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Small London garden on Gardeners' World

JemulaJemula Posts: 196
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Beautiful small London garden on Gardeners' World this week. Lovely to see Mind your own business put to such effective use. I've been battling for a couple of years to eradicate it from the edge of the lawn where it just appeared, but in the London garden it looked great and tied everything together. Another example of right plant right place.
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  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    I have also seen it on a programme somewhere a while ago, and it did look very nice. But it would terrify me to see it anywhere near our garden. (Okay a tad dramatic) . Are you winning the battle Jemula?
    A family member who also bought it then spent years trying to get rid, and never managed.  I was always cautious about accepting plants from them they all got quarantined and soil rinsed off. (Plants not relative).
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sometimes advisable to quarantine and rinse the rellies too @Rubytoo  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I have a friend who gave me a chunk of Houttuynia Chameleon, telling me how lovely she considered it . I left it sitting on the window sill in the utilty room until I was certain it was dead, then binned it. I didn't even dare risk it in the compost bins.
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    My sister bought some of that Hosta - because she couldn't remember the plant she'd seen here and liked. It was a Heucherella I had. Not sure if she 'kept' the Houttuynia.... :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I'm always wary of plants that people have "lots of" cos it generally indicates a thug.  This new garden has room for a few thugs in certain spots but they have to be drop dead gorgeous too for when I'm too old and doddery to give them what for.

    I really admired that garden and the owners ingenuity in filling that small space and making it feel so much bigger but I still don't want anything remotely jungly in my own garden.   It would just be all wrong.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    @jemula do you like having it in your garden even though you are fighting it?

    @Dove absolutely with a dash of disinfectant.
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  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    I loved that garden - a beautiful lush green space. If I ever have to downsize - that is the sort of thing I would like to create. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • JemulaJemula Posts: 196
    @Rubytoo A little bit of myob keeps reappearing despite my best efforts but it's only in a small area of lawn near the hedge so not a huge problem. I didn't plant it - it just sort of arrived uninvited.

    @MrsGlaze I quite agree - he has created a wonderful green haven in the city.  I also like the sempervivum planted all along the door edge.
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