Gardening Advice

[Whitestar]

I'm after a fast growing, high reaching, prickly type of plant like a rambling rose type thing.

My mother used to have something similar over back wall & gate in Westhaughton years ago.

Any suggestions???

[ianofcleveleys]

I tend to go on the RHS website for ideas / advice when I'm looking for a new plant, it's pretty reliable. We have tricky soil where some species won't grow 

[kent_white]

1 minute ago, royal white said:

As to “discussing whether Keir* is a liar or not” there’s not as most sane people know he’s a liar. 

This is called confirmation bias - and it  makes you look like a moron unless you keep it in check.

[royal white]

4 minutes ago, kent_white said:

This is called confirmation bias - and it  makes you look like a moron unless you keep it in check.

Thanks for the gardening advice, but I don’t need it. Its Indian stone and artificial grass for me. 

Edited April 26, 2025 by royal white

[kent_white]

Just now, royal white said:

Thanks for the gardening advice, but I don’t need it, Indian stone and artificial grass for me. 

🤣

[Tonge moor green jacket]

4 hours ago, Whitestar said:

I'm after a fast growing, high reaching, prickly type of plant like a rambling rose type thing.

My mother used to have something similar over back wall & gate in Westhaughton years ago.

Any suggestions???

A rambling rose perhaps?

Is it actually a "climber" or clambering type plant you want, or just something spiky for security?

Loads of shrubs that offer that- will self support, and be trained into a hedge for example.

Evergreen ones: pyracantha, berberis darwinii, holly for example.

Deciduous: blackthorn, hawthorn, other berberis for example.

https://www.hedgesdirect.co.uk/all-hedges/intruder-proof-hedging

Have a look on here.

[Whitestar]

👍 Thanks, very helpful.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Some cherry plums and damson types can also have thorns, if you fancy something edible too.

Customer of mine has a gage, with nice yellow-green fruits, and savage bastard spines.

[bolty58]

Re the thread title my advice would be 'Don't do it'.

Plastic lawn, concrete jungle - admire everyone else's.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

6 hours ago, bolty58 said:

Re the thread title my advice would be 'Don't do it'.

Plastic lawn, concrete jungle - admire everyone else's.

Boooooooo.

Even Trump has "greens"! 🤣

 

[Not in Crawley]

Plastic grass? That's depressing.

[Whitestar]

Cheap, badly fitted artificial grass looks fookin awful.

Some of the expensive well fitted looks ok in the right place but nothing beats a nice well kept lawn.

[Whitestar]

17 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

A rambling rose perhaps?

Is it actually a "climber" or clambering type plant you want, or just something spiky for security?

Loads of shrubs that offer that- will self support, and be trained into a hedge for example.

Evergreen ones: pyracantha, berberis darwinii, holly for example.

Deciduous: blackthorn, hawthorn, other berberis for example.

https://www.hedgesdirect.co.uk/all-hedges/intruder-proof-hedging

Have a look on here.

Ordered a Rambling Rector Rose (white) height & spread is upto 6mtrs apparently.

Should arrive next week.

[gonzo]

We need grass to soak the rain up ffs.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

We need grass to soak the rain up ffs.

What fucking rain! 🤣

South West has copped for it recently, but we've been swerving the worst of it.

Just enough to keep most plants happy, but some more wouldn't go amiss.

UU will be getting twitchy.

I hate plastic grass too.

[Not in Crawley]

Also all the bugs and little beasties. Ripping up a lawn and putting in plastic grass should have planning permission or just banned.

[FrancisFogarty]

24 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Also all the bugs and little beasties. Ripping up a lawn and putting in plastic grass should have planning permission or just banned.

And it looks shit. Do you have to put plastic flowers in too ?

I’ve got a plastic dog turd to finish it off.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

57 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Also all the bugs and little beasties. Ripping up a lawn and putting in plastic grass should have planning permission or just banned.

Unless regular maintenance is undertaken they're not much cop anyway. 

Dust and leaf mould starts to form a layer of soil inside it, and the beasties will move in. They just have to tolerate the microplastics.

[MancWanderer]

The smell of a freshly mowed lawn is lovely - think @Tonge moor green jacket introduced us to the word for it last year?. Done three today

That said, if I lived somewhere like @bolty58 with the extreme weather variations I’d understand not bothering

[Cheese]

5 minutes ago, MancWanderer said:

The smell of a freshly mowed lawn is lovely - think @Tonge moor green jacket introduced us to the word for it last year?. Done three today

That said, if I lived somewhere like @bolty58 with the extreme weather variations I’d understand not bothering

Petrichor?

[fatolive]

6 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Petrichor?

I think that’s rain , or the after rain smell 

might be the same word though ? 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

1 minute ago, fatolive said:

I think that’s rain , or the after rain smell 

might be the same word though ? 

No; you're correct about the rain on a warm surface. 

Don't know if there is a word for freshly cut grass smell.

[MancWanderer]

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

No; you're correct about the rain on a warm surface. 

Don't know if there is a word for freshly cut grass smell.

Ah. Yeah confused it with the smell of cut grass 

[London Wanderer]

Love this time of year

[bolty58]

4 hours ago, MancWanderer said:

That said, if I lived somewhere like @bolty58 with the extreme weather 

Not to mention the price of water which, by the way, I am conserving.

How 'green' do I need to be FFS?