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- Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:00 pm
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: your arid beds
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3729
Re: your arid beds
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/scattery/second%20album/024_zps4fb48a9c.jpg Beschornerias, Yucca Gloriosas, Dwarf fan Palms, Agave Americanas, sitting on ground cover of Lampranthus and Delosperma Cooperii. All under glass covered Pergola. They only get watered about three times a year! :( (p...
- Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:47 am
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: Cortederia Roots
- Replies: 3
- Views: 811
Re: Cortederia Roots
I took one out that wide. I split it in four in situ and dug out a quarter at a time.Simba wrote:I have just scythed down a Cortederia, and now that I can see the base, it has a circumference of about 3 ft.....seems like a task to dig it out, can it be killed off in some other way....?
- Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:04 pm
- Forum: Cacti & Succulents, (including Yucca and Rock Plants)
- Topic: Delosperma Soil Help
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3852
Re: Delosperma Soil Help
I put my Delosperma Cooperi into poor ordinary soil. This is a photo of them. They spread like wildfire only beaten by Lampranthus.
- Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:15 pm
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: evergreens for pots
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2251
Re: evergreens for pots
I have two Cortaderia Richardii in two pots.
Everyone remarks that it unusual but they all like them.
Can survive the occasional drying out if you forget to water them.
Everyone remarks that it unusual but they all like them.
Can survive the occasional drying out if you forget to water them.
- Thu Nov 14, 2013 3:43 pm
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: Rock Gardens
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1694
Re: Rock Gardens
Stone me Kindred, thanks for the first link Im not sure if I like it, but as a builder I can appreciate the time, money and effort that has gone into creating the garden. If any one is thinking of creating a man made rock garden they could do worse than take a look at Dewstow gardens, Caerwent, Sou...
- Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:35 pm
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: Share your best garden view photo of the year.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4740
Re: Share your best garden view photo of the year.
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/scattery/second%20album/004_zps98c94254.jpg http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/scattery/second%20album/020_zps19a0e738.jpg http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/scattery/second%20album/014_zps878be13a.jpg http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/scattery/second...
- Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:15 pm
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: Rock Gardens
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1694
Re: Rock Gardens
Here you go. 14 pages of one man's work to drool over. http://photos.v-d-brink.eu/Rock-Garden/Own-Garden/Creation-own-garden/i-tn47cgJ And some pics of more ordinary ones here. http://www.rots-plant.be/mogelijkheden.html And a fabulous one in Derbyshire. This guy moved all the rocks into position ma...
- Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:04 pm
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: Bamboo damage - Sparrows
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1448
Re: Bamboo damage - Sparrows
I use a Hawk Kite to deter birds, particularly blackbirds and sparrows.
It works. The only nuisance is that you have to change its position every couple of days or else the birds get used to it.
Doesn't deter swallows for some reason, though. Maybe they outfly hawks in real life?
It works. The only nuisance is that you have to change its position every couple of days or else the birds get used to it.
Doesn't deter swallows for some reason, though. Maybe they outfly hawks in real life?
- Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:09 pm
- Forum: Cacti & Succulents, (including Yucca and Rock Plants)
- Topic: Arid bed - the finished article!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6898
- Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:56 pm
- Forum: Cacti & Succulents, (including Yucca and Rock Plants)
- Topic: Arid bed - the finished article!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6898
- Sun May 26, 2013 1:43 pm
- Forum: Cacti & Succulents, (including Yucca and Rock Plants)
- Topic: Opuntia New Acquisition
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2689
Re: Opuntia New Acquisition
I bought forceps for handling and weeding between things like cacti and agaves. Brill.
- Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:57 pm
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: How I love the Yucca Gloriosa...
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5864
Re: How I love the Yucca Gloriosa...
I like my Gloriosas too, (under a covered pergola). Planted about a year ago.
Excuse the state of the bed; an army of sparrows keep digging up my sempervivums to have dust baths.
Excuse the state of the bed; an army of sparrows keep digging up my sempervivums to have dust baths.
- Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:26 am
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: Chamaerops humilis advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1483
Re: Chamaerops humilis advice
B & Q gone into examinership here.
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:29 pm
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: Agaves and arid gardening
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4251
Re: Agaves and arid gardening
Haven't a decent picture to hand but my Agaves and Cacti will stay out all winter. They're under a glazed section of a pergola and rarely get watered. The rain can't get under there either. Suppose I'll have to water them eventually. :( http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/scattery/second%20album/I...
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:11 pm
- Forum: HTUK Community Forum (public)
- Topic: Best bark chip for my money
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3250
Re: Best bark chip for my money
I now use rotted leaf mould for mulching. Way better then bark chips, I think.
I get loads of leaf mould from neighbours, stuff it in a 1 ton builders' bag, stomp down on it hard and a few months later when the leaves have congealed, beautiful leaf mould mulch.
I get loads of leaf mould from neighbours, stuff it in a 1 ton builders' bag, stomp down on it hard and a few months later when the leaves have congealed, beautiful leaf mould mulch.