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Dahlia - white substance on shoots?

Thanks. When you say Q tip do you mean a cotton bud? Which fungiside would be best if needed?

Dahlia - white substance on shoots?

In my greenhouse my two recently planted Dahlia Arabian Knight tubers are just poking through the compost in their pots, but they have both developed a white substance on the shoots.

They dont look like eggs but seeing as I have lots of other different plant seedlings in the greenhouse that arent affected im wondering if its something specific to Dahlias?

Growing Sweet Peas

Ive sewn 2 seads in each pot and they all seem to be germinating well. Should I thin out the weakest plant in each pot, or leave them alone?

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Could it have been one of the gardens at the televised Gardeners World Live show at the NEC? Or even perhaps one of the Chelsea Flower Show gardens?

How to prune these plants

Laurel hedge. Cut it back however you want, and it will grow back. I have a very large laurel hedge and I lop the top 2 metres off it each spring. By the end of summer it has regrown to its original height.

bird box

Ive often found that a newly placed nest box might get used for roosting straight away, but wont get used for nesting for the first couple of years.

Re potting Box Balls?

Thanks chicky, nice to know I got it right. I seem to recall Monty Don saying that chopping the roots off is good for the plant, but it was a long time ago I wasnt sure.

 Yes, its the two box balls in the grey pots by the white door. I also have a 4th box ball growing in the garden border, you can see it in the photo below. Im planning a garden redesign where I intend to use more of them, along with some box pyramids. Shame they are so expensive if buying them of a reasonable size.

And yes, there is a chimney pot amongst the others, it was inherrited when I moved into the house

 Thanks again.

Re potting Box Balls?

Im hoping ive done this correctly, as Im sure I saw Monty Don do it this way?

I have two nice Box Balls in tall pots framing either side of a side door to my garage. They were getting a bit pot bound, but I wanted to keep them in the same pots. So I lifted them out and choped off the bottom half of the root ball, half filled the pots with new compost & feed, then put the Box Balls back in their pots.

Sound about right??

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Dahlia - white substance on shoots?

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