my neighbour has a lovely blue bush

[southeastastra]

what can it be it's like liquorice

lolol

sorry no idea what the answer is but lolol!

What a thread title

Is it this one ceanothus ?

We had a big one, but it just died last week for some unknown reason

oh ho ho ho...

blue? not black (sambucus nigra=black elderberry)?

My blue bush is the envy of my neighbours too! It's a ceanothus.

like liquorice how exactly?

Hebe?

ah yes it's a california lilac

i have a lovely pink bush, in my front garden,
as a stranger walking past my house pointed out

Ah yes, I have one too. Fantastic colour. The flowers don't last long though (I think? Or was it just that last summer was so awful that all mine died early?)

i've hear that superdrug are now doing special hair dye specialy for ones bush - blue, pink, grren.
interesting

they're so vivid, i really want one

fondant, I read once that they only last for around 5 years before dying - but mine are a lot older. I actually wish one of them would die off as it has got too big for where it is. Flowers are lovely though!

Best thread title ever..

They are stunning, tis true. BUT, at close range they STINK, and, the little petals stick to EVERYTHING.

They exacerbate my hayfever when in flower too.

So, if you get one (buy small - they grow bloody quick!), plant it at the end of your garden, or, away from paths/patios.

That's strange, my Ceanothus died as well, had to cut it down. My front garden looks so bare now

Ceanothus often die if pruned too severely. My MIL paid a lot of money to a so-called gardener who hacked the ceanothus so much that it expired.

My neighbour does too.....are you my neighbour as well?

PMSL at the thread title though!

i have tried to kill several of them by overpruning and it didn't work (digging up does it!) they are a bit of a pain in a small garden.

fuck me, can you get blue rinse for your cunt? I must be getting old

lololol i dont do gardening, but HAD to click on this thread because of the title

Why do I think of Molly Sugden as Mrs Slocombe whenever I see this thread title?

oh good, it's not just me who thinks rude thoughts at this thread title.