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Originally Posted by kshotton45  Here’s how to grow a housebrick! It must be the type that has 3 holes through it.
Fill the holes with soil and plant them with Houseleeks or Sedums and dot them around the garden.
Here’s some I made earlier …( about 6 years ago) . I’ve given scores away, always with the instructions “ Ignore the plants but look after the brick” !
They really do look after themselves. In drought they shrivel, in winter they change colour, but they always survive.
The Housleeks are ‘Sempervivum’, choose a small variety. I think the Sedum is Sedum obtusatum .
When established, they’ll even flower.
Keith.  |
Excellent Keith ! the members of WAB are genius ! first we had the "woolwells"..great , simple idea...then ( ok it wasnt our idea but hey) the Wildlife Tower ( stack of pallets thing) and now growing house bricks !....splendid.
I am lucky enough to have around 20 or more of these type of bricks kicking around...i think they are called engineering bricks? either way...they have 3 holes in like you said. I shall give it a go. ( have a large wildlife garden / pond project planned for next year)