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Hedge or border

Hi all, I am no gardener and need some help/advice. I posted originally in another forum (plants). I wanted to have a buxus hedge (with a small flowering border in front of it), and was asking if I could plant it now as the frost has arrived. What by Bill Mansfield

12/12/2012 13:27:51

by flowering rose

Talkback: Nectaroscordum of the gods

but it still regenerates so I got rid of mine by cutting it down hard and putting glyphosate solution on the new shoots, then digging it out piece by piece. It was hard. I love alliums, and have many. One of the easiest and fragrant and flowering now by Garden Mad

28/11/2011 18:38:38

by adam

Talkback: Companion plants

, also called "Shoo Fly" and it really works! Planted in the greenhouse with my tomato plants it can grow very tall if I let it or keep it in a pot. Either way I have had no white fly etc on tomatoes or peppers and bonus is a pretty violet blue flower by Vida

28/11/2011 18:38:45

by kerys welsh

Talkback: Wet weather and wildlife

and small, but yesterday we had Meadow Browns and a Gatekeeper and a small Blue, and today we've got honey bees on the echinacea. I've seen a few hoverflies on the verbena bon. and on the fennel flowers - as this is the first time in probably 20 years by oldchippy

08/08/2012 10:52:16

by Dovefromabove

Purple foliage plants for shade?

blue flowers. It flowers for ages, is evergreen and puts out runners very easily, giving new plants when you pin them down so they can root. I have them in full sun, partial shade and shade and they always come up trumps for me. There is also a Vinca by Viola111

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08/05/2012 20:20:09

by Gold1locks

Polemonium Caeruleum

at eryngium Jade Frost. Had it 2 years ago and the flowers are an unusual satiny blue on variegated foliage. I love it.I grow polemonium Stairway to Heaven.....another beautiful variegated, long floweriing variety.Polemoniums need fair bit of moisture by Ryan Lloyd

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26/03/2013 00:19:14

by Ryan Lloyd

Geraniums (not Pelargoniums)

in well drained soil. Blue flowering jolly bee, brookside and rozanne flower for ages. I have purple foliage one with blue flowers that I cut back after flowering....2 weeks ago...and it will flower again in 3 weeks or so (can't remember it's name at mo by yarrow2

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01/08/2012 18:32:30

by christopher2

Talkback: Native versus non-native plants

flowers and has a constant hum as there must be 50 bees on it at any one time. My blue scabious has the biggest bumble bees on it that I have ever seen! The aquilegias are fantastic this year as well and always being visited by the bees, and the lithodora by donutsmrs

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03/07/2012 10:42:58

by Gracie5

Talkback: Plants for bees

early on, and Sedum for late forage before the Ivy flowers. You are right Habitataid, I have the Mahonia and I have seen bees on the flowers of this plant in November! I'm sure I read somwhere about 10 years ago that bees love blue & purple plants by Lindy

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28/11/2011 18:40:44

by Honey Bee

Talkback: Harvesting soft fruit

Good crops of all my berries, strawberries, raspberries,jostaberries, gooseberries,black and red currants,and the blackberries look very promising - covered in flowers and butterflies. I have resorted to freezing strawberries this year and the only by Richard Jones

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28/11/2011 18:43:51

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