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Pro Designer Comment by John Cavill on May 23, 2011 at 19:59

Hi Neil,

 

Wow, your website is great! I will be looking plants up when my mind goes blank and I get stuck for what to put where?!

 

Thanks for all the input, maybe I could link to you from my website, I am sure my customers will want to use your website!

 

Regards,

John.

Comment by Rachel Mathews ORIGIN on May 23, 2011 at 14:31

Hi Neil,

This is fabulous thank you! I've been looking for something like this for my design students, mostly homeowners rather than professionals.

Perfect timing as I'm doing a new course on how to put plants together in great combinations, so I will link to this in the course.

Will this always be a free service or will you do a paid version later on? If so I'd love to promote it to my students!

Many thanks

Rachel

 

Comment by Neil Bromhall on May 23, 2011 at 14:16

Hi Designers,

I've made a free, interactive plant selector and pruning guide website www.rightplants4me.co.uk which I hope you will find useful.

You can search for plants by any combination of Latin / common name, colour, month, height, soil type and aspect. The best plants to suit your requirements are displayed. Click on the thumbnails opens up the full plant description and care advice.

I've also added some time-lapses to show how the plants grow and their fascinating design. For and examples see Oak or allium rosenbachianum

The site is still work in progress and we're adding plants daily plus adding more functions.

If you want plants adding to the list please contact neil@complete-gardens.co.uk and I'll see what we can do.

If you notice any glaring mistakes please let me know and I'll correct them immediately.

Best wishes

Neil

01865 512561

Premium Supplier Comment by Ofer El-hashahar on March 13, 2011 at 8:41

Hi designers,

Can you help with creative ideas?

Trying to add a list of what patterns are possible to make with Any shape raised bed/ and garden edgings that I supply for a new Facebook page.

 

So far we have:''heart shape'', letters , stars and moon, shapes( circle...) ''stepping stones in shapes filled with aggregate/ grass/ plants'', waves, ...  I feel that I do not know much about real patterns ideas that can work.

 

P.s.

having cd info and images and free samples of all new edgings that we have now ( 3 colours, depth, and 3 strength) to send if you wish.

Many thanks

Ofer

 

Comment by laara copley-smith on February 14, 2011 at 17:47

thanks Linda ,

I have used this product on initial planting in the past ,

& we will use it this time , yet once planted I will have little imput to miniter anything . So I had wanted to avoid as much as possible `tempting` the rabbits.

I will be leaving this product with client for her maintenance gardeners , yet I am not sure they are so aware & poss only see damage once something has more than nibbles.

 

Sarah & I have decided to put our lists / others lists together & post here on plants selection ...any reccommendations will be kindly noted too.

 

Re: grazers : when I researched this product a number of yrs ago , discovered it is natural ( actually is usesd by farmers on crops !

When we applied it diluted as said ( the guys on site did this ) , I happened to brush past the plants when dry & planted & I got a reaction to it .......So for others it can be an irritant to humans / children when diluted & dry . So be careful.

 

many thanks Linda

Thankyou Sarah for the call today

Comment by Linda Regel on February 14, 2011 at 13:28

Laara, I have had quite good success with 'Grazers' spray on rabbit repellent; it seems to stop the investigative nibbles when the plants first go into the garden, though you do need to reapply a few times

Good luck!

Comment by laara copley-smith on February 14, 2011 at 8:40

fabulous Sarah,

i will call you today .

I have a list of plants I am sure of....then I have a list of not so sure.

great on the phlomis...on some lists , yet Piet Oudolf ommits it of his tentative list.

cannot use euphorbia...lots of children in this garden ...all very adventurous too !

many thanks

Comment by Sarah Russell on February 14, 2011 at 8:07

Laara - I have worked in a heavily rabbit infested garden for nine years, and have got a pretty good list of what they will and will not eat!  I have found great success with penstemons, iris, hellebores (orientalis and foetidissimus, not niger), phlomis russeliana is fine, acanthus, forget-me-nots, all euphorbias, eryngiums, cardoons, have found that once a lavender is established they leave them alone - I had an edge of lavender about 1ft tall which was left alone - two of the plants died so I replaced them, and the new ones have been nibbled to bits!  I could probably come up with quite a few other things they don't eat - you can give me a ring if you want to swap rabbit menus!

Comment by laara copley-smith on February 13, 2011 at 19:19

rabbits :

I know there are various lists out there , many saying different things just to confuse , Like rabbits do eat/shred lavander & salvia ...then these are on rabbit `RESISTANT` lists. Also Phlomis is on & off lists.

Any one know on these specific plants !

I know Rabbits are fickle , and like to taste having forgotten what something tasted like last season !

 

Also Viburnum Davidii , Other viburnum are generally not eaten by them Ie: tinus, opulus ....yet do not know on davidii

Also: Leucothoe.

I have trauled every where for lists & compared , also have some experience on a number of sites , yet would appreciate anyones experience also

Comment by laara copley-smith on February 13, 2011 at 19:13

a few stories on clump forming ..........certainly not clump forming if they are very happy in situ .........personnally I would never plant bamboo straight into a garden, any bamboo, even if said to be clump forming as they are not always well behaved ..& if they decide to run through other planting one will not beable to eradicate without losing other plants due to root entanglement.

 

stainless steel planters with a concrete foundation is pretty good to contain bamboo , we generally build an internal marine ply , then frame this with stainless. to avoid any bowing in the steel at a later date , even when using a good gauge/thickness stainless.

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