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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2019 9:58:10 GMT
OMG the rain has encouraged all the stuff to be pulled up to flower again. Weeds rampage and the grass = let's not even think about grass. It should all be going to sleep and making space for bulbs and pansies - ha! I'm gonna go out and have words with it - if I can cut a path through the dahlias.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 12:11:27 GMT
Bulbs almost all in, veg patch dug over, stuff going inside for a winter rest and Monty Don preparing for a nice jolly somewhere I bet. But his are informative. Oh those poor trees in Japan not allowed to sleep in peace but pampered and nurtured to stay alive beyond their span. Are elderly people also kept going like that in Japan? I admit we do likewise with plants until realising they really want to throw in the towel. Spring will tell which do so this year.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 17:38:37 GMT
Wondering if you speak of Bonsai ? I had a great interest in that for years! Even started when as a child I must have read about planting beech seedlings in half an orange ( without the flesh) ,cutting off the roots as they pushed through skin !!!don't recall What happened with all that I cant recall,I guess probably nothing but as an adult I was more successful. Sadly when I left my last garden i was lucky to find another fan of Bonsai who gladly accepted my collection.but no money was exchanged,not even a box of chocolates, sadly!! Some of the pots were special !
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 17:53:29 GMT
No. Fiona. these poor trees were huge and propped up and somehow looked miserable. Love Bonsai - very clever to do it - and courage needed as to what to trim. Actually I would like bonsai grass!
I have revisited given away cherished plants and in truth they never looked very happy - and neither was I. Yet I kept those given to me in great nick. Just plant rapport, I suppose.
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Post by Miranda on Oct 20, 2019 18:15:57 GMT
I didn't think those trees in Japan looked miserable at all. They were very old and not so much propped as redirected. Yes, it looked odd to our Western eyes but they looked perfectly healthy to me.
And I learnt a lot from the programmes Monty did. Their approach to nature and gardening is completely different to ours. Both more spiritual and more controlling at the same time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2019 18:02:46 GMT
The sad old trees I recall were very propped up and with more carers than at our Care Home. But I agree about Mr Don, his stuff is always interesting - and usually helpful except the one time he said to prune currents to the ground and I did and we didn't have any fruit for 3 years. He has got that right now so I guess I was not the only one..... doing as I am told does not come easy but he's very good value.
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Post by Miranda on Oct 22, 2019 19:17:09 GMT
They weren't carers for the trees, they were manicurists.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2019 16:01:56 GMT
So how does my garden grow? I hope it has damn well stopped for a bit. I note today that the Daily Mail is urging people to plant an oak tree...…. I would if I could find a suitable place - oh but the neighbours untended patch looks so just right.
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Post by Delia on Dec 7, 2019 20:57:19 GMT
An oak tree??? They get rather big! Not many gardens would have room for one.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2019 15:16:44 GMT
The popular Leylandii grow even bigger than oak trees, but people have no difficulty in accommodating lots of them, even in pocket-handkerchief gardens. Oak trees should be no problem!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2019 16:25:37 GMT
So how does my garden grow? I hope it has damn well stopped for a bit. I note today that the Daily Mail is urging people to plant an oak tree...…. I would if I could find a suitable place - oh but the neighbours untended patch looks so just right. A bit like: Plant a tree in '73 Plant one more in '74 Keep them alive in '75 And chop them for sticks in '76 The first two were part of a government campaign after Dutch Elm disease, the latter two just seemed to trip off the tongue at the time. My parents had a huge tree in the corner of their garden that created problems for them with the neighbours. It had started out quite small when they bought the house. The problem was that it started to undermine garden walls, and ended up being chopped up for sticks, not in '76, but a few years later. Some people plant trees not really understanding what they are doing. Remember that you need a lot of space round them for roots, as well as for branches.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2019 18:55:50 GMT
Oh I know about roots and spread. In a sort of effort to do something about my own - and some trees - I have just had a pruning spree. And that is that for the rest of this year and a wodge of next year too. Gardens are demanding. And in the spring when garden catalogues replace the postal thump of useless gift ones I expect I shall be lured back into the swing of it all, until then feet up and pass the chocs.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Dec 9, 2019 19:24:58 GMT
They should be illegal in town gardens ... They're actually very attractive if kept in check, especially the bright green ones, but so easy to get out of hand.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2019 19:57:14 GMT
An oak tree??? They get rather big! Not many gardens would have room for one. We're surrounded by oak trees and I have a 50 plus year old one in the bottom half my garden. A sapling grew in 1858 when the frst owners bought the place and they foolishly let it grow.
It has a preservation order on it. We had the crown lifted in 1999 with planning per,ission and are in the process of applying to have it done again.
We actually like it, but the next door neighbour it hangs over isn't so keen, but as they have to put up with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2020 11:32:04 GMT
Oh dear! Who can resist a good seed catalogue? Not me, anyway. Such interesting veg that I really would never grow - cannot see the point of mauve carrots and orange beetroot. Bulbs spearing through a treat between the volcanic holes where tulips used to be and hungry squirrels forage. Must cast out dark thoughts that the Dutch breed them to keep their bulb trade buoyant.
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