How much would you pay?

Phew, thankfully it is not into the acres and is in a conservational area, so i couldn't build on it, other than a shed or single garage.

Prices are a bit scary though, i'm sure they didn't used to be as high as that for land around here!

And yes, JWK i am going to do just that at the weekend. Gather some information, his estate agent will have been out anyway and i'll just see what he comes up with and go from there.

Cheers
Everyone!

 

Well, it took some doing, buit i've bought it and now have a decent garden to play with. All i have to do now is decide what to do with it! :yess:

 

Great news about the plot Pixie. Give yourself time to think about what to do with it. Study the garden you have at the moment and work out what will 'blend in' with that.

 

Thanks Sheal, i am going to take my time with it and start off with my compost bin and gradually go from there. It's great fun though, and i want a nice fruit section, so that is going to be my first plan.

:yess:

 

one of my friends lives in a village in cambrideshire .... they have a really old house (grade A listed), and a tiny garden that has been beautifully landscaped

they have a baby (1st child), and have approached their neighbours who have a massive garden, and asked if they could purchase a small portion of his garden.... this will give more space for their daughter to play .... the portion that they wish to buy is approx 25m long and 5m wide

this portion is the back end of the neighbour's garden and not much has been planted there .... the neighbour's garden is approx 1 acre

neighbour wants £75 000

 

Blimey,

Is it in Makka Bakka's signature where it says, "Buy land, they're not making it anymore"

 

Thankfully mine was not that much. Phew!

 

Pixie, congratulations, excellent result

Sounds to me like they either don't really want to sell, or are just testing to see how much they could get out of your friend.

When I bought my house, just over a year ago, I was really lucky and got the lot for less than that. Nice big back garden, small (but useable) front garden, driveway, out-house, and its a nice big semi in an ok area. It was cheap because it was a repo and it came on the market right when the house price crash was at the bottom, and our local area was hard hit by mass redundancies due to the local steelworks closing down so nobody could get a mortgage so nobody could buy the place, and being on the outskirts of town the buy to let brigade didn't grab it. That meant my feeble offer, which I fully expected to get rejected and thus I'd revise it, got accepted within an hour of me making it

 

Good going Pixie and Clueless! Enjoy your gardens.

 

Excellent news pixie - congratulations!!!


Enjoy it!

 

Well done Pixie :thumb:; I keep looking at the rarely used sports field over the fence next to us and thinking that would make a nice arboretum and wildlife haven, being about 20-25 acres though I think only the lottery would help me with that one :D.....oh well one can dream...:sleep:

 

What fantastic news,congratulations....
I've been after the garden that backs on to me but the neighbour couldn't decide whether to sell the house or let it off...they are nice nieghbours and i was casually testing the water they seemed interested !
Now they have let the house off 'for now'...sadly to none gardening enthusiasts it's like a dumping ground.The said neighbour lives at the other side of it...i wonder if they have any regrets!!!!!

 

Many thanks for the kind repsonses. I am really excited about it and so far i've gradually began moving into it, even though the old guy who i bought it off is not being so nice about it. I got a lecture for the hundreth time about boundries, even though i have no intention on crossing any boundries and he nicely told i won't be able to grow anything because the ground is so bad!

So yesterday evening after work, i planted a geranium, campanula, buddleia, red rose to climb through a tree and a lavender. I actually found the soil to be quite nice, the ground is mossy on top, due to, it think, a big conifer that was taken down last autumn creating a lot of shade, i added compost and the plants look healthy today, but i couldn't see why nothing would grow, it does get sun most of the day now that the confer is gone. I am very positive that everything i've put in will do fine, i've planted in a lot worse soils and had fantastic plants. He's just miserable! I am totally happy with it!. :happydance: