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The common or lawn daisy is able to grow in a wide range of soils, even in compacted soil that's inhospitable to other plants. Daisies may also out-compete cultivated plants and cause them to die. It can spread by forming mats of foliage

. Who was it said a weed is a plant in the wrong place! I just bought common daisy seeds for my lawn from Naturescape.co.uk as it is time consuming transplanting the daisies to new areas suffering from grass monoculture syndrome. I think the commom daisy

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, try to prevent the problem by encouraging your dog to urinate in a designated area of the garden. lawnsall year roundCommon problems affecting lawnsMolesCommon daisyGreater plantainLeatherjacketsMoss

hours, say a shed, but near to a bright window or lamp. The beetles will fly up towards the light. Grow brassica crops under fleece or very fine mesh netting.shasta daisies, sweet peas, cauliflowers, many ornamentals and vegetablesspring, summer

Look like common-or-garden dasies. No I don't think so, the leaves look wrong  and the colour is too varied - but I'm struggling to think what they are  Common-or-garden daisies have different foliage. See here: http://bit.ly/MwO7cW My best guess

Hi all I'm about to buy 17 potted or root balled young common laurel plants (I have read that bare roots are more at risk of loosing their leaves through shock). If I cannot get them into the ground this week, they may have to wait for another four

: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30911797@N07/7329234194/     Hi the red one is Hypericum -will have yellow flowers and followed by black berries.Probably self seeded by birds. The second looks like an Aster - probably the common purple one, will flower

and besides I use the leaves in a salad sometimes. I agree - along with buttercups and daisies were the first flowers to make an impact on me as a child and still like them. As a gardener, you are expected to want to eradicate all dandelion growth, on site. I

. Insects you'll attract to your garden include buff-tailed and common carder bumblebees, honeybees, hoverflies, comma, painted lady, small tortoishell, speckled wood butterflies and the angel shades, dart and brimstone moths. Some will still be found