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11-01-2007, 08:24 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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Hello Monkster,welcome to WAB.What sort of garden do you want?how much space do you have?
We could start with a half barrel pond and a birch in a tub
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11-01-2007, 01:34 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cumbria
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Thank you to everyone who welcomed me, it was really nice and I can't believe how happy I was just to see the messages!
Yes to Goosey, it is me so you don't look stupid  ( I bet that's a relief).
Also, thank you to nightshade for your interest, my yard is roughly 13ft x 6ft (I've just been out to measure it and nearly got blown away!) I would really like to encourage butterflies as I don't see many here throughout the summer at all. I also hardly get any sun, just in the mornings till about 10am. I am looking for something quite simple but cheerful.
Thanks
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11-01-2007, 02:00 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: East Kent
Posts: 1,572
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Hi Monkster, also Goosey, and Carp-Angler.
If you can, I suggest you paint any walls or fences with exterior white paint, as that will increase reflectivity.
I had a garden like that before this one, and I made ponds and boggy area with use of buried polythene sheet in holes, (used an old sink once before and soon had frogs and caddis fly), and I planted hart's tongue ferns, cuckoo pints, aspedistra and sweet woodruff, as well as soap wort and buddlia for the butterflies. Water mint in the ponds grew well, as did cyperus or umbrella plant which grew to a spectacular seven feet high. Campanula grew in wall crevices well.
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11-01-2007, 02:02 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: East Kent
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And tubs, as Nightshade suggests.
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11-01-2007, 07:18 PM
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| |  Re: Hello
Hiya Monkster,
I'm new myself!
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11-01-2007, 07:30 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Skip skimmer  Hiya Monkster,
I'm new myself!
Skip Skimmer | Hi Monkster. I'm not new. I live here.
Enjoy the site.
Jules
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12-01-2007, 09:39 AM
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Hello there Wild-Woman
I know what you mean...once you log on it's hard to tear yourself away from the computer!
I have so much else I need to do but the time just flies and I'm still sat here!  | | | |
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