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"Sacha Hubbard" wrote in message
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On Wed, 31 May 2006 22:35:59 +0100, Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\) wrote
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"Sacha Hubbard" wrote in message
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On Wed, 31 May 2006 12:19:17 +0100, Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\) wrote
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"La Puce" wrote in message
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Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
441 Coarse veined leaf =Lamium (dead nettle)
White flower looks like a forget-me-not (a white one)
446 = Not telling you yet
453=Acanthus
462=Hellebore
471=Sedum Autumn spectabile/Joy
373 =Syringia =Lilac

Where did you get those numbers from!?!? 453 Acanthus off course!!
Not
sure about the Hellebore though ... and I'm not sure about your
number
so I don't know what you are referring to ))

The numbers are the last 3 digits of the URL--I think.
Flowers are Hellebore-perhaps leaves belong to something else but they
too
look ok to me. It's probably H. foetidus or similar
http://adm.smugmug.com/gallery/1401195/1/72550462

Yes, I'm sure that's right.

Are you going to tell us what the big tall thingy is? :-)
http://adm.smugmug.com/gallery/1401195/1/72550446
Hint:-It is not an Aquilegia


Thalictrum flavium glauca.



Spoil sport:-) You deprived La Puce of a micromoment of Glory.



Tsk. I'm using a new newsreader and am, I hope, becoming slowly
accustomed
to it. In the meantime, certain nuances may be lost to me......and
clearly
that was one of them! We have that plant in the garden and its cousin
"Hewitt's Double'. I'm tempted to start a book on how many people tell
us
each year that it's a type of Gypsophila.
However, to go back to the queries of the original poster, I would
suggest
that he doesn't nuke his garden just yet. Looks like the previous owner
had
some plant knowledge and some unusual plants in there.

Nukes are on standby for now. I'm going to go in with a smaller tactical
assault unit and do some political destabilisation instead !


I have had 4 gardens in the past 10 years and have inherited plants in each
case and at first it is all exciting as you wonder what treasures you have
inherited. Sadly, most of the treasures turn out to be invasive weeds that
have taken the opportunity to run riot between owners. It ends up being
very very hard to renovate existing beds. The easiest way long term and by
far the most satisfying to look at is to start brand new beds from scratch.
You may not have room for it or the best parts of teh garden may already be
taken by existing beds so it may not be possible, in which case this advice
is useless. If there are nice existing plants, try to dig them out without
any weeds or take cuttings and start them off again in teh new beds. Then
you can nuke old beds one by one (organise regime change; install puppeet
administrations etc).
Old beds that have grass, brambles, hungarian bladder weed, broken bottles,
rubble etc. can be very very hard work and
horribly disappointing as they seem to look tatty no matter what you do.

When you start a bed from scratch, you get automatic bare soil and razor
sharp edges (having done a lot of digging and clearing which admittedly is
hard work; in our case my wife does it; I kid you not; she likes digging).
It is easier to plan what goes where and to control weeds, if neccessary by
roundup at the start and by digging out roots etc.

If you do have old treasures, then on the plus side, it is fun seeing if
they are nice or not and seeing what comes up.
You can be lucky.

Des