http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:54:41 +0000, Sacha wrote:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.

Reminds me a bit of the Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon.

Don't have the required slope here (thank goodness) or the land (pity).

Cheers

Dave R

On 2013-02-04 11:26:11 +0000, David.WE.Roberts said:

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:54:41 +0000, Sacha wrote:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.

Reminds me a bit of the Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon.

Don't have the required slope here (thank goodness) or the land (pity).

Cheers

Dave R

Or possibly the 10 or so gardeners which I imagine they must need! But
what a wonderful place and a work of real love it seems to be.
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On 04/02/2013 09:54, Sacha wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.




Lovely! I'd settle for those beautiful mossy-headed trees for my
woodland bank. If only I could maintain them like that.
--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On 2013-02-04 13:49:32 +0000, Spider said:

On 04/02/2013 09:54, Sacha wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.

Lovely! I'd settle for those beautiful mossy-headed trees for my
woodland bank. If only I could maintain them like that.

That would probably take 2 of the gardeners full time!

I'd love a moss-garden and that makes me wonder if Roger's steeply
sloping bank could be a moss garden? He says there's moss at the top on
the lawn so... However, if the bank slopes all that steeply it may
drain too well for moss to be happy.
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On 04/02/2013 13:59, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-02-04 13:49:32 +0000, Spider said:

On 04/02/2013 09:54, Sacha wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.

Lovely! I'd settle for those beautiful mossy-headed trees for my
woodland bank. If only I could maintain them like that.

That would probably take 2 of the gardeners full time!

I'd love a moss-garden and that makes me wonder if Roger's steeply
sloping bank could be a moss garden? He says there's moss at the top on
the lawn so... However, if the bank slopes all that steeply it may drain
too well for moss to be happy.



Well, I'm on a sloping site and, as well as getting moss in damp shady
places, I also get different mosses and pearlwort colonising drier, more
open places. It should be possible for Roger to have a moss garden, but
the danger is that there wouldn't be enough moss cover to prevent weeds
and grasses getting in, especially if he has neighbours with weedy gardens.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On 2013-02-04 15:12:55 +0000, Spider said:

On 04/02/2013 13:59, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-02-04 13:49:32 +0000, Spider said:

On 04/02/2013 09:54, Sacha wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.

Lovely! I'd settle for those beautiful mossy-headed trees for my
woodland bank. If only I could maintain them like that.

That would probably take 2 of the gardeners full time!

I'd love a moss-garden and that makes me wonder if Roger's steeply
sloping bank could be a moss garden? He says there's moss at the top on
the lawn so... However, if the bank slopes all that steeply it may drain
too well for moss to be happy.



Well, I'm on a sloping site and, as well as getting moss in damp shady
places, I also get different mosses and pearlwort colonising drier,
more open places. It should be possible for Roger to have a moss
garden, but the danger is that there wouldn't be enough moss cover to
prevent weeds and grasses getting in, especially if he has neighbours
with weedy gardens.

Unfortunately, weeds seem to get into absolutely everything and the
hell with banks like that is that weeding them through other plants is
near to impossible. Without knowing it, it's hard to judge but I'd
almost be inclined to let it 'go native' and strim it once a year, if
that's possible.
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On 04/02/2013 15:49, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-02-04 15:12:55 +0000, Spider said:

On 04/02/2013 13:59, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-02-04 13:49:32 +0000, Spider said:

On 04/02/2013 09:54, Sacha wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.

Lovely! I'd settle for those beautiful mossy-headed trees for my
woodland bank. If only I could maintain them like that.

That would probably take 2 of the gardeners full time!

I'd love a moss-garden and that makes me wonder if Roger's steeply
sloping bank could be a moss garden? He says there's moss at the top on
the lawn so... However, if the bank slopes all that steeply it may drain
too well for moss to be happy.



Well, I'm on a sloping site and, as well as getting moss in damp shady
places, I also get different mosses and pearlwort colonising drier,
more open places. It should be possible for Roger to have a moss
garden, but the danger is that there wouldn't be enough moss cover to
prevent weeds and grasses getting in, especially if he has neighbours
with weedy gardens.

Unfortunately, weeds seem to get into absolutely everything and the hell
with banks like that is that weeding them through other plants is near
to impossible. Without knowing it, it's hard to judge but I'd almost be
inclined to let it 'go native' and strim it once a year, if that's
possible.





I daresay it's possible, but I wouldn't want to be his neighour! I have
an otherwise excellent neighbour whose lawn is unkemp and rarely mowed.
It is often full of weed and flowering grasses, the seed of which is
blown into my garden:~(. The idea of living next to someone who
strimmed his weeds once a year is almost unthinkable.
--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:49:32 +0000, Spider wrote:

On 04/02/2013 09:54, Sacha wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.




Lovely! I'd settle for those beautiful mossy-headed trees for my
woodland bank. If only I could maintain them like that.

The man across the road has the best kept hedges on the street. His
secret? He uses his hover mower on the tops to tidy them up.
--
http://www.voucherfreebies.co.uk

On 05/02/2013 12:42, mogga wrote:
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:49:32 +0000, wrote:

On 04/02/2013 09:54, Sacha wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.




Lovely! I'd settle for those beautiful mossy-headed trees for my
woodland bank. If only I could maintain them like that.

The man across the road has the best kept hedges on the street. His
secret? He uses his hover mower on the tops to tidy them up.



Yup. That would do it! I don't think my cylinder push mower would do
quite the same job, alas.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On 05/02/2013 17:25, Spider wrote:
On 05/02/2013 12:42, mogga wrote:
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:49:32 +0000, wrote:

On 04/02/2013 09:54, Sacha wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.




Lovely! I'd settle for those beautiful mossy-headed trees for my
woodland bank. If only I could maintain them like that.

The man across the road has the best kept hedges on the street. His
secret? He uses his hover mower on the tops to tidy them up.



Yup. That would do it! I don't think my cylinder push mower would do
quite the same job, alas.


It would if you kept your hedge low enough.

On 05/02/2013 17:33, David Hill wrote:
On 05/02/2013 17:25, Spider wrote:
On 05/02/2013 12:42, mogga wrote:
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:49:32 +0000, wrote:

On 04/02/2013 09:54, Sacha wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.




Lovely! I'd settle for those beautiful mossy-headed trees for my
woodland bank. If only I could maintain them like that.

The man across the road has the best kept hedges on the street. His
secret? He uses his hover mower on the tops to tidy them up.



Yup. That would do it! I don't think my cylinder push mower would do
quite the same job, alas.


It would if you kept your hedge low enough.




But that's not a hedge. It's a green catapillar on roots.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:21:38 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:42:09 +0000, mogga
wrote:

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:49:32 +0000, Spider wrote:

On 04/02/2013 09:54, Sacha wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...do_4098-06.JPG

If I'm correct this is the very private garden of astonishing beauty
that someone told me about a few years ago. But I can't remember who!
What an amazing achievement it is.




Lovely! I'd settle for those beautiful mossy-headed trees for my
woodland bank. If only I could maintain them like that.

The man across the road has the best kept hedges on the street. His
secret? He uses his hover mower on the tops to tidy them up.

Really? I'd like to see a video of him doing it.


I will keep my camera handy. I meant to video him last year but don't
think I managed it in the end.
--
http://www.voucherfreebies.co.uk