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...

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....?

I took one out that wide. I split it in four in situ and dug out a quarter at a time.

I put my Delosperma Cooperi into poor ordinary soil. This is a photo of them. They spread like wildfire only beaten by Lampranthus.

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.

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...

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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...

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?

And when the sun came out today.

Delosperma Cooperii is tough.



Note! Flowers only open in full sunshine and it was cloudy when I took the pic a couple of days ago.

I bought forceps for handling and weeding between things like cacti and agaves. Brill.

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.

B & Q gone into examinership here.

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...

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.