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what are your garden pet hates?
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 05:59:54 +0000 (UTC), Franz Heymann wrote:
[Me on my garish planter:] Ceramic, square, probably Chinese or Vietnamese manufacture, about 2' high and 15 " to 18" square. Beautiful cloudy soft gray-green glaze. Modern, not old. The whole thing is a riff on the "hanging basket" concept, and is therefore planted quite thickly with "basket stuffers". When you do this, you *must* be generous with both water and fertilizer to get the best results. It still sounds overplanted. But in a way I feel like emulating next year. The essence of hanging baskets and such is overplanting. You want *fullness*, to the point that the container is obscured. Perhaps a description of this year's efforts might be of interest: 1. The big square Chinese planter already described, with the really garish, clashing combination of colors. 2. A fake-Romanesque baptismal font: filled with trailing lobelia in white and shades of blue, as I try to do every year. Regrettably, there seems to be no trailing lobelia cultivar quite as dark as the non-trailing 'Crystal Palance Compacta' -- 'Pendula Sapphire' has a white eye. I find the combination of pale blue and dark blue lobelia a surprisingly powerful one, but you can do it better with non-trailing cultivars. Try alternating 'Cambridge Blue' with 'Crystal Palace Compacta' for a really eye-catching display -- like a huge electrical spark. 3. My patriotic planter, a big green-glazed pot planted up in reds and whites. The main plants are white and red verbenas, cultivars from the "Proven Winners" line. These are supplemented with white and red callibrachoas, a white shrubby mimulus, and a "red" anagallis. One of the two red callibrachoas is a scarlet that matches the red verbena very well, but the other is more of a crimson and clashes somewhat. The mimulus is a failure. And the anagallis is orange-red (not scarlet), though it doesn't offend and harmonizes fairly well. 4. My full-spectrum planter, with a coral verbena, pale blue trailing lobelia, and a yellow callibrachoa, plus the same goddamned almost-red-but-not-quite-red anagallis. This works very well. Good mix of color and growth habit. 5. The yellow-blue planter, with two pale yellow osteospermums, two yellow callibrachoas, some little daisy like affairs in mauve and yellow, and a deep lapis-lazuli blue anagallis. The idea was to have a yellow planter with some contrasting blue in it. Nice enough, but I won't try this combination again. One of the callibrachoas is a much clearer yellow than the other, and the yellow daisy-like affair is too bright a yellow to work. And the other is too purple and not blue enough. Felicia would have been a better choice. Also, the container is in a position that is shaded in the afternoon, and the osteospermums aren't entirely happy. They need full sun to do their best, it seems. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [change "atlantic" to "pacific" and "invalid" to "net" to reply by email] |
what are your garden pet hates?
"Just Molly" wrote in message news:7p1Dc.86$6r.50@newsfe2-win... "Ian Cox" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:48:11 +0100, Just Molly wrote: 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*! OK, how about 40ft. monkey puzzle trees growing smack in front of a window? Thass the sorta thing I meant :0) Planting is a personal thing! Each to their own! Whatever the colour or scheme! People can do whatever they want in their own garden it's their own artistic interpretation. Better planting of something than nothing at all! |
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what are your garden pet hates?
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:43:25 +0100, Kay
wrote: ~In article , jane jane@moonrose. ~demonmapson.co.uk writes ~On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:14:09 +0100, Kay ~wrote: ~~ ~~The little scented pink bindweed is lovely. ~ ~yer what?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~ ~please, come and take all pink bindweed you can find out of my ~lottie!!!!! ~ ~I'll make you cups of tea/coffee/whisk(e)y or whatever! ~ ~(But you have to promise to take all of it) ~ ~But I can't take advantage of you like that! Tell you what - in return, ~I'll give you all of my Alchemilla mollis. I haven't got any of that yet... ;-) .... but I could throw in some nigella this end (been trying to get rid of it for some years - wouldn't mind if it wasn't an insipid grey-blue rather than the brighter coloured forms) And if you know anyone who likes speedwell, I can do them a nice deal... -- jane Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks! |
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In article , jane jane@moonrose.
demonmapson.co.uk writes On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:43:25 +0100, Kay wrote: ~ ~But I can't take advantage of you like that! Tell you what - in return, ~I'll give you all of my Alchemilla mollis. I haven't got any of that yet... ;-) ... but I could throw in some nigella this end (been trying to get rid of it for some years - wouldn't mind if it wasn't an insipid grey-blue rather than the brighter coloured forms) I have some of the pale blue in our 'meadow' - it looks amazingly nice surrounded by the feathery flowers of the grasses. And if you know anyone who likes speedwell, I can do them a nice deal... Germander speedwell (deep blue flowers) or the little field speedwell? Got lots of both of those - the germader speedwell looks really nice around the pond. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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"Tumbleweed" writes:
cats Cat wee on the lawn Rats in the compost bins. Ground elder from next door (both sides) Greenfly on the apple tree Woodpigeons and collar doves. Starlings scaring off the robins and sparrows These are a few of my non-favourite things G |
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. 's true. I'm waging war on Docks and goosegrass this week. But they are only doing what they do. |
what are your garden pet hates?
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:08:30 +0100, "Just Molly"
wrote: Grey squirrels and magpies John In limine sapientiae |
what are your garden pet hates?
"Robert E A Harvey" wrote in message om... "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. 's true. I'm waging war on Docks and goosegrass this week. But they are only doing what they do. |
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