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What plants would you take with you if you moved house.....
Farm1 writes
"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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