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Abbey Gate Cottages Original Patio and Back Fence with Rock Garden In December 1991, I was asked to quote to replace the fence at the back of this patio, the rock garden, the picket fence between this cottage and the next one, the patio with a new patio, trellis at the back and part of the side, new patio, path and picket fence. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Original Picket Fence |
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Abbey Gate Cottages So I created a Current Garden Design plan, |
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Abbey Gate Cottages and then a Proposed Garden Design plan, |
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Abbey Gate Cottages with a Proposed Garden Design site plan, |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Proposed Garden Design with details of wood required plan and |
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Abbey Gate Cottages and details of Proposed Garden Design paving materials required plan. |
The Trellis sections would support her climbing rose and provide flowers round her patio. The path to the patio was required to stop walking in mud when getting to the new patio or slipping down the sloping wet lawn. The picket fence was falling down and required replacing. The remainder of the lawn was required for drying her washing on. This was one of 4 of terraced cottages and in the country in a valley. The trellis had to be very strong against the push of wind in storms running over these 4 back gardens and that is why the posts are 4 x 4 inch (10 x 10 cm), the rails 2 x 4 (5 x 10cm) and the trellis 1 x 1 (2.5 x 2.5 cm). These posts were also 24 inches into the ground with Type I Foundation round them to make sure that they would not be blown over as well as creating an angle of 90 degrees between each pair of trellis in their junction at the corner for them to prevent each other from moving. I specified that the posts, which would be in permanent contact with the ground be made made of chestnut (the poor man's version of oak) for longevity. I had chestnut posts for 20 years and it is only because I was stupid enough to allow ivy to grow over them and the wet weight in a storm became too much, that the fence fell down snapping the posts at ground level. After 30 years I still have the same chestnut posts within holes inside a garden wall supporting a vertical hit and miss fence panel fence and these take the winds coming from adjacent fields for horse pasture. The same strength idea was used with the picket fence and its arris rails. A 4 inch (10 cm) depth of foundation is sufficient for a patio with no vehicular traffic on it in a sandy soil, 2 inch (5 cm) depth of sharp sand (builders sand is like ball bearings and it can move out from under the slabs, whereas sharp sand is like pyramids and they tend to lock together) and then 2 inch (5 cm) allowance for the thickness of the slabs on top making 8 inches (20 cms). Thus 8 inch timber was used to bound this material and 4 inch wood or 2 inch wood used to get the right depth of foundation and sand from those boards. The boards were softwood and would probaly rot away within a few years - the ground alongside and the paved area should have completely settled into a solid mass by that time and so should not move. I tried to make a variety of random paving using the different sizes of this County Paving to link with the crazy paving in the rest of the garden, but you still need to create this plan before you order materials such as volume of sharp sand and roadstone. The 200 of 3 x 1 x 0.5 inches (7.5 x 2.5 x 1.25 cm) pegs were used to separate the slabs by 0.5 inches (1.25 cm) so that rain could drain between the slabs rather than running down over the whole patio onto the lawn or crazy paving at the bottom. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Trellis erected and building patio foundations |
I removed the rock garden, the back fence, picket fence and pruned the climbing roses back to their main stems. I then erected the new picket fence and gate, posts for 4 specially commissioned 72 x 72 inch (180 x 180 cm) fence panels (the trellis was made with 1 inch (2.5cm) square timber rather than the normal 1 x 0.5 inch to provide a very strong long-lasting rose support structure), dug out the required depth for the new patio and path, edged it with timber and did not line it with weed control fabric (to stop the Type I Roadstone used as foundation from mixing with the sandy soil below and stop the roots of the rose and trees from |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Completed patio and path with the slab separators |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Patio and Path completed with sharp sand replacing the slab separators. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Picket Fence completed. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Picket gate erected. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Plan of Work Item 1 completed. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Then, planting both the front and back gardens was requested ans so current and proposed plans were produced. Back Garden Current Planting Plan |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Front Garden Proposed Planting Plan. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Descriptions of the proposed plants were shown to the client together with photos within books for approval. Then numbers to be ordered were calculated for each plant. Plant Descriptions Page 1 |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Back garden planted by patio- 2 cubic yards of spent mushroom compost used as mulch to both feed and prevent the soil from drying out from the action of the sun and wind. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Back Garden planted by Picket Fence |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Back Garden planted by Old Fence |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Back Garden planted by Picket Gate. The client's cottage is the first of 4 terraced cottages, with the white wall and kent peg tile roof facing you being the fourth. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Having a drink to celebrate the completion of Work 2, with the client. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Some years later she asked to replace the sloping back lawn, patio and crazy paving with a level patio. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages so I came up with a proposed plan. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages and the entry garden gate, I found that I could not get my wheelbarrow through because the new gate had been installed too far down the hill and the roof of Firewood Store stopped it going at right-angles to allow full access. So - |
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Abbey Gate Cottages I replaced the open fronted Firewood Store with a new roof structure which was then felted, battened, retiled with Kent Peg Tiles and leaded to stop the rain going down the house wall or the back wall of the Firewood Store. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Having reached the back door, I found that rainwater was coming into the cottage . As you can see from the plan; the rainwater was then stopped from coming in. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages But, in removing the crazy paving by the kitchen, I found that the drain was broken |
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Abbey Gate Cottages they were replaced. Before I could get back onto my landscaping job the neighbour requested that I descale his hot water pipe to his bath. Was I now a fully qualified plumber? So having become a sanitation engineer, a joiner, electrician, roofer and water engineer, not being a plumber; I immediately did it for him. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages So I got on and did the requested patio, electrical sockets and water taps. Then, she requested a dry stone wall. So, I became a dry stone waller in contructing 66 feet of wall that could be sat on, using ragstone. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages Many years later, I went and took photos. Note the Hostas on the left which you will see again in the last photo on this page as I took photos round this back garden. |
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Abbey Gate Cottages The concrete slope with kent peg tiles embedded in it to provide traction in icy weather was created instead of the step as wheelie-bins had to be moved from each cottage out to the road for the bin-men each week. The board was put there by the neighbour to stop her small dog from escaping. |
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Mulching front garden of I maintained the front, back and vegetable garden of this property for several |
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Mulching front garden of It is explained that unless you pay a lot of money to get the neccessary regulation registration, etc you cannot collect and transport any waste material to mulch your garden from outside your property without breaking the law. Horse, cow, pig, chicken or goat manure then stays within the grounds of their pasture/stables and then pollutes the water table under it, unless the owner of that business pays a lot of money to a carrier to get rid of it. |
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Rotating vegetables in November 92 - October 93 Vegetable Garden Plan. |
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Rotating vegetables in November 95 - October 96 Vegetable Garden Plan. |
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Rotating vegetables in November 96 - October 97 Vegetable Garden Plan. Keeping a record of the vegetable plan each year helps with the rotation system. It can also be used to indicate the success/failure of each crop and the information |
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Rotating vegetables in Comments about plants for November 96 - October 97 Vegetable Garden Plan. Companion plants can aid the vegetables. |
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Rotating vegetables in Looking down back garden to vegetable garden. |
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Rotating vegetables in Looking down back garden at vegetable garden. The gardens were on chalk soil and therefore well-drained. The spent mushroom compost was applied in the spring, so that the vegetable garden ground would not dry out so fast from the sun/wind. |
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Rotating vegetables in Looking up vegetable garden at back garden. |
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Existing back garden Before you create a proposed design, you need to create an existing design of the current situation. Many gardens are sloping, but usually one does not need to do a 3 dimensional survey. In this case the back garden is quite steep, so that one does need to do that. Then, you can use the slope to hide or display certain views in the proposed design as well as using the slope in waterfalls and hidden gardens. |
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Existing back garden |
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Existing back garden This and above 2 sheets provide important information in determining the proposed design using DESIGNCAD. |
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Creating new rock garden in front garden during July 2003 Proposed design for new rock garden bed in front garden. |
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Creating new rock garden in front garden during July 2003 Plant list for proposed new rock garden bed in front garden. |
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Creating new rock garden in front garden during July 2003 Amended proposed new rock garden bed in front garden. 2 cages of Meadow Grass Marble rocks were used on the 10 July 2003 to create |
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Creating new back garden Photo of back garden taken on 8 June 1994 looking back at the house. |
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Creating new back garden Photo of back garden taken on 8 June 1994 looking down the garden |
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Creating new back garden Photo of back garden taken on 8 June 1994 looking at raised beds for sloping rock gardens. |
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Creating new back garden Existing Plan of back garden |
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Creating new back garden Proposed plan of back garden created on 21 May 1994 |
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Creating new back garden Proposed rock garden planting plan in new back garden. |
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Creating new back garden Proposed climber planting plan for the 4 archways round the pergola -which is over |
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Creating new back garden Photo of the completed work going round the elliptical pathway with its pergola The path, the lawn within it, the pergola and its archways are completely level. |
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Creating new back garden Photo of the completed work continuing with the view of the path on the left of the garden taken on 13 November 1996. |
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Creating new back garden Photo of the completed work continuing with the view of the path at the bottom and towards the right of the garden taken on 13 November 1996. |
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Creating new back garden Photo of the completed work continuing with the view of the path on the right |
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Creating new back garden Photo of the completed work taken from the scaffolding taken on 13 November 1996. |
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Drive laid without foundations It would appear that these pavers were either laid directly on the earth or |
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Drive laid without foundations A section of a public road was constructed with pavers like these but possibly thicker laid on builders sand. I feel that builders sand is like ball bearings and does not consolidate like sharp sand does. So, rain gets in and movement of the pavers forces the sand up and out from under the paver. You then get an uneven road surface and it has to be laid again, but they still made the same mistake, until they replaced it with tarmac as it used to be. A waste of money. |
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Plant Name with link to its page in Ivydene Gardens:- If the image has IMG or PICT in its filename, then it is a Passthrough Camera Image of usually 4000 x 3000 pixels and it will take a long time to load on your screen. Click on it and drag it to your desktop to use it. |
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Vegetable, top fruit and soft fruit garden plan for a plot I had rotovated for a client, which plan was created on 18 April 2003. |
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Create a fully-drained area of ground with no possibility of plant growth for staff to use. |
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Jungle to be cleared. |
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Cleared jungle. |
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Cleared jungle. Stacked Cedagravel sheets on right. |
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Weed control fabric laid over Rock Salt followed by Cedagravel slabs. These filled with Type I Roadstone. |
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Completed end of garden. |
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Completed other end of garden with owner gazing in wonder at my work gloves!!! Rain will settle the roadstone and sharp sand together into the Cedagravel leaving |
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I maintained this back and front garden during 1 day per fortnight. Planting design for 72 x 72 inch (180 x 180 cm) flower bed. |
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Description of plants for above flower bed planting design. This planting design when used is fine for about 3-4 years. After that the Choisya ternata 'Sundance' will start to overtake the whole bed and smother the other plants. It will overcrowd the Lavandula, Astilbe, Cotinus, Rosa, Artemesia, Sedum and Euonymus. In other words, this design is a disaster, since it will be very difficult to move any of the aforementioned shrubs and still keep them alive due to the vastly reduced amount of roots of each plant that will be taken with it - assume 2 inch (5 cm) radius of root in pot, then 12 inch (30 cm) radius after 4 years (area of circle = Phi x radius x radius, 2 inch radius circle is 12.57 square inches, 12 inch radius circle is 452.39 square inches. Cut out 2 inch radius of roots and you have 0.0278 of its roots, so with less than 3% of its roots and too much foliage to support above, the transplant operation will kill it). |
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Remaining description of plants for above flower bed planting design. You will be able to move the irises and bulbs after 4 years elsewhere. If you are looking to create a long term planting plan, then put the permanent plants in first and put a circle round each on your plan and the ground to indicate how far you are going to let this plant occupy the ground area beneath. Then, put your groundcover plants in the remaining space with spring-and-autumn or summer-and-winter flowering bulbs under these groundcover plants to provide flower colour but very little drain on the rainfall. Their expired foliage can be placed under the permanent plants. The other space between the existing permanent plants and their intended radius of growth can be filled with bedding plants or green manure - these can be dug into the ground after their use to supply nutrients to the permanent shrub/tree/fruit tree or bush. |
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Planted flower bed. This bed in the back garden is the largest size of 6 feet x 6 feet, but is not part of a good garden design. This design of beds in the back and front garden was designed by the builder to create the cheapest gardens he could, by having lawn surrounded by 12-20 inch deep flower beds. The new owners while paying for the house, ignore the garden since they need washing machines and beds for the house, so you end up with extremely booring gardens where you see every part of it from every part and so you do not have an incentive to go out and use it. It then means that people are quite happy to buy a home with no garden at all. |
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Existing front garden in Blendon Road. |
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Existing front garden in Blendon Road. |
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Proposed extra permanent and bedding plants plan for front garden. |
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Back garden with garage behind trellis. |
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Existing Back garden plan. |
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Description of proposed plants in Proposed Back garden plan. |
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My Super Tomahawk American chipper/Shredder in Back garden. It is next to the composting area into which I put all weeds and prunings, mowings and prunings. I then used the semi-composted material from the bottom to mulch the garden beds. |
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PLANT WITH PHOTO INDEX GALLERY PAGES Articles/Items in Ivydene Gardens - 88
Number of Colours required to provide a practical means of roughly differentiating between flower colours, foliage colours and bark/stem colours of plants. Flower Colour:- There are 53 flower colours for All Flowers Colour Wheel and Rock Plant Flowers:- These 12 colour spokes of
Dark tone, mid-tone, pure hue followed by pastel colour:-
There are 7 flower colours:- Foliage Colour:- So as from 18 January 2021, I have decided to use the 53 colours of All Flowers Colour Wheel and Rock Plant Flowers above for the flowers and the foliage in the future combined with the 14 Flower Colours for the UK Native Wildflowers Wild Flower for the UK Wildflowers. I also intend to put the required plant into the respective pages of the Plant Colour Wheel Uses Gallery. |
The links in the Topic - Camera Photo Galleries showing all 4000 x 3000 pixels of each photo on your screen that you can then click and drag to your desktop:- Nursery of Nursery of Damage by Plants in Chilham Village Pavements of Funchal, Madeira Identity of Plants Ron and Christine Foord - HA94,HE95, When I have completed the conversion of all the slides from Ron and Christine Foord and inserted a relevant selection of the digitised images into the Photo Garden Flowers Galleries in some months time, then I will complete their text field in the thumbnail row starting with the |
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As photos are added to this index, then if the plant has the relevant photos to be included in the comparison pages in this table, then they shall be included in the relevant Flower Shape and Plant Use gallery below for
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What are garden 'thug' plants?
Invasive plants are those that can quickly get out of hand in the garden, even though they are not regarded as weeds and are commonly sold in garden centres. Think carefully about introducing these plants to your garden, and be prepared to carry out judicious pruning and digging or thinning out as required. Examples of such plants include: Trees and shrubs
Climbers
Bamboos, sedges, reeds and grasses
Herbaceous perennials
Crevice plants
Edible crops
Ground cover plants
Bulbous plants
Pond plants There are a number of aquatic plants that can easily get out of hand in a garden pond and are considered true weeds. Ideally these should never be introduced to the pond, though they sometimes come unwittingly with other pond plants. Continued in next column. |
Uses of Rock Garden Plants with ROCK GARDEN PLANTS IN COLOUR WHEEL GALLERY PAGES Small size plant in Flower Colours FLOWERING IN MONTH Dark Tone or Shades Garden Thug Plants continued:- Trees like the Leyland cypress and climbers such as Russian vine can grow so quickly that they are soon much too big for the garden. Trees such as poplar and sumach have a tendency to sucker, sending up shoots all over the garden and even in neighbours’ properties. Many ground cover shrubs like the snowberry or Hypericum calycinum spread via underground stems (rhizomes), sending up new plants and gradually taking over the border. Some bamboos also behave in this way, becoming a constant source of regret for the gardener. Potentially invasive herbaceous plants and grasses, such as Japanese anemones and Phalaris arundinacea, form ever-enlarging clumps that require frequent division. Others, such as golden rod or weeping sedge also spread by seed, with seedlings popping-up in unexpected places where they are not wanted. Bulbous plants such as Oxalis can produce tiny new bulbs, or offsets, which are scattered every time a clump is dug up, spreading the problem rather than controlling it.
Control Digging out unwanted plants may work for a while, but is only likely to be a temporary solution. Judicious use of weedkillers may be necessary. For herbaceous weeds, try a programme of spraying using a systemic herbicide containing glyphosate – Roundup and Tumbleweed are common brand names of such products. For woodier plants, choose a stump or brushwood killer such as ‘Bramble Killer Ultra’ or ‘Deep Root Ultra Tree Stump & Weedkiller’. Beware putting invasive plants on the domestic compost heap, as this is unlikely to reach a high enough temperature to kill off tough roots or underground stems (it is all right if they have already been killed off with weedkiller). Instead, place them in the municipal green waste, as this is composted on an industrial scale, where tough weeds should be killed off. Burning may also be appropriate, but check your local Council guidelines. |
Uses of Rock Garden Plants with PAGES FOR PHOTOS OF ROCK GARDEN PLANTS WHO DO NOT HAVE THEIR OWN PLANT DESCRIPTION PAGE ROCK GARDEN PLANT INDEX
LISTS OF PLANTS SUITABLE FOR VARIOUS SITUATIONS AND PURPOSES:- Early Bloom in the Rock Garden. Summer Bloom in the Rock Garden. Late Bloom in the Rock Garden. Rock plants of Creeping and Trailing Habit. Rock plants with Evergreen Foliage. Rock Plants with Silvery or Variegated Foliage. Rock plants needing the protection of Sheet of Glass in Winter. THE WALL GARDEN - Plants for sunny sites in the Wall Garden. Plants for Shady Sites in the Wall Garden. Plants for a Dry Site on a Wall. Plants for a Moderately Dry Site on a Wall. Plants for a Moist Site on a Wall. Plants for Positions on Top of Walls. Plants to Hang Down from the Upper Parts of a Wall.
DETAILS OF PLANTS IN LISTS FOR THE ROCK, WALL, PAVED, WATER AND BOG GARDENS Some Good Rock Plants with Some on Moraine Plants for the Miniature Rock Garden with some Bulbs Moisture-loving Trees and Shrubs for Bog or Water Garden |
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