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  Posted by Ruthinherts (U12065315) on Saturday, 24th May 2008

  On last nights coverage of Chelsea, the focus was on front gardens. I must be VERY lucky as I have a drive, garden AND box hedge! I have managed to incooperate a small sloping drive (enough for my car) + on the other side of the path, a garden abundant with cottage garden flowers including bush roses, peonies, tulips, lavender, poppies, verbascum, foxglove, phlox, freesias, alliums, hollyhocks, gladioli + delphiniums all in shades of white, pink, purple, blue + mauve with the odd green + black. I live on a long main road + walking up + down it, my garden is an oasis amoung concrete drives,flat block paving with maybe the occassional pot of colour; it really IS the best front garden in all the street!It was hard work doing it all but the rewards far outweigh the time it took + I only began in the autumn but it looks as if has been there for a long time already. It really is worth making the effort for a small patch of front garden + colour; mine was only the size of a tiny lawn around 5x5ft - it can be done!
  
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  Posted by Daffs4Feb (U11089061) on Saturday, 24th May 2008

  Your urban oasis sounds wonderful, Ruth! You obviously get a lot a pleasure from it, and I'm sure the passing pedestrians do too. I love having a quick look at other people's front gardens when walking down the street - I always feel a bit surreptitious and don't like to stare - how do you feel about people having a peek?

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  Posted by Aspidistra (U11680993) on Sunday, 25th May 2008

  I look at other people's gardens and when I had a garden that people could see into, I had loads of smelly, touchy stuff like lavender on the wall by the pavement and some people would stop and breathe it in and others would chat about the plants. I love the idea of other people enjoying my garden, too. Its not like sneaking a look in someone's house, which is nosy (but I can't resist).
  
  I think it would be great if people thought about their front gardens as not just being 'theirs' but as being something we all have to see in a street, so to have plenty of plants to give pleasure to everyone who passes. Don't you love it when you go past someone's front garden regularly and there is a beautiful tree whose blossom you look forward to as much as your own garden's? Although on a gardening board, I'm probably talking to the converted on this issue.

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  Posted by TallyHo (U2364821) on Sunday, 25th May 2008

  Trouble is I nearly had an accident (driving down to London through Hampstead on route to Chelsea)... after miles of boring car-port front gardens through the suburbs, I drove past a series of lovely front gardens brimming with roses, foxgloves and the like and had a hard time keeping my eyes on the road.

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  Posted by tellima (U3297814) on Sunday, 25th May 2008

  last nights coverage of Chelsea, the focus was on front gardens 
  
  Can you remember the number of the episode? I've just typed in Chelsea Flower Show Front Gardens in the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Úi Find Programme slot but they found no match. I thought it must be Episode 14 or 15 ie the last 2 on offer on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Úi but there's no trace of it in my searches. Should be so glad if I could find it.

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  Posted by tellima (U3297814) on Sunday, 25th May 2008

  I found it in my pvr library where I'd recorded it, thanks, and I'm watching it now. I was expecting too much help from it because as usual, for a technical reason I suppose, the practical limitations of the camera? it's never possible to show a complete garden, however small. Familiar bits of one. Familiar Flowers. Familiar hedges. Nothing I can use but the music and other suburban garden references are very enjoyable.
  
  

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