Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

Thry are gorgeous.


Ok, as I got away with the suckling pig comment...


I fed pigs trotters to the dogs for the first time last week. I wonder if you meat rearing small holders are feeding 'not for your table' products to dogs or considering selling them to raw feeding pet/ barf market? Trotters were not popular with the kiwi but big dog loved them. Sourcing good ethically reared pet raw feeding stuff is really hard. I'm relying on a monthly delivery.

DawnW

lostinrates wrote: »

Ok, so, I am thinking of growing an invasive bamboo.......and I have a 'slightly' squashed old water trough with a few holes in. If this were partially buried for stability does any one know if its likely to contain a walking stick bamboo? I want bamboo shoots that I can eat and are pretty. They have to be one of the prettiest. I am not sure they grow tall enough for my wants in uk. I think maybe only a few metres here? In some lucky places six metres!

It was absolutely rampant in the garden of a house we used to live in, terribly invasive. I don't think a metal trough would contain it for long - the roots / underground stems or whatever they are were like thick metal cables :eek: and it completely undermined our patio, and spread across to next door's as well. Horrible stuff, though it was useful to be able to cut some canes for the rest of the garden I suppose. Having said this, I prefer to buy a few canes to the backbreaking and constant work of trying to stop it taking over the entire garden :mad:

Rummer

I can really empathise with mummy pig at the moment :rotfl: thank goodness I am only feeding one greedy boy and not 6 :rotfl:

LIR I have seen it in white and it is very pretty.

I think I will have:
A

• ubrieta coming over the top of the stone border
• White Astilbe
• Snowdrops
• Fritillaria
• Hosta
• Hellebore
• Viola
• Aquilegia

What I need though are a couple of tall things.

lostinrates

DawnW wrote: »

It was absolutely rampant in the garden of a house we used to live in, terribly invasive. I don't think a metal trough would contain it for long - the roots / underground stems or whatever they are were like thick metal cables :eek: and it completely undermined our patio, and spread across to next door's as well. Horrible stuff, though it was useful to be able to cut some canes for the rest of the garden I suppose. Having said this, I prefer to buy a few canes to the backbreaking and constant work of trying to stop it taking over the entire garden :mad:

Was this the walking cane variety? Qionzhuea tumissidinoda? I have read its very happy in uk!!

How tall was it?:o:D


The website I am looking at buying it ( along with two clumping varieties). From says best for container growing. So that leaves me wondering what container to contain it in. I'd be hoping to get some really good top growth, and the idea of top growth in out windy conditions and a container makes me worry it might be a problem in high wind.....unless partially sunk.....

So. If not the trough, what I wonder?

I_have_spoken

Came in from garden at 7pm tonight just as drops of rain started. All the pipes in the ground and topsoil spread over.

Am going to Ikea 1st thing tomorrow, then Dobbies garden centre. Can't face either during Easter weekend...

Fancied another of the Ikea plant stands

Davesnave

Bamboos can grow quite large here in Devon. Here's a picture of one in Rosemoor. It's in quite a sheltered spot, mind.

http://www.picturesofengland.com/img/X/1046733.jpg

While in the nursery, I couldn't help noticing some seeds that had fallen from some shrubs in the polytunnel. It seemed a shame that people were walking on them, so I rescued a few.

They were from one of these, which might just be a useful subject for the shady slope down by the stream:

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=3475



EDIT: Squirrels? Not up here by the house. Never!

Davesnave

While we were out today, the contractors finished fencing the neighbour's field beside the stream. No more woolly invaders now!

The stream's drying-up already, but as you can see, it's a haven for docks, nettles and blackberries in the field section. It's only my 'garden' bit which is free of those.



I don't mind neighbour being organic and laissez faire in his approach. I can wander up the stream any time with the brushcutter to keep our side and the stream bed clear of those. We are getting some foxgloves and primroses colonising our banks now, but they're slow.

ferretkeeper

lostinrates wrote: »

Thry are gorgeous.


Ok, as I got away with the suckling pig comment...


I fed pigs trotters to the dogs for the first time last week. I wonder if you meat rearing small holders are feeding 'not for your table' products to dogs or considering selling them to raw feeding pet/ barf market? Trotters were not popular with the kiwi but big dog loved them. Sourcing good ethically reared pet raw feeding stuff is really hard. I'm relying on a monthly delivery.

Lir, I always get heads and trotters back, plus the offal, to share between dogs and cats- my lot will all eat the gubbins, some prefer cooked to raw, some prefer forgotten three week old stinky manky stuff out of the bins too :eek: I am always a bit wary that nothing is left, they eat the lot bones and all!

Rummer wrote: »

LIR I have seen it in white and it is very pretty.

I think I will have:
A

• ubrieta coming over the top of the stone border
• White Astilbe
• Snowdrops
• Fritillaria
• Hosta
• Hellebore
• Viola
• Aquilegia

What I need though are a couple of tall things.

How about grasses, did you see GW last week? Verbascums? Big nicotianas (sylvestris) As opposed to bedding types? I love verbena bonariensis too for tall airiness. Any thoughts on some late summer and winter interest too?

I sent for chilterns seed catalogue at the weekend, for the first time in about a decade...it landed on the doormat today but I was so disappointed I forgot they don't do loads of glossy pics back to Sarah raven for my inspiration, with chilterns order form at the ready!

Rummer

ferretkeeper wrote: »

How about grasses, did you see GW last week? Verbascums? Big nicotianas (sylvestris) As opposed to bedding types? I love verbena bonariensis too for tall airiness. Any thoughts on some late summer and winter interest too?

I could add the verbena as I have some seeds that I want to grow and plant in my sunny bed so I could put some in the shady bed too. Not sure what to plant for late summer and I am not to concerned about winter as we don't have a key room that overlooks the back garden so we don't tend to see it.

lostinrates

Ferretkeeper , mine eat raw bones too.