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shrub damage to house wall
On Sep 2, 11:16*am, "john hamilton" wrote:
Do these shrubs so close to a house wall pose any future problems for the house brickwork? http://tinypic.com/r/2sbtyz5/7 Thanks for advice. They will hold moisture , the house walls wont dry quickly and yes you will have problems. Cut it back several feet, besides it looks butt ugly. |
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shrub damage to house wall
On 2 Sep, 19:56, Frank wrote:
On 9/2/2010 12:16 PM, john hamilton wrote: Do these shrubs so close to a house wall pose any future problems for the house brickwork? http://tinypic.com/r/2sbtyz5/7 Thanks for advice. Probably no harm but have you not heard the word: prune? I don't allow any bush to touch my house. They don't look like prunes (which if they are anything like damsons only drier, will invade everything.) It's the roots that cause the problems in having trees and shrubs near buildings. Anything that separates the matrix is a danger to the integrity of the building. As for hedges drying a soil, they also dampen it in humid weather as leaves will put water into the ground on foggy or misty days. (Which is one of the biggest banes to histericans trying to make pieces fit in with mental-chronology. Not the only problem they don't face though, there's plenty more unconsidered where that came from.) |
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shrub damage to house wall
On Sep 2, 12:16*pm, "john hamilton" wrote:
Do these shrubs so close to a house wall pose any future problems for the house brickwork? http://tinypic.com/r/2sbtyz5/7 Thanks for advice. If there isn't sufficient space to mow behind foliage, it's too close to the structure. Plants attract bugs, etc. ----- - gpsman |
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Lots of unfamiliar names posting to this thread - where has it been crossposted to, apart from urg?
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shrub damage to house wall
On Sep 2, 7:06*pm, "Spamlet" wrote:
"Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message ... On Sep 2, 3:51 pm, "Spamlet" wrote: "Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message .... On Sep 2, 2:56 pm, Frank wrote: On 9/2/2010 12:16 PM, john hamilton wrote: Do these shrubs so close to a house wall pose any future problems for the house brickwork? http://tinypic.com/r/2sbtyz5/7 Thanks for advice. Probably no harm, but, have you not heard the word, prune? I don't allow any bush to touch my house. What is that, euonymous, maybe? Should take pruning wonderfully. I wouldn't use shears, but I don't like an overly manicured look. Looks like a little weeding is in order, too. Something else is growing up in there. Stay on top of it. My yard is a weedy mess; I've got glossy buckthorn growing up everywhere. I regret letting it get out of hand. Now it's going to be a buttload of work to hack it down and keep it down. Cindy Hamilton Not sure what you mean by 'glossy buckthorn' - though I've had terrible problems with berberis/mahonia which puts out roots all over the place and is impervious to weedkillers. With bushes that sucker, digging/winching them up is the only way: the more you cut the more they spread. Whole hillsides round here have been covered in dogwood, thanks to well meaning 'scrub bashing' events, just making more problems for later. S Here's the enemy (although this page focuses mainly on common buckthorn, it also talks about glossy buckthorn): http://dnr.wi.gov/invasives/fact/buckthorn_com.htm The problem for me is that the damned birds eat the berries and crap them out wherever they perch, resulting in buckthorn seedlings under every tree in my yard, and mixed in with the desirable shrubs. Cindy Hamilton Ah, well this is supposed to be *UK* d-i-y, but what an excellent website your Wisconsin DNR has produced! *(US authorities seem to be very clear and open with botanical data compared with the UK where 'traditionally' collectors of such data have been rather reluctant to share. *They are improving though.) It was cross-posted to alt.home.repair, which is where I saw it. Here (Luton UK) we have similar problems with the pigeons and ivy berries, but the ivy flowers are so important for the bees and late (Red Admiral) butterflies, I put up with a little more weeding than I might otherwise like: just wish the pigeons didn't seem to specifically target one particular hellebore though - it's only supposed to have white *flowers*! snort I let a few milkweed grow up for the monarch butterflies. Drives my husband crazy, since they're "weeds". A teaspoon of buckthorn berries is supposed to be an effective laxative if I recall correctly. *Here, the plant is only really common along chalky hillsides, where the unwary will often confuse it with dogwood (which is much more problematic, because of the suckers.). Nice to hear from you, Likewise. Cindy Hamilton |
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