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Thanks Palustris...knew there were some somewhere...lol, you haven't been given them have you.....

It has been said before, but it is funny what some people love others loathe.  I would love a laburnam tree and am hoping to nab a self sown seedling from the inlaws garden when they get back from their hols.  Want a Magnolia to, but I think I will have to keep on wanting!  

I wandered around my patch today looking at what is still growing and I think I would add crocosmia to my short list.  I do love them, and for that short while in late summer they do look fab, and the seed heads in my garden now are all bright orange and also look fab, but wow they are messy and floppy and WOW do they spread!  I have them everywhere, but at least I can oik them out when they get too big.  So, if I had my garden blank....I would avoid crocosmia unless it was in a big tub/pot!

Spurdie - what I dispise most are those floral pictures they do - where the different coloured flowers make up a picture of something to do with the town. You lose the beauty of the flowers when they just become a mass of colour. yuck.

hahaha, see Aqui, I love carpet bedding schemes like that.  I know they are kinda cheesy, but such talent and patience getting the pics just so.  I have seen several clocks made from bedding at different towns and they always bring a smile to my face.  Not saying I want one in my back garden tho.

http://www.gardengatemagazine.com/design/gg_vic2.html - just in  case you wanna have a go tho.

Emma - those ones aren't too bad. It's when they have pictures of, oh I don't know, windmills or the town hall or something that I start to throw a wobbly!

Grass. Mow, rake, scarify, feed, weed, aerate, pick up clippings, fix mower , and on, and on.


Really, I wouldn't be without the lawn, but it gets a bit much some times. Especially this time of year when the mower needs headlights and I need waders.

Jeremy.

re: laburnum-the laburnum walk at barnsley gardens in gloucestershire is one of the most photographed.
it was underplanted with alliums and was a sight when both were in full bloom.
was lucky enough to visit for my birthday a couple of years ago, as of course it was been sold off after Rosemary Verey's death and is now a private hotel.

 ;DYes I'm sure thats the one I was thinking of Kerry...I think its a pretty tree when in flower.

Go for it EJ ! Love the laburnum, and presently nurturing my 3 year old seedling, now 8 ft tall, hoping it will flower next year!

Sorry, Cleo, you're outnumbered ! What's that saying......one man's poison is another woman's nectar!......or something like that ! Haha!!  ;D

My plant, Eric, would have to be Galium Odoratum ( Sweet Woodruff ) Same family as Sticky Willie  ;D  Very pretty, fragrant herb, but the spread ........indefinite to put it mildly!!   ::)

Whilst out walking my dogs one day a couple of years ago I saw a lovely plant which I did not recognise - it looked rather like a double form of pink phlox.  I nicked a cutting and potted it up, rooted quickly so put it in an appropriate place in the garden.  The first year it bloomed it was a picture with these lovely large double pink heads.  The next year, BOY did I pay for my sins, the b******y thing had thrown out roots everywhere.  Dug it up but I am still finding shoots coming up all over the place :o

Re laburnum, we have a beautiful tree which is between two large hawthorn and in the spring it looks really lovely, although I do get fed up with pulling out all the little self-seeded trees around the garden.

Pat

Sounds like Saponaria offinalis roseo-plena, which I mentioned. Reckon that is how everybody who has it gets it and rues the day!

 Quite agree about the Soap-wort......horrid bugga!

Another sow once and have for ever plant is nasturtiums...not only do they come back year after year but they're difficult to spell as well.....i had to look it up!!

You are probably right Eric - just didn't recognise it from your description as I was thinking it was a phlox.  Good job I got rid of it, didn't realise it killed everything else  :o

 ;DRobin ...I can't spell half the names and the other half I get wrong...if I don't have the garden book near I just describe it...lol. or get as near as I think and hope someone guesses right.