Hi folks, I have a 'bare' patch at the bottom of my front lawn and am looking for some advice/inspiration on what to plant in it. any ideas? what would look best? would like to stay with the same theme as up the back.

My dear sir or madam there is nothing with which to start from, no reference to the “back” which means there is nothing to go on. You are wasting everyone’s time!!!!

Thankyou Rich for your very helpful comment. This is my second post on this forum and I just registered earlier today hoping to meet some fellow gardeners who share my interest. I have just started out in the gardening world and know next to nothing about it. for your information the "back" refered to the "back" of my picture with a similar rock bounary. Hopefully the next reply will not come from a **** like you "!!!!!!"

weedkiller wrote:
An Oasis Wrote:
My dear sir or madam there is nothing with which to start from, no
reference to the “back” which means there is nothing to go on. You
are wasting everyone’s time!!!!

Thankyou Rich for your very helpful comment. This is my second post on
this forum and I just registered earlier today hoping to meet some
fellow gardeners who share my interest. I have just started out in the
gardening world and know next to nothing about it. for your
information the "back" refered to the "back" of my picture with a
similar rock bounary. Hopefully the next reply will not come from a
**** like you "!!!!!!"

Why don't you plant a small conifer and some weeds.

HTH

Phil L wrote:
weedkiller wrote:
An Oasis Wrote:
My dear sir or madam there is nothing with which to start from, no
reference to the "back" which means there is nothing to go on. You
are wasting everyone's time!!!!

Thankyou Rich for your very helpful comment. This is my second post
on this forum and I just registered earlier today hoping to meet some
fellow gardeners who share my interest. I have just started out in
the gardening world and know next to nothing about it. for your
information the "back" refered to the "back" of my picture with a
similar rock bounary. Hopefully the next reply will not come from a
**** like you "!!!!!!"

Why don't you plant a small conifer and some weeds.

FGS, this is a straight question from a beginner who isn't afraid to
ask! Leave the bloke alone if you don't want to help.

--
Mike.

Mike Lyle wrote:
Phil L wrote:
weedkiller wrote:
An Oasis Wrote:
My dear sir or madam there is nothing with which to start from, no
reference to the "back" which means there is nothing to go on. You
are wasting everyone's time!!!!

Thankyou Rich for your very helpful comment. This is my second post
on this forum and I just registered earlier today hoping to meet
some fellow gardeners who share my interest. I have just started
out in the gardening world and know next to nothing about it. for
your information the "back" refered to the "back" of my picture
with a similar rock bounary. Hopefully the next reply will not come
from a **** like you "!!!!!!"

Why don't you plant a small conifer and some weeds.

FGS, this is a straight question from a beginner who isn't afraid to
ask! Leave the bloke alone if you don't want to help.

He said he want's it like 'the back', when questioned he threw a fit and
claimed he meant the 'back of the picture'...upon closer inspection, there's
nowt there apart from some weeds and a small conifer.
Job done

"weedkiller" wrote in message
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An Oasis Wrote:
My dear sir or madam there is nothing with which to start from, no
reference to the “back” which means there is nothing to go on. You are
wasting everyone’s time!!!!

Thankyou Rich for your very helpful comment. This is my second post on
this forum and I just registered earlier today hoping to meet some
fellow gardeners who share my interest. I have just started out in the
gardening world and know next to nothing about it. for your information
the "back" refered to the "back" of my picture with a similar rock
bounary. Hopefully the next reply will not come from a **** like you
"!!!!!!"
weedkiller

Hi
You are accessing the URG newsgroup (uk.rec.gardening) via gardenbanter (a rip
of site)
Most URG people are helpful souls whereas the gardenbanter users can be a little
like oasis...

Looks like you might want another conifer with spreading shrubby stuff at the
base. How about a LARGE rock too?

Jenny

On 1/2/06 7:13, in article , "JennyC"
wrote:


"weedkiller" wrote in message
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An Oasis Wrote:
My dear sir or madam there is nothing with which to start from, no
reference to the “back” which means there is nothing to go on. You are
wasting everyone’s time!!!!

Thankyou Rich for your very helpful comment. This is my second post on
this forum and I just registered earlier today hoping to meet some
fellow gardeners who share my interest. I have just started out in the
gardening world and know next to nothing about it. for your information
the "back" refered to the "back" of my picture with a similar rock
bounary. Hopefully the next reply will not come from a **** like you
"!!!!!!"
weedkiller

Hi
You are accessing the URG newsgroup (uk.rec.gardening) via gardenbanter (a rip
of site)
Most URG people are helpful souls whereas the gardenbanter users can be a
little
like oasis...

Looks like you might want another conifer with spreading shrubby stuff at the
base. How about a LARGE rock too?

I think it's worth mentioning to the original poster that not all of us see
posts via Garden Banter. I certainly don't. It would be worth his while
subscribing to urg direct and thereby reaching a wider audience.
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
)

[quote=JennyC]"weedkiller" wrote in
Hi
You are accessing the URG newsgroup (uk.rec.gardening) via gardenbanter (a rip
of site)
Most URG people are helpful souls whereas the gardenbanter users can be a little
like oasis...

Hi, I am confused... I always read the posts through Gardenbanter (sorry!) but I don't understand why its a problem. I've signed up, I can easily access the posts and threads and I seem to be able to join in without a problem. I can access URG through outlook express, but I only receive a huge list of emails, no threads, so never use it. What am I missing out on then and why does it matter so much?

jay jay

"jay jay" wrote
Hi, I am confused... I always read the posts through Gardenbanter
(sorry!) but I don't understand why its a problem. I've signed up, I
can easily access the posts and threads and I seem to be able to join
in without a problem. I can access URG through outlook express, but I
only receive a huge list of emails, no threads, so never use it.

In OE, to see newsgroup messages shown in threads go to View menu current
view 'group messages by conversation'.

Each to their own, but compared with a proper newsreader I find a web-based
bulletin board format *far* too slow and clunky to read and post to, and
next to impossible to follow long and branching threads properly. Since URG
is nothing whatever to do with the Gardenbanter site it's much simpler to
read it direct. There's also the advantage that using a newsreading program
you can subscribe to and quickly download as many different groups as you
want and then read and reply offline at leisure. If time online is an issue
for anyone they then only need to log in briefly to send pre-written posts
and get new messages as required.

What am I missing out on then and why does it matter so much?

It becomes an issue for some when GB users don't realise they're not just
sending to a website and aren't familiar with sensible Usenet posting
conventions. And you're missing ease of use and whatever content GB
moderators decide to remove I suppose.

URG itself isn't moderated but I recall when we had a flood attack by 'net
vandals that while it was trivial to mark all their headers as 'read' and
just skip the rubbish with a newsreader, Gandenbanter users by contrast had
acres of rubbish to wade through, with no idea what was going on and no way
to weed the nonsense out.

--
Sue

The message
from jay jay contains these words:

Hi, I am confused... I always read the posts through Gardenbanter
(sorry!) but I don't understand why its a problem. I've signed up, I
can easily access the posts and threads and I seem to be able to join
in without a problem. I can access URG through outlook express, but I
only receive a huge list of emails, no threads, so never use it. What
am I missing out on then and why does it matter so much?

There is not a complete two-way interface between gardenbanter and
urg. For instance, some urglers don't permit their posts to be shown by
gardenbanter at all, and some set their newsreader to delete all posts
incoming from gardenbanter (I won't go into the reasons, but it is so) .

That means that people using gardenbanter are partially excluded from
reading URG, AND from being read when they reply, so they only take a
very limited part in many threads. Like yourself, they aren't aware of
that, so many of you keep missing the point, losing the plot, dropping
the thread, wanting to have explained what was explained two posts ago
etc..which is quite disruptive for URG.

Sounds like you haven't got your OE newsreader set up right, there
are others here using it who can tell you how to make it thread properly
etc.

Janet

"weedkiller" wrote

Hi folks, I have a 'bare' patch at the bottom of my front lawn and am
looking for some advice/inspiration on what to plant in it. any ideas?
what would look best? would like to stay with the same theme as up the
back.

Personally I think that strange bed looks looks just that..strange, it has
no relationship to the plants at the back. Have you removed a plant/plants
from that bed and wish to replant?

From the photo I would say you need a complete re-design of your front
garden. It's plain and rather boring and if you are getting into gardening
you will soon feel the same way yourself. Perhaps if you get a hosepipe and
lay a curve between both beds and see if one large bed curved (crescent
shaped) around joining the two would look better, it would certainly give
you more plant room. Then you need to decide if you want a minimum
maintenance garden or one that you have to do things too, the latter tend to
be the more interesting and colourful.
So it's dwarf conifers etc or herbaceous plants, your shout.

--
Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

Bob Hobden wrote:

From the photo I would say you need a complete re-design of your front
garden. It's plain and rather boring and if you are getting into gardening
you will soon feel the same way yourself. Perhaps if you get a hosepipe and
lay a curve between both beds and see if one large bed curved (crescent
shaped) around joining the two would look better, it would certainly give
you more plant room. Then you need to decide if you want a minimum
maintenance garden or one that you have to do things too, the latter tend to
be the more interesting and colourful.
So it's dwarf conifers etc or herbaceous plants, your shout.

\whisper Keith, herbaceous plants, say herbaceous plants!!! /whisper

I have just put a Chilean Pine in a gap in my front garden.

Steve

"La Puce" wrote in message
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Bob Hobden wrote:

From the photo I would say you need a complete re-design of your front
garden. It's plain and rather boring and if you are getting into
gardening
you will soon feel the same way yourself. Perhaps if you get a hosepipe
and
lay a curve between both beds and see if one large bed curved (crescent
shaped) around joining the two would look better, it would certainly give
you more plant room. Then you need to decide if you want a minimum
maintenance garden or one that you have to do things too, the latter tend
to
be the more interesting and colourful.
So it's dwarf conifers etc or herbaceous plants, your shout.

\whisper Keith, herbaceous plants, say herbaceous plants!!! /whisper

stevej wrote:
I have just put a Chilean Pine in a gap in my front garden.

Coo, lovely. How big? I'm looking for a hamamelis palida atm. I'd like
a big one.