HeadGardener's Journal

Yea, Bill, a right pain in the a... trying to upload photos. Mind you, I still haven't used the tips that people here have given yet.

Sorry you're struggling with the photo uploads; that sucks! ;(

I'm not familiar with that plant (Diphylleia Cymosa) but it has very lovely leaves and I guess the flowers are just a bonus. Guessing it's a woodland plant?

Wow, unruly bamboo? Yeah, if I ever plant one I'll stick to a slow-growing clump-forming one - failing that I'll plant it in a pot! ;P

Will be putting in a bamboo barrier myself, only a small one thankfully.

For Bill and Jacinta, when you are uploading photos you first click the add photos and you then choose what file you are taking the photos from as normal then you click on the photo you want and before clicking open hold the 'Ctrl' button down on the bottom left of your keyboard and with your other hand scroll through your photos and and click all the photos you want to upload and then click open and the should all pop up on your screen loading on one by one, once they are there on the screen you can name them and click Save Gallery. Hope this helps it is actually better than the previous of five at a time.

Nice leaves on that plant Bill

How do I add more photos to an album, I thought I did it before but don't seem to be able to do it now.  I clicked on Add Photos and it brought me into the album but I don't see where I can add more???

I clicked on the exisiting photo and then add photo but I kept having to refresh the page to get a photo to appear Linda... although advise from me is the blind leading the blind.. Jacinta missed that advise but thanks pwiseman will try that now just to see if it works... Spideog and Fran you can just dig a trench around a bamboo and slice off any shoots that appear but you'd have to be vigilant. 

Spideog sorry meant to say Diphyllea is an american woodland plant..

Sorry what existing photo, do you mean the last photo?

Great looking plant Bill.  When I have time I'm going to google the plants you bought at Bloom ... learning all the time on this site, thanks. 

 Bill, I called my brother-in-law who is a builder who I knew was well through a reroofing and extension project but he said that he, and most builders, generally keep old tiles in a yard in case needed on a future project. this is due to cost of old tiles from a salvage yard.

i will ask of some builder clients in cork but probably will get same response.

If buying, new tiles will be cheaper than old.

if ceramic (floor or wall) tiles will have the same effect when buried in ground, i have quite an amount of samples at work that are due for skip (or crocks in pots) in near future. 

Dick's entry got me thinking.

If you are looking for ild roof tiles because they are clay and so porous - thus providing a barrier to bamboo roots but not causing a water barrier, then the ceramic tiles are glazed with a colour and I am fairly sure Stonewold tiles are of concrete and so not have same porosity as clay.

Would a geotextile membrane work? 

True Tony, the Stonewald roof tiles are made of concrete.

Linda,

to add photos to an existing album, click on the album so that all the photos in that album come up on your screen in miniature. Scroll down to the end and there should be two buttons 'save gallery' (left) and 'add photos' (right). If an arrow appears beside 'save gallery' instead of a button, click on the arrow and you will get the 'add photos' button.

Peter has provided instructions on how to load more than one photo at a time. It is the same principal as on Facebook, using the ctrl button.

Tony/Dick thanks for the help firstly I should explain that you can buy tree root/rhizome barrier for bamboo but it is expensive, hard to find in Irl and 1.2 to 1.5 deep (thats a big hole to dig I can tell you!!) It needs to be a minimum of 2mm thick to stop rhizomes so geotextile membrane is no good some people use thick pond liner but this generally comes in big lenghts that need to be cut straight into strips. Wall or ceamic tiles will not work as they are not frost proof and will crack. Dick thanks for the offer I might call on you but will see if I can get as many as I need first especially if there all the same size (make it easier to overlap them and lay them in stages to save my back) Tony my brother in law is a builder as well and had tild me older tiles are kept I have been looking on buy and sell and done deal for new straight (not ridged) tiles and seeing if there was someone local and a reasonable price..

Thanks for the explanation Rachel :-)

Hi Rachel, thanks for that, I am on the laptop now and there is an 'Add Photo' button!  but on my PC earlier there wasn't yet there was last week!  The next time I log into my PC I will have a look for the arrow - thanks again.

bill, just a suggestion but your brother in law may well be well placed to get clay bricks if knocking walls or piers for extensions.

maybe too thick but ticking minimum thickness and non frost protection issues 

Bill - if you are using a dongle have you tried other providers? It makes a big difference depending on the mobile coverage you have. Also you can get a "WiFi hub" instead of the dongle and put it anywhere in the house that it gets good coverage (Attic? Bedroom?) and then you can connect to it anywhere in the house using WiFi - but you laptop needs to have WiFi capability. Most laptops made in the past few years have this build in.