Have you ever thought of putting the patio on Free cycle and say help yourself but you have to do the digging if you want them? I got a huge shed taken down by a couple of blokes for free they then rebuilt it elsewhere. Surprising what people will do to get something for nothing. Physically I'm not very strong so took the cheap option of putting membrane down topped by gravel, much easier to shovel and barrow. I found even relatively small jobs by landscapers cost £1000 minimum so only employed them to do stuff I couldn't do myself.
Yes, a bamboo (even the clumping kind) will send up new canes from the base - that's how they grow. For containers you're probably better with a clumping variety (I think the running ones might escape through the drainage holes, eventually). You can split them like herbaceous plants but it'll be a tougher job (although it sounds like you're not afraid of that )
I’ve just had my garden landscaped it cost me £7000 but worth every penny, I still have a lot to do, I drew a plan and tweaked it with the landscapers as it was being done. That included the slabs and the greenhouse/shed
It took 2 weeks I had the fence moved to the front, it’s a corner plot bungalow I moved in October last year, it’s been done about 2 weeks, I have 5 raised beds for veg, but I’m new at this so it’s going to be hard this year just to get some sort of organisation. I find the forum a great help, thanks everyone
That looks very good @Newby40. As you say, well worth the money, would have been very hard work to do yourself. If you look on the main GW page, it will give you a list of jobs to do each month to use as a guideline - but you don't need to do it all!
I’ve just had my garden landscaped it cost me £7000 but worth every penny, I still have a lot to do, I drew a plan and tweaked it with the landscapers as it was being done. That included the slabs and the greenhouse/shed
Its absolutely lovely Newby, you must be really pleased with it!
It is currently not raining for the first time in wha5 feels like months, so todays’s job is to get clearing the weeds and the dead marestail and see what that patio really looks like and what can be rescued!
thanks for the bamboo info all, makes much more sense now!
i went past a house yesterday with what looked like privet hedges in massive pots and they’d merged together, it made a good screen but not sure that’s the look I want, the bamboo is very ‘organic’!
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That passiflora is beautiful.
Its absolutely lovely Newby, you must be really pleased with it!
thanks for the bamboo info all, makes much more sense now!
i went past a house yesterday with what looked like privet hedges in massive pots and they’d merged together, it made a good screen but not sure that’s the look I want, the bamboo is very ‘organic’!