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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. |
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"Tumbleweed" wrote in message ... cats -- email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com All my newly composted beds covered by the rubbish next door trims of his b****y conifers |
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"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 |
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"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*! |
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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? -- Ian Cox Sutton-in-Ashfield icq 116510696 Remove my hat to email me. |
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"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) |
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In article Z51Dc.78$6r.32@newsfe2-win, Just Molly
writes 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*! Brightly coloured perennials and annuals set out in ranks against a background of bare soil. 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. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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"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. ---------------------- Any and every plant that looks better, healthier and more gorgeous in others' gardens than mine!! But wait until next year~~I tell myself!! Best Wishes Brian |
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In message , Kay
writes Brightly coloured perennials and annuals set out in ranks against a background of bare soil. 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! I also really don't like variegated leaved plants, especially variegated with yellow or bright green, with cerise or purple or pink flowers - or almost with any flowers except white ones. -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
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In article , Klara
writes In message , Kay writes Brightly coloured perennials and annuals set out in ranks against a background of bare soil. 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! I also really don't like variegated leaved plants, especially variegated with yellow or bright green, with cerise or purple or pink flowers - or almost with any flowers except white ones. Spotted laurel -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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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. Yes! Especially red/blue/yellow combinations! I also really don't like variegated leaved plants, especially variegated with yellow or bright green, with cerise or purple or pink flowers - or almost with any flowers except white ones. Spotted laurel 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. Dave Poole Torquay, Coastal South Devon UK Winter min -2°C. Summer max 34°C. Growing season: March - November Drop 's' when mailing |
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"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. :-) -- Brian "When all about you is crumbling, when the arse is falling out of your world, you need to focus on something positive in your life. Something you can control, improve even." |
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"Just Molly" wrote in message news:Z51Dc.78$6r.32@newsfe2-win... 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. "A few gnomes." One gnome - good (it's ironic, damnit). A few gnomes - naff as can be, what can they be thinking of? A garden full of gnomes - the owner is plainly a fine example of an English eccentric who should be respected as such. -- Brian "Happy St George's Day. It either is, just was, or soon will be." |
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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. Gnomes -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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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 |
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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. 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 |
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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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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. |
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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" |
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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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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I have a small garden so my pet hate is bare soil!
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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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"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?" |
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"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)!! |
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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 |
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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 |
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"VivienB" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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