On 04/02/2013 17:10, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-02-04 16:06:33 +0000, Spider said:

On 04/02/2013 15:49, Sacha wrote:
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.





I daresay it's possible, but I wouldn't want to be his neighour! I
have an otherwise excellent neighbour whose lawn is unkemp and rarely
mowed. It is often full of weed and flowering grasses, the seed of
which is blown into my garden:~(. The idea of living next to someone
who strimmed his weeds once a year is almost unthinkable.

Wild flowers, Spider, wild flowers. ;-))



Yeah yeah, Sacha. I love wild flowers. I even love a few of *their*
wild flowers. I don't love weeds, mine or theirs. Anyway, Roger's
garden has to satisfy SWMBO, who probably doesn't like weeds and would
probably would rather have something tidy. Sadly wild flowers rarely do
'tidy' for more than one season. That's because they're *wild* :@)).

Do let me know if you want some "wild flower" seed;~).

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay