Having successfully wisterified a wall on our last house, sinensis is the type you want. Ours was a floribunda macrophylla - spectacular...
*grin* Well, I got some of the P3 stuff, and there's a kind of good-news-bad-news thing there. The bad news is that it didn't seal the seepage....
Not significantly. I hit damp clay and stopped there, precisely because I didn't want problems holding back the water table. A little water seeped...
Big question is what type of soil you have. Is it chalk? or clay? or otherwise something which plants might take a dislike to? If you want to...
Can't believe no-one's mentioned ceanothus yet. *Very* attractive to bees when it's out, which is mainly spring and then random occasional buds...
Hi all, Some of you may remember my posting earlier in the year, saying I was planning a pond in the shape of a yin-yang symbol. It also needed...
Bored - probably. Going to dig over someone else's place when I can't face doing ours - unlikely. ;-) Good luck with your place too.
Hi all. Just thought I'd put a quick intro on here, after asking questions already. Our last house was a start-from-scratch exercise inside and...
Road rage, just checked those links. Wow - what a great idea with the pond in the pipe! Yeah, if I could find a suitable bit of tube then that'd...
It's tempting to go for the "dogfish" gag... ;-) We're not really into fish though, and we prefer native wildlife. So the dogs might scare the...
Thanks Roadrage. I'll check those vids when I get home, bcos work doesn't like that kind of thing! I think I know what you mean - use cheap...
Yeah, concrete really is the ultimate answer, but it will make a large job even bigger. Have to check prices, I guess. We're not majorly...
Thanks Pro Gard. I did think about that, but there's the problem of how to seal it so the mortar doesn't leach into the water. With a regular...
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