Comments on: What’s Hot, What’s Not

By: Lawn crash-test dummy

Lawn crash-test dummy — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:21:52 +0000

Susan! What are you saying? Wash your mouth out. I’m not a sole lawn lover but I do love gardens with well kept lawns.

I think that keeping a vast lawn manicured well is a great achievement and should be recognised for its worth to the garden experience.

I do however agree that fertilising them with chemical fertilisers is awful but there are many ways to fertilise a lawn organically without dumping phosphates on them.

By: Judith

Judith — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:11:17 +0000

Some plants can become as tiresome as the clothing we wear. I insist on wearing my ornamental grasses a little longer, tho…finally I moved where I can plant them–I missed out when they were a hot rage. I plant what I like & will use the Tough Love approach when necessary. Nothing worse than standing over a limp stick and hoping it will miraculously turn back into a healthy plant or just not liking the plant anymore–it happens.

By: Val

Val — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:06:03 +0000

Ornamental grasses are still all the rage in Australian gardens and public landscaping. Those in Washington proclaiming they are passe are maybe landscapers and nurseries wanting you to keep buying services and products rather than having hardy, self sufficient plants.

Large shade trees: yes, endangered here too by big new fence-to-fence houses.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:16:53 +0000

I go even further in my tough love approach. I dig up perfectly healthy plants and get rid of them because I get bored with them. Sometimes I find a home for them, sometimes I don’t. I have also been known to cut down large trees because I don’t like the variety. I always replace them with something I like better. I have never understood why people keep plants in their gardens they don’t like. Just because it was there when you bought the place doesn’t mean it has to stay.

By: Amy Stewart

Amy Stewart — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:56:35 +0000

Petunias? All-season color?

Sigh.

By: million bells

million bells — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:40:29 +0000

Ha! My dad’s been gardening for ages. In fact, aside from the roses, it’s all his. And he actively takes out more grass to put in gardens! Something about not liking grass.

The funny thing was the one year, he let the grass grow really long in one proto-garden and called it a grass garden. A lot of tall grasses sprung up surprisingly, before he got tired of it and mowed it.