I've copied here the gist of a discussion from Invicta's Cobtree Line thread which was getting hi-jacked.
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Re: The Cobtree Line
Post by Andrew » Mon, 23 Sep 2019 9:13 pm
Nice picture! Might have to try some of those plants...
Does your MYOB have any adverse impact on your SBR'd ballast Philip? I recently weeded mine where it had grown over some track which I ballasted earlier in the year, and it appeared to pull up some of the ballast, but I think it might just have been where I didn't apply enough glue...
Cheers,
Andrew
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Re: The Cobtree Line
Andrew wrote: ↑
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 9:13 pm
Does your MYOB have any adverse impact on your SBR'd ballast Philip? I recently weeded mine where it had grown over some track which I ballasted earlier in the year, and it appeared to pull up some of the ballast, but I think it might just have been where I didn't apply enough glue...
A quick squirt of "24hr weedkiller" solves that problem without the need for physical force! You can never get it all out anyway by pulling.
Philip
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Re: The Cobtree Line
Maybe you are right, but I've also got dirty brown rather than green fingers, so I dunno.
This picture shows my Aubretia, Thyme and MYOB.
The Aubretia at low level to the left is where the original high level plant rooted itself this year after cascading itself down.
The MYOB is just doing it's own thing and covering everything it can.
The Thyme to the left, growing across the track, has done that in the last week or two, and I noticed only yesterday that it has crept along the outer edge of the MYOB on the paving slab!! It started life a small rooted piece that got pulled off the main plant a couple of yards away and I just pushed in the gap about this time last year.
The fungi just appear, we get many different varieties, dunno what they are, but I guess it shows how damp things are generally.
The rockery is facing slightly west of south and spends much of the day in the shadow of the house.
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I'm not at home at the moment so can't reciprocate with pictures of my attempts but can I ask how much of a soil pocket the aubretia has? If any, of course. The few areas where my myob does well look similar to your patch, and other parts of the line have patches of moss taking root, whilst others remain starkly barren.
And apologies for the thread hijack
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