by Peterkins on Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:05 am
Hi everyone, I have just been reading an article in an old gardening mag which praises and encourages people to grow various so called "exotics" Plants like bougainvillia, banana and various palms. All these grow here and I hate them with a fiery passion! Take bourgainvillia, it grows like a weed here, my neighbour has them next to the fence by our driveway, it has twice knocked the fence down because it grew so thick and when it was pruned the gardener left some cuttings on the ground and we had a puncture due to the nasty thorns this monster has, I also think it's a little garish. My other neighbour has a mini banana plantation down his fence and the nasty brown dead leaves hang over into my garden, they don't drop off, just get more and more ugly, he does cut them off eventualy but because they are difficult to get to he leaves it until there is a whole forest of dead leaves! Many of the flowers I would like to grow need winter cold so I can't. So is the grass greener? Peter