How much time do you spend in your garden?

Not enough

I only go in the garden when the weather is fine in order to sit on the patio or to give the gardener a cup of tea. I was brought up in a flat and have never caught the gardening bug.
I have been known to plant up a patio tub , but that’s it.

Yes I feel the same way Littlepinkpiggy it's hard to understand isn't it. You would think the satisfaction would be the same seeing a well tended garden or a house.

Today DH and I spent about 4 hrs today. We have inherited a very large, beautiful garden and it is a lot of work to keep it so. Not that we mind. We have lots of large trees and soon the battle with fallen leaves will begin. ?

I loathe gardening and leave it to OH but I do love housework. I've never been able to understand why I hate one and love the other.

I don’t much like weeding but I find digging very therapeutic! Many places have been dug up in order to calm my temper/ cheer me up!

I love my garden
When I was little my dad who was a great gardener gave me a little patch to grow lettuces radishes and spring onions in
I love to weed I find it really therapeutic and I love seeing things grow I don’t have a big garden about 25ft sq and then a smaller one at the front but I spend as much time as possible in it Whenever i m not at work or busy I m in my garden if I m not gardening I m sitting with a coffee and the radio I m often picking out weeds before breakfast ?

Oh dear I'm hopeless in the garden. I used to have a huge garden, but now I have just a balcony with pots. Even now things don't flourish. In fact, a group of friends is coming round this evening to sort it out for me. I'm providing the pizza and wine, they're providing the enthusiasm and expertise!

There is nothing I admire more than a beautiful garden. However, I have neither the inclination nor the fitness to tend ours. Fortunately DH has, and as you may know does gardening for other people too.
I spend time in my garden sitting in the shade.

I am with Sodapop on this one, I like the garden to look good but I don't want to do it. I have friend who definitely has green fingers and I love her enthusiasm for her garden

I love my garden and spend lots of my free time trying to restore order, parts of it has a jungle theme when first planted seven years ago, has evolved into quite frankly an overgrown mess, I try to blame the spaniel who goes through and not round anything, but some serious work is now needed, fortunately am fit enough to do it myself with a little help from sil, I have bamboo, mahonias eight foot tall, banana plants, all need sorting, grow calla lilies and other lilies in pots which are dotted around to give lots of colour. Am spending couple of hours a day at moment but then spend ages queuing at dump to recycle it all, hard work, but am not ready yet for manicured lawn and neat bedding plants. There is nothing better than large rhubarb gin sat on garden bench with slobbering spaniel in late September sunshine, yesterday, surveying slightly tamed jungle. I’m now looking for the voltarol?

I really like and enjoy my garden and these days the only gardening required is weeding and pruning but I enjoy that too. I enjoy having a garden that always looks good. I often eat my breakfast out there too.

As little time as possible. I hate gardening but do like to see it weed free and with lots of colour. I dislike being outside in the summer when its really hot.
Given the choice I would rather pay someone to look after my garden than to clean my house.

I have been a gardener since I was a small child, growing simple flower seeds in a garden the size of a pocket handkerchief! I have always tried to grow things in every country I’ve lived in. I loved our last garden but it had large hedges on three sides which took up far too much of our time. The present one is much lower maintenance but not nearly as attractive as the last, and never will be, so I don’t lavish a lot of time on it except to keep it tidy. I now have problems getting down to weed and plant, so my favourite bit is the lovely rockery wall we established which I can work on standing up! In my mid thirties we had an allotment which demanded almost daily visits most of the year - not always easy when you are working and running a house, but we loved growing vegetables. Now we have the time, we don’t have the fitness or the energy!