And from me! :-)

Yes, welcome to Goy, it's a great fun site. i live in Gloucestershire on a studfarm! Plenty of paddocks and nags here!! I have a large garden which I planted up from nothing! It doesn't belong to me sadly but we do so enjoy living here.
Just love haha's so effective.

ha has are very clever but they have a different meaning for me ~ my sister is called heather ~ but couldnt say that when she was little ~ she was always called ha ha!

Welcome to this wonderful site look forward to seeing some of your photos:)