"Don't bother waiting for a year to see what comes up. You may dig up some bulbs, but it's your garden now and these risks are yours to take. The last place we moved to was a pretty blank canvas but I was rather more green in my own gardening experience. After nearly a decade of balcony gardening, I went wild on the plant catalogues and the prettier corners of Instagram, manically demanding Sarah Raven-level splendour from my newly carved bed"
"Perhaps this is a phase we all have to go through, but now I'm staring down on another blank slate of a garden. With nothing in it bar buddleia and a lone orange dahlia, which a friend accurately described as a cellar spider variety, making a bulb order feels vaguely fantastical. Instead, I want to get the fundamentals right. The fences are pretty shoddy."
New homeowners are advised to begin reshaping their garden immediately rather than waiting a year to see what appears, accepting that ancient bulbs may be uncovered but that risks belong to the new owner. Rapid over-ambition after balcony gardening can clash with poor soil and unrealistic expectations, producing lofty desires for instant splendour. On a fresh, sparse plot with only buddleia and a single orange dahlia, priorities shift toward fundamentals: repairing or replacing shoddy fences and investing in durable boundaries when planning to stay, even if that requires budget trade-offs and awkward conversations with neighbours.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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