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growing Japanese knotweed, silly?

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  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    Now that's something, I can imagine it at Chelsea.
    Dystopian, post-apo, after nuclear war garden. Japanese knotweed hedge, black burnt looking gravel, several chunks of dry brown grass (brown carex), a chunk of crocosmias for colour (they would survive a nuclear war, surely) and some statue or art installation made of old rusty appliances or computers.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    JK growing through tarmac.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    To be fair, quite a few different weeds can push their way up through soft tarmac - as my driveway constantly demonstrates!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Seems that there’s no problem with JK growing in the garden, just spray it with roundup and it will all be gone, no need to even bother the council about it,  so you can choose, JK or G Hogweed, your choice, Dave. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    There's a poison garden in Chelsea Physic Garden. You might get some more ideas there.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    There's also a poison garden at Alnwick Castle
    Devon.
  • jaffacakesjaffacakes Posts: 434
    Himalayan Honeysuckle looks a bit similar but prettier I think as an alternative.
  • Jason-3Jason-3 Posts: 391
    edited June 2019
    Wow i thourght gardening was supposidly pleasurable and a stress buster. Seems to me that even a topic as non offensive as  gardening attracts the same age old internet forum issues.
    I would suggest some of you are getting a little overly sanctimonious and nit picky. 
  • Jason-3Jason-3 Posts: 391
    I would pansyface said:
    I would suggest some of you are getting a little overly sanctimonious and nit picky.

    And I’d suggest that you wait until you have found yourself living next door to a householder who doesn’t care about what invades your garden from theirs.

    Walk a mile in my shoes, and all that.

    Hmm case in point

    let the relevant housing professionals enforce should they see fit.. An internet forum is perhaps not the correct medium to get all worked up regarding daft or hypothetical questions

    My modus operandi regarding conduct on forums would be speak in the same tone and context as you would in the real world
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The OP asked for our thoughts on his proposal ... we gave them ... where’s the problem?

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





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