whose backend - does my bum look big in this begonia!mooncatwitchJuly 20 2006, 16:35:50 UTC
The images I have seen of your garden are bloody inspirational honey and you know I have tried really hard to do ours and not let the side down this year and I have to admit your passion and encouragement have paid off and I have glads dahling and tones of flowers and stuff which looks bloody superb so thank you thank you for all your help and advice
I hope you want tones of lavender as I harvested a tone for Rie and well lets say it hasnt even touched the bloody thing I swear it was crossed with a triffid - bring a trailer to Oakleaf honey !
oh and have elderflowers and berries galore too - may have to try do wine if I can find a moement !
Beware the bambooteacup52July 22 2006, 03:38:34 UTC
Evening Pogospace,
Lovely to hear that your garden is flourishing. planting shrubs and trees for someone is a lovely way to remember people. I planted a tree when each of my children was born and when significant people die. But may I just add a word about bamboo. Some bamboo is very hardy. your neighbours down the street may not thank you when runners pop up in their garden. Our bamboo was well behaved for a number of years and then went feral. Our neighbour 2 doors down has Bamboo from our place. It escaped from a concrete tub, went under the fence, under 6 ft, (2M) of concrete, under the entire house of the next-door neighbour, under their concrete driveway and resurfaced in the neighbouring property. Despite our best endeavours, our neighbour regularly has invasions that require serious axe work. I have repotted it into a new (sealed at the bottom) concrete pot in an attempt to contain it. Mind you it is a marvelous screening plant.
Re: Beware the bamboopogospaceJuly 24 2006, 08:49:15 UTC
Hello Teacup, Great to hear from you and what a cautionary tale! :-)
When we moved here I took out a russian vine that had been planted to cover up the shed. I swear that it would grow six inches in the time it would take me to peg out the washing. The roots of this monster ran right across our plot and halfway into next door. I still have a beautifully sculpted lookibng piece of it that I dried and keep as a bit of garden "art" I planted a Honeysuckle and a clematis in its place and it gives the same cover but in a much more pleasing way. The clematis blooms first and the honeysuckle follows on giving continuity of flowering.
I was aware of the somewhat persistent tendencies of bamboo and have taken the precaution of putting it in the ground in a large pot - so it looks as though it's in the ground but is (hopefully) contained at the same time. I have to say that incarceration does not seem to be bothering it much - it looks really vital and healthy - and you are right it is a marvellous screening plant
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I hope you want tones of lavender as I harvested a tone for Rie and well lets say it hasnt even touched the bloody thing I swear it was crossed with a triffid - bring a trailer to Oakleaf honey !
oh and have elderflowers and berries galore too - may have to try do wine if I can find a moement !
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Lovely to hear that your garden is flourishing. planting shrubs and trees for someone is a lovely way to remember people. I planted a tree when each of my children was born and when significant people die. But may I just add a word about bamboo. Some bamboo is very hardy. your neighbours down the street may not thank you when runners pop up in their garden. Our bamboo was well behaved for a number of years and then went feral. Our neighbour 2 doors down has Bamboo from our place. It escaped from a concrete tub, went under the fence, under 6 ft, (2M) of concrete, under the entire house of the next-door neighbour, under their concrete driveway and resurfaced in the neighbouring property.
Despite our best endeavours, our neighbour regularly has invasions that require serious axe work. I have repotted it into a new (sealed at the bottom) concrete pot in an attempt to contain it. Mind you it is a marvelous screening plant.
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Great to hear from you and what a cautionary tale! :-)
When we moved here I took out a russian vine that had been planted to cover up the shed. I swear that it would grow six inches in the time it would take me to peg out the washing. The roots of this monster ran right across our plot and halfway into next door. I still have a beautifully sculpted lookibng piece of it that I dried and keep as a bit of garden "art"
I planted a Honeysuckle and a clematis in its place and it gives the same cover but in a much more pleasing way. The clematis blooms first and the honeysuckle follows on giving continuity of flowering.
I was aware of the somewhat persistent tendencies of bamboo and have taken the precaution of putting it in the ground in a large pot - so it looks as though it's in the ground but is (hopefully) contained at the same time.
I have to say that incarceration does not seem to be bothering it much - it looks really vital and healthy - and you are right it is a marvellous screening plant
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