Bear with me.
Mrs A and I have a large well stocked garden, and I mean well stocked there must be hundreds of different types of plants and shrubs.
All in good health.
It was and is Mrs A,s pride and joy,( I prefer golfing) but is now becoming a chore to maintain.
I help occasionally, but as we are both approaching that age ! we feel that we should take steps to reduce the work element and convert a large section back into a lawn with a border to reduce the work load.
To remove the plants and shrubs would be a major operation so we have come up with the idea of getting somebody else to do it for free.
The idea is we would let anybody take whatever plant they wanted as long as they dug it up themselves and if they felt they wanted to make a contribution they could, and the donations would be given to charity.
My question is, has any body else done this or something similar and if so what are the pitfalls.
The alternative to this is to employ a landscape gardener and we are talking big money.
All comments gratefully received.
Mrs A and I have a large well stocked garden, and I mean well stocked there must be hundreds of different types of plants and shrubs.
All in good health.
It was and is Mrs A,s pride and joy,( I prefer golfing) but is now becoming a chore to maintain.
I help occasionally, but as we are both approaching that age ! we feel that we should take steps to reduce the work element and convert a large section back into a lawn with a border to reduce the work load.
To remove the plants and shrubs would be a major operation so we have come up with the idea of getting somebody else to do it for free.
The idea is we would let anybody take whatever plant they wanted as long as they dug it up themselves and if they felt they wanted to make a contribution they could, and the donations would be given to charity.
My question is, has any body else done this or something similar and if so what are the pitfalls.
The alternative to this is to employ a landscape gardener and we are talking big money.
All comments gratefully received.