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Talkback: Foraging
eating dandelions before they flower - fab. Lovely post. Dandelion roots can make a coffee substitute too. I'm forever pilfering rosehips and crunching them as I walk - they taste like apple-peel.Delicious to forage in nature's supermarket instead of in a by Richard Jones
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28/11/2011 18:41:05
by watsonlwats
Talkback: Garden birds and the Big Garden Birdwatch
for peanuts, seed and fatballs. I trudged through the snow at the end of the garden and hung them out, two from the top of the arbour and another from the apple tree and waited for 3 days. NOTHING! So, very disappointed, I put out apple, orange, oats and a by Rosemary62
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28/11/2011 18:40:12
by ken
Talkback: Garden lowlife
of our garden! I have one problem with roes, though. We live close to a forest and they have been regular visitors at the back/wilder part of the garden, eating fallen crab apples from a couple of ancient apple trees growing in a dense forgotten thicket by Margaret
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28/11/2011 18:37:20
by Eric, Belgium
Blossom Trees
I have a border 11m x 3m. I would like to plant a row of 3 blossom trees - magnolia or crab apple possibly, or any other you can suggest ? I would like like prolific flowering, low growing ( 2 - 3m max ), approx 2m spread with a nice leaf.  Can I by Stephen Lawrence
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15/05/2012 23:02:07
by basmithr
Talkback: Gardeners' Question Time
to help it recover? I have grown Sweede's on my allotment for several years without problem but this year plants have all run to seed will they still form or should I pull them up? I have a palm tree that has died on the top , there is nothing left by Eaten leaves
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03/08/2012 15:28:25
by newton
Talkback: Winter Wonderland
an armful of booty - a big bunch of forsythia(the buds are showing yellow), cornus alba "Siberica" whose stems are brilliant red, hazelnut catkins(sorry, squirrel but I left you plenty. and best of all a huge red Charles Ross apple which I picked off by Adam Pasco
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28/11/2011 18:42:46
by Thomasina18
Talkback: Nature in the garden
expensive dwarf apple trees this autumn/winter to rodents (voles or mice) they were planted in half oak casks and the offending varmint has burrowed up through the barrels and eaten the trees from the roots up. I live in the country and I am used by rogerT2
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19/03/2012 20:45:57
by DAT
Inspiration needed! Sunken patio/lawn edging
's the main view frm most rooms in the house. Hi as you have a fair bit of hard surfaces how about "step over apple trees".  Alan Titchmarsh whilst doing his stint at Gardensworld was a keen fan, so cant be bad ! The trees are great lookers when in blossom by Smithers
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07/07/2012 06:00:21
by auntie betty
Talkback: My Big Garden Birdwatch
visitor to our apple tree. Only a lone blackbird and a single starling. Recorded 4 blue tits and 2 great tits but I'm sure this is an under estimate because of the comings and goings. Coming top were 12 jackdaws, flocks of which regularly descend upon by VP
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28/11/2011 18:30:42
by Caryanne
Talkback: Great spotted woodpeckers
moved to rural Anglesey from the inner city of M/C and have a bird feeder and peanut feeder in my garden.Today I saw two beautiful greater spotted woodpeckers in the apple tree-the male working very hard at the peanuts then hopping over to feed the other by Banjo Longbody
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28/11/2011 18:40:02
by Richard Jones