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Post by Amo on Mar 2, 2008 16:48:22 GMT
Today I have had a wander around the garden and found a spotted laurel rooting where OH had dumped some turves. Six new shrubs to be now in pots. Quite a few Lamium now in the cold frame hopefully to do a bit of ground cover in the future. Eight rooted winter jasmine shoots, also now potted up and in cold frame and some baby off shoots of carex pendula which will hopefully go on to help cover the steep bank we have at the front of the property. Anyone else found some ready rooted freebies? This does not include, of course, the budleia that find homes any where. ;D
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Post by prodigal gardener on Mar 2, 2008 17:08:12 GMT
Buddleia - bloody stuff my neighbour has one that keeps trying to move in on our garden. I wouldn't mind but I dont even like it butterflies or not! We even have a bit of it growing out of our chimney All I have in my garden at the moment is some straight bits growing out of my twisted hazel, and they aint going to last long Think I will go away and sulk ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2008 14:03:32 GMT
Self-sown freebies are great. At the moment I have a baby St. John's Wort, lots of Alchemilla, ditto Viola Labradorica and yellow alyssum, a couple of Cerinthe and what looks like a few Eccremarcarpus seedlings ;D ... cheers ...
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Post by Plocket on Mar 4, 2008 16:04:07 GMT
I find Clematis Tangutica around the garden and weed it out - if anyone wants one let me know!!! ;D And cotoneaster too. I've never found something self seeded from beyond my garden though - there isn't much room for weeds!!!
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Post by Tig on Mar 4, 2008 20:04:11 GMT
Holly, yew, conifers, buddleia, ivy, carex, hazels, oaks, maples, mahonia, scots pine, rowan - all found growing in the garden here - and a few others 'freebies' which haven't grown big enough for me to identify yet!
Not always a blessing, some are quite a nuisance! x Tig
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Mar 4, 2008 20:43:12 GMT
Sycamore seeds from next door's monstrosity are always germinating in my flower bed...dagnamit! This year so far I've noticed self seeded cerinthe, one or two passionflower babies and some nepeta.....
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Post by Plocket on Mar 4, 2008 21:08:36 GMT
Oh my I forgot all about Sycamore seedlings! We've got three trees outside our garden wall and they generate MILLIONS of seedlings. I'm with you on that one Cheery!
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Post by Chuckles on Mar 4, 2008 22:05:16 GMT
Love freebies ;D I've had a couple of Rowans self seed from the two trees in my garden and they are now about 4ft high and growing nicely in pots, well chuffed. Get loads of Holly growing that gets pulled out, they are a pain. Self seeded primrula, Aguilegia, Poppies and Forget Me Not by the bucket full, bit of a pain too, some I leave some I pull out. P you are sooooo lucky getting Clematis Tangutica growing like that, why don't you live nearer, I'm very envious.
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 5, 2008 7:12:07 GMT
I have decided that I will carry on speaking to the people that have Buddleia problems...it was a difficult decision though!!!
I have loads of freebie here from neighbours on both sides that don't do anything in the garden.
On the one side - ground elder which is kept in check by concrete slabs put vertically in the soil - 40/50 cms deep. Then spraying with 2 Herbicides mixed together- guaranteed to kill anything - on his side of the fence!!
Then I have sycamore, birches, oaks, nettles, grass, fir trees, holly and weeds of every description from them both.
Nothing useful ever seems to descend on my patch and as some of you know a Buddleia seedling has never been seen in this area.
RF
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Post by Amo on Mar 5, 2008 7:33:13 GMT
I have tree of heavan and ash seedlings everywhere, but I was thinking of the more useful. ;D My garden has been so 'unplanted' for so many years that it's a vast and expensive task to try and fill these new beds I keep makng . Hopefully this year I will have self sown nigella, poppies, verbena b, marigolds and echuim etc. I rather prefer vast amounts of things I have to pull out than loads of bare soil. I know I will also have nettles, cow parsley and bindweed too though.
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Post by Plocket on Mar 5, 2008 8:04:28 GMT
Love freebies ;D I've had a couple of Rowans self seed from the two trees in my garden and they are now about 4ft high and growing nicely in pots, well chuffed. Get loads of Holly growing that gets pulled out, they are a pain. Self seeded primrula, Aguilegia, Poppies and Forget Me Not by the bucket full, bit of a pain too, some I leave some I pull out. P you are sooooo lucky getting Clematis Tangutica growing like that, why don't you live nearer, I'm very envious. If I get some this year, which is highly likely, I'll post you some Chuckles
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2008 12:24:34 GMT
I was thinking earlier of self-sown freebies from the garden. Re. migrants from elsewhere - Buddleia, obviously, sycamores, Irish ivy (one of which I've kept), Viola tricolor (again, kept and moved to where they're useful). A couple of years ago found an Abelia seedling, subsequently identified by boarders, and - immediately after the asphalt had been taken up - a Canna appeared (not too unusual in Dublin). For the rest, enormous amounts of couch grass, dogwort, dandelions and nettles - no bindweed yet, thanks heavens ... I use the nettles to make slurry, so they are actually quite handy ... cheers ...
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Post by Chuckles on Mar 6, 2008 9:58:28 GMT
If I get some this year, which is highly likely, I'll post you some Chuckles Thanks P
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Post by carolann on Mar 7, 2008 9:04:35 GMT
I get the usual weeds self seeding but dont get a lot of trees yet the garden has lots of Sycamores on the other side of the fence. Plocket you are very lucky to get your Clem self seeding, wish mine would. It looks like I may have lost my Crystal Fountain as I can seem to find it only the canes where it was. I will keep an eye out and see if anything starts to shoot.
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Post by Plocket on Mar 7, 2008 9:11:00 GMT
Oh dear Carolann that's sad. Keep an eye out for slugs too because they love new clematis shoots. I hope it comes back for you.
The tangutica is rampant and usually I grow it over the top of the patio doors, but it's so vigorous that by autumn we can't get out! I think this year I'm going to try and encourage it to grow up the drain-pipe.
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Post by Shrubrose on Mar 8, 2008 18:37:25 GMT
Holly, ash, hawthorn, blackthorn, sycamore by the hundreds, aquilegia, welsh poppy. Some of which I pot on or leave to grow, some of which get the chop (sycamore). The most notorious 'freebie' was unknowingly imported and is a nuisance of the first order - mares tail I shall be battling with it till I'm carried off in a box! And then someone else will have to take over ;D Hope they have more success with it than I
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Post by Dutchy on Mar 18, 2008 18:52:34 GMT
Buddleia.... er no don't know why ;D My freebees are usually perennials, not that many trees about although I have a freebee Sycamore in a pot where it has lived hapily for over a decade and is still doing well. Where was I, ah yes freebees mostly in the front garden gravel bed. Verbena bonariensis, Poppies, Hollyhock, Lavender, Grape vine ( actually two but not sure what kind ), Helleborus, Pulsatilla and Anemone Japonica.
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Post by magrich on Apr 4, 2008 17:48:45 GMT
hundreds of sycamore !!!! self seeded poppies, aqelegia, forget me not, muscari, poached egg plant and monbretia. every year I dig out and share all these '' pretty little things", but they still appear. I am fast running out of gardens to share them with.
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