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My Garden 2012

I did enjoy seeing the phlox by the window as never seem to achieve much with trailing geraniums.  Did you grow the phlox from seed or buy in plugs?  Also, did they last all summer?

hydrangea

thanks sotongeoff, as I was writing about dividing I did wonder if a hydrangea has a single stem anyway, but didn't want to venture down to the dark end of a damp garden to check it out.  I note what you say about cuttings but is it possible to get seedlings from hydrangeas?

hydrangea

Thanks Verdun, yes it has spent it's life outside

hydrangea

A friend has given me a hydrangea, in excellent condition, which she has had in a very large pot for at least 6 years.  However, I do not want to keep it in the pot but want to plant it in my garden.  Should I be planting it now or leave it until the Spring?

Also, is it likely I will be able to divide it and get extra plants?

Talkback: Ash tree dieback

Thanks for that info, maybe it will start performing next year.  I do have two old ash trees at the end of my garden but most of the leaves fell off very early which I thought was due to strong winds and heavy rain - at least I hope that is the reason.

Talkback: Ash tree dieback

I bought a small Mountain Ash, very cheaply from Morrisons earlier this year, and it hasn't looked particularly healthy or grown very much.  Back in the summer(!!) it did have quite a few ants climbing up it.  I'm wondering if this was an imported tree but maybe I'm just being impatient.

Nigel

Oh! David K, the silence is overwhelming.  That beautiful pie is making me very hungry.

shade

Thanks Lunarz, they look rather good and I have added them to my list.

deer

I think Busy-Lizzie that is what we have to aim for.  We have three enormous raised beds and  I'm thinking maybe we need to try and obtain suitable netting and supports to surround at least one of the beds next year.  We would need to be able to remove the netting for the children to weed and tend the crops.  Netting around the perimiter of the field where the beds are is out of the question.  I'm very grateful for all the suggestions and I now realise we have to look at this problem long term as the deer are not going to go away..

deer

From time to time I do use Silent Roar when I find the three neighbouring cats have used my garden as their toilet and owners have let their dogs poo on the grass verge outside my house.  Of course, to use it all the time is the obvious solution but being the eternal optimist and begruding spending money on coping with other people's pets, I don't.

black bamboo

First new year resolution for 2014

help needed with identification

climbing plants

hydrangea

deer

squirrels

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plant supports

last night's Gardeners' World

Can you identify this plant