"Kay" wrote in message
...

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.

And half your flippin' planting comes with it! No thank you.

The little scented pink bindweed is lovely.

Grrr.

:-)
--
Brian
"I know about kittens and knitting. Will that do?"

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
...
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...


Oi, I resemble your remarks My hubbie works at a plastics factory so
the more plastic that's used the longer he keeps his job And some of
the new plastic "terracotta" pots are so realistic that one has to knock on
them to see if they're real or not. And I sheepishly have to admit to a
plastic gnome (oh dear, I see your point!), and when I fell over at my
barbecue the other week and smashed my china plate (no, I hadn't been
drinking), I wished I'd had a plastic one instead !!!!!

My pet hates are bedding plants, particularly begonias, pelargoniums and
bizzie-lizzies, all neatly spaced out in regimented rows in narrow borders
around a neat, square lawn. I like bedding plants, but not used in an
orderly fashion, and I admire such gardens because they do look colourful
throughout the summer, but I prefer a more haphazard style (in my personal
appearance and housekeeping, as well as in my garden)!!

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:23:42 +0100, Klara wrote:

I don't think I think 'how awful' or 'naff' or 'are they colour blind'
- it's just that that style of gardening leaves me cold.

Yes! Especially red/blue/yellow combinations!

Oh no - cerise/orange/bright purple is far worse!

Regards, VivienB

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.

A 'gardener' who uses hedge trimmers to cut every single shrub in a
largish garden (not ours - he wouldn't have lived another day if he
did this here!) into the same 'hot air balloon' shape, all at the same
time, regardless of spring/summer flowering, etc. I especially hate
him for doing this to what was a lovely Amelanchier, one of my
favourite shrubs.

Regards, VivienB

"VivienB" wrote in message
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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.

A 'gardener' who uses hedge trimmers to cut every single shrub in a
largish garden (not ours - he wouldn't have lived another day if he
did this here!) into the same 'hot air balloon' shape, all at the same
time, regardless of spring/summer flowering, etc. I especially hate
him for doing this to what was a lovely Amelanchier, one of my
favourite shrubs.

Regards, VivienB
And I HATE that red cedar (bright orange) wood stain. Especially if the
shed, fence, gate and decking is all done in the same nasty garish colour.

The message gWhDc.104$%m5.81@newsfe4-gui
from "Sue" contains these words:

I have a small garden so my pet hate is bare soil!

That's okay Sue..bare soil in a large garden is even more horrible ;-)

Janet

So fond of this quote, even though I haven't achieved it.



Annihilating all that's made

To a green thought

in a green shade.



Andrew Marvell

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:20:45 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

On 26/6/04 4:46, in article ,
"Dave Poole" wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:56:44 +0100, Kay
wrote:

I don't think I think 'how awful' or 'naff' or 'are they colour blind'
- it's just that that style of gardening leaves me cold.

Snip

Forsythia, bizzy lizzies, annual salvias, Calceolarias, 'cute' garden
ornaments, ditto the Chrysanths and EE glads, (though I have a fondness for
some Dahlias) Cupressus leylandii, not mad about marigolds, monkey puzzle
trees.

Please do not be too hard on Leylandii! Cut off the trunk about 18
inches shorter than the final height required, then cut twice a
year. This gives a pretty good hedge quickly.

The Leylandii problem is largely one of the owners, not the plants.

Peter.

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:56:44 +0100, Kay
wrote:


Spotted laurel
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

Oh, I think it has a place. It's got one in my garden anyway. I prefer
it to fences. I have tried for years to cover all ours. You would all
probably dislike many of the plants in my garden, a lot of which are
from the sweepings of the HPS, or some I actually chose like Phlomis
and Evening Primrose. Now I've got a pile of Echium seedlings - the
ones that grow very tall with blue flowers in the second year.
They are a result of an offer I couldn't refuse in The Times. Got a
lot of Aconite too and they never look right and the Gardener's
garters and leathery leaved ivy are going berserk again.
But there's not much soil to be seen,
Diana

In article ,
writes

Oh, I think it has a place. It's got one in my garden anyway. I prefer
it to fences. I have tried for years to cover all ours. You would all
probably dislike many of the plants in my garden,

Why do you think that? None of the ones you mention are in the least
like spotted laurel ;-)

a lot of which are
from the sweepings of the HPS, or some I actually chose like Phlomis
and Evening Primrose. Now I've got a pile of Echium seedlings - the
ones that grow very tall with blue flowers in the second year.
They are a result of an offer I couldn't refuse in The Times. Got a
lot of Aconite too and they never look right and the Gardener's
garters and leathery leaved ivy are going berserk again.
But there's not much soil to be seen,

--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

On 26/6/04 20:26, in article ,
"Peter" wrote:

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:20:45 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

On 26/6/04 4:46, in article ,
"Dave Poole" wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:56:44 +0100, Kay
wrote:

I don't think I think 'how awful' or 'naff' or 'are they colour blind'
- it's just that that style of gardening leaves me cold.

Snip

Forsythia, bizzy lizzies, annual salvias, Calceolarias, 'cute' garden
ornaments, ditto the Chrysanths and EE glads, (though I have a fondness for
some Dahlias) Cupressus leylandii, not mad about marigolds, monkey puzzle
trees.

Please do not be too hard on Leylandii! Cut off the trunk about 18
inches shorter than the final height required, then cut twice a
year. This gives a pretty good hedge quickly.

The Leylandii problem is largely one of the owners, not the plants.

Peter.

I wouldn't like to count the number of times leylandii as pest have appeared
on this group - that is leylandii whose owners once planted and controlled
them and *then* sold them to new owners who did neither who then either made
their neighbours life a misery or sold them on to some other poor wretch to
deal with. C. leylandii ARE a pest, in my view, because they are not
appropriate to much of their suburban use and all too frequently are left to
their own devices - e.g. 100' trees.
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds after garden to email me)

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:42:30 +0100, VivienB wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:23:42 +0100, Klara wrote:

I don't think I think 'how awful' or 'naff' or 'are they colour blind'
- it's just that that style of gardening leaves me cold.

Yes! Especially red/blue/yellow combinations!

Oh no - cerise/orange/bright purple is far worse!

Try the combination in one of my big planters this year: a soft
orange osteospermum predominates, but is molested by a lapis
lazuli anagallis, bright yellow sanvitalia, brilliant red
callibrachoas, a fluorescent-magenta phlox (and a matching
callibrachoa), and one or two other items carefully chosen to
give maximum clash. Yee-haw! Ride'm cowboy!

And I love the combination of Geranium 'Anne Folkard' (deep
violent magenta) with hot orange crocosmias.

My attitude: pastel gardens for pastel people.


--
Rodger Whitlock, Victoria, BC, Canada

"Listening to the [Opus Clavicembalisticum] is much like
Mussolini is alleged to have reported about governing
the Italians: it's not impossible, just POINTLESS."

----Jeffrey Friedman, 2004/06/24

"Rodger Whitlock" wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:42:30 +0100, VivienB wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:23:42 +0100, Klara
wrote:

I don't think I think 'how awful' or 'naff' or 'are they colour
blind'
- it's just that that style of gardening leaves me cold.

Yes! Especially red/blue/yellow combinations!

Oh no - cerise/orange/bright purple is far worse!

Try the combination in one of my big planters this year: a soft
orange osteospermum predominates, but is molested by a lapis
lazuli anagallis, bright yellow sanvitalia, brilliant red
callibrachoas, a fluorescent-magenta phlox (and a matching
callibrachoa), and one or two other items carefully chosen to
give maximum clash. Yee-haw! Ride'm cowboy!

Hey, Rodger, how big is that planter?

And I love the combination of Geranium 'Anne Folkard' (deep
violent magenta) with hot orange crocosmias.

My attitude: pastel gardens for pastel people.

I have a wider taste than yours, for which I am truly thankful. I can
live with your choice of colours *and* pastels as well.
All that matters is that each plant should be visible, look healthy
and do what it should do. To hell with what its neighbour is doing.

Franz

In message Z51Dc.78$6r.32@newsfe2-win, Just Molly
writes
[snip]
or My god are they *colour blind*!

Some of us are - not that the comment offends me in the slightest as I
know what you mean.

--
Philip Powell
Looking north across the Derwent Valley and Northumberland
to The Cheviot

Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:240822


"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
...
The message gWhDc.104$%m5.81@newsfe4-gui
from "Sue" contains these words:

I have a small garden so my pet hate is bare soil!

That's okay Sue..bare soil in a large garden is even more horrible ;-)

Janet
------------------------
I have never been more convinced that all correspondents disliking
any flowering plant or colour combination are simply 'extracting the
Michael'!!
Surely, there is nothing to compare with a flower or flowers in any
combination?
A simple fresh flower can have no competition and searching for new floral
experiences is a pastime without peer.
You don't convince me~~
Regards Brian.