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Help choosing climbers
What is your soil type and what aspect/area are you thinking of planting up? My garden faces south and the plants will face the east. Sorry don't know the soil type or how to find out, I'm a novice garden If you live in a cottage or want a cottage by Heppy
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28/04/2012 14:48:05
by samantha olivant
Plants for wet shady area facing North
Would anyone be so kind as to suggest some shade loving plants for a wet shady area of my garden which faces North? How wet?  What sort of soil? How big an area are we looking at here? I have one of these next to our terrace.  The soil is a good by Musical Cricketer
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29/07/2012 01:22:07
by higgy50
No Man's Land - or Woman's :-)
. affinis), for late summer. maybe a few different types of hostas!! or a herb garden, maybe thymes and varying lavenders?!! Japanese Acer   Thats the hard part with gardening so many lovely plants and flowers but which theme to choose!! im in the same by FloBear
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06/04/2013 21:36:44
by FloBear
Honey Fungus: What To Grow?
We have an area that has honey fungus and, as we are overlooked, we want to grow an ornamental tree that grows to approximately 4 metres to afford us privacy. Any suggestions for small trees that fit the bill?  Are there other flowering plants by tottenhamwin
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12/04/2013 15:55:34
by tottenhamwin
Pot bound Acer Dissectum 'Viridis'
of shade from unremitting sunlight so it's also worth choosing its permanent site well. I'm sure there will be other responses! Figrat's right - you can plant a pot-grown specimen at any time. If yours is potbound, plant it out as soon as you can by lilwead
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24/05/2012 10:27:34
by lilwead
Unsightly pipe work - Recomendations?
you'd need a pretty substantial pot and would need to be vigilant with feeding and watering. Better idea might be to buy or make a large 'raised bed' of timber if you don't want to plant directly into the ground- (you can still put a base on it as long by ittim
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02/05/2013 22:31:29
by judy garrick
Talkback: Six plants for a new garden
Hello, James, I'm a longtime visitor, first time commenter. Were I forced to leave my corner of Katy and taken somewhere as unfamiliar as Fulton (what in the blue blazes is a Surface to Air Recovery System?) to start a new garden, I would plant by emma t
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28/11/2011 18:37:15
by RAVEN
Talkback: Planting snowdrops
will be thrilled if they flower next year. Definetly in the green. We planted 100 hundred bulbs 2 years ago and not one came up, i was given some in the green last year and they flowered profously this year. I have had a ballerina plum tree along side 2 apple by happymarion
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16/04/2012 21:29:18
by Hollie- Hock
Quick growing rhododendron or azalea - is there such a thing?
....they usually won't be large for many years.  I would plant them mid to front. They are easy to transplant later anyway. I know they are expensive but I would choose carefully.....decide on projected protential size, whether ??ou want deciduous or evergreen by happycottontail
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21/05/2013 22:38:50
by lucky3
Hellebore's
I went into my local B+M store today and low and behold in the garden section outside I found some Helleborus Niger so as they were reduced from £2.99 to £2.25 (not a lot I know)  I got them,  it says on the plant section of GW to put them in a by Rainjustlearning
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30/03/2013 11:37:27
by nutcutlet