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05-03-2006, 05:02 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 5 Mar 2006 16:31:51 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:

|In article ,
|Dave Fawthrop wrote:
|
|Has anyone any other ideas?
|Or things which will survive on these terrible conditions.
|
|If you go in for walking, you will see that trees and shrubs have
|no problem colonising old roadways as soon as the surface breaks
|up enough to allow their roots to reach down. Your plan sounds
|fine to me.

I was hoping to increase the speed of colonisation and growth

|I suggest planting the odd sloe, which is prickly, has flowers in
|spring and fruit in autumn.

Sloes do not survive where I live. Yorkshire pennines :-(

|Otherwise any of the shrubs that
|naturalise such habitat will do well - hawthorn, privet (native),
|elder, and of course the various roses. Plus buddleia :-)

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