On 28/8/07 16:37, in article
, "Cat(h)"
wrote:

On Aug 28, 4:29 pm, Sacha wrote:

You said money no object. I reckon with enough money, it should be
possible to get Ireland tugged down the Atlantic a few hundred
kilometres south. Sure, don't they build palmtree and world-shaped
islands in Dubai?

You'd need a very long rope....

Hmmm.. I can see you are one of these people for whom the glass is
always half empty.

No, you can see I'm an optimist by nature - I do admit the possibility of a
rope. ;-)


Cat(h) (oh, and I'd take out all those weeds which have crept up on me
with the wet weather)

Now you *are* into miracles!

Oh, I'm hoping to get back on top. The fight is merciless, but dry
week ends only. Many centuries ago, they used to have that kind of
rules for wars.

Cat(h)

Same here - the convolvulus is rampant this year, particularly.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

What would everyone else add, alter, take away, assuming money was no
object?

--
Sacha

I'd add a "gardener"! There aren't enough hours in the day at the moment to
do everything, so the weeds have taken over the veg plot again. The
courgettes are the size of sub-marines. The runner beans have run to big
stringy pods. There are still potatoes in the ground waiting to be dug up,
the rows lost amongst weeds.

David.

On 28/8/07 18:23, in article , "David
(Normandy)" wrote:

What would everyone else add, alter, take away, assuming money was no
object?

--
Sacha

I'd add a "gardener"! There aren't enough hours in the day at the moment to
do everything, so the weeds have taken over the veg plot again. The
courgettes are the size of sub-marines. The runner beans have run to big
stringy pods. There are still potatoes in the ground waiting to be dug up,
the rows lost amongst weeds.

David.


A gardener is more than fair, IMO because sometimes busy-ness, creaky bones,
encroaching age etc need a bit of a helping hand. ;-)
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
On 28/8/07 15:54, in article
, "Sally Thompson"
wrote:

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:35:04 +0100, Sacha wrote
(in article ) :

On 28/8/07 12:03, in article ,
"Rhiannon_s" wrote:




"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
this morning, I found myself idly thinking of what I would do to
alter or
add to our garden, if I could. I really love it as it is so it's no
big
deal but I think the one thing I'd *really* like is a stream
meandering
through it. We have water just under the surface all around us, so
it's
quite irritating not to have any ON the surface! ;-)
What would everyone else add, alter, take away, assuming money was no
object?


I'd restyle into a japanese garden with a proper teahouse and pagoda.
And
possible an orrery folly.

I had to look up Orrery. ;-) Do you have any photographs of what
you're
thinking of and didn't someone do something similar at Chelsea a few
years
ago?
This is the Japanese garden at Huntington Gardens, CA. We thought it
was
wonderful: http://tinyurl.com/2xplff


Ooh, that brought back memories! I've been there [mumble] years ago and
I
agree it was wonderful.


We loved those 'cloud pruned' trees. (I don't know if that's the proper
term) But apparently they're enormously expensive.



I'm late catching up with this thread, sorry.

Yep, correct term, but they are only expensive if you buy them pre-pruned.
You can always get a couple of regular pines and prune them and shape their
growth yourself. Takes a small amount of practice and a bit of time. When
you buy them prepruned and shaped it is the storageand growth time you are
paying for mainly.
--
Rhiannon_s
Once you accept "because" as a valid reason the world becomes a much simpler
place.

"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
On 28/8/07 12:03, in article ,
"Rhiannon_s" wrote:




"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
this morning, I found myself idly thinking of what I would do to alter
or
add to our garden, if I could. I really love it as it is so it's no
big
deal but I think the one thing I'd *really* like is a stream meandering
through it. We have water just under the surface all around us, so
it's
quite irritating not to have any ON the surface! ;-)
What would everyone else add, alter, take away, assuming money was no
object?


I'd restyle into a japanese garden with a proper teahouse and pagoda.
And
possible an orrery folly.

I had to look up Orrery. ;-) Do you have any photographs of what you're
thinking of and didn't someone do something similar at Chelsea a few years
ago?
This is the Japanese garden at Huntington Gardens, CA. We thought it was
wonderful: http://tinyurl.com/2xplff


Sorry for the ultra late reply to this, better late than never I hope
though.

I do love japanese gardening, I'm hoping to study japanese garden design
myself (talk about yer niche markets, but as our town gardens get smaller
and we get time poorer I reckon there is market potential).

An Orrery doesn't really go in a proper japanese garden (or any garden
really) of course, but I remember once when I was very young many years ago,
I was definetly less than seven because my dad ws still alive at the time) I
was taken to a big garden show type thing. And part of the display was this
big orrery (fixed of course not a working clockwork one) it was in this
little walled faux ruin garden and had a climber, with small star shaped
flowers and a heavenly scent, rambling through it and it just looked
fantastic. It's an image which has stayed with me for years. If I had
money/time I would love to re-create it.

An orrery of course is a model of the solar system. The best ones are
clockwork I believe most sceince museums will have one of those. You can
get fixed position ones too, and I'm sure they would make a smahing focal
point in any garden, better than a regular sundial I sure.
--
Rhiannon_s
Once you accept "because" as a valid reason the world becomes a much simpler
place.

On 2/9/07 13:54, in article , "Rhiannon_s"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
On 28/8/07 15:54, in article
, "Sally Thompson"
wrote:

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:35:04 +0100, Sacha wrote
(in article ) :

On 28/8/07 12:03, in article ,
"Rhiannon_s" wrote:




"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
this morning, I found myself idly thinking of what I would do to
alter or
add to our garden, if I could. I really love it as it is so it's no
big
deal but I think the one thing I'd *really* like is a stream
meandering
through it. We have water just under the surface all around us, so
it's
quite irritating not to have any ON the surface! ;-)
What would everyone else add, alter, take away, assuming money was no
object?


I'd restyle into a japanese garden with a proper teahouse and pagoda.
And
possible an orrery folly.

I had to look up Orrery. ;-) Do you have any photographs of what
you're
thinking of and didn't someone do something similar at Chelsea a few
years
ago?
This is the Japanese garden at Huntington Gardens, CA. We thought it
was
wonderful: http://tinyurl.com/2xplff


Ooh, that brought back memories! I've been there [mumble] years ago and
I
agree it was wonderful.


We loved those 'cloud pruned' trees. (I don't know if that's the proper
term) But apparently they're enormously expensive.



I'm late catching up with this thread, sorry.

Yep, correct term, but they are only expensive if you buy them pre-pruned.
You can always get a couple of regular pines and prune them and shape their
growth yourself. Takes a small amount of practice and a bit of time. When
you buy them prepruned and shaped it is the storageand growth time you are
paying for mainly.
--
Rhiannon_s
Once you accept "because" as a valid reason the world becomes a much simpler
place.


Ray's done that to a couple of self-sown myrtles we have in the garden, one
of which has cleverly planted itself in precisely the right place. I'll
have a look around and see what we've got 'up on the mypex' which might fit
the bill.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

On 2/9/07 14:02, in article , "Rhiannon_s"
wrote:




"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
On 28/8/07 12:03, in article ,
"Rhiannon_s" wrote:




"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
this morning, I found myself idly thinking of what I would do to alter
or
add to our garden, if I could. I really love it as it is so it's no
big
deal but I think the one thing I'd *really* like is a stream meandering
through it. We have water just under the surface all around us, so
it's
quite irritating not to have any ON the surface! ;-)
What would everyone else add, alter, take away, assuming money was no
object?


I'd restyle into a japanese garden with a proper teahouse and pagoda.
And
possible an orrery folly.

I had to look up Orrery. ;-) Do you have any photographs of what you're
thinking of and didn't someone do something similar at Chelsea a few years
ago?
This is the Japanese garden at Huntington Gardens, CA. We thought it was
wonderful: http://tinyurl.com/2xplff


Sorry for the ultra late reply to this, better late than never I hope
though.

I do love japanese gardening, I'm hoping to study japanese garden design
myself (talk about yer niche markets, but as our town gardens get smaller
and we get time poorer I reckon there is market potential).

An Orrery doesn't really go in a proper japanese garden (or any garden
really) of course, but I remember once when I was very young many years ago,
I was definetly less than seven because my dad ws still alive at the time) I
was taken to a big garden show type thing. And part of the display was this
big orrery (fixed of course not a working clockwork one) it was in this
little walled faux ruin garden and had a climber, with small star shaped
flowers and a heavenly scent, rambling through it and it just looked
fantastic. It's an image which has stayed with me for years. If I had
money/time I would love to re-create it.

An orrery of course is a model of the solar system. The best ones are
clockwork I believe most sceince museums will have one of those. You can
get fixed position ones too, and I'm sure they would make a smahing focal
point in any garden, better than a regular sundial I sure.
--

Thanks for all that Rhiannon. I'll have a look at those and see if we have
somewhere we could do something similar. My guess about the climber you saw
is Trachelospermum jasminoides, BTW. ;-)

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'