any ideas for cheap and cheerfull shrubs that will grow on poor ground
apart from Buddlea.

ta muchly :-)
kate

'Kate',

This is my favourite shrub, but the photo. does not do it justice. To
get the best out of it you need to chop it hard every spring and then
its real beauty is revealed, also its attractive flowers.

I sense that you have already got this shrub or that you are familiar
with it.

http://www.millernursery.com/shrub/s...aGoldflame.htm

Regards,
Emrys Davies.






"Kate Morgan" wrote in message
...
any ideas for cheap and cheerfull shrubs that will grow on poor ground
apart from Buddlea.

ta muchly :-)
kate

'Kate',

This is my favourite shrub, but the photo. does not do it justice. To
get the best out of it you need to chop it hard every spring and then
its real beauty is revealed, also its attractive flowers.

I sense that you have already got this shrub or that you are familiar
with it.

http://www.millernursery.com/shrub/s...aGoldflame.htm

Regards,
Emrys Davies.






"Kate Morgan" wrote in message
...
any ideas for cheap and cheerfull shrubs that will grow on poor ground
apart from Buddlea.

ta muchly :-)
kate

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:16:40 -0000, Kate Morgan
wrote:

~any ideas for cheap and cheerfull shrubs that will grow on poor ground
~apart from Buddlea.
~
Cistus varieties. They naturally grow on incredibly poor scree etc in
the Med. They do only have a 2-3 week period of fantastic flowering
(pink, white or blotchy) but are evergreen, so you don't have to worry
about bare twigs half the year.

My personal favourite is the maroon-blotched white one, of which you
can get reasonably small ones (cistus x decumbens) as well as ones
which get quite large.


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Kate Morgan wrote:

any ideas for cheap and cheerfull shrubs that will grow on poor ground
apart from Buddlea.

ta muchly :-)
kate

In what way poor? What pH? Though if you are talking of the kind of place where
Buddleia does well then I guess we're talking neutral or alkaline, hot, dry,
sharply drained, little organic content, light soil. In which case Jane's idea
of Cistus is a good one, add various labiate herbs like Thymes, Sages,
Rosemary, Oregano + Lavenders, Catmint, Brooms, Jerusalem Sage, Wormwoods, Mt
Etna Broom - but it's a big one, some Euphorbias.............
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'Kate',

This is my favourite shrub, but the photo. does not do it justice. To
get the best out of it you need to chop it hard every spring and then
its real beauty is revealed, also its attractive flowers.

I sense that you have already got this shrub or that you are familiar
with it.
Yes indeed Emrys I do have this shrub in the garden but have never been
very impressed with it but then I have never cut it back hard, maybe
that is what it needs :-) I will do that and try another one in the poor
area.

many thanks

kate

'Kate',

This is my favourite shrub, but the photo. does not do it justice. To
get the best out of it you need to chop it hard every spring and then
its real beauty is revealed, also its attractive flowers.

I sense that you have already got this shrub or that you are familiar
with it.
Yes indeed Emrys I do have this shrub in the garden but have never been
very impressed with it but then I have never cut it back hard, maybe
that is what it needs :-) I will do that and try another one in the poor
area.

many thanks

kate

In what way poor? What pH? Though if you are talking of the kind of place where
Buddleia does well then I guess we're talking neutral or alkaline, hot, dry,
sharply drained, little organic content, light soil. In which case Jane's idea
of Cistus is a good one, add various labiate herbs like Thymes, Sages,
Rosemary, Oregano + Lavenders, Catmint, Brooms, Jerusalem Sage, Wormwoods, Mt
Etna Broom - but it's a big one, some Euphorbias.............

what I call poor is builders rubble, when we moved to this house on the
edge of the Forest of Dean we were having some building work done and
the builders asked me where they could put the stuff that they were
digging out of the foundation trenches or what ever they are called :-)
I said, oh, dump it all down one side of our long drive so they did,
five years later I am just getting around to thinking about planting it
up. It is neutral with a fair few small stones in it and it is a hot
dryish area, I do have a large horse muck heap that I am planning on
spreading down there, does all that make sense? However you have all
given me some very good ideas, I have a fair few small shrubs that I
could move and we do have a very very good garden centre/nursery just up
the road :-)

many thanks all

kate

In what way poor? What pH? Though if you are talking of the kind of place where
Buddleia does well then I guess we're talking neutral or alkaline, hot, dry,
sharply drained, little organic content, light soil. In which case Jane's idea
of Cistus is a good one, add various labiate herbs like Thymes, Sages,
Rosemary, Oregano + Lavenders, Catmint, Brooms, Jerusalem Sage, Wormwoods, Mt
Etna Broom - but it's a big one, some Euphorbias.............

what I call poor is builders rubble, when we moved to this house on the
edge of the Forest of Dean we were having some building work done and
the builders asked me where they could put the stuff that they were
digging out of the foundation trenches or what ever they are called :-)
I said, oh, dump it all down one side of our long drive so they did,
five years later I am just getting around to thinking about planting it
up. It is neutral with a fair few small stones in it and it is a hot
dryish area, I do have a large horse muck heap that I am planning on
spreading down there, does all that make sense? However you have all
given me some very good ideas, I have a fair few small shrubs that I
could move and we do have a very very good garden centre/nursery just up
the road :-)

many thanks all

kate

'Kate',

This is my favourite shrub, but the photo. does not do it justice. To
get the best out of it you need to chop it hard every spring and then
its real beauty is revealed, also its attractive flowers.

I sense that you have already got this shrub or that you are familiar
with it.
Yes indeed Emrys I do have this shrub in the garden but have never been
very impressed with it but then I have never cut it back hard, maybe
that is what it needs :-) I will do that and try another one in the poor
area.

many thanks

kate

In what way poor? What pH? Though if you are talking of the kind of place where
Buddleia does well then I guess we're talking neutral or alkaline, hot, dry,
sharply drained, little organic content, light soil. In which case Jane's idea
of Cistus is a good one, add various labiate herbs like Thymes, Sages,
Rosemary, Oregano + Lavenders, Catmint, Brooms, Jerusalem Sage, Wormwoods, Mt
Etna Broom - but it's a big one, some Euphorbias.............

what I call poor is builders rubble, when we moved to this house on the
edge of the Forest of Dean we were having some building work done and
the builders asked me where they could put the stuff that they were
digging out of the foundation trenches or what ever they are called :-)
I said, oh, dump it all down one side of our long drive so they did,
five years later I am just getting around to thinking about planting it
up. It is neutral with a fair few small stones in it and it is a hot
dryish area, I do have a large horse muck heap that I am planning on
spreading down there, does all that make sense? However you have all
given me some very good ideas, I have a fair few small shrubs that I
could move and we do have a very very good garden centre/nursery just up
the road :-)

many thanks all

kate