I'll Lead You Up the Garden Path
By p1kef1sh
@p1kef1sh (45681)
July 2, 2008 6:47am CST
We have lived in our current house for 15 years. In all those years I had never been up my neighbour's garden. I'd been in the house, to the house and in their garage, but never up the garden path. Unfortunately my neighbour is in hospital currently and is not likely to return home. Her son cuts her grass and tidies the garden depositing the clippings etc in her garden wheelie bin. He puts it out for collection the night before, and I have volunteered to bring it in again. Today, whilst returning the bin, I took a sneaky walk up the path. My garden, viewed from their side looks far better than it does from mine. I'm thinking of moving next door!! Have you ever been up your neighbour's garden path and had a look at your garden from their perspective?
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6 responses
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
29 Jul 08
Well they always says things are greener on the other side. So your stuff looked better on the other side. It is nice of you to help the neighbor. We just has some fresh garden beans,fresh garden potatoes,cucumbers,sliced tomatoes and cornbread for supper. So what have you gotten out of your garden lately?
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
30 Jul 08
Oh you! I haven't seen a cornbread bush either but would llike one so I wouldn't have to bake it and make my house that much hotter the only thing I want getting hot in my kitchen is me...lol
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
30 Jul 08
Hey thanks P1ke for the best response
I really appreciate it alot. 
I really appreciate it alot. 
@nannacroc (4049)
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2 Jul 08
No I've never been led up the garden path by a neighbour.
I've just realised that in the 18 years I lived with my parents I never went up either neighbours garden path. I wonder why.
@nannacroc (4049)
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4 Jul 08
Even not living next door you're quite capable of leading me up the garden path.
@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
2 Jul 08
luckily im new to the neighborhood and i had observed that they dont have any garden...its just cemented in the front and at the back..
@Angelwhispers (8978)
• United States
4 Jul 08
Pikey, we have only lived in this home for 2 years and my back garden is not that well established or very far along yet. We put in a small pond last year, but again I am not finished with it. So looking from a neighbors yard would still be rather bleak. I do have grand plans for that space however and I hope to see that realization complete within 5 years. Takes so much money, so a little every season. Not to mention that plants need time to take root and mature.
The only neighbor other than my own son behind me who has a wonderful water pond garden, that tends a garden is a neighbor that I am not friendly with at all, and would get shot on the spot if found wandering his precious garden. The rest of the yards in the neighborhood is rather plain, but well groomed.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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4 Jul 08
Your garden sounds like a magnificent canvas to work with. I like pools and ponds, especially with a cascade attached. Helps if you have a stream running through your land! But it's not worth getting shot, just to see your garden from another perspective! It's certainly expensive to deliver a garden. However, at least you are providing good compost when all your expensive plants die and rot before you. Like mine do. I don't have green fingers, just cyanide ones! The picture below illustrates just how awful it can be at this time of the year.
@GreenMoo (11833)
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3 Jul 08
At my old house, I used to look after the neighbour's cats whilst they were away. It was most peculiar letting myself into the wrong house, opening the wrong cupboards, and seeing my own house from their garden. What made it even stranger was that the cats I was feeding next door were originally mine! It's no wonder I wake up some mornings wondering who and where I am!
