Peat based is ok, just not used it much myself. Sharp sand will do fine as long as it is sharp (should almost cut your fingers!) I always wash...
Rocj garden building [img] [img] [img] [img] [img]
1. should i put bits of compost/soil etc in the lower layers as i build up? Yes, the best way to begin is to use the biggest rocks as a sort of...
Other question springs to mind too. Is it to be viewed from all round or????. Is it on the 'flat' or is there already an existing slope? What is...
You have asked a huge question. There are books after books on rock garden construction and planting up. What type of rocks have you? Different...
Where would I begin? Sedums, sempervivums, saxifrages, grasses, hemerocallis, scilla, Sorbus, Magnolias, er I could keep going.
Me too.
One interesting point is that the Amenglish spoken in some parts of Eastern America is nearer to Elizabethan/Stuart English than anything spoken...
The bath itself we think was the base for a post, as in archeological digs where they find post holes, this has a sharpened post like hole in it....
[img] If you take a virtual stroll around these are most of the structures you would see. Starting at top left, is the 16 by 8 greenhouse. Next...
You will have to get a side car then won't you!
Just to cheer me up, and you too I hope. [img] These were in my garden last year about this time.
When you come to empty the wheelbarrow of stuff and you realise you have during the course of the work you have pushed a wheelbarrow for the...
Follow the link to see the garden exactly as it was yesterday, warts and all. http://www.snapfish.co.uk/share/p=57828 ... /otsi=SALB[/url]
This is the same view, starting in July and going up to yesterday. [img] [img]
Lot of modern coins, but best was an 1804 penny, deliberately placed, we think, in the foundations of one of the houses which were here in what is...
This is a rather nice Witch Hazel. No name just labelled Red! [img]
Warning This is the time of year when one goes out into the beds and starts to cut things down. Watch your eyes when you bend over the plants....
Ivy per se does not kill a tree, however, the weight of the plant can and does eventually snap branches allowing the ingress of pathogens which do...
8 days later. [img]
