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  Lara Warner June 17, 2008 at 7:54pm

  All I can remember is my Dad getting shouted at by my Mum because she didn't like the way he had done something. Dad promptly retreated to the sofa behind the newspaper and Mum stomped around the garden unceremoniously pulling things out.
  
  25 or so years on and Mum has remarried, moved her entire garden from Sunningdale to Dorset and spent more than most houses cost on a new conservatory to enjoy her garden. No more arguments - said stepfather has a barn to "potter" in!
  
  If you're reading this Mum I love you still!!!! Just glad you didn't put Dad under the patio....
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  Kerrie John-The garden design Co June 17, 2008 at 8:16pm

  Ha Ha! Lara,
  More from Mum & Stepdad please, laughed out loud. Beginnings of a really good novel, me thinks!
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  Sefton Paine June 18, 2008 at 9:27pm

  As we all know, gardens have changed quite abit in the last twenty five years as the climate and fashions change. There was a plant in my Mother's garden which I completely forgot about, and it wasn't until I started working on an estate last year, I came across The Verbascum Bombyciferum, and the memory of twenty five years gone, I was possibly 10 years old and I had to yank this beast out from the ground. It is still a very interesting plant but very rarely seen.
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  Cat Fereday June 21, 2008 at 11:22am

  I have a particular memory of my mother in her nightdress seeming to "float quickly" down the garden at Fairways on Blundell Lane in Cobham screaming "No, stop, no...." to our bemused (and wonderful) gardener Phil Dodson. He was, unknowingly, about to dig up the cat. Still, it must have enforced the stereotype that all Americans are crazy.
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  Kieran Ray October 3, 2010 at 12:20am

  I thought I would resurrect this thread as when reading it I thought it would be good for members to recollect their past.
  
  My main memory was helping on the veg patch when i was probably about 5, with my little white bucket, was a toner bucket I believe from the print and my little red spade, Iused to remove all the stones I could find.
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  Lara Hurley October 3, 2010 at 3:54pm

  Ah the 70s...My parents had a concrete fetish. Concrete slabs (yellow) laid in a path around some dwarf conifers and one of those walls made of holey concrete. All very trendy at the time. I was given some concrete (of course) containers to grow things in. I prefered growing weeds - dandelions and daisies were my favourites but most treasured of all were my miniature, plastic 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves' gnomes...Gorgeous!
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  Cesare Harradine October 3, 2010 at 4:50pm

  Dog poo and rotten apples.
  
  The smell of rotten apples still brings back memories of climbing trees and building tree houses.
  
  The dog poo did some what curb my enjoyment.
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  Rachel Sobiechowski October 3, 2010 at 7:25pm

  I remember sitting in a patch of Rhubarb (which was the only plant in our garden) when I was about 3 I still can't resist a Rhubarb crumble :) Then when we moved and had a larger garden I used to help my Nan with the weeding. One day (I was about 5 or 6) I was really proud when she came round, annoucing I had done all of the weeding. I'd pulled out hundreds of marigolds we had planted the day before! My nan loves telling my customers that one and I still hate marigolds!
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  Phil Voice October 3, 2010 at 8:23pm

  Hi Andrew
  
  Would you believe it- Just a few miles away from me. What farm did you live on (email me if you'd prefer)?
  
  Did you know that Henry lived in Kingsley as ranger of Woolmer (Wolmer) Forest - when it was still attached to Windsor Great Park - and heard his last mass read in Latin at the St Nicholas' Church , before he became King Henry VIII?
  
  An area rich in history with many Neolithic settlements - if there's anything I miss in the UK it's my old stomping ground.
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  Phil Voice October 3, 2010 at 9:02pm

  Did you know that Country Market burnt down?
  http://www.easthampshire.org/newsdetail/fire_causes_chaos_in_bordon...
  
  I remember when the farm shop first opened and they sold fruit and veg from their house.
  
  Did you know Martin Ansell from Spring Cottage, Kingsley? he ran Turfrite? He was a good friend and we worked together a lot.
  
  
  
  
  
  Andrew Bentley said:

  Phil
  
  It was Malthouse Farm, next to the Marshalls market garden PYO, between Kingsley village and Bordon. When we sold up, the Marshalls bought our farm and expanded their business - and they still seem to be doing really well (Amazing on a very sandy soil!).
  
  I didn't know the facts you mention - goes to show you 'live and learn' however much you think you know!
  
  
  
  Philip Voice said:

  Hi Andrew
  
  Would you believe it- Just a few miles away from me. What farm did you live on (email me if you'd prefer)?
  
  Did you know that Henry lived in Kingsley as ranger of Woolmer (Wolmer) Forest - when it was still attached to Windsor Great Park - and heard his last mass read in Latin at the St Nicholas' Church , before he became King Henry VIII?
  
  An area rich in history with many Neolithic settlements - if there's anything I mist in the UK it's my old stomping ground.