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Re: Gardening Questions?

Post by seagull » Sun Jun 25, 2017 6:38 pm

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Neighbour at the back end of fence got bamboo it all ready taken over my next door neighbour her garden been taken over by his bamboo 75yard garden bamboo taken about 60%now it pushingmy bottom fence bamboo push big hole.the term on my deeds say shared cost.i not paying penny for something not mine he the cause of all the bamboo suckers.Any ideas what I can do stop them growing.It worrying me as the fence panel with his bamboo ivy and clematis all gone mad pushing the fence.
Another panel on different neighbour push fence down he made her pay for fence she moved because of this.

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Re: Gardening Questions?

Post by Abu Nuwas » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:58 am

Suggestions please. I have a fairly large garden, about a third of an acre. I like it, and so, though I very rarely see him, does a muntjac. My neighbour tells me he visits every day, and as the boundaries are all hedges, it's easy for my friend to sneak in. I say friend, but last Spring, I noticed that all my bluebells had been chopped off , and the cut was level, like a ruminant. At that time, he seemed to restrict his activities to the far-ish end of the garden, so I just wrote of the bluebells (which flowered anyway - somehow, he had affected the leaves only. To-day, I saw him (or actually her, I think), at my end of the garden trimming some of the shrubs which I have neglected. SO -- any ideas about how to handle him/her , or what plants they detest? The Internet (possibly the RHS) last year told me they like brambles. What a pity that wasn't true!
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Re: Gardening Questions?

Post by boatbuilder » Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:08 am

AN. You might find some helpful information in this search list. Failing that, as one of them suggests, there is the 'ultimate' answer. Image

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Re: Gardening Questions?

Post by Abu Nuwas » Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:36 am

The RHS list looks more helpful now. That is, I have a number of those plants which seem unaffected -yet. Glad that lupins are one, as some blew in last year, and grew well in the pebbles of my drive, until I moved them to the back - where they survived last summer.

Ethics apart, I don't think I shall follow your v helpful suggestion of disposing of them -- I would, but I rather like them, and, to the point, I don't eat meat.
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Re: Gardening Questions?

Post by boatbuilder » Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:44 am

It wasn't MY suggestion, AN. It was just something that I came across in one of the links in the search as it seemed to indicate that they are pretty difficult to 'get rid of' by other means. Don't shoot the messenger. :lol: :D
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Re: Gardening Questions?

Post by Abu Nuwas » Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:49 pm

Messengers? Messengers? I hate 'em!

My garden is littered with the remains of deceased posties. I plan to grow roses, you see, and as Fitzgerald says :

''I often think that never grows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled''

You won't hear that tip from the staid RHS! No, Sir!
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Re: Gardening Questions?

Post by Abu Nuwas » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:00 pm

Any suggestions for a capable- and cheap - arboriculturist /silviculturist? Gorleston Rd, near Oulton Broad North? A fair amount needs doing, but I can get grandson to do non-specialist work. Tho' he doesn't like spiders, and in this season of mellow fruitfulness, close bosom (!!) friend to the declining sun, there's one or two about.
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Re: Gardening Questions?

Post by Mel » Sat Oct 19, 2019 6:50 pm

Hope you managed to get a gardener Abu, if not maybe send your grandson to a therapist who might cure his spider phobia 8-)
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Re: Gardening Questions?

Post by Abu Nuwas » Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:14 pm

Mel wrote:
Sat Oct 19, 2019 6:50 pm
Hope you managed to get a gardener Abu, if not maybe send your grandson to a therapist who might cure his spider phobia 8-)
Actually, a few years ago, he went to a therapist, and it worked. He was not super-happy about the things - which I now regard as pets -- but he would hold one in his hand, which previously been impossible. Sadly, he gradually re-acquired the phobia, which is a real thing, and the plan is for him to go again to the therapist.
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