"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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nightjar cpb@ wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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nightjar cpb@ wrote:
"dairich" wrote in message
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A corner of my lawn (about 2 m.sq. is badly drained (& shaded). It
ends at a 20cm. step down to a path. What can I do?
I would plant the area with water loving plants, like bamboo or
hydrangeas or turn it into a marsh plant area. My next-door neighbour
spent ages trying to deal with a 'badly drained' bit of lawn before
discovering it was the outlet for a natural spring.

Colin Bignell
The problem with that, Colin, is most of them do bugger all in winter.

I don't normally expect my bamboo area to do much at any time, other than
stand there and whisper in the wind.

Willow - especially weeping willow - will dry a 100 square meters of
ground..in summer..

It will also, IME, add a few tens of thousands of pounds in ground work
to anything you want to build within about 10 metres of it.


Er noi. It will add tens of thousands to anything that is *already built
with inedequate foundatins*, but once you have the digger in site, going
down an extra half meter is not expebnsive either in diggertime or
concrete.

Except that, on a new build, it was an extra 2.5 metres deep, mass concrete
instead of a concrete strip foundation, which required a concrete pumping
machine to deliver it from the mixer lorries on the road, instead of a small
mixer onsite, and £20k.

Colin Bignell