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Carole's Earings

totally agree Joslow x   I just really liked them. 

Carole's Earings

Ok, not strictly a gardening question I know, but in the April Issue ofGgardeners World, Carols Earings are fab, I love the rose and leaf design, does anyone else agree?  (wonder where she got them from?0

Any garden questions to really test us

Question - if gardeners didnt have the weather, and pests and weeds  to complain about what would be the next topic of discontent?

Talkback: Top 10 plants for a dream garden

opps forgot to say why, basically becuae I grow them from seed and they need very little attention and look amazzing.  I have loads of other stuff, I never use pesticides and we have a diverse amount of wildlife include slowworms, beetles earwigs, ladybugs, cattapilars, hoverflies, lacewings, bees, quee bees, honey bees butterflies, moths, toads, may slugs, spiders and worms, but the house sparrows tend to be fat and happy x

Talkback: Top 10 plants for a dream garden

My top ten is probably boring but they are

1 sunflowers

2 Dahlias

3 Sedums

4 poppies

5 Cornflowers

6 foxgloves

7 Nicotinias

8 Daffodils

9 iris

10 Begonias

Talkback: Garden birds in the snow

We in in Neyland, so there has been no snow for us!  Tell a lie we had a dusting overnight that had gone by mid morning, the birds are eating everything we put out for thrm, includiing mealy worms and rasins and apples. 

Talkback: Plans for a garden

I am planning a better fruit and veg garden this year, over the years I have been growing red gooseberry, bluberry, and strawberry plants, but thanks to the Janurary's  GW fruit offer from DT Brown seeds  I am going to grow the 6 fruit collection of blackcurrent, redcurrent, raspberries, rhubarb, green goosbery and strawberry.  I have also sent off for the free potato kit and onion sets.  I had a productive greenhouse last year with chillies, tomatoes, sweet peppers and aubergines, so will grow them all again and also try courgettes and cucmbers.  I failed with my carrots last year, so am going ot try thrm again.  I only planted 10 seeds so have plenty to spare. 

Teasel

I had total failure with my teasel seeds, I think it was because the seeds which are supposed to take ages to germinate were planted too late in the year, my owm fault.  May try again, had great succcess with Amarangthus Oeschburgh though and the birds liked them.  So simple to germinate and needed very litte attention, they even survived two weeks in the greenhouse without water, when we went away and someone (meention no names...) forgot to water them, even though they managed to enter the greenhouse and and water the chilli, aubergine, pepers and tomatoes.

Carole's Earings