AIBU. Public flogging for garden taste misdemeanors

They were real ones Blinko, they visited Soops kitchen and the Argy Bargy Bar, you can be sure we gave them a hearty welcome as they had heard of our legendary hospitality.

I want those cricketers that turned up on another thread.

Of course.

That would be just gaudy.

These are 'where's Wally' bobble hats. The children love trying to find them. We do have some with Santa hats and beards but it would be a bit tasteless to get them out before Decembet!

I suppose the garden being tasteful would depend on the type of hat worn by the worms?
A 'Westham' bobble hat? No!
However, a nice bowler..

Where can I buy a worm with a hat on ? I want one too !

Oh Kittylester! My concrete gnome would not tolerate worms with hats.

I have read this thread with increasing dismay.

I hope I can add my little bit before I am ostracized*notanan*. We have hard landscaping, with proper drainage, both front and back (2 patios at the back!) bamboo wind chimes, a water feature and about 12 terracotta worms with hats on.

All very tasteful!

Some local fake grass soon became covered in (real) moss and was taken up again the next year - what a waste!

My dh cut each tree off at ground level and took them to the dump one at a time hanging out of the back of his car. (Then had the car valeted)

He then worked on each stump at his leisure.

thanks Alexa but I just want it gone ,the lowest estimate is over £4000 so I may wait until the drainage is sorted as thats more urgent

Paddyann, just an idea but one I know works. If you have the leylandii cut down to about 12 feet high you could plant ivy to grow up the bare poles of them . It stays 12 feet high and makes a good refuge for birds and bats, and makes a good privacy screen. Easy to trim too.

surely if there are drainage issues- it would be best to solve such as it will create problems with the house and foundations, no?

I suppose we really ought to stop using plastic especially such a large spread of it

Although I wouldn't want it myself, in certain circs I think artificial grass can be useful. A dd's friend had some laid in a small, narrow urban garden where proper grass probably wouldn't have done well at all - too much shade - and she wanted a soft surface for two very little ones to play on.

Hard paving or gravel wouldn't have done at all, and as pps have said, decking is a rat hazard, and besides can get very slippery.

To the poster who mentioned the horror of trampolines I quite agree. To my joy the neighbours’ ( lovely ) girls have taken theirs down.

Instead I have tinny pop music from the other neighbour’s radio, two road drills hammering up patios to make extensions, a newly moved in householder who is gutting the house with power tools and teenagers on the green brought in by jolly volunteers to supervise their screaming and shouting.

Oh the joy of the peaceful countryside in the garden on a sunny day.

Plastic grass. Plastic flowers. Plastic flowerpots. All awful.

However, I am seriously thinking about a strip of placky grass to hide the gap where the perishing ants keep killing the real stuff. And maybe some sixty foot down the bottom of the garden where the corners of the lawn under the trees die off and leave just brown earth. My eyesight is so not 20/20 that I would not notice it from the kitchen.

But no. In real life, I wouldn’t.

Gnomes, whirly windmills and wishing wells...I'd smash them all.

I have blue lacecap hydrangeas that I keep blue by adding
‘Hydrangea Blue’ to their watering regime every two weeks.
I add just a little now and then to a pink mophead, and get a multi hued shrub, pink, lilac and purple.

sazzl I am not keen on the mop heads,but like blue lacecap hydrangeas . Not that you can ever get them blue in the wrong soil.
For some reason I dislike chrysanthemums or dahlias probably because I have trouble spelling them.

We had a minuscule front garden years ago - too much to use shears on and too narrow for the mower. We put in a strip of artificial grass, cut an X in the middle and planted a bush. It was great! I used to hoover it to my children’s great embarrassment.

There is no way I will be removing my plastic grass, it is the best thing we ever did. I do not feel guilty as a neighbour has allowed his garden to turn into a wilderness and wildlife can feed there to their hearts content.

Artificial grass ? yes .Plastic gnomes and those ghastly plastic frogs ? NO.

Plastic flower hanging baskets outside the front door. Yuk!

DotMH1901, my idea of an 'untidy' front garden is one full of old mattresses and overflowing bins, not a bit overgrown with some lights and bits of wood. The (cowardly) complainer should have offered to help first. If really upset by it they could have contacted the council who'd then decide if it really is bad enough to merit some action. Lots of houses here have permanent Christmas lights, although they're switched off out of season.