Garden; Kids; or Pets?

It has often been said that, “You can’t have a good garden and Kids and/or pets too!”

Well I guess that it is true that you can’t have a great garden with kids and pets, but you can still have a good one if you are garden minded to start with and plan your garden around those so-called inhibiting problems.

I have done it many times with different gardens and pets; but always with the same three kids, plus their many friends.

It just takes a little bit of planning and sometimes some extra fencing and even sometimes some different plants to your original choices. But even there, different climates and locations will often modify this last situation anyway. With or without kids and Pets!

The thing is that, if you are committed to all the desired requirements (In my case garden, kids & pets) and are prepared to plan (the layout of the garden and yard) and go to the extra expenses (fences/ screens/ Borders) and the extra trouble (choosing appropriate plants and materials) you can still have a good garden. A garden that will still be the envy of most token gardeners, even if it never reaches the echelons of greatness like the gardens of the fanatics.

Half the secret is in knowing what you want before hand and then working towards it.

It will perhaps be difficult to achieve the heights of say “Karl Linnaeus”, but even there it has to be acknowledged that he had five kids himself.

I guess all I am trying to say here is that you may never have perfection but you can still have a lot if you are prepared to make the extra effort. Are you prepared to put that little bit of extra effort into your life or just fall back on the word of others that it is impossible? Over to You: Walter