Secret Gardens

[callmemadam]

This afternoon, Wimborne was full of people wandering about dressed in comfortable sandals and shady hats and clutching yellow leaflets. Twelve private gardens were open in aid of Wimborne in Bloom. This is a wonderful opportunity to find a little gem of a garden behind an apparently mundane facade. I didn't manage twelve and of those I saw, one

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[debodacious]

What a gorgeous and inspiring garden. I specially love the sempervivum tree.

[callmemadam]

Yes, a nice idea and easily copied. I've started looking with new interest at the rusty old rubbish lying about in corners of the garden and resolving to take it with me when I move.

[callmemadam]

Isn't it just? You feel like Alice going through the door into the garden.

Secret Gardens

[anonymous]

I like the fernery best too. I loved my tour, but was sad when you said people don't take an interest in their gardens. I thought gardening was a big thing over there for everyone.

Re: Secret Gardens

[callmemadam]

Glad you enjoyed the tour. The other gardens I visited were lovely, too, but not so 'different'. It's a sad fact that gardening programmes on television are popular, flower shows are packed and yet when you look at most gardens they're just grass and a few dull shrubs. Yet we are always hearing that 'everyone' is growing vegetables. A friend said to me that it's like TV cookery programmes: everyone watches them (Jamie Oliver, for instance) but no one cooks. Over the last Bank Holiday, Homebase (DIY store), were advertising 'everything you need for the garden', by which they meant 'decking, paving slabs, gravel, barbecues'. Plants?
Don't worry, there are plenty of passionate gardeners about but they are a minority.