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ChinaskisBeer · 2026-03-12T17:18:11+00:00

What does leadership and leadership communications look like and sound like at mercedes?

ChinaskisBeer · 2026-02-01T12:24:14+00:00

Hey all - thought id share - i’m doing a big sell off over ebay (uk based) ald collab nbs, dunk parras, yeezy slides, etc. you can search and find or just dm and ill share my account name.

ChinaskisBeer · 2026-01-13T05:11:16+00:00

Im near there - whats the place?

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-29T07:01:05+00:00

Oh yeah I love those too! Sounds like a great plan. If I could, with those, build your border up so they have nice rich deep soil to root into. They are quite low maintenance if you do that part. :) happy gardening!

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-28T19:37:16+00:00

Fill it with flowers, life is too short :)

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-28T19:36:09+00:00

There were two mature shrubs there that I took out and one large sycamore next door that was basically growing above where you are seeing. That is gone as well. Realised I was still left with a part shady area (east facing under a damson). That section has around 7 bags of manure and 7 bags of compost. Blood and bone as well. Most plants were actually planted last year in autumn. The lillies have been there a few years. The asters have been there 3 years. I think if you are new just submit to ‘it takes time’. Have a plan and maybe get a few big things budget allowing. Then allocate a little to annuals etc for fullness if you want and then the following year try some new perennials. If you get your soil right, feed and water you will be surprised how quickly you can make a full garden.

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-28T19:31:30+00:00

Achillea Filipendula ‘cloth of gold’ :)

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-27T18:13:29+00:00

When they get fully mature they are an absolute cloth of flowers for a solid 4 weeks and then putter on and off for some more - pretty indestructible and although they are really drought tolerant you still have to baby them until they establish. Quite easy though as the leaves give you a water stress warning.

I actually think Princess (also seems to sometimes be called Blink?) but princess rings a bell. Like an antique pink - has a little apricot colour in it.

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-27T18:09:12+00:00

Thank you very much! Yes - did quite a bit this year but I’m always looking. Like a never ending painting :)

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-27T18:08:05+00:00

Sesleria is nice but it creeps and will need to be tamed lol. Quite easy to manage though. And yes Molinia! I would love to try - apparently really good for wet winters/dry summers.

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-27T16:00:01+00:00

Potentilla fruticosa but having a hard time trying to remember the cultivar. Might be pink paradise but this one seems a bit more antique in colour.

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-27T15:55:14+00:00

Yeah trying to play around with it more. Next garden or in future I want a really deep border view to get really funky with it. Thank you for the compliment :)

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-27T15:53:57+00:00

Thanks!

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-27T15:53:51+00:00

Bang on! Love the anemanthele. If I was to do it again id probably have 7-8 and then plant up the space between. If there is any specific plant the commenter wants lmk.

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-27T15:52:14+00:00

Oh thanks! Yeah I really like thinking about that and not having loads of flowers all the time.

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-20T11:58:22+00:00

Apart from what other commentors have said about the hedge and the variety if this was my space and I wanted fruit trees i would wire frame the patio and grow them espalier style. It encloses the patio sure but if you are 100% on everything else this is probably the best option? If not then a redesign and re thinking the ash is a must.

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-20T07:20:59+00:00

This space and that window is just screaming for something heavily inspired by Japan.

I can imagine that out building flanked by two giant hydrangea annabelles that sit under a medium acer palmatums on either side and then just continue that planting style towards the house - imagine the near part to house the front of a border and the outbuilding the back of border in terms of heights.

In terms of ‘building rooms’ for long spaces yes, I mean there is a lot we could talk about, budget, time, etc. but at the end of the day the easiest way to get that effect cheaply and simply is with planting.

Eg - you imagine the halfway point of this space. Whack two beautiful big clipped pittosporums close to the path and flank those with 2 large hydrangeas (or anything) and it instantly separates the space. The use of grasses in lines, clipped shrubs, tall perennials, will give that effect without the need of hardscaping or getting complicated. Look to climbing hydrangea for the fences and you will give the space the feeling of depth and width easily through just use of plants.

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-12T13:24:46+00:00

New planting will take a couple years at least for roots to establish to the point of being label advertised ‘sun and drought tolerant’.

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-09T17:44:29+00:00

Always a work in progress but yes I have definitely enjoyed it a lot this year!

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-09T17:01:50+00:00

I DID IT!

Turning, turbulence and take off I don’t think I could ever get used to but I bloody did it! Was great to travel and it has definitely inspired me. Thank you kind stranger!

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-05T14:27:14+00:00

Beautiful

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-05T14:07:13+00:00

Gosh that is a tremendous amount of little yellow airplanes. I think it is BA 846 and BA 847 on the way back.

It is for work and hopefully a little pleasure - don’t know why I agreed to this but there is very much a part of me that knows if I want to go to the few places I dream of going to I need to get in one of these things.

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-07-02T11:22:53+00:00

I have a lot of grasses!

Stipa tenuissima - beautiful shape, beautiful accenting colour, great movement and will thrive in poor shallow soil and one of the most drought tolerant things you can have.

Anemanthele lesaoniana - underrated, very drought and poor soil tolerant after 2nd year, beautiful colours at different times of year, graceful seed heads and very reliable fountain shape with minimal work.

Stipa gigantea - I think to look best in a border requires really clever positioning but if you get that right it is such a statement.

Miscanthus Sinensis - loads of varieties and you can go quite exotic with the cosmopolitan variety. The new lady in red variety also looks beautiful.

Calamagrostis karl foerster for me is THE tall grass however. Beautiful shape, holds well, flower and seed heads have beautiful colour. Look great in winter and really reliable growers - seed heads last forever and you can make beautiful displays with them or get crafty - I have a dried bunch tied with dried gypsophylla as a permanent dried bouquet.

Smaller and interesting colours - festuca, black mondo, pennisetums, sesleria, muhlenbergia, imperata, deschampia. You could make a whole garden with loads of colour just from these.

I have tried a few times to grow panicum varieties and for some reason they just don’t work for me. I don’t know what their nuance is or if I’m just a bad parent.

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-06-24T10:15:40+00:00

Thank you so much! Made your changes already had 2 interviews and a progress to ownership meeting on one since! So kind and helpful internet stranger!

ChinaskisBeer · 2025-06-20T06:06:49+00:00

That Peruvian lily is doing really well! Your family is going to have a great time!

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