Now you seedum
Gardening is a funny thing.
Some people go to a lot of trouble and expense, and fair play to ’em. I’m more of a hack things back when they get a bit overgrown kind of gardener. Not that I don’t spend the odd bob or two but usually on potted plants that are easy to shift around and even easier to weed.
A house near us built an extension a while ago. They went to a lot of trouble and expense laying out Seedum matting on part of the roof. I looked into the costs of doing my own flat roof but it was prohibitive. Never mind. I can live with the sea of pebbles.
But then Seedum started growing amongst my pebbles. Obviously my roof had been infected by the other roof. No sweat.
We have had a drop of fine weather for the last couple of days and our terrace [Herself calls it our patio, for some reason] is absolutely covered in these fine whispey things like miniature tumbleweed. Seedum seeds!
I swept them all up into a bucket and have every intention of scattering them on my flat roof amongst the pebbles. The only thing I have to do is wait for a drop of rain, which is forecast for later. If I bunged them up now, they’d just blow off again, as they are incredibly light and dry.
It will be interesting to see what happens.
Thanks, Neighbour!
An ecological, speckled roof. Anything is better than moss.
‘Tis strange but moss is one of the few things that doesn’t grow up there. I have had to uproot small birch tree seedlings in the past which could have been interesting if I had left them?
I know somebody who uses a trowel to lift saplings – ash, rowan and sycamore – and then pots them as bonsai trees. I don’t think it would be a good idea to let birch seedlings on the roof grow into trees. The roots might undermine the slating.
That’s why I remove them. I tried growing bonsai trees from birch seedlings in the past. Damn things died. Anyway, I have enough birches in the woods.
Are you sure it’s not some illegal substance?
There is always hope?
Seedum – the Islam of the garden.
It’s strange, but that comment puts a whole new perspective on my roof…. 😐
As long as you don’t end up having to mow your roof? And I have moss growing in two places on the roof(s) of my house and every year I swear I’m going to scrap it off and every year I have to wait till next year before I swear again to scrape it off. Etc.