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Thanks for the portrait Geoff, if ever I meet you I'll be able to recognise you!

I just bought some nasturstium seeds to sow next to the broad beans Jean. I wish my Dropmore Scarlet needed heavy pruning. It shrinks every year and I think it's had it.

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It was the white blouse that got me. Who wears a white blouse for gardening? I usually end up brown.

Really need some help, badly!!!!

Good luck, keep us posted.

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Yes! back aches Must clear up the mess I left on the lawn tomorrow. Bed soon.

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We loved Trebah, which winds it's way down a valley with stream and ponds, lovely planting down to the sea. Hidden Valley gardens, Treesmill PL24 2TV are lovely for summer planting, lots of perennials. A lot of Cornish gardens are best earlier in the year for the azaleas and rhododendrons.

Weeds vs an old rickety back

Yes, eventually, seeds can be dropped by birds or float in the air, but it will still be a big improvement and they're not too hard to hoe gently out of the chippings.

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Dreaming of summer and looking at old photos. Here's another garden we visited on a trip to England, Bosvigo in Cornwall

Help! Droopy fig

My fig lives outside and it loses it's leaves in winter. They are not evergreen. Yours may have got a bit confused being kept in a heated house in winter.

Soil

You really need lots and lots of compost, manure, grit and sharp sand.

Weeds vs an old rickety back

You can spray the weeds with glyphosate which only kills the plants that have had their leaves sprayed. It is best to spray when the weeds are actually gowing then it will be taken into their roots, so may be a bit early yet. It won't hurt the apple trees. The weeds will take about 3 weeks to turn pale and die then put down your weed supressant fabric and cover it with bark chippings. Glyphosate only needs a few hours without rain after spraying it. I prefer to rake the weeds up before putting down the fabric, but I don't really know the answer to that one.

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Gardens we have visited 2013

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Cleaning greenhouses

Rose pruning and frost

reviews

Why did you all start gardening?

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