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Oh, Andrew, enjoy your celandines.  they do very little harm, are beautiful in flower, and disappear very quickly.  Just pull them out where youwant another spring flower to grow.  i am sure they do more good than harm by feeding insects early nectar and being the harbinger of spring according to Shakespeare.

Pound shop plants- any success stories?

I bought a "Bridal Wreath" spirea from our Pound Shop some yrears ago which is now giving a glorious display.  There bulbs, especially "Tete a Tete" daffodils have never disappointed.  Be selective in what you buy and treat them well, especially if they have been in the shop a long time, and do check they are still alive!  You can save a lot for run of the mill plants and bulbs.

Talkback: Grow something different

We must compare notes on the yellow pelargoniums,Susie.  Mine are growing strongly.  They were quite big plants when they came.  Of course it is not sad to name your seedlings.  The sad thing is to follow the herd!  I am sure Adam would agree.  The more indivifduality, the more biodiversity, the stronger the life on earth, including the human soecies.  Good luck with your celeriac.

Talkback: Growing woodland anemones

And I only have to visit the Woodland Edge Garden at the Bristol Botanic Garden where A. blanda, nemorosa and pavonina among other species are carpeting the ground right now. I plant A. blanda in the green and have been successful in getting them to establish quickly. I just put a rhizome in a small pot and plant out when the flowers appear. I do the same with the Lent Lily, Narcissus pseudo narcissus. It is not just snowdrops that benefit from this so it seems to me this may be the best way to plant all woodland edge plants for quick establishment.

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Happy Easter

Of course, there is nothing wrong wiyh dafforils - the woodland edge garden in the Bristol bot. Garden is looking glorious with its spread od Narcissus pseudonarciccus mingling with anemones.  But with the great many yellow primroses this spring as well i thought it would make a change to see some of the red flowers around this Easter as well.  Come to think of it I have never seen the flowering quinces look so great.

Lemon Tree

OOPs, one picture missing.  I will try again.

Lemon Tree

Here is a picture of the"giant lemon" on the citrus tree in the warm temperate house of the Bristol Bot. Garden at the moment and one showing it compared to ordinary lemon size, Astrid.  Exdinnerrita, your lemons should ripen now the days are getting warmer.

how to get more wallflowers

And sometimes, like last year they flower allyear long.  I do love them,meiow and not just for their scent and flowers.  The cabbage white butterfly seems to prefer them to cabbage!

Anthuriums

That should read Anthurium Trinerve.

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Spring Spectacular

The Garden Sculpture Exhibition at the Bristol Botanic Garden  

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Talkback: December gardening jobs

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