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What plants would you take with you if you moved house.....
"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
Farm1 writes No. I've seen pics of "tropical" gardens in London and all sorts of other places. Lots of tropical style palms, musa etc and I hate the look of them in temperate climates. It's sort of like building a Hacienda in the middle of a bunch of Eucalypts. Just looks wrong, wrong,wrong. Sounds like a gross generalisation but I'm afraid I do to. It could be a gross generalisation but the problem is that the architecture needs to match the locale and the plants. A terrace house with a small narrow alley type back yard and tropical just doesn't match. Tropical needs decks and wide windows and lots of air movement between the house and the outside and then one could do tropical (or tropical look alike) I would even consider moving somewhere oop North or West if it came to the point that climate change stopped me growing what I consider to be temperate climes plants! I would not enjoy a gravel garden in place of a lawn, nor spiky hard architectural plants rather than the gossamery(?) Salvia uliginosa or Verbena bonariensis. I think there might be a place for hot and tropical in say a formal front garden so people don't hang about out there but in the back garden temperate plants makes one want to linger and relax etc. But the real beauty of a real tropical garden is that they are very much lingering places as they are shady and lush and cool in comparison to the house and full of birdlife. They aren't as you say worth lingering in when planted in a temperate climate. Too cool, too little birdlife and just not right somehow. But back to your mention of Verbena bonariensis: this is one plant that does very well in gravel gardens as well as temperate cooler. You might be interested in the following cite as it is about a very pretty and successful dry (but frosty) garden with lots of gravel - a bit like the Oz version of a Beth Chatto gravel garden (and I've learned heaps from her books): http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1063711.htm Can't see many of the tropical plants being that beneficial to our wildlife either. No :-)) However it takes all sorts Yes it does, but I see so many houses where I think could be improved with a better and more suitable garden for the location. Improving our house and environement is still probably the best investment that the majority of people can make. and I'm accidentally growing a tray of what appears to be, cactii from a packet of seeds that some told me were hardy plants so I need to off load them! I like cacti but don't have many and in pots only. I have a British born friend who has lots in his garden but he's put then in hot, hard, hungry places and they do look good. |
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What plants would you take with you if you moved house.....
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"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message Farm1 writes No. I've seen pics of "tropical" gardens in London and all sorts of other places. Lots of tropical style palms, musa etc and I hate the look of them in temperate climates. It's sort of like building a Hacienda in the middle of a bunch of Eucalypts. Just looks wrong, wrong,wrong. Sounds like a gross generalisation but I'm afraid I do to. It could be a gross generalisation but the problem is that the architecture needs to match the locale and the plants. A terrace house with a small narrow alley type back yard and tropical just doesn't match. Tropical needs decks and wide windows and lots of air movement between the house and the outside and then one could do tropical (or tropical look alike) I don't know if we have the same picture of tropical, but I reckon that if you're going to be penned in by walls, you might as well be penned in by plants instead, therefore in that situation I'd go for the lush overgrown look. Maybe more temperate-overgrown-with-ferns look. But the real beauty of a real tropical garden is that they are very much lingering places as they are shady and lush and cool in comparison to the house and full of birdlife. They aren't as you say worth lingering in when planted in a temperate climate. Too cool, too little birdlife and just not right somehow. Shady, lush and cool is still nice in a temperate climate, especially when the weather's like last July. And you've got more chance of it being green rather than bare in winter. -- Kay |
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What plants would you take with you if you moved house.....
"K" wrote in message
Farm1 writes It could be a gross generalisation but the problem is that the architecture needs to match the locale and the plants. A terrace house with a small narrow alley type back yard and tropical just doesn't match. Tropical needs decks and wide windows and lots of air movement between the house and the outside and then one could do tropical (or tropical look alike) I don't know if we have the same picture of tropical, but I reckon that if you're going to be penned in by walls, you might as well be penned in by plants instead, therefore in that situation I'd go for the lush overgrown look. Maybe more temperate-overgrown-with-ferns look. Yes I think I'd do the same. It's just as easy to get the overgrown look with temperate plants as it is with plants that don't suit the locale or architecture.. |
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