Topic 27 of 41: Water Gardens
Mon, Apr 10, 2000 (20:51) |
Wolf (wolf)
4 responses total.
Topic 27 of 41 [garden]: Water Gardens
Response 1 of 4: HostaToo (MarciaH) * Fri, Mar 21, 2003 (13:46) * 1 lines
Now,this is somethng I know. I had never heard of a water garden until I saw the little one my son put in an odd shaped bit of lawn difficult to mow. He filled it with gravel and plummed a water tube underneath. The broad leaf plants do the worst. The upright rigid ones are the best.He also has an impressive stand of papyrus in another part of the large garden. And, this is in the desert!
Topic 27 of 41 [garden]: Water Gardens
Response 2 of 4: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Mar 21, 2003 (15:57) * 1 lines
Explain about the "odd shaped bit of lawn difficult to mow." You mean, he transplanted it or did this in place on your lawn. Was this in Hawaii? Just curious. Can you go in to all this in more detail?
Topic 27 of 41 [garden]: Water Gardens
Response 3 of 4: HostaToo (MarciaH) * Fri, Mar 21, 2003 (18:20) * 3 lines
It was in Vacaville; a triangular piece of lawn that hung up the mower (he uses a push mower on purpose) but had to be trimmed by hand. It always looked terrible so he dug up the sod, lined it with heavy vinyl and buried it in several inches of blue rock limestone to you; a'a core to Hawaii). Little holes were made to insert the plants still in unglazed clay pots for simple changes.
At one end, the one not lined with vinyl is a bay tree so my daughter in law
has fresh bay leaves with which to cook. It also smells wonderful.
Topic 27 of 41 [garden]: Water Gardens
Response 4 of 4: Hosta (wolf) * Sat, Apr 5, 2003 (15:32) * 1 lines
sounds lovely, do you have any pics?
garden conference 
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