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The Grockle

The Grockle

Formally Croydon Seagull
Sep 26, 2008
5,685
Dorset
Jack Straw said:
It could be Bay, but also Portugese Laurel. Bay leaves aren't usually wavy around the edge, or particularly elongated.
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Prunus 'lusitanica' (Portuguese Laurel) - Dundonald Nurseries Gardening Shop

Portuguese Laurel is an elegant evergreen hedging plant with narrow, pointed, deep-green glossy leaves borne on striking, maroon-coloured stems. Small, fragrant white flowers blossom in summer which are popular with bees and butterflies, along with small red fruits which are a favourite with...
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My vote goes to Portuguese laurel.
 




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A mex eyecan

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Nov 3, 2011
3,308
things starting to come through nicely. it’s taken a good few years to get this far, but at last i think things start to look pleasant
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The Grockle

The Grockle

Formally Croydon Seagull
Sep 26, 2008
5,685
Dorset


Weststander

Weststander

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NSC Patron
Aug 25, 2011
63,903
Withdean area
A mex eyecan said:
things starting to come through nicely. it’s taken a good few years to get this far, but at last i think things start to look pleasant
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Fantasic. Did you do the hard landscaping and paver edging by your own hands? I love the edging, I’ve done a fair amount myself and it negates the need for ever having to tidy up lawn edges.

Is that an alternative to Box hedging?
 


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A mex eyecan

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Nov 3, 2011
3,308
The Grockle said:
Looks amazing, I really like the raised bed with the rocks

Your Acer Dissectum that looks like an Emerald Lace is so wide!!!!
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the rock walls i built myself when we first moved in. ruddy heavy some of those. i didn’t have a clue what i was doing but as the say, you learn by doing.

the acer i bought out of Wilkos for 99p and was not much more than the size of a lolly stick
 




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A mex eyecan

Well-known member
Nov 3, 2011
3,308
Weststander said:
Fantasic. Did you do the hard landscaping and paver edging by your own hands? I love the edging, I’ve done a fair amount myself and it negates the need for ever having to tidy up lawn edges.

Is that an alternative to Box hedging?
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most hard landscape i’ve done myself but can’t take the credit for the brickwork edging, that’s well above my skill set.

No not an alternative, it’s box that i grew from cuttings 15 years ago.

I get huge pleasure out of making bits and bobs out of materials left lying around or sometimes recycled.

The bbq shelter was part built as a basic pergola. The sides are made out of left over conservatoray roofing tiles, and wood from an old pergola that used to cover a now gone koi pool.
 




Jack Straw

Jack Straw

I look nothing like him!
Jul 7, 2003
6,876
Brighton. NOT KEMPTOWN!
My friend's garden I built and look after. The two Acers in the foreground are Bloodgood and Sango Kaku which were there already, but had been "lollipopped" on a regular basis until we took over 5 years' ago and let them get on with it. There's also an Acer palmatum dissectum atropurpureum in the far right corner.
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Jack Straw

Jack Straw

I look nothing like him!
Jul 7, 2003
6,876
Brighton. NOT KEMPTOWN!






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