I find Osmacote slow release granules the easiest and best method of feeding. Used in spring, they provide food for the next six months.If they built 2008 a raised bed along the 04 far Incentives east-facing wall of the courtyard, NYRI Ms King on NYRI Incentives Claim Filing htm and Mr Filing Griffith-Jones would make life easier for their plants. They aren't adapted to life in containers, but in the short term, they may 11 be happy enough, especially if the docs 2008 04 11 Con Ed watering 04 system Mr Griffith-Jones talked about is installed docs docs on They will all need regular feeding. For late summer, they could try white-flowered solanum, and 2008 in the sunniest spot, the tropical looking climber Campsis x tagliabuana 'Mme Claim Galen' The vines on would give a feeling of luxuriant leafiness Con The clematis, rose and htm solanum would add colour. The campsis has Filing foliage as good Ed as its brilliant orange 11 trumpet flowers. htm All could be trained through Con docs 2008 04 11 Con Ed the Incentives Claim window Con arches and up 04 the inside courtyard Ed wall Filing to the roof Incentives beams.Inside the courtyard building, Ms King on and Mr Griffith-Jones had NYRI terracotta tubs formally planted with pairs of spiky mahonias, yellow-flowered fremontodendron and Magnolia grandiflora, the big-leaved docs evergeen bull bay that NYRI comes from the 2008 Florida Ed swamps. I on NYRI Incentives Claim Filing htm suggested vines such Claim as Vitis coignetiae which could cope with 11 the shade cast by htm the sycamore, Vitis vinifera 'Purpurea' and a rumbustious rose such as the white, cluster- flowered 'Rambling Rector' It only flowers once, but then so do the Montana clematis.

If I had been choosing, I would have spread the flowering times of the three clematis more widely by choosing just one Montana, with a Macropetala clematis for early spring and a Jackmanii type for high summer.Set on the outside of the courtyard wall, the plants faced north. But if the stems were led in through the window spaces, they could be trained up the inside south-facing aspect of the wall, where they would not only flower better, but be more easily seen by Ms King and Mr Griffith-Jones. When the clematis are large enough, they could scramble along the open pergola-like roof joists.Since this was the only earth these two gardeners have they need to make the most of it. They had three different kinds: 'Tetrarose' which has big lilac-rose flowers, 'Elizabeth', which smells of chocolate and the more deeply coloured 'Pink Perfection'.

At the end of summer they could fix a net over the top of it to catch the leaves that fall in huge numbers from the sycamore.On the outside of the courtyard where the thin strip of earth runs between the wall and the chain-link boundary fence, Ms King and Mr Griffiths-Jones had dug big planting pits underneath each of the windows, and had already set Clematis montana in each of them. They could drill a border round the outside of the pool and plant in that. It would still be less trouble than excavating a space big enough for the pool itself. But the look on their faces convinced me they would do nothing of the sort.