We all know by now how hard the British housing market was hit when
everything went belly up in 2008. According to recent figures, the
average length of time people are now spending living at the same
address is 14 and a half years: that’s way, way over the national
average from back when selling houses was a sure fire way to quick cash.
These days, fitting a house out to be a real home is the word – which
is where the landscaping contractors are finding themselves suddenly at
the top of a very lovely pile.
The thing about doing up a house to live in, rather than sell, is this –
it needs to feel like a home. And that means having a pleasant outdoor
space where family and guests alike feel comfortable relaxing, playing,
and eating. A person or family intending to stay in their current
property for the next 14 and half years needs a space they can rely on, a
space that is going to grow with them. A space, in other words, that
can be planned for. When you’re moving house again in two years, why
would you plan a garden to grow and fruit properly? You wouldn’t. Now
people are living where they live for as long as they do, landscaping
contractors UK are finding that they are suddenly being asked to do what
they do best – make someone’s exterior places into things of beauty,
joys forever.
The great thing about all this, from the points of view of both
landscaping contractor and garden lover, is that people are finally
having proper gardens designed and built. A real garden takes some time
to reach its full potential – that’s one of the things that makes
gardening such a wonderful thing. One has top plan in advance. To bed
stuff in so that in two or three years the place will be fully fledged
and looking wonderful. This is what landscaping contractors do; it’s
what they do best: and it is, finally, what they are being asked to do
by great swatches of the British population.
How liberating it must be for these professional gardeners, finally to
be let loose doing what they really do well! And how pleasant it is for
the families whose current houses have by default become their homes.
With no chance of moving up and down the property ladder for any sort of
foreseeable time, UK families are now making their changes by altering
things about where they live, rather than flitting off to try and find
somewhere totally other to buy. The results on the national psyche, over
time, ought to be remarkably positive. Imagine actually living
somewhere, for years, rather than upping sticks every second year and
starting all over again.
With the landscaping contractors UK breaking their backs to get all
these gardens looking right, and that settled feeling creeping over a
land that hasn’t felt it for nearly two decades, who knows? Perhaps we
British people will slow the heck down a little and start learning to
appreciate what we have, and where we live; particularly our gardens.
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