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Blue bulbsBlue is one of my favourite colours in the garden. Every year, I eagerly scour catalogues and flower-show exhibits for new varieties of blue-flowering bulbs. Plan ahead so you can enjoy a sea of blue in February, before the daffodils

Have I persuaded any,of you to try salvia patens or any other blue flowering ones? They are tender,perennials treated much the same as dahlias and also form tubers. They flower for months,,have scented leaves but what glorious blue flowers. Keep

I grow lots of blue flowered plants. What's your favourite? How about linum perenne to start? In summer, and grown next to santolina lemon fizz....yellow foliage....and behind a yellow osteospermum it is a real eye catcher all summer long. I

Will pot up Imto bigger,pots some yellow,osteospermum and blue linum perenne in a mo to plant out in the garden next month. Yep, bit corny but backed by dwarf purple berberis it was an eye catcher all summer for me last year. Since I lack

We have inherited a Blue Atlas Cedar which has been planted below the house, at the foot of a steep bank.  The trunk is now 2 metres or so high, and with a pronounced lean outwards from the slope.  The arching branches add another couple of metres

Hi, I have a blue chip buddleia in a pot which I bought a few months ago. Should I prune it now? If so how? I know buddleia davidii respond to hard pruning now, but how should I treat this minature variety? Thanks in advance. BH Prune as usual

's in the garden,This must be a year for ladybird larve. Your Sid is still singing his head off up in the tree's.Oldchippy. i have had about 6 baby blue tits in my garden allso some baby robins,i had the mother come down on my lawn with her young and feeding them

I have just reeived a Holly 'Blue Angel'. It is a standard and at the moment soaking in a bucket of water. It is a root ball and I am wondering how best to plant it. Do I leave it in the 'net'. Do I put Rootgrow on it. Although it is a standard I

but no blues as yet. My garden has all the shrubs you mention, in fact loads of holly and dogwood and a solitary spindle brought by the birds, four pyracanthas and a large snowberry bush, so it is holly blue heaven. Where was this? And when? I saw some

Hi everyone, has anybody ever grown California Blue Bells. I have got about 30 of these little bulbs but I don't know anything about them. Can they be invasive and take over your garden or should I just put them into a pot. Any advise would