The Ugly Gardens Project
- No harm is intended, and if your garden is on this web site, ignore it and move on with your life.
- The gardens are not singled out because the owners are terrible human beings. We could have done this in any town, and picked any number of houses.
- Some people may have legitimate reasons, such as being physically unable to maintain a nice garden.
- Think of the project as a loving testament to a town that is sorely underrepresented on the leaflet for the bus route X5 between Oxford and Cambridge. In the words of an immortal: "Bedford is great!"
Have you ever walked past a garden and thought: "wow, that garden is really ugly!", and then kept noticing more ugly gardens the whole day? No? Well we did, and here's a web page to prove it!
We have gone on two trips around Bedford, England, looking for examples of truly Ugly Gardens and taking pictures of the most spectacular examples. To find out just how ugly some gardens in Bedford can get, look at some of the pictures contained in these pages.
- Ugly Garden Roundup #1 (March 2002).
- Ugly Garden Roundup #2 (March 2003).
- Special Feature: Ugly gardens of Iraq (March 2003).
- Some contributions from fans, including a confession from an ex-Bedfordian.
- Some of the angry messages we have received from uptight humourless people.
- A log of attention from the witless media.
We also decided to see if there was a geographical reason for the ugliness of gardens. Perhaps, we stipulated, gardens got uglier the further from the town centre you went? Or perhaps ugly gardens only existed in pockets in suburbia? Are Ugly Gardens contagious? All these questions have been answered by the magic map plotting the culprits.
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