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How to safely plant a soakaway?
On 9 Jan, 12:22, Eddy wrote:
I've been mooching about in Google this morning, and until you suggested Gunneras it seemed that ornamental grass is the only safe option. *Stuff I've been reading this morning has made me start to worry about the roots of three large ornamental cherries on the edge of my leach--plain/soakaway. If they are within 6 metres from your soakaway you are safe - that is the maximum planting guidance for council planting near soakaway. I'm glad you don't take the rhodos ideas. Perhaps dwarf varieties and azaleas could be an option, but the grasses would be so much nicer to the eye, for the lightness they provide, elegance and the wildlife they'd attract with their long lasting seed heads (not to mention the low maintenance). The choices are endless, from the deschampsia, sporobolus, corynephorus, myscanthus and the actae (imagine that one covered of frost in winter ...) etc... to reed grass, the red one and you could mix in echinaceas or monardas for some colour too. These will self seeds and will replace their parents. Nice clumps will eventually forms, like with the panicum and molinia - this could give you the 'bulk' of planting you are after. A curvaceous bed of these in your lawn would be lovely. HTH |
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