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Talkback: Growing fragrant sweet peas
Sweat peas, this year was my first year of being a gardener and grew some mixed (cheap) variety and got brilliant results. A whole mix of colours & fantastic scent.They are still flowering nowAm having a go at sowing some in Autumn with "Jilly by chrisco
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28/11/2011 18:44:04
by meiow
Dogwood Cuttings
by the following autumn. You won't get the coloured wood from simply taking cuttings ....the harder you cut the more vigorous the resulting growth. Looks like my stakes are sorted out for next year. I'll make them decorative as jo4eyes does.Don't stake much so I by Jammy2
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07/01/2013 21:53:25
by Verdun
Long, thin, narrow strip to plant up...
. Lavendars, hellebores with colour now and in spring with evergreen foliage. Heucheras Berry Smoothy, marmalade, citronella and Obsidian. Geraniums like Jolly Bee, Elke and Ann folkard. Aster frikartii monch for blue flowers from mid summer to autumn by Wildcosmos
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28/01/2013 22:15:08
by Rosa carriola
Talkback: Designing a new garden
of colours in New Zealand Flax, which can rise above the lower growing plants for structure. Alliums come in all heights. 'Euphorbia characias wulfenii' is easy to grow and eyecatching. Softer edges can be induced by grasses. I tend to also look by MarkD
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28/11/2011 18:38:11
by G
Ooh I love a bargain!
I have just finished planting up six pots with tulip bulbs I bought yesterday for 50p a bag from my favourite GC.I've gone a bit brave with the colours bright orange Ballerina and Lambada fringed tulips with Black Parrot and Queen of the Night dark by lilysilly
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30/12/2012 23:11:32
by mysterywoman196
Looking for flowers to 'fill in' a border
could grow from seed or buy small plants from the garden centre.  They should flower well into the autumn red or white astrantias? Tradescantia - likes shade, pretty colours. I am planting some in my own shady border sometime this spring by Chris 7
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03/03/2013 16:59:02
by auntie betty
box hedge health issue
hi all hope you can help i have bought a load of instant box hedging to line my boarders.i took delivery of them and they look a bit sick to me ,am i right in thinking when box is a goldy brown colour it will not come back green? i have a few by lizzy6
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01/03/2013 07:30:07
by discodave
Talkback: Look at your bulbs
in tubs, and with the aid of some electrical tape markers on the tubs (so we could get the tubs round the right way and match up the photos) we were able to seperate out all the different colours. this year with only a couple of wayward exceptions we by Lainey
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28/11/2011 18:38:35
by SunnyMe2011
Talkback: Pelargoniums
-sills to make way for bulbs, primulas, pansies, etc for winter colour in my containers. It is possible to have pelargoniums giving a show in the house all year round. Such a pity some peple are allergic to them. Hi jcRe your garlic problem - I think by jc
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28/11/2011 18:41:21
by Anne
Overrun by blue flowers
in perfectly with some planting schemes.  (Perhaps we should have a colour-driven photo thread?  Mind you - I'm still struggling to find ways of posting photos.  I did have a photobucket account - but a change of laptops and a falling-into-disuse has made by Sw11x2
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10/07/2012 20:41:16
by Robot