OMG lanky - I've just been and had a look and I appreciate what a hard job you have in front of you. Did you have any luck with growing the pineapple too!
I've had a look as well, be not afraid, it can be done.
Dear Ladybird4, growing pineapple i found is really hit or miss, i can be done but ive had 1 out of 20 that goes to root, its worth a try tho,
Debs64 and 1634 Racine; my suggestion is that you don't plant it, if you don't look after it it will take over your garden, I'm sure there are other plants that will encourage the bees, i have to deal with a 12yr old neglected Cotoneaster, as for deterring intruders, which do you mean? Cats/dogs/humans can easily walk over the stuff
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We've chalk cuttings through the downs for some roads and the cotoneaster looks to have just turned up and done well really well on pure chalk. It is a sight to behold when in berry.
Having looked in to it a bit more and realised how much of a pest plant it is considered, I've decided by cotoneaster is now a 'dead plant standing'. Come spring I shall attack it and hope I can win. I think I've got a spot where I'll plant a Pyracantha to replace the lost berries.
I'd rather have a Cotoneaster than a Pyracantha, they're vicious. Not all Cotoneaster are a nuisance, just those 'root as they go' species like dammeri
And even C. dammeri has its uses ... it's good for wildlife and as you've discovered will root into a steep slope and hold the soil in place in even the most heavy rain conditions so will provide fantastic ground cover for a steep bank that is not going to be planted with anything else.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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We've chalk cuttings through the downs for some roads and the cotoneaster looks to have just turned up and done well really well on pure chalk. It is a sight to behold when in berry.
Is it holding your bank up?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the sticks near Peterborough