Owning your own home

Chop the tree down, and out in a concrete hard standing for a landrover evoque.

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I'm all for nature (lawn is getting red & white clover and daisies this year), just not THAT nature. Plus, leylandii were the evoque of the 70's/80's for boomer gardeners. See also: pampus grass and palm trees.

Nice! Good luck with the move back and settling-in period whilst works are being finished off.

lawn is getting red & white clover and daisies this year

I’m going to sow a load of white clover into my grass this afternoon as it goes. Softer underfoot, kinder to the bees, shouldn’t yellow in the sun as much.

Reduces the amount of mowing needed also.

I grew a few patches of wildflowers last year from seed, via meadowmania.co.uk, and they came out fine. Grew massive though….

Only maintenance was strimming them after the flowers were done. Time will tell if the patches regrow this year.

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I too had great success with meadow mania seeds a couple of years ago.

Chop the tree down, and out in a concrete hard standing for a landrover evoque.

You forgot to burn it, whilst still wet and with a high water and sap content, for maximum pollution. Maybe add some coal to create some acids.

FWIW leylandii can be make for good hedges, but ya gotta trim em every year without fail.

As trees they are douchbags

I won’t hear a bad thing said against pampus grass thank you very much.
Very useful.

For indicating your swinger status, or so I'm told.

This looks amazing, exactly what I'm after

I’ve heard similar.

The movers said 'You're a bit keen aren't you' so I think that sort of explains where we are. I think part of that is bc we still have all the flooring protection down and we've tried to child proof some of the bits with cardboard. + also a fair bit of stuff to be done!

We've got a large pampus, I've not had a single offer. But I am very ugly indeed.

Anyway by this time of year they should all be cut back down to ground level, fellow owners.

That's much better than I managed, yours pretty much looks like one of the sales pictures!

How did you prep before you put the seed down? The commercial contractors seem to favour glyphosate the shit out of an area so nothing else is growing before they seed which works but is obviously not great environmentally.

Mattresses are good burning. A neighbour did that recently, about 10 people immediately turned up outside their front door to check they weren't in any trouble after seeing the plumes of thick black smoke, and they leant out the top window to explain 'it's only a couple of mattresses in the back garden, I didn't think they'd do this!'

This is in back to back terraces.

I have 3 large trees and a massive conifer in my garden, which never would have been my choice of tree. There are a lot of nests/animals living in there and it creates some nice shade in summer so I can't bring myself to remove it.

But in the space you have, I'd say go for it but def speak to the neighbours.

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I like the tree. Put a shed on the patio by the fence on the left.

New plan:

• Apple tree
  
• Astro turf with concrete underneath so it doesn't get damp
  
• Petrol powered leaf blower to blow the apples away into the drain
  

You can have it but delivery to Manchester might be expensive.

Automatic hoover for AstroTurf.

That's OK I've already got one

I like how you've done your path.