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Across and alongside the track from our allotment was a 2ft wide bit of soil
covered with weeds against a S. facing wall. Not being one waste such a superb growing position I dug over the bit opposite out plot and planted surplus plants from our garden there, a number of TB Iris some large Red Hot Pokers, lots of hardy Geraniums and a small Paulownia. Beginning to look nice until we went down there yesterday, some idiots have obviously been employed to strim the weeds and they have gone along the wall and strimmed everything to the ground! I suppose if they had any intelligence they wouldn't do that job. Rant over. -- Regards Bob Hobden |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... Across and alongside the track from our allotment was a 2ft wide bit of soil covered with weeds against a S. facing wall. Not being one waste such a superb growing position I dug over the bit opposite out plot and planted surplus plants from our garden there, a number of TB Iris some large Red Hot Pokers, lots of hardy Geraniums and a small Paulownia. Beginning to look nice until we went down there yesterday, some idiots have obviously been employed to strim the weeds and they have gone along the wall and strimmed everything to the ground! I suppose if they had any intelligence they wouldn't do that job. Rant over. -- Regards Bob Hobden I planted all the surplus bulbs I and the hens had dug out of parts of our garden in the street verge opposite our house. The council workmen cut the leaves and flowering spikes down. I know it's council land but really! There's another strip right outside all our boundary walls. It used to be grassed and when I was a child until about the 70s it was mown either by the residents or the council. Then new residents didn't bother and nor did the council, when the council did come it was on totally unsuitable ride-on mowers (for an 18" strip) which took off the top layer of growth and soil and threw all the cuttings onto the pavement. Some of us planted flowers in the strip hoping that they'd notice and leave them but they didn't so I and a few more planted small trees and bushes which the mowers had to avoid. That seems to have done the trick. The mowers come about twice a year and cut the grass (well, mostly weeds) outside about three properties in the street. The other local streets have/had grass verges at the other side of the pavement next to the road. Most of them have been parked on so often that they're just muddy ruts now*. It brings out the worst in one! My concern now is that we're going away in a week or so, for a fortnight, and they're busy digging up the paving slabs on the footpath/car parking spaces* and replacing them with tarmac, I can't find out if they're going to spread it right up to the boundary walls or leave the planting. If I can't find out and be able to move the expensive plants in time I'll be distracted while we're away. Mary *all the houses have drives. |
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On 20 Jul, 16:20, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... Across and alongside the track from our allotment was a 2ft wide bit of soil covered with weeds against a S. facing wall. Not being one waste such a superb growing position I dug over the bit opposite out plot and planted surplus plants from our garden there, a number of TB Iris some large Red Hot Pokers, lots of hardy Geraniums and a small Paulownia. Beginning to look nice until we went down there yesterday, some idiots have obviously been employed to strim the weeds and they have gone along the wall and strimmed everything to the ground! I suppose if they had any intelligence they wouldn't do that job. Rant over. I planted all the surplus bulbs I and the hens had dug out of parts of our garden in the street verge opposite our house. The council workmen cut the leaves and flowering spikes down. I know it's council land but really! There's another strip right outside all our boundary walls. It used to be grassed and when I was a child until about the 70s it was mown either by the residents or the council. Then new residents didn't bother and nor did the council, when the council did come it was on totally unsuitable ride-on mowers (for an 18" strip) which took off the top layer of growth and soil and threw all the cuttings onto the pavement. Some of us planted flowers in the strip hoping that they'd notice and leave them but they didn't so I and a few more planted small trees and bushes which the mowers had to avoid. That seems to have done the trick. The mowers come about twice a year and cut the grass (well, mostly weeds) outside about three properties in the street. The other local streets have/had grass verges at the other side of the pavement next to the road. Most of them have been parked on so often that they're just muddy ruts now*. It brings out the worst in one! My concern now is that we're going away in a week or so, for a fortnight, and they're busy digging up the paving slabs on the footpath/car parking spaces* and replacing them with tarmac, I can't find out if they're going to spread it right up to the boundary walls or leave the planting. If I can't find out and be able to move the expensive plants in time I'll be distracted while we're away. Mary *all the houses have drives. Folks, I feel for you, I really do. I'm now trying to ignore all this because frankly it's not worse getting an ulcer. We've had all the bottom of our street wall tarmarc, but they also tarmac all the ivy that dangled down with it! An extraordinary sight - I was so numb with surprise, because as you say, you've got to be totally idiotic to do something like this. As far as the 'planting street' is concerned, we've almost got the upper hand since two years now, when the 'neighbours day' was introduced. We can safely plant around the street trees, with council money, which is our money, without having a licence/tax/fine/whatever and more importantly they don't cut anything we plant. However, we're still in a battle with the annual spraying of weed killers along our walls and street and yes, you've guessed it, they've sprayed around the trees - so now it's all dead. I assure you, either we're the ones who are mad or the council have such a mismanagement, they cannot comprehensively organise the cleaning/maintainance of our streets without undoing what they are doing, at our expenses. As I said, I'm not getting an ulcer. I'll plant again next year and perhaps, only perhaps, they'll be a bright spark in the council who's going to realise something is wrong ...! |
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On Jul 20, 4:07 pm, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
Across and alongside the track from our allotment was a 2ft wide bit of soil covered with weeds against a S. facing wall. Not being one waste such a superb growing position I dug over the bit opposite out plot and planted surplus plants from our garden there, a number of TB Iris some large Red Hot Pokers, lots of hardy Geraniums and a small Paulownia. Beginning to look nice until we went down there yesterday, some idiots have obviously been employed to strim the weeds and they have gone along the wall and strimmed everything to the ground! I suppose if they had any intelligence they wouldn't do that job. Rant over. -- Regards Bob Hobden Bob that is do disheartening, how stupid, even someone with half a brain should have known to leave them alone. Do you know anyone on the Council who will bring up this sort of thing at their next session? Judith |
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wrote in message ... ... However, we're still in a battle with the annual spraying of weed killers along our walls and street Same here. They don't bother with the litter (cans, bottles and worse) but they spray everything which shows its head between the paving stones. Perhaps that might change when we have black top. I assure you, either we're the ones who are mad or the council have such a mismanagement, they cannot comprehensively organise the cleaning/maintainance of our streets without undoing what they are doing, at our expenses. Yes :-( Mary |
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"Judith in France" wrote in message ... On Jul 20, 4:07 pm, "Bob Hobden" wrote: Across and alongside the track from our allotment was a 2ft wide bit of soil covered with weeds against a S. facing wall. Not being one waste such a superb growing position I dug over the bit opposite out plot and planted surplus plants from our garden there, a number of TB Iris some large Red Hot Pokers, lots of hardy Geraniums and a small Paulownia. Beginning to look nice until we went down there yesterday, some idiots have obviously been employed to strim the weeds and they have gone along the wall and strimmed everything to the ground! I suppose if they had any intelligence they wouldn't do that job. Rant over. -- Regards Bob Hobden Bob that is do disheartening, how stupid, even someone with half a brain should have known to leave them alone. Do you know anyone on the Council who will bring up this sort of thing at their next session? Judith Judith, you can find exactly the person who's in charge of such things and convince him/her of your case but they don't go out with the 'workers'. The bosses say that the 'workers' are 'trained'. If you see the 'workers' who do this they say that they're under orders. Shades of the Third Reich ... Mary Mary |
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On Jul 20, 8:00 pm, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
"Judith in France" wrote in ... On Jul 20, 4:07 pm, "Bob Hobden" wrote: Across and alongside the track from our allotment was a 2ft wide bit of soil covered with weeds against a S. facing wall. Not being one waste such a superb growing position I dug over the bit opposite out plot and planted surplus plants from our garden there, a number of TB Iris some large Red Hot Pokers, lots of hardy Geraniums and a small Paulownia. Beginning to look nice until we went down there yesterday, some idiots have obviously been employed to strim the weeds and they have gone along the wall and strimmed everything to the ground! I suppose if they had any intelligence they wouldn't do that job. Rant over. -- Regards Bob Hobden Bob that is do disheartening, how stupid, even someone with half a brain should have known to leave them alone. Do you know anyone on the Council who will bring up this sort of thing at their next session? Judith Judith, you can find exactly the person who's in charge of such things and convince him/her of your case but they don't go out with the 'workers'. The bosses say that the 'workers' are 'trained'. If you see the 'workers' who do this they say that they're under orders. Shades of the Third Reich ... Mary Mary Shadows of something Mary, something nuts. Judith |
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"Judith in France" wroteafter "Bob Hobden" wrote: Across and alongside the track from our allotment was a 2ft wide bit of soil covered with weeds against a S. facing wall. Not being one waste such a superb growing position I dug over the bit opposite out plot and planted surplus plants from our garden there, a number of TB Iris some large Red Hot Pokers, lots of hardy Geraniums and a small Paulownia. Beginning to look nice until we went down there yesterday, some idiots have obviously been employed to strim the weeds and they have gone along the wall and strimmed everything to the ground! I suppose if they had any intelligence they wouldn't do that job. Rant over. Bob that is do disheartening, how stupid, even someone with half a brain should have known to leave them alone. Do you know anyone on the Council who will bring up this sort of thing at their next session? I suspect it was a contractor for the local Water Co. as they have a sewage pumping station at the end of the track. Having spoken to them before about something else I doubt I would ever get any sense. The iris will regrow, and possibly the geraniums but I doubt anything else will. I'll try marking it our with something to give them a clue. -- Regards Bob Hobden |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote ... However, we're still in a battle with the annual spraying of weed killers along our walls and street Same here. They don't bother with the litter (cans, bottles and worse) but they spray everything which shows its head between the paving stones. Perhaps that might change when we have black top. I assure you, either we're the ones who are mad or the council have such a mismanagement, they cannot comprehensively organise the cleaning/maintainance of our streets without undoing what they are doing, at our expenses. Yes :-( It's this modern culture of administrators in place of managers, you see it in the NHS all the time, ask anyone on any ward when they last saw anyone from "Management" just looking around and you will get a blank look. Administrators sit behind desks. Managers don't. -- Regards Bob Hobden |
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In message , Sacha
writes At present there's something plumey and cream coloured in the hedgerows and I have no idea what it is. I think I really must try to remember to keep a camera in the car and then put up pics of all the wild flowers which I can ask people to ID for me. Meadowsweet (Filependulina ulmaria)? Except that up here it mostly grows along the canal banks, and I would have thought hedgerows too dry. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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On 20/7/08 23:35, in article lid, "Stewart Robert
Hinsley" wrote: In message , Sacha writes At present there's something plumey and cream coloured in the hedgerows and I have no idea what it is. I think I really must try to remember to keep a camera in the car and then put up pics of all the wild flowers which I can ask people to ID for me. Meadowsweet (Filependulina ulmaria)? Except that up here it mostly grows along the canal banks, and I would have thought hedgerows too dry. I'm tempted to agree but I think I'll try to take a photo and see if you think that's it. I'm just terrible at wildflower names. As to being too dry, this is Devon, and it's green for a reason! ;-) I'll try to get to this tomorrow if time allows me to do so. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:57:03 +0100, Sacha wrote
(in article ): giant snip I think we're very lucky here. Sprays are used but in great moderation and the banks here are filled with wild flowers running alongside all the lanes and the main road, the A38. We have great sheets of primroses and ox eye daisies, valerian, violets, foxgloves, dog roses and honeysuckle, as well as Queen Anne's lace and all sorts of other things I don't recognise. But we have lost a stand of wild orchids after a house owner was allowed to build a perfectly hideous brick wall and drive. In fact, I sometimes wish I had Kay, or someone equally knowledgeable, here to name all these things for me. At present there's something plumey and cream coloured in the hedgerows and I have no idea what it is. Meadowsweet? -- Sally in Shropshire, UK Posted through the usenet newsgroup uk.rec.gardening |
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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:17:12 +0100, Bob Hobden wrote
(in article ): "Judith in France" wroteafter "Bob Hobden" wrote: Across and alongside the track from our allotment was a 2ft wide bit of soil covered with weeds against a S. facing wall. Not being one waste such a superb growing position I dug over the bit opposite out plot and planted surplus plants from our garden there, a number of TB Iris some large Red Hot Pokers, lots of hardy Geraniums and a small Paulownia. Beginning to look nice until we went down there yesterday, some idiots have obviously been employed to strim the weeds and they have gone along the wall and strimmed everything to the ground! I suppose if they had any intelligence they wouldn't do that job. Rant over. Bob that is do disheartening, how stupid, even someone with half a brain should have known to leave them alone. Do you know anyone on the Council who will bring up this sort of thing at their next session? I suspect it was a contractor for the local Water Co. as they have a sewage pumping station at the end of the track. Having spoken to them before about something else I doubt I would ever get any sense. The iris will regrow, and possibly the geraniums but I doubt anything else will. I'll try marking it our with something to give them a clue. How about a prominent sign: "Warning! Natrix natrix inhabit this area. Do not approach or spray." :-) -- Sally in Shropshire, UK Posted through the usenet newsgroup uk.rec.gardening |
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