MJP Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Now as a few of you know I live like a dirty pikey in the UK so I must make the best of the house out here I don't actually own. Having begun a regeneration scheme in the front yard and having taken some pictures to cherish the memory as I sleep in my freezing dirty portacabin office on a toxic waste site back in Blighty, it gave me a kernel of an idea . . . a Better Homes & Gardens thread where we might share both photography and creative ideas for home improvement. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuijimmy Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 hmmm.... are you trying to start a new magazine... MJP? here is a new place in Chalaklum, Koh Phangan, perhaps start there! This is a lot of cement rings! One type of Lotus per pot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draggons Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Couple from Nong Nooch gardens. Wish it was my garden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJP Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 Couple from Nong Nooch gardens. Wish it was my garden 24-01-12 082 (46).jpg 24-01-12 082 (69).jpg Not when you have to water and prune it love. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draggons Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Couple from Nong Nooch gardens. Wish it was my garden 24-01-12 082 (46).jpg 24-01-12 082 (69).jpg Not when you have to water and prune it love. Not much watering and pruning required there mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJP Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 (edited) Couple from Nong Nooch gardens. Wish it was my garden 24-01-12 082 (46).jpg 24-01-12 082 (69).jpg Not when you have to water and prune it love. Not much watering and pruning required there mate 's a cunnin' plan, innit? Before, once there was a failed lawn and scrub now stands £200 worth of new garden, all done in four days. That's 7 cubic metres of crushed limestone gravel, 1 cube of building sand, 20 paving stones, 15 bags of pebbles, 20 bags of finest dry compost (pig based) and about forty plants and a dozen pots of various dimensions. Edited January 28, 2014 by MJP 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draggons Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Hope you put poly' sheeting under that gravel or you'll have more than just pruning to do when you get back................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJP Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 Hope you put poly' sheeting under that gravel or you'll have more than just pruning to do when you get back................. I've been looking for permeable weed barrier, no can find. If I put poly down that area will flood, bad. I mean bad. So dug out the root zone to a sub-soil of poor nutritional quality before putting 20cm of gravel on, compacted. Got a full time gardener there and weed killer if needs be. You want to see weeds? Take a look at my last £400,000 landscaping sub-contract, part of a £12m regen. QS cancelled the maintenance contract and I came back to find a new fancy shopping development 6 feet in weeds!!! That was fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob8891 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Not sure if I posted this last night in another thread. If so, I apologise. The story behind the photo is at http://highland2thailand.blogspot.com/, as usual 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuijimmy Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Lacking a bit of colour in your life there MJP! These are pretty drought tolerant.... too... Portulaca Nice garden there Ron 88, not seen that b4, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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