Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Plants going missing from front gardens
I realised last week that someone had nabbed the wallflowers from a pot in our front garden. Not to get the pot (it's still there), or the plants (unless wallflowers can cope with not having any roots...). And the flowers are pretty boring. So I guess was just to be annoying. He/she certainly succeeded in winding me up - can't believe what a bad mood it put me in.
My front 'garden' is just concrete, so I have to use pots if I want anything green there. A couple of years ago some of the pots went missing so now I tend not to use any nice ones. I know others have had the same problem. Now I'm cramming the pots as near to the house as possible so you can't just lean over and grab something.
So far I've been seeing this as just something that happens every now - annoying but worth ignoring if it means there is something green in the front garden .. Has anyone else had similar problems? Any tips? Any thoughts on a very attractive plant with deadly spikes ...?
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Permalink Reply by alistairj on
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Sorry to hear this - my front is just concrete also. I applaud any attempt to green up the streets - it didn't use to be like this.
I have thought about trying to reinstate the original soil eg. about a foot of soil behind the wall seems to the norm and typically occupied by a hedge but am a little scared about disturbing some kind of inspection hatch that seems to be there about two foot back.
Liz seems to have had success with herbs in her south-facing garden. My thoughts about plants that are bullet proof, cheap (less likely to get nicked) are things like aucuba, euonymous (basically anything that might be used in municipal planting). Pyracantha has the deadly spikes and quite attractive berries? -
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Sorry to hear about your plants. I imagine anything with spikes would deter, but I can't think of much the size of a wallflower. So............
I'm a great supporter of digging out the concrete and regreening the streets - but then mine was ready made - easy for me to say - maybe a making the difference bid next year? £X,000 for anyone who wants their concrete dug out and will plant and maintain a hedge in its place?????? -
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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Funily enough I was going to suggest exactly that for a make the difference grant but I got stuck on how it would work in practice. So in true apathetic spirit I never got round to it!
Is a pig of a job. I dug up a couple of metres of concrete in my back garden and it took all day with one of those HSS pneumatic thingys (the technical term I believe). I reckon doing the whole front garden would be a couple of days?? Oh how you ache afterwards .. -
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Permalink Reply by Takaokagiejin on
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Yes, it happened to me too a while ago. Just a couple of pots of bedding plants, but I was very sad and I am sorry yours have gone too.
Digging up front gardens would be a lovely thing if it is a good idea. I wanted to but am scared of breaking the house.... -
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Any suitably qualified person who can advise on whether "de-concrete-ing" front gardens may cause any damage to the house?
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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I had two raised beds put in my front garden for growing lots of herbs. The guy who did it for us was called Jon and his number is 07814 996618. He used railway sleepers for the beds. He also took up acres of concrete on our back garden and created bee and butterfly flower beds and a lawn for us, as well as creating squares in the concrete by the side of the house so we could create hedges down the side of the house. I guess if you wanted to find out how he developed our front garden on Warham Road, you could give him a ring.
Mind you, people still help themseves to the mint, mainly little old ladies all in black while their grandchildren remonstrate with them! -
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