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We have a lemon balm in the Cavehill Castle Herb Garden, it smells lovely. So far it doesn't seem to be as bad as the tea-mint which really does spread... but it is more shrubby than ground cover.

Lemon Verbena also smells great but it is a shrub again. Jasmine also smells great shrub-wise, a few people have it nearby and in the evening it smells lovely.

Oh Nasturtium are not seen as herbs, but fully edible. Only red/yellow/orange hues though, so unless you want a yellow/purple clash maybe not for you?

Depending on how much work you want: Thyme is low and pink flowering (needs sun/draining soil), lavender is herb-ish (the white / pink ones don't do as well according to my mum but they exist if you want a non purple one), sage/chives also do wee flowers.

After that you end up with annuals and more work.

A rosemary becomes a big shrub/bay trees so not really a bedding thing anymore. Mint is easy to grow but rather...invasive.

That's a pretty big front garden! Lots of options :)

Ajuga/Heuchera are don't grow tall and have coloured winter leaves/flowers.

For summer Geranium have a lot of colours to pick from and there are many groundcover ones, they do go brown in winter I think.

Maybe that works?

Thanks I'll check with them on hedging.

Japanese knotweed?

Ouch....

I love trees but such tall trees in a small garden don't work, your garden looks far better now.

That's the one I found as well, Armagh is a bit of a drive but I will keep them in mind.

There is a Belfast garden center that does a potted pear tree for £29, haven't rang Craigmore yet.

Now to plan&source the hedges... there will not be any Leylandii involved :p

But it may be hard to get some hedges here, cannot get them from GB anymore (thanks Brexshit) so may end up with a sensible & easy to source hawthorn/alder/buckthorn/hazel/cottoneaster/holly hedge.

:)

I don't think I'll ever grow salad though, nature taking care of that here means "did you know common garden snails are edible as your salad has been recycled into them? ;)

The dentist has juniper I only spotted that as you mentioned them. But they are over a mile away so it should be safe.

And indeed once a garden is setup, it's not too much work. Bar the eternal couch grass, weeds...but I'm not going for the "garden magazine manicured to sterility" look anyway.

Hehe :)

Yeah it's going to be a while before it will fruit...working out hedging too as that will also take a few years.

Gardening is a funny combo of "look it grows by itself" and "after rigorous planning, measuring, budgeting and digging ...in 5 years I might have pears" :)

Thanks everyone, looks I can only get a Conference / Russell and only Conference is self-fertile so that is what it is going to be.

Not clear what rootstock it is on but there is plenty of space at the back of the garden anyway.

The most ethical option at my work still includes Shell and Meta... Sent a pissy message on public slack, vage non committal reply. No weapons or tobacco or mining, and some rules RE reducing emissions. But not fantastic no.

I am writing emails via an UK "green my pension" site, will meet with one of the trust members when they are over...but we use legal and general and their least worse is the best we get :(

And I lose the work uprate / income tax deduction for pensions if I invest all by myself. There are few options Triodos doesn't do pensions I found maybe one place.

But I then have to figure out how to get that sent pre income tax into that fund and not sure I can as work may not do this.

So you are right pension funds suck, unfortunately the choices do too. I shall keep pushing though.

No junipers nearby I guess I can get an apple if I want to play it safe,many nearby.

But where is the fun in that ;)
Rust is a fungal disease I guess?

Tx! Ok I need one that can handle clay then.

There are apple trees & a beehive nearby but no pears, I'll check for no need for cross pollination.

Any pear tree wisdom on here?

We have thick clay but I can dig a big hole and fill it with compost. Spot would be morning sun and a bit of afternoon, until it peeps over the fence then it would get sun a lot.

Space to grow tall and wide. The local tree shop has conference pears (the supermarket favourite!) and Russel pears.

Looks to me either do as long as I dig it a nice hole but I've never had a pear tree.

Hellraiser: 2022

Not bad, but also not sure if it adds anything. The lore/Cenobites are so good though, perhaps it will revitalise the franchise. It also did look good I have to say and the acting was decent.

Seen Hellraiser1/2,stopped at 3 (meh), read all the comics so that maybe doesn't help :)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/21/immigration-is-still-the-nettle-preventing-tory-detente-with-business

Sumak is conflating "illegal" and legal immigration. Okay...

Businesses complain home office is a mess. Really?

Then the head of the CBI says immigrants helped grow the UK economy. FFS you couldn't make this up 😡😂

Well, facepalm or headdesk I am not sure :)

Contrast with Aidhan Donnelly from the NI business consortium: "I don't care if they call it the backstop or the pink fluffy bunny stop, we just want solutions".

Currently, we’re not even implementing Boris’s deal: Tony will love it when all the GB custom checks will come into force...but the growth in hot air being produced might alleviate the energy crisis somewhat if we can put it to good use. Like the biogases produced by rotting waste are something we can use, alas, for hot air we are not yet there ;)

Lol :D

I don't know why the CBI didn't protest louder about Brexit once it became clear the "oven ready deal" would suck for UK businesses.

Well perhaps there was a stunned silence followed by the whole room erupting in laughter. That's what NI businesses did when Boris told them "just put those customs forms in the bin".

Thousands EU nationals stuck in euss limbo
Hundreds of small businesses lost
No government in NI part to Brexit (DUP doesn't help)
Permanent fights in some families
£ never recovered from exit result
Boris fucking Johnson
An extremely denigrating xenophobic leave campaign
Funds moving from London banking to Paris

And now it all turns out to indeed be shit, wow. So what has been learned bar "project fear was right"?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/19/fifa-gianni-infantino-world-cup-qatar?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

FIFA boss goes off on one...he may have some good pints but Wft

Work tax rises first obviously... OK hard to feel sorry now for those that see the 45% kicking in at 125K a year, but it's still a tax on work. Not wealth.

Capital Gains and Dividends are also more taxed now..

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/capital-gains-and-dividends-tax-changes-in-the-2022-autumn-statement-ac6kT0e7yZ4X

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has announced the 20% VAT rate will be maintained until March 2026 despite repeated calls from the hospitality sector for a reduction.

But... this is still all aimed at individuals/small companies?

Not seeing any proper wealth tax, or ditching the price cap (which we pay for anyway) in favour of slapping more windfall taxes on the energy companies with more targeted help based in income...

Collected leaves near us as we have no trees and those are a free brown compost material. Most kitchen waste is green.

I read caffeine in compost isn't good for wormeries and some plants. It seems it's best to go easy in the coffee grounds.

The avocado that came up in the bin didn't read that article ;)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-63642950

Still problems RE GB to NI medication supplies and no we can't source it all from RO Ireland.