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Primula, lavender, aphids and slugs

By Jekka McVicar on 11/04/2008 17:23:00

few weeks, stopping two weeks prior to the show. In the final week we'll just remove the flower heads that are going over.As spring advances, so do the pests. We've had our first outbreak of aphids, and have responded by spraying the plants


Countdown to the Chelsea Flower Show

By Jekka McVicar on 08/02/2008 17:08:00

the snow settled on the floods!All this and it is a mere 16 weeks before we are on site, and 12 weeks before the gardens are built at the Chelsea Flower Show. I always find it a miracle that the plants are ready for the show. It's as if the plants know


Frogs, frogspawn, slugs and cats

By Jekka McVicar on 29/02/2008 14:46:00

anything from 6-12 weeks for the spawn to develop into a tadpole and then into a frog. Interestingly, when we returned to check that the spawn had settled in, other frogs had laid their eggs near by. This is a very good sign as it means that the transposed


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