{"id":24853,"date":"2016-09-04T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-climbers-as-ground-cover\/"},"modified":"2016-09-04T12:15:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T05:15:06","slug":"gardens-climbers-as-ground-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-climbers-as-ground-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardens: climbers as ground cover"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nUp is not the only way for honeysuckles and climbing rosesI am not the kind of person who collects quotations, especially when it comes to gardening. But I shall never forget what Christopher Lloyd \u2013 an all-time horticultural hero of mine \u2013 once said about lawns in an off-the-cuff radio interview when I was a kid: \u201cIn gardens there is nothing so labour-intensive and yet so boring, and I think this is unforgiveable.\u201d What a legend that guy was.With ever-shrinking plots and leisure time, I often feel that re-creations of pastoral landscapes are increasingly out of place in many properties, at least as a form of ground cover. Sure, if you are lucky enough to have a plot big enough for the kids to play football on or acres of rolling countryside, lawns are lovely. But in postage-stamp spaces that are shaded by buildings or trees, steeply sloped, poorly drained, and where there is barely space to store a mower (all four, as is the case in my Croydon idyll), I think there are far better options available to us plant geeks. Chief among these: plants we normally think about clothing vertical spaces with: climbers. By their very nature they are vigorous, sprawling species designed to clamber over wide expanses, so why not use them on a horizontal plane? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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