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Firebottle
06-07-2016, 15:25
Hey Marco, have you got any verbena bonariensis in your garden?
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It is a fabulous 'achitechtural' plant, we have quite a few around the garden.
Hi Alan,
Yes, we used to have some of that, but no longer do so. If I remember it had a rather pleasant perfume, and I believe that some soaps are made from it :)
Marco.
I think they are what the rest of us call 'weeds' ;) Architectural weeds, of course.
Certainly a tad weedy at back of it. There is wild and WILD!:)
hifinutt
09-07-2016, 11:03
ha, don`t know those but just spent several days trying to rid a garden of bamboo.....oh my goodness its fast growing . had to lift rather a lot of slabs to get it out
walpurgis
09-07-2016, 11:29
I've got a fair bit of that weed that leaves little 'bobbles' all over my clothes (and the dog). Can't remember what it's called. It seems to die out fairly quickly.
ha, don`t know those but just spent several days trying to rid a garden of bamboo.....oh my goodness its fast growing . had to lift rather a lot of slabs to get it out
I lived in a place where the garden was becoming over run with Japanese Knotweed. Supposedly one of the most resistant plants to any chemicals and major threat to the UK environment, as leave just one tiny piece behind in the soil and it will grow back in months. The landlord got in gypsies to get rid of it and whatever they did it worked and it never came back.
Got horsetail... Its survived since the dinasaurs so just about impossible to kill. Anyway if others have it then the spores just come to you anyway... Its got some uses though, and makes a great pan cleaner
These rather lovely Hollyhocks have recently just sprouted out of the blue in our garden......
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Marco.
Got a few of those metal trailer stakes myself.. Used to use them in greenhouse..in 2 pieces. Plants look healthy
Cheers, dude. They're very healthy - good strong roots!
However, I'll need to shift them, as they've grown right at the stone archway and entrance to our lawn, so at the moment we have to skip past them to get in there. Just waiting until they're fully developed and more settled before they're relocated into the main garden :)
Yup, the trailer stakes are good and seem to work well.
A wee view of Marco-Towers:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/922/vECjic.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/pmvECjicj)
The Hollyhocks are growing right under that arch!
Marco.
Some Golden Virginia tobacco seeds I got off eBay 2.5 months ago.
Amazed they're growing TBH. But they are! Not illegal unless you try to sell it without paying duty.
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Apparently with a 5 gallon tub they grow to 8ft. That is the sum total of my crop above. When dehydrated the actual yield will be tiny I am sure. Still, a bit of fun.
They are just growing without any greenhouse help etc though slugs are attacking the lower leaves.
walpurgis
09-07-2016, 16:11
Some Golden Virginia tobacco seeds I got off eBay 2.5 months ago.
Amazed they're growing TBH. But they are! Not illegal unless you try to sell it without paying duty.
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My dad used to grow Tobacco when I was a kid. I remember the flowers having a really strong perfume that wafted through the house. It was a lovely scent.
BTH K10A
09-07-2016, 16:33
Got horsetail... Its survived since the dinasaurs so just about impossible to kill. Anyway if others have it then the spores just come to you anyway... Its got some uses though, and makes a great pan cleaner
We also have Horsetail and cleavers (sticky stuff) but we are OK with all but a few weeds and wild native plants as they give the garden a natural feel and are an attractor for all sorts of wildlife and we always look forward to slate winter /early spring with the banks of snowdrops followed by the fruit trees in blossom along with the bluebells under them.
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Grew tobacco once.. Got a fair amount of leaves too... You could send them away to be processed in those days but i didnt. There is also the nicotina plants that are grown for their flowers. You get great fragrant flowers with those.. Its different to tobacco plant
I don't think they like a lot of water they go very lame when it has been raining, and rise up almost vertically when it dries out.
Interesting they smell nice when they flower. Apparently they are almost evergreen.
hifinutt
09-07-2016, 18:36
I lived in a place where the garden was becoming over run with Japanese Knotweed. Supposedly one of the most resistant plants to any chemicals and major threat to the UK environment, as leave just one tiny piece behind in the soil and it will grow back in months. The landlord got in gypsies to get rid of it and whatever they did it worked and it never came back.
ah yes , Japanese knotweed . I have just complained to a letting company whose house is near mine . they have it growing in the drains and everywhere . not sure if they will do anything though . its a menace . well done to those gysies !i
Cheers, dude. They're very healthy - good strong roots!
However, I'll need to shift them, as they've grown right at the stone archway and entrance to our lawn, so at the moment we have to skip past them to get in there. Just waiting until they're fully developed and more settled before they're relocated into the main garden :)
Yup, the trailer stakes are good and seem to work well.
A wee view of Marco-Towers:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/922/vECjic.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/pmvECjicj)
The Hollyhocks are growing right under that arch!
Marco.
You see that big useless green bit. That is where you should build your listening bunker.
Lol... Nah, we like (and use) the lawn. We could build an extension on the other side, but we'll most likely move house before then, to a nice little village, somewhere properly in the Welsh countryside.
We're looking at Montgomery: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jul/25/lets-move-to-montgomery-powys
Marco.
Move back to Scotland mate....you know you just miss those dreary wet 350 days every year :lol:
I know Montgomery, or used to 20 odd years ago although I doubt it has changed much. I used to see a girl who lived near the village of Church Stoke and Montgomery is the closest town.
Beautiful bit of the country, right out in the sticks, off the beaten track and on the way to nowhere. Proper wild countryside, used to spend hours walking about in it and hardly ever saw another soul. And the house prices look pretty reasonable, must say.
Beautiful bit of the country, right out in the sticks, off the beaten track and on the way to nowhere. Proper wild countryside, used to spend hours walking about in it and hardly ever saw another soul. And the house prices look pretty reasonable, must say.
Yup, mate - and exactly what we're looking for: miles away from every bugger, and just enough sense of village life from 'days gone by' to provide a 'vibe' and the ability to enjoy some nice pubs and local amenities :cool:
Marco.
anthonyTD
10-07-2016, 17:37
Can I come ? :D
Yup, mate - and exactly what we're looking for: miles away from every bugger, and just enough sense of village life from 'days gone by' to provide a 'vibe' and the ability to enjoy some nice pubs and local amenities :cool:
Marco.
Can I come ? :D
he gave me the 3 little words treatment.... on your bike:(
;):)
:D
anthonyTD
10-07-2016, 18:04
:lol:
he gave me the 3 little words treatment.... on your bike:(
;):)
:D
Arkless Electronics
10-07-2016, 18:09
The most spectacular plants I've ever seen (as opposed to smoked:eyebrows:) were actually in Scotland... Isle of Bute, Mount Stuart to be precise. Real wow stuff:stalks: Feck knows what it is but they have these things like 3 foot long bananas covered with spikes which look like they came from the land that time forgot. Amazing.
Yes, magic mushrooms do that to you;)
walpurgis
10-07-2016, 18:27
Yes, magic mushrooms do that to you;)
I know! :eek:
Arkless Electronics
10-07-2016, 18:29
Yes, magic mushrooms do that to you;)
This plant is stunning enough to make you question if you have been spiked I tell ye!
Do we have anyone here from the Isle Of Bute who can confirm this story or was Jez just watching 'The Wicker Man' whilst tripping balls?
Arkless Electronics
10-07-2016, 18:49
:D Avoid "The Wicker Tree" follow up...
The Earl of Bute was the worlds wealthiest person (IIRC) and could afford to have exotic plants brought in from around the world and properly tended;)
The whole place is bloody amazing, especially the actual stately home. Highly recommended as a day out if in the area.
I think Mount Stuart, the home of the Bute Family have a Musa zebrina. They can and do produce Fruits.... oddly babana shaped, as its a sort of, h, Banana plant ;)
Arkless Electronics
10-07-2016, 18:58
This is outdoors and appears to be a plant that likes being in water as it is right next to a stream and some of the tree is in the water, including some of the banana shaped things. I've tried looking them up before but couldn't find anything similar. The only similarity to bananas is the shape of these pods... but they are about a yard long, green and have spikes all over them. It really looks prehistoric!
There is a massive greenhouse as well with other exotic plants.
walpurgis
10-07-2016, 19:09
The most spectacular plants I've ever seen (as opposed to smoked:eyebrows:) were actually in Scotland... Isle of Bute, Mount Stuart to be precise. Real wow stuff:stalks: Feck knows what it is but they have these things like 3 foot long bananas covered with spikes which look like they came from the land that time forgot. Amazing.
http://i63.tinypic.com/6scq68.png
Arkless Electronics
10-07-2016, 19:29
Nope. Much bigger than that and the pods really are like bananas but are single rather than like a bunch of bananas. They also hang down on "tendrils" with some of them actually in the water. Impressive and prehistoric though that is it's not a patch on the thing I'm talking about... The leaves look pretty similar though.
I couldn't find any photos of it on the Mount Stuart website when I was trying to work out what it was a few years ago and nothing I found on google came close...
Yer on the right lines with that though!
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