Horticultural 'goof-ups'

Russian Vine is called Fallopia and it smothers everything and has plumes of creamy white flowers, so isn't particularly attractive either- it really shouldn't be sold in the UK it's just too much of a problem plant. It sounds like you have a tough place to garden though, I'm sure you can succeed with something...?

 

Aye not attractive some thing I've already got
would be boarder, but haven't the time or cash had an attempt and failed


this sort of thing works probably a weed looks like that for long enough i think its ok, keeps the white stuff back,'its tough stuff' but only grows there


some thing could engulf this area surly




the other side


its a chalenge

 

Shouldn't worry, I quite like the 'naturalistic' style of your patch, Mr C.

Well, it looks like something's engulfed that old car in the corner. How long has that been there?

 

Oh Plantpots, I can't agree with you about Roses, I have them flowering from April till December, last year we even picked some deep red ones for Christmas day for the table.

 

1) Allium sphaerocephalum quite pretty for the first couple of years then I realised how it was spreading and have been trying to control it ever since. This is made trickier by other alliums being around and young alliums are quite tricky to tell apart.
2) Dianella tasmanica again took a couple of years to get established and then started to produce offsets up to 3ft away.

 

About twenty years ago, I once planted up a some winter hanging baskets with a nice little variegated ivy, Hedera 'Glacier'. When the time came to clear the baskets out, I thought it would be a good idea to plant the ivies against the low chain link fence between ours and the neighbour's garden.

Why am I such an idiot?

 

No huge disaster this year so far.

Although

The dwarf peas that I thought might do well in the planters on the wall with the strawberries havent. The snails seem to like them and the blackbirds have taken offence & started pulling the entire plan out - this is about the best example thats left - not going to get many peas from them !

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and out the front I re-potted all the slavias from last year into a big pot to impress the passers by..

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I really should dig the rouge osteospemum out of there but there are so many jobs to do before I get to that Im just going to pretend I did it on purpose. People will not be fooled..

 

Almost made a big mistake today was doing a look out for sycamore seedlings and almost pulled my resllt small glam rock hydrangea out thinking it was a developed sycamore

Luckily realised before i did any damage

 

the old mini put it there in remembrance, bit of a graveyard for tin,stuck in a budlea (sp) "must get a garden book with an index",the engulfing don't take long


all kind of weeds in there

graveyard


ell natural just for you

 

Ok Anthony, maybe I'm a bit harsh on the roses, I do have some lovely ones too, but they are labour intensive - we are just plagued by black spot here and I have an aversion to using sprays and chemicals.
And Mr C, you have a lovely wildlife garden, I agree it's a tough challenge to try and tame the garden, so maybe 'thinking tangetially here though' what about making or creating natural sculptures that can sit in your landscape? A few sheep maybe?

 

Love the old mini with the buddleia growing out of it.

That would probably go down a storm at Chelsea. Give it a fancy, pretentious title, something like 'End of the Road' and you'd be onto a winner.

 

Love the wooden cave seat,is there a thread on here where folk show that sort of stuff
End of the road,it has life sucks written on the roof will that do,the boot opens for a seat