The developing scenery of the ANLR

A place for discussing garden railway scenery, such as buildings, trees, etc....
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Post by pauly » Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:20 pm

I put some more in a couple of days ago as well :)

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A steam propelled life-style.

MTA

Post by MTA » Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:34 am

Please do laalratty, I for one will certainly be interested in it.

riveresk

Post by riveresk » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:04 pm

Yay, more trees for pickies, and a SHRUBBERY! Ahem.

On a side note Terry Jones and Michael Palin are coming to Aber for a special screening of A Life Of Brian. Tickets are sold out.

I suppose that if I said that French Marigolds are very nice flowers to put in, you'll say no. Pretty please?

Great stuff and I can't wait to get home to see it properly.

laalratty

Post by laalratty » Thu May 21, 2009 10:27 pm

Before the Morecambe members invasion this afternoon, I completed this
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A retaining wall for a small flowerbed between the lines at the lower loop points. Must admit, i'm rather pleased with the brickwork, which is much better than my previous efforts (which includes a rather shoddy manhole round the back of Boston Lodge works... :roll: ) I'm hoping once i've got some plants in the flowerbed, including a couple to tumble over the brickwork then the area should look much more photogenic than it was

SillyBilly

Post by SillyBilly » Thu May 21, 2009 10:58 pm

Saves your dad building even more slate walling I guess!

LMS-Jools

Post by LMS-Jools » Fri May 22, 2009 7:42 am

Well Dun and twas a Good run yesterday lol 8)

riveresk

Post by riveresk » Fri May 22, 2009 2:09 pm

Did you say 'flowerbed'? *ears perk up*. I repeat my plea for French Marigolds. And cornflowers, :) :)

laalratty

Post by laalratty » Fri May 22, 2009 9:38 pm

riveresk wrote:Did you say 'flowerbed'? *ears perk up*. I repeat my plea for French Marigolds. And cornflowers, :) :)
And I reject your repeated plea for Marigolds and Cornflowers. Their not to scale and I don't like them

riveresk

Post by riveresk » Fri May 22, 2009 9:53 pm

I'll put them in whilst you're asleep, ninja style. 8) :glasses5:

So what flowers are you planning, then?

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Post by pauly » Fri May 22, 2009 9:58 pm

gotta have some pritty flowers :color:
A steam propelled life-style.

laalratty

Post by laalratty » Fri May 22, 2009 10:08 pm

riveresk wrote:I'll put them in whilst you're asleep, ninja style.  8)  :glasses5:

So what flowers are you planning, then?
I was thinking at least one Campunenula (no doubt spelt hugely wrong) as it should look ace tumbling over the brickwork

DLRdan

Post by DLRdan » Fri May 22, 2009 11:04 pm

can i suggest "mind your own bussiness" which is a good trailing plant, there are also types of dwarf trailing petunias which would give a waterfall of colour. There is also one with dark purple leaves ans yellow flowers that seems to self seed happily round here

laalratty

Post by laalratty » Fri May 22, 2009 11:14 pm

Just put some Mind your own business on the other side of the track, you can see it in the photo just about. Might spread some across once the first bit is established. I would like something that grows quite tall to try and hide the 2 diverging lines from each other, there might be a conifer going in if the posistion is sunny enough

Matt

Post by Matt » Sat May 23, 2009 3:09 pm

I'm think of using 'mind your own buisness' on my railway. How fast does it grow?

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Post by pauly » Sat May 23, 2009 3:51 pm

once its settled down after planting (couple of weeks), it grows very quickly!
A steam propelled life-style.

SLRmidge

Post by SLRmidge » Sat May 23, 2009 8:10 pm

This is after a week of putting a pot of it by the line!





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laalratty

Post by laalratty » Sat May 23, 2009 8:47 pm

yeah right Mr Midgley, how come that tray of MYOB you gave me hasn't spread like that then, as its had more then a week?! :P

Matt

Post by Matt » Sat May 23, 2009 9:02 pm

Okay, that's good enough for my line.

SillyBilly

Post by SillyBilly » Sat May 23, 2009 11:23 pm

:sign5: :sign5:

SLRmidge

Post by SLRmidge » Sun May 24, 2009 10:20 am

laalratty wrote:yeah right Mr Midgley, how come that tray of MYOB you gave me hasn't spread like that then, as its had more then a week?! :P
I've got green fingers :lol:

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