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what are your garden pet hates?
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:08:30 +0100, "Just Molly"
wrote: I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are. I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white lobelia and red salvias. Gnomes -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
what are your garden pet hates?
Just Molly wrote:
I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are. I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white lobelia and red salvias. other peoples cats! pk |
what are your garden pet hates?
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:08:30 +0100, "Just Molly"
wrote: I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are. I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white lobelia and red salvias. Decking, mutilated trees and exessive statuary or other non-living ornamentation - especially cheap nasty pastiche, small scale imitations of the exesses of the wealthy are always tacky. Oh, and anything 'fashionable' a garden should transcend passing fads. Notice I haven't mentioned any plants - most have their place somewhere though there's a lot I wouldn't choose to grow. I reserve the right to dislike or even hate the way they get used sometimes though. Rod Weed my address to reply http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html |
what are your garden pet hates?
In message Nw0Dc.68$6r.49@newsfe2-win, Just Molly
writes I hate lawns. I've just been pulling off yet more plain branches from a supposedly variegated shrub which as soon as it left the nursery decided it was time to revert to its true colour. :((( -- dave @ stejonda Bring culture back to NTL. http://www.performance-channel.com/ |
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what are your garden pet hates?
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:08:30 +0100, Just Molly wrote:
I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are. I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white lobelia and red salvias. An old workmate of mine had loads of plastic flowers in his back garden. Yuk! :O} -- Ian Cox Sutton-in-Ashfield icq 116510696 Remove my hat to email me. |
what are your garden pet hates?
In message , Ian Cox
writes An old workmate of mine had loads of plastic flowers in his back garden. Yuk! :O} Didn't Richard Nixon 'improve' the White House garden with the addition of lots of plastic rhododendrons? -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
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In article , Dave Poole
writes Any shrubby Potentilla, any Hypericum apart from 'Rowallane', shrubby Cotoneasters (esp. and including horizontalis and the myriad, desperately dull forms of microphyllus), hybrid tea roses and Salix caprea 'Pendula' (Kilmarnock willow). Oh and I forgot, add to this, large exhibition type Dahlias & Chrysanths and the big flowered (Edna Everage type!) gladioli. Now your style of gardening is very different from mine, and yet I share all those hates! I wonder whether in fact we're doing the same thing but with different palettes - you are creating a jungle paradise with tender plants and choice species, I am creating a jungle (less of the paradise) with native plants and with species that flourish in shady wet clay and slug heaven. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
what are your garden pet hates?
In article , Brian Watson
writes "Just Molly" wrote in message news:Nw0Dc.68$6r.49@newsfe2-win... I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are. I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white lobelia and red salvias. I have taken up all my lawns as I no longer see the point of growing work. I have an intense antipathy to ivy, but am winning on that front at the moment, and bindweed comes a close second. Oh, bindweed's OK, especially if you are lucky enough to have the one with big pink striped flowers instead of white. And it's very satisfying to pull out whole tangled ropes of it. The little scented pink bindweed is lovely. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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Kay wrote:
Now your style of gardening is very different from mine, and yet I share all those hates! I wonder whether in fact we're doing the same thing but with different palettes - you are creating a jungle paradise with tender plants and choice species, I am creating a jungle (less of the paradise) with native plants and with species that flourish in shady wet clay and slug heaven. I suspect we are doing much the same Kay. I love the jungly, lush, slightly unkempt look where bold and interesting, 'in-yer-face' plants reign supreme. I loathe prissy, bitty plantings and typical municipal schemes (muncipal screams - a term I inadvertently coined after a few pints!) using ubiquitous plants. Ironically, I also like very well executed formal gardens, but they have to have the 'tropical look' to get my wholehearted approval. To give you an idea; I yearn to have a garden where I can have a very long (120ft. plus, wide, canal-like pool, set within an avenue of tall, trunked palms such as Phoenix or even Rhopalostylis, these underplanted just one variety/species of Hedychium or Canna. The whole would be surrounded with perfect, tightly mown turf, but at the edges, informal mixed herbaceous-style borders stuffed with all manner of exotics. The climate in the far south can support this, but cost of a property in the right spot with the right amount of land would be desperately prohibitive. Dave Poole Torquay, Coastal South Devon UK Winter min -2°C. Summer max 34°C. Growing season: March - November Drop 's' when mailing |
what are your garden pet hates?
"Just Molly" wrote in message news:Nw0Dc.68$6r.49@newsfe2-win... I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are. I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white lobelia and red salvias. Agreed. Add decking, fencing painted in saturated colours and gaily painted baubles on sticks Franz |
what are your garden pet hates?
"Just Molly" wrote in message news:Z51Dc.78$6r.32@newsfe2-win... "Robert" wrote in message ... "Just Molly" wrote in message news:Nw0Dc.68$6r.49@newsfe2-win... : I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are. : I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white : lobelia and red salvias. : Carrot fly, cabbage root fly and cabbage club root disease Hmmm, this isn't working very well is it? I didn't really mean what garden pests don't you like as nobody likes garden pests. I *meant* what garden features or plant do you dislike. You know how you drive past a garden and think, oh that's just *awful* to look at. or bloody hell how naff, or My god are they *colour blind*! You said what are your garden PET (my emphasis) hates :-) -- email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
what are your garden pet hates?
I have a small garden so my pet hate is bare soil!
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what are your garden pet hates?
Plastic. Including white and "terracotta" plastic planters, brightly coloured plastic toys, plastic furniture and fences, plastic plates on the plastic table, plastic mini-marquees. Plastic raincovers on plastic or wooden garden furniture. Plastic herons, plastic gnomes, plastic bunnies, plastic foxes, plastic ducks, plastic ponds with the plastic showing... Janet. |
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