The award -winning garden designer Jamie Butterworth is a lifelong tenant.
The 30-year-old, who has kindergarten teachers, recently switched to a new rented Windsor real estate.
The modest inner courtyard garden measures only 2 mx 5 m behind and a similar area at the front.
The gardener, who was at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show in the creation of Monty Dons Doggarten when creating tenants. “
The author of what grows together: miscarriage combinations for every garden. Continued: “Pretty much every rental property in which I have ever been, was either gravel or paving.
Gardener and lifelong tenant Jamie Butterworth (Rachel Warne/Dorling Kindersley)
“We have sun in the front yard, but not in the garden in the background and everything is without a floor limit. I imagine that most landlords will pave the area because it is easier for them to maintain it.”
“One of the obstacles to gardening as a tenant is that they will only be there for a certain time. So what is the point of taking care of it?” He continues.
“But you can make it an astonishing space and have a green, your life will significantly improve, and in fact it does not matter whether it is a pot or 20 or how big or small your space is.”
It offers the following tips on how tenants can optimally use their outdoor area.
Adapt to the rental period
If you are in a rented property, you can add liveliness and color with potted plants (Alamy/Pa).
“Usually you have a 12-month contract, so you never know exactly what will happen beyond these 12 months. You have to adapt the way you consider.
“It is more at the moment and enjoys the space you have for the time you have, and if you consider the fact that you may have to move at some point, which is the opposite of what you would normally do.”
Think about when you use the room
“Your room is quite limited, so it is important to consider what the room should do and when to use it.
“For example, I am always at Chelsea in May, so I am not so much at home from the second week of April to the end of May or early June, so I do not tend to breed many plants that bloom in and around late spring.
“It makes no sense to have a garden that looks best when they are not there.
“If you disappear during the summer vacation, you probably don't want the border or the containers full of summer -flowering plants.
“If you are not the biggest fan of winter and you will not use your garden much in the rain and the cold, you don't have to buy as many winter combinations. You have to be considered more.”
Use the outdoor rental room as a display
A rental garden is more of an exhibition than an garden – it is fun to hug that, says the expert (Alamy/Pa)
“Count the fact that it is almost a display than a garden. This is the big adaptation. If you rent, you can have huge amounts of fun. If you love to cook, salad and tomatoes and quick harvest that you can do in one season.
“My experience with renting is that it is a room you have to accept, maybe not forever.
Think of floor limits
“You have to accept that whatever you plant within limits, you are probably unable to take the scale you would do if you use containers.
“I would grow plants that I could spread to take with them, for example grasses such as Miscanthus and herbaceous perennials. I would never plant a tree in a rented property in the ground because they would have to say goodbye to this tree at some point.
“Remember that if you are planting a border and florifian and great and brilliant, you basically always have difficulty taking you with you.
“If I were, I would take a few routes from perennials like Salvia Caradonna and these roots, if it was cosmos, I would take a few seeds with me. If they have decorative grass or clumping and flat (rooted) plants, I might be able to take a few lumps with myself and well.
Consider climbers
Climbing systems can be a good option for tenants (Alamy/PA)
Some climbing plants will be easier to move at the end of their tenancy than others. If you can take the trouble to check the precise section of your chosen Clematis, then it is okay, but those who want to have a simpler option can be better with roses that you can cut back hard when moving.
Also make sure that you should not start drilling holes into the outer wall of your landlord without permission, which you may not be able to build grids.
In order to hide ugly walls, you should consider planting larger shrubs such as Osmanthus that bloom in winter, beautifully smell and open a eyesore.
Choose a pot tree
“All trees are portable. Imagine, everyone puts a Tottenbaum in their garden, they have a joint arboretum,” he enthuses.
“You can buy trees for not a lot of money if you buy them small, and there are reasonable trees that you can grow like Acer Griseum, which has this beautiful bronze bowl bark, which is planted with something simple and a fern, a dry opteris with a bronze shimmer.
“Amelanchers are very reasonable trees that bloom in March and April, produce berries in June, and the structure of the trees themselves, even if they lose their leaves, will still expand interest.
“Some of these reasonable trees are more than happy in a saucepan. I have trees that are 12 m high in my kindergarten in pots and it's okay. Admittedly, they have to pour a little more and they need a little more than in the ground, but they can take it with me.”
(DK)
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