A Members' Posts

Request: Hazel poles (Presteigne LD8) I am looking for 8 hazel poles, at least 2.10m long of reasonable thickness (20mm plus). I am building a short fence in my Japanese garden. I am putting a thatched roof on it in the Japanese style and I want dome poles I can use as the batons to tie the thatch too. Thank you

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Request: Roofing felt (Presteigne LD8) Received I need to repair my shed. I don’t need a lots, so if someone has some left over I would be most grateful.

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Request: Hostas, alpines, grasses. clematis, blue bamboo (Presteigne LD8) Received The Japanese Garden so many have helped with is doing grear. It will be open for h-art I am now on smaller plants. I am looking for hostas, unusual ferns, sedums and white saxifragr, red grass, black grass, a clematis armandi and blue or red bamboo. If you have anything else you think grear for this type of garden do let me know. If any one can help that would be grear and check out johnruxburton.co,Uk/garden. Thank you everyone who has made this possible.

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Free: Plant pots (Presteigne LD8) Gifted I have lots of old flower pots 9cm to 12l. If you let me know what you need I maybe able to help. All come from the many people who gave plants to the Japanese garden. Be nice to see them used for more good work

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Request: Weed Stop (Presteigne LD8) Expired The mitate-mono (elevated upcyling) garden I have been building is coming on apace. 60 tonnes of donated rock, rehomed plants from across the UK (eg the blue pine on the left from Newton and the huge black pine on the mound from Swansea)… and much more including about 200 square metres of weed stop from a lady Kington. Generous though was (and it was incredibly so) we are going to need about another 150 sqm to finish. Can you help? Also, please go to . You will not only see more about the garden but much more importantly the names of the 100+ donors and supporters who have made this possible.

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Request: National trust vouchers (Presteigne LD8) Expired Did anyone have some old news papers last couple of weeks with the national trust offer. If you are not using them, I would like them. Happy to have the whole paper as I will use for fire lighting

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Free: Garden Furniture Collection (Presteigne LD8) Gifted A suite of wicker garden furniture, two big for our garden at our new home. It’s got a bit of rattan fraying in places. Could be fixed, but I suspect will give several years before it’s a real issue even if not.

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Request: 210 litre (or similiar) Oil drum (Presteigne LD8) Expired I am building a Japanese garden. An oil drum with the bottom cut out, primed with galvanised paint painted with bitumen and lined with geotext will prevent the spread of bamboo for 25-30 years. Short of using reinforced concrete, this is as good as one is going to get. Given I am 64... Anyway, I am looking for about o 10 × 45 L o 3 × 90 L o 3 × 210 L So even if you only have one or two, I would like them.

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Request: Soda stream (Presteigne LD8) Expired I want to see if I can mimic the trendy matcha and grape juice fizzy drinks that are around. I need a soda stream to try. If someone has one languishing, I would be most grateful.

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Request: Oil drum (or similiar) (Presteigne LD8) Expired I am building a Japanese garden. An oil drum with the bottom cut out, primed with galvanised paint painted with bitumen and lined with geotext will prevent the spread of bamboo for 25-30 years. Short of using reinforced concrete, this is as good as one is going to get. Given I am 64... Anyway, I am looking for about o 10 × 45 L o 3 × 90 L o 3 × 210 L So even if you only have one or two, I would like them. Thank you

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Request: Oil Drum 210 litres (or similiar) (Presteigne LD8) Expired I am building a Japanese garden. An oil drum with the bottom cut out, primed with galvanised paint painted with bitumen and lined with geotext will prevent the spread of bamboo for 25-30 years. Short of using reinforced concrete, this is as good as one is going to get. Given I am 64... Anyway, I am looking for about o 10 × 45 L o 3 × 90 L o 3 × 210 L So even if you only have one or two, I would like them.

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Free: National Trust Vouchers Free Family Pass (Presteigne LD8) Expired I have two national trust vouchers, valid today or tomorrow, that will let a family into a NT property (most at least) for free. I cant use them this weekend. Its a great opportunity for a free day out. I have two, so even if someone replies, get in touch as I may well still have the second

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Request: Oil drum 210 litre (or similiar) (Presteigne LD8) Expired I am building a Japanese garden. An oil drum with the bottom cut out, primed with galvanised paint painted with bitumen and lined with geotext will prevent the spread of bamboo for 25-30 years. Short of using reinforced concrete, this is as good as one is going to get. Given I am 64... Anyway, I am looking for about o 10 × 45 L o 3 × 90 L o 3 × 210 L So even if you only have one or two, I would like them.

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Request: Petrol Tank suitable to stick on a generator (Presteigne LD8) Expired I am restoring a generator. It has no tank. maybe someone has a mower, or a pump, or some other reasonable size portable machine that has had it, which could be cannibalised for this purpose.

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Request: 210 litre (or similiar) Oil Drums (Presteigne LD8) Expired I am building a Japanese garden. An oil drum with the bottom cut out, primed with galvanised paint painted with bitumen and lined with geotext will prevent the spread of bamboo for 25-30 years. Short of using reinforced concrete, this is as good as one is going to get. Given I am 64... Anyway, I am looking for about o 10 × 45 L o 3 × 90 L o 3 × 210 L So even if you only have one or two, I would like them.

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Request: 210 Litre Oil Drum (Presteigne LD8) Expired I am building a Japanese garden. An oil drum with the bottom cut out, primed with galvanised paint painted with bitumen and lined with geotext will prevent the spread of bamboo for 25-30 years. Short of using reinforced concrete, this is as good as one is going to get. Given I am 64... Anyway, I am looking for about o 10 × 45 L o 3 × 90 L o 3 × 210 L So even if you only have one or two, I would like them.

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Free: Exercise ball (Presteigne LD8) Gifted Work those abs! It’s a good bit of kit, but we have less space, so it has to go (and so will my lithe physique no doubt)

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Free: Picture frame (Presteigne LD8) Gifted Wood, 10x8 good condition

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Free: Corner sofa good condition (Presteigne LD8) Gifted A green corner sofa in good condition Has matching cushions. Was used in our second sitting room which was really a study. So rarely used as generally people sat at the desk. Sad to see it go but too big for here. Pics show it made up straight, the corner part and a rather poor pic of it when put together for a corner.

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Free: Bon viveur tie (Presteigne LD8) Gifted Features wine bottles, barrels etc. great for a wine buff. Brand new in wrap. Great for the raving alcoholic in your life.

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Free: Dishwasher beko (Presteigne LD8) Expired This is available. Someone contacted me, said they wanted and now tumble weed! So if you want a nice dishwasher that needs a tinker, get in touch The bottom half is lovely. But the top half doesn’t spray. Annoying but someone with some skill will fix in a jiffy. But I can’t! It’ will be lovely again as only three years old

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Request: Big pots. Bigger the better (Presteigne LD8) Expired People keep giving me trees and shrubs for my Japanese garden. It’s so fabulous. But my pot cupboard (no not that sort of pot cupboard) is bare. I need big pots got big plants. Cheap and nasty. Just need to hold soil and water until September when we plant our

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Request: Shredder (Presteigne LD8) Expired I want to shred some old papers. Anyone got a shredder, please?

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Request: Shaker Bottle (Presteigne LD8) Expired Doesn’t need to be huel. Just needs to be a shaker bottof that complete means and protein shakes can be made I

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Request: Topsoil (Presteigne LD8) Expired I need about 10 barrelfuls of top soil to make a flower bed for my sister. Can anyone help.

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Request: Wood planks (Presteigne LD8) Expired I am building a Japanese Garden (almost) entirely from recycled materials and rehomed plants. It started with a pagoda from Japan I found was going on a skip. people have given me plants and rocks, cable and membrane, soaker hose and bricks from all over the midlands and wales. Now I am looking to make a unique decking area around the pagoda of my Japanese garden I looking for planks of wood that I can then process as shou sugi ban. This is a Japanese technique of burning and then brushing wood. The process (a little like an ancient version of thermowood but with protection of carbon too) creates a resistant surface that can last hundreds of years. I would like to celebrate the ambit of British woods, their incredible grains and beauty, in a harlequin pattern of different widths. So I need 14m sq, but any pieces will help I have a thicknesses so providing the board starts at least 25mm thick, I can finish all boards to the same depth. So can you look in your shed and see if you have one or two boards that you will never use: larch, cedar, oak, Douglas fir, elm… there are so many. If you have something, i am sure I can make something very beautiful if you can spare them. They can be rough sawn; the charring and brushing transform rough wood to something smooth as silk. Btw the last pictures show the 14ft Acer we just rehomed from Neath. (and in so doing, saved it from the chainsaw) and the other one is the pagoda

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Request: Unusual Bamboo (Presteigne LD8) Expired Someone gave me this the other day for my Japanese garden. It’s so green, and thick stemmed and it made me think… there’s more to bamboo than garden canes and invasive runners! So, suitably contained, I would like to plant some unuusual bamboos, like blue/white chungi (the garden is sheltered) or blue dragon, and red ones and zig-zags and ones thick as totem poles (ok maybe that’s going to far!). So does anyone have an usual bamboo they I can cut some canes away from the clump… let’s face it, if you have bamboo one can always cut some away… after all it will be back next week.

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Request: Wood planks for shou sugi ban (Japanese burnt wood cladding) (Presteigne LD8) Expired I am looking to make a unique decking area around the pagoda of my Japanese garden I looking for planks of wood that I can then process as shou sugi ban. This is a Japanese technique of burning and then brushing wood. The process (a little like an ancient version of thermowood but with protection of carbon too) creates a resistant surface that can last hundreds of years. I would like to celebrate the ambit of British woods, their incredible grains and beauty, in a harlequin pattern of different sizes. I have a thicknesses so providing the board starts at least 25mm thick, I can finish all boards to the same depth. So can you look in your shed and see if you have one or two boards that you will never use: larch, cedar, oak, Douglas fir, elm… there are so many. If you have something, i am sure I can make something very beautiful if you can spare them. They can be rough sawn; the charring and brushing transform rough wood to something smooth as silk. Btw the last pictures show the 14ft Acer we just rehomed from Neath. (and in so doing, saved it from the chainsaw)

1y

Request: Unusual bamboo (Presteigne LD8) Received Someone gave me this yesterday for my Japanese garden. It’s so green, and thick stemmed and it made me think… there’s more to bamboo than garden canes and invasive runners! So, suitably contained, I would like to plant some unuusual bamboos, like blue/white chungi (the garden is sheltered) or blue dragon, and red ones and zig-zags and ones thick as totem poles (ok maybe that’s going to far!). So does anyone have an usual bamboo they I can cut some canes away from the clump… let’s face it, if you have bamboo one can always cut some away… after all it will be back next week.

1y

Request: Wooden planks for shou sugi ban (Presteigne LD8) Received I am looking to make a unique decking area around the pagoda of my Japanese garden I looking for planks of wood that I can then process as shou sugi ban. This is a Japanese technique of burning and then brushing wood. The process (a little like an ancient version of thermowood but with protection of carbon too) creates a resistant surface that can last hundreds of years. I would like to celebrate the ambit of British woods, their incredible grains and beauty, in a harlequin pattern of different sizes. I have a thicknesses so providing the board starts at least 25mm thick, I can finish all boards to the same depth. So can you look in your shed and see if you have one or two boards that you will never use: larch, cedar, oak, Douglas fir, elm… there are so many. If you have something, i am sure I can make something very beautiful if you can spare them. They can be rough sawn; the charring and brushing transform rough wood to something smooth as silk. Btw the last pictures show the 14ft Acer we just rehomed from Neath. (and in so doing, saved it from the chainsaw)

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