Mr List Blog - 9th year 2018
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Re: Mr List Blog - 4th year 2013
clerodendrum trichotomum var. fargesii
I really like the intricate shape of the ice crystal fig too.
they bare pretty cheap and available, why don't you get one?
I really like the intricate shape of the ice crystal fig too.
they bare pretty cheap and available, why don't you get one?
Re: Mr List Blog - 4th year 2013
Still looking great mr list i still have cannas and trex etc in leaf! i look every morning to see if they have collapsed but no, not yet, my plants look pretty much like yours good isnt it..
Re: Mr List Blog - 4th year 2013
gunnera coming alive
first flowers of the year
my trex which just loves to rot big holes in itself
first boo shoots appearing
stuff
an uber shade success
and an uber shade failure , the duchy schefflera has bit the dust it would seem
some plants in their winter home still coming along nicely.
I have nowhere for the two basjoo and two Mekong spares this year with the mild winter not killing anything,lol.
Re: Mr List Blog - 4th year 2013
Grass looks terrible, is it due to all the shade from the jungle?
But bar that I seriously think you'll need to get the machete out by the end of this year, thats a growth explosion waiting to happen, all primed for the sun to come out. What are your plans this year, let it all grow and enjoy?
But bar that I seriously think you'll need to get the machete out by the end of this year, thats a growth explosion waiting to happen, all primed for the sun to come out. What are your plans this year, let it all grow and enjoy?
Re: Mr List Blog - 4th year 2013
Is that the Sarcococca that your bought last year in flower?
I have 5 of them in my garden and the flowers have opened, but not as much as yours have.
There is a big clump of it on my walk to work in Edinburgh. It is in flower now and sometimes the smell is intoxicating!
I have 5 of them in my garden and the flowers have opened, but not as much as yours have.
There is a big clump of it on my walk to work in Edinburgh. It is in flower now and sometimes the smell is intoxicating!
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Re: Mr List Blog - 4th year 2013
Your plants are looking in rude health (well apart from the dead looking thing in the shade and your grass) The Fatsihedra looks to have put on good growth as has your Scheffys, sadly the "seeds" you kindly gave me look to all be duds. What are your plans for the lawn?
I take it all back, one has germinated tonight!
I take it all back, one has germinated tonight!
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Re: Mr List Blog - 4th year 2013
Yorkshire Kris wrote:Your plants are looking in rude health (well apart from the dead looking thing in the shade and your grass) The Fatsihedra looks to have put on good growth as has your Scheffys, sadly the "seeds" you kindly gave me look to all be duds. What are your plans for the lawn?
I mentioned this on another thread, but I think anyone with a scruffy/dead lawn, should go shingle a'la HTUK's Simba
Re: Mr List Blog - 4th year 2013
I think it was a cracking little brainwave to put those Sarcococca by the door. opening the door is as far as I venture into the garden most of this time of year and the scent just wafts straight in
lawn is a pain. it mostly comes back ok in summer, I have done all the blinking things the books say and it is no help.
if I got rid of the grass I would plant some other type of carpeting plants there.
lawn is a pain. it mostly comes back ok in summer, I have done all the blinking things the books say and it is no help.
if I got rid of the grass I would plant some other type of carpeting plants there.
Re: Mr List Blog - 4th year 2013
If grass doesn't work out then you should try Soleirolia soleirolii. Looks like moss, grows very fast, is evergreen and is completely hardy.Mr List wrote:
lawn is a pain. it mostly comes back ok in summer, I have done all the blinking things the books say and it is no help.
if I got rid of the grass I would plant some other type of carpeting plants there.
Re: Mr List Blog - 4th year 2013
and does barely nothing , I have been planting it in my lawn for years and it is just clinging on.
Re: Mr List Blog - 4th year 2013
Question, Ken. Have counted the number of different plants you have potted and planted?