maintaining a sshrubbery Maintaining a shrubbery. It had been done really well, with carefully-overlapped geotextile. But the stuff doesn't keep weeds out forever.... and once the nettle-roots are woven through the material, it's a bit of bother to get rid of them.
 the roots aren't easy to pull out, once they are all through the black 'weedproof' material



Russian Vine: people complain that it grows too well:A bare wall
Wall is covered with greenery
January 2005
 August 2006. The vine has covered the wall that had been repaired with breezeblocks.