[Casa] Certainly not horticulture ...

[dancefloorlandmine]

Oops - maybe I left it a bit long before mowing my lawn - I've got one of those Qualcast Mow'N'Trim things - like a strimmer with a replaceable plastic "blade", on wheels. The strain of dealing with the somewhat luxuriant growth melted the blade (ok, in the interests of accuracy, it's more like a coffee stirrer), and it spanged off as I was just about done. Still, a pyrrhic victory for the lawn, as while the edges are still a little ragged, the remainder looks a lot better. (I say lawn because it has grass - it's only about six by ten, so no visions of expansive striped acres, please.)

And in a horticultural tip ... should one wish to acquire a nice, leaf-covered wall, there is a simple solution. Simply mix in with the sand used to make the render a handful of bindweed roots. This will ensure that the next occupant of your flat will discover leafy tendrils appearing out of the front garden wall at random locations ... [grin]

Comments

[aellia.livejournal.com]

Don't mention the bindweed,'tis the bane of my garden...hoe it up and every single broken piece will reproduce itself tenfold!
But I like the idea of the wall :-)
Maybe that should have been (evil grin)!

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love bindweed for its flowers, but it's so damn invasive in the garden.

[redcountess]

eep, bindweed! kill eeeeeeet!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

[grin]

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I believe that may be the understatement of the day!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

It would have been an [evil grin], but it would appear that the previous occupants came up with the idea first. It also grows rather well in sand, especially sand used to bed in pebbles when shingling a front yard. Mutter mutter

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Time to break out the evil herbicides?

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

It's looking that way - although not sure how to get to the ones embedded in the render ... [grin]

And also need to wipe out the incipient sapling in the drop ...

[elves-uk.livejournal.com]

solution : scrap lawn, get gravel :)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

[grin] I've already got gravel (+ bindweed roots) in the front, and (without the bindweed) in the low area at the back - and I'm in the process of adding the pebbles to the area at the top dubbed "Brighton beach". Anyhow, I rather like having the feel of grass underfoot occasionally! And it contrasts nicely with the beds behind and on the other side of the path ...

[elves-uk.livejournal.com]

ah that can be solved with my patented grass flipflops with soles of real grass :)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I sense an impending advertising slogan along the lines of "Let the grass grow under your feet!"

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

The house where I grew up had a massive garden, and I had an industrial-sized strimmer (with a couple of hundred feet of flex) to keep it relatively under control.

I now have a very small garden, but I'm not really much of a gardener. So about 3-4 times a year I dig out the strimmer and attack the worst of the undergrowth. To a certain extent, I enjoy having a "wild" garden.

As opposed to my neighbour, who has a bowling green lawn, manicured flower beds and all that stuff. I see her look over to my garden and sigh mournfully.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I think mine constitutes "semi-wild" at the moment - some of the plants are having what appears to be a bad hair day - the buddleia and lavender have both gone nova ...

[ravenlas.livejournal.com]

The house I grew up in had acres of lawn and a sit on mower, which didn't do the 'striped lawn look' properly so it had to be cut with a petrol mower. People used to ask why you where looking tired and were not impressed with the answer 'I mowed the lawn'. It was miles with all the walking back and forward for the concentric striped look (one of the lawns looks like a huge harp :) and the dumping of heavy wet grass bags in the pit.
Finally a section was fenced off and 800 odd Christmas trees planted. There's still over an acre of lawn on the front alone though :(