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Garden of rented property - design advice
is not fully established yet so the garden is quite open and unsheltered. In the Autumn I dug up an area of the lawn which was tucked into a recess of the house and put in two square metre raised beds as well as a flower bed and a small rock garden for alpines by nicky99
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14/01/2013 14:00:32
by nicky99
s it possible to to exchange seeds between Dutch, English and Scottish gardener
I meant to say. As far as I am aware it is legal to send seeds from anywhere in the EU to anywhere in the Eu, as long as they are not wild collected and restricted by CITES. Check out the Alpine Garden Soc and the Scottish Rock garden sites by Dutch-Ellen
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07/12/2012 20:32:08
by blairs
Talkback: Self-seeding plants
!@happymarion I didn't mean in a regular garden! If I ever get a nice piece of land, I could just leave it and sit and watch it grow. Glad you found lots of alpine strawberries. Are you going to make use of them?@Chromebaby lovely to find new plants, isn't it? I by oldchippy
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07/06/2012 08:53:42
by weejenny
Horticultural grit
decorative and cost a fortune. I need good normal horti-grit to lighten my soil and add drainage. I want it available now.  Why is it so difficult....nowhere has it in stock, not DIY stores, builders merchants or garden centres. Its frustrating me...so many by salmacg
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23/03/2013 21:02:52
by Dovefromabove
Alpine Strawberry plants
Hi there fellow gardens i have just recently been bought a alpine mignonette plant organic living style but i dont really know alot in regards to it yearly growth pattern and if it reproduce as like the normal strawberry plant that have side shoots by The Rocket
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19/06/2012 09:03:14
by The Rocket
Seeking help identifying my soil type
heavy persistant rain recently, my novice ability in identitfying my soil type as limestone sandy was brought into question when i was out gardening on my alpine rockery area and found that due to me tramping all over it the soil was more clay like when by somersteve
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25/04/2012 13:06:40
by Gold1locks
Easy care plants
Hi, I'm looking for advise for good plants to use in the school garden that has been ruined by recent builing works. They need to be ones which wont take over the courtyard style area but give year long structure and interest. We are determined by The Artist
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23/05/2013 23:08:16
by HOLEDIGGER
Talkback: Building a green roof
looks a little less polished than that, and the plug plants are a lot smaller. The one above makes a better photo though! Get yourself a little bit of tufa, Kate and put alpines in it and you will soon have a lovely. light feature on your roof. Alpines by clematis
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28/11/2011 18:44:27
by gracerob
Talkback: The field maple
. I went out this morning and photographed red acers and yellow limes and noticed that even the oak trees have spectacular colour this year and a beautiful buttercup yellow is showing on one of my alpine shrubs, a Japanese willow. Everyone should by happymarion
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28/11/2011 18:41:27
by sheepandlambs
A few of our bulbs.
Golidlocks I am not very good at recommending plants for pots, we do not really grow any except in the garden. WE grow vast amounts of evrything in pots, and find that bulbs are really very sucessful grown this way - but as with so many modern bulbs, they do by Berghill
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25/04/2012 11:23:31
by Bookertoo