On 14/6/04 13:45, in article
4, "Victoria Clare"
wrote:

Sacha wrote in
k:

I just have this horrid feeling that gravel only with a few pots is
going to look like a municipal cemetery and that a new gardener might
not have a 'vision' of that as the finished article. To me, it sounds
rather bleak, I suppose, especially in our normally prevailing
weather.

Don't worry Sacha: I promise you it will fill very nicely!

I rented a house once with exactly that as the back garden. Done 3 years I
think when we lived there, and already alive with alyssum & anth anthir
drat, snapdragons, you know what I mean.

Gravel seems to be a great medium for seedlings, as soon as it gets some
dust and a few dead leaves into it...


That's true, as I said upthread but if the OP wants trouble free, this isn't
the easiest or most attractive way to go for it, IMO.
Thinking along these lines, a friend of mine planted loads of lily of the
valley in a flower bed and over the years they've all 'migrated' into the
gravel path in front of it. Not one now flowers in the bed! And in our
gravel paths we have hardy Geraniums, poppies, Verbena bonariensis and
Mignonette and even a stray tomato plant which must have fallen out of a
customer's salad! Mind you, this isn't gravel over Mypex but for one area.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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