pampas grass move

You ought to write a book Fran...
Your front garden is looking very neat and splendid. It seems a long time since your entire garden was on a large table top!

Nice :)

Those roots look similar to what my bamboo ones are like, and your idea is similar to what I have been considering doing with the bamboo, as well, so that was a useful read for me, too :)

You don't let things put you off do you Fran!?

I'm just wondering what's next for the sack!

Fran, I bet your motto is, "Where there's a will, there's a way!"

They do look very nice,hope they behave and grow to the size you want Fran,a very good idea,in fact you have some very good ideas,have been following all your blogs.

Thank you all!

The gardener said that eventually the bag will split and the roots will escape, but I hope that before that I'll have thoughtof something else to contain the roots - mind you, I won't know if it has done it without digging it up and having a look.

@ Steragram - I've got rid of a lot of shrubs [Freecycled them all except one, which couldn't be got out alive] and so there's more space, back and front, without shrubs sitting there taking up space and doing nothing - well, nothing that I could detect.

Yes, up till 2013 my "garden" was a table, and plants were almost stacked vertically to get them on it! Shee, how times change, thankfully!

@ Pamelaanne - I've heart that bamboo is as bad for spreading and taking over [the people next door have planted a bamboo in the back, as a privacy screen; i hope it stays on its own side of the fence!].

I've read of "root bags" - mesh sacks thta you plant in, then plant in the ground: gives the roots access to nutients but stops them spreading too far. I hadn't thought of them when I did this - anyway, I had the sacks to hand.

@ Waddy - lol I just sort of seem to look at things from a slightly different angle sometimes - maybe from around the sanity curve!

@ Eirlys - I have another idea for sack planting - in fact it was that idea that gave me this one. All of my old sacks were opened across the top, as I suppose we all do: but the two I've opened since i cut along the side; they'll give me shallower but much longer planting sacks, deep enough for standard plants and bulbs, I think.

Ha, I can do in-ground "container gardening"!

Fran, I hope they have done something to stop it coming into your side, but I doubt it, and I doubt it'll behave as you want, unfortunately. Mine has gone through the fence onto the path alongside that goes to the gardens belonging to the neighbours, but I did cut that down, not that any of the rest of them care for their gardens at all, but I have hopes that my newest neighbours, whose garden is next to mine, will begin to as they did say that once they have settled in they are interested to do something with it :)

Fran, don't worry about your neighbours bamboo. There's also non-invasive varieties. I'm sure that's what they will have planted. ☺☺

It's not right up against the fence, Pamelaanne, but it's quite close. This is a new fence, with concrete footings, which might help. Or not, of course - the Sweet Pea that used to grow through the chicken-wire fence at the back has now found its way under the concrete footing of the new fence there.

I've got a buddleia at my side of the fence, a little way back - not for privacy, it was the only place to put it at the time, and it looked ok there so I left it. Between that and their bamboo the fence is pretty well screened. At least for now, as the buddleia will die back in winter. I'm planning to divide it and plant both clumps side by side to make a wider screen next year.

Thanks, Waddy! I don't know for sure that it IS bamboo - my gardener says it is, but iwth my vision I'd need binoculars to get a good lock, and that sort of defeats the object of having a privacy screen!

They may very well have used a root bag, or something similar - or have chosen a non-invasive speices. Only one way to find out ... :)

Sorry Fran I'd missed this one, your garden is coming along really well, you must be in seventh heaven now after only having a tiny space in your previous home.

Hi Fran. Got a new hardrive in my computer. Just reading through your latest feats of gardening. Glad to see you are getting stuck into your 2 nice plots. All the leaves are off the trees now. Feel a bit sad about that. Such lovely colours. I miss them.