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| Thread ID: 94563 | 2008-11-04 05:04:00 | I'd like to start another (sort of) gardening thread | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 717204 | 2008-11-05 04:17:00 | Thank you pctek. SWMBO enjoys roses - not caring for them (I do that!) - and so carpet roses sounds the type of plant that might do the trick. "Spreads out" sounds promising. I assume that is the type of plant available at garden centres? Beware Roscoe. Our neighbour has carpet roses and has the continual problem of weed growing up through them... Ken |
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| 717205 | 2008-11-05 04:41:00 | Get that weed out of sight quick! | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 717206 | 2008-11-05 05:33:00 | carpet roses sounds the type of plant that might do the trick. "Spreads out" sounds promising. I assume that is the type of plant available at garden centres? Yep. They all have them, it will be marked Carpet Rose. Although I got 3 of mine from De Boer Roses. I have one out front in the cold shady area and its about 4 times the size of my computer case now, not bad for its 3rd year. It was the usual tiny thing when I bought it. Let them sprawl, you can chop them but I leave them to it and just snip the top lot of dead flowers off now and then. |
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| 717207 | 2008-11-05 06:52:00 | We just had our garden landscaped by an architect who suggested mondo grass (ophiopogon) for those areas - it grows to about 20 cm high and spreads. It never needs cutting, I'm told. | TideMan (4279) | ||
| 717208 | 2008-11-05 08:27:00 | Green concrete? Ken Don't laugh too soon, when I was a kid (in Auckland) there was a house on Sandringham Road, just about opposite Gribblehurst Park, where the entire front yard was covered with green-painted concrete apart from a small flower garden bang in the middle. I don't know what was out the back, I couldn't see it from the bus, but I wouldn't mind betting it was green concrete too. I can see it now: Husband comes in covered in sweat, cement, and green paint, sits down by the radio with a bottle of beer to listen to the rugby and says to wife, "yer can cut yer nagging now, the bloody lawn doesn't need mowing so go plant yer flamin' flowers." It was only ever painted the once too! I could come to admire that man, whoever he was, in fact he may well have been Metla's father. :rolleyes: Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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