European Gardening: MY GARDEN ON THE OUTER HEBRIDES, 1 by bruntongardens

bruntongardens wrote:
Patbarr
HELLO , we have spent the last ten years putting a shelter belt of trees and shrubs around our property, we could not have a garden, with out a shelter belt of trees and shrubs, we also have a 6ft fence, with trellis on top, that we grow climbing roses on, the trees are now nearly 15ft tall, and the shrubs we have are around 6ft to 7ft tall, with out this shelter belt, you could not have garden here, i do not understand why you do not think that i do not have trees hedging and shrubs around, it was one of the very first things that we had to do, before we even thought about making any type of garden, we have grown 80% of the trees from seed, we must have around 200 plus trees, and virtually hundreds of shrubs every type you can think of we have got, just to many to name, and some that you probably do not know.
If you look in the pics you will see in the front garden that i have erected a a 70 ft long extra strong trellis over 6ft tall, we are not talking the weedy type of trellis, it is over 1 and a 1/2 inches thick, i do not know where resin got it from, that we would not have a shelter belt of trees and shrubs, i have gardened for at least 40 years, and won many top awards, and have been in many magazines, and TV gardening shows, we are at present making a tropical garden, with such things as banana's, many species of palm trees that are hardy to this climate, when you see the terrible tornado's and storms around USA coastline and inland, you can see many types of palms that can withstand Tornadoes and very high winds and very low temperatures.
There are many desert regions, that have very high temperatures during the day time, and very low temperatures of a night time and high winds, but palm trees can very happily survive in this type of climate, it is really just knowing how to recognize the species of trees, shrubs and plants that will survive in windy, cold and wet areas of the UK, and you do not have to be a genius to find that info out, one way is to use the Google search bar, write the name of the plant and either put germination or cultivation , and hey presto there is the info, as much as you want on any subject, or there is plenty of books, even ebooks on the subjects.
Thank you for your very kind comments, after living here for ten years i think that we know what the weather is like here, this is not pointed at you, patbar, but at resin, i did not win gardener of the year in the whole of the UK, because i did not know anything about growing trees and shrubs, i was not asking for advice, just showing what we had achieved, to try and inspire others to do the same. Thank you for your kind concern, i am putting some photo's of the garden that i won gardener of the year for, in Northumberland where i lived, hope that we will speak again, kindest regards Peter and Mary-Anne.

I intend to show more pics of our garden on this forum THE PHOTOS BELOW ARE THE GARDEN THAT WE WON UK GARDENER OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR IN NORTHUMBERLAND