Comments on: Budha Patch http://mahmoodsgarden.com/2007/10/14/budha-patch/ my trials and tribulations in trying to create a garden in the desert Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:52:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: meggie whetstone http://mahmoodsgarden.com/2007/10/14/budha-patch/#comment-9 meggie whetstone Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:39:59 +0000 http://garden.mahmood.tv/budha-patch/#comment-9 Forgot to mention this in my last. Have you got a nice little water feature? (You can get low voltage ones nowadays, some of them even work well off a solar cell.) There is nothing quite so merry and cheerful as the sound of running water as it courses over a bed of bright shiny pebbles. Sheltered area is best for a. Not getting dead leaves and soil blown into the water b. Not losing the re-circulating water due to windage. c. Not getting drenched every time you step outdoors. Cheers Meggie Forgot to mention this in my last.

Have you got a nice little water feature? (You can get low voltage ones nowadays, some of them even work well off a solar cell.)

There is nothing quite so merry and cheerful as the sound of running water as it courses over a bed of bright shiny pebbles. Sheltered area is best for

a. Not getting dead leaves and soil blown into the water
b. Not losing the re-circulating water due to windage.
c. Not getting drenched every time you step outdoors.

Cheers
Meggie

]]> By: meggie whetstone http://mahmoodsgarden.com/2007/10/14/budha-patch/#comment-8 meggie whetstone Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:29:51 +0000 http://garden.mahmood.tv/budha-patch/#comment-8 Acer Palmatum Atropurpureum is a nice purple leaved Japanese maple, also there are green/gold variegated ones. For delicacy of foliage Acer Dissectum gives lovely feathery copper coloured fronds. They are mainly for architectural form. For your trellis, there is a Clematis with yellow lantern-shaped flowers ( can't remember the exact name) which could provide a pretty Oriental backdrop to your tableau. They could be nice. Meggie Acer Palmatum Atropurpureum is a nice purple leaved Japanese maple, also there are green/gold variegated ones. For delicacy of foliage Acer Dissectum gives lovely feathery copper coloured fronds. They are mainly for architectural form.

For your trellis, there is a Clematis with yellow lantern-shaped flowers ( can’t remember the exact name) which could provide a pretty Oriental backdrop to your tableau.

They could be nice.
Meggie

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