On 2013-02-04 15:12:55 +0000, Spider said:

On 04/02/2013 13:59, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-02-04 13:49:32 +0000, Spider said:

On 04/02/2013 09:54, Sacha wrote:
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If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.

Lovely! I'd settle for those beautiful mossy-headed trees for my
woodland bank. If only I could maintain them like that.

That would probably take 2 of the gardeners full time!

I'd love a moss-garden and that makes me wonder if Roger's steeply
sloping bank could be a moss garden? He says there's moss at the top on
the lawn so... However, if the bank slopes all that steeply it may drain
too well for moss to be happy.



Well, I'm on a sloping site and, as well as getting moss in damp shady
places, I also get different mosses and pearlwort colonising drier,
more open places. It should be possible for Roger to have a moss
garden, but the danger is that there wouldn't be enough moss cover to
prevent weeds and grasses getting in, especially if he has neighbours
with weedy gardens.

Unfortunately, weeds seem to get into absolutely everything and the
hell with banks like that is that weeding them through other plants is
near to impossible. Without knowing it, it's hard to judge but I'd
almost be inclined to let it 'go native' and strim it once a year, if
that's possible.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk