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In flower now
Just looking around my very young garden at whats in flower now and I still have a delphinium in bloom, a shirley poppy, roses, argyranthemum, snap dragons, wild carrot and lavender. I have primroses, wallflowers, winter honeysuckle, pansies by Muvs Dashwood
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05/01/2013 17:58:50
by Rosa carriola
wildflowers
.  You could try red clover and birds-foot trefoil too I like Ox-eye daisies, but if I had a courtyard garden I would grow lavender to benefit the pollinators. This is an interesting idea. I've not actually tried growing wildflowers in pots before, but I by derrick hammer
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08/06/2012 22:12:08
by Lisa Appleby
Protecting container plants in Winter
it's old and drafty- but I could bubble wrap it- and not in the greatest spot for getting light - put in an odd place by previous owner). Pots1: lavender Pot 2: camelia williamsii Debbie with brunnera Pot 3: camelia japonica alba simplex by Supernoodle
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06/11/2012 22:02:46
by Dovefromabove
Talkback: Plants for bees
gardeners are opting to grow their own fruit and veg. so their(the bees') services are more in demand! I have bees living in the drill holes that were made for my cavity wall insulation. They chirp like birds. Its amazing to watch them. as bees by happymarion_
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28/03/2012 15:19:37
by Victoria K
Are these lavender plugs acceptable or DOA?
Would appreciate some advice please... I ordered some lavender plug plants and when they arrived they were very brown/grey, a bit mouldy and a few seemed completely dead.I rang up and complained and they sent me some more which arrived yesterday by Steve B
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31/05/2013 22:19:53
by Bev Pounsett-Krynauw
Windy Back Garden......Help needed please.
is clay based but i have mixed alot of soil and all round compost into it. I have thought of lavender as it grows well round here so do hebes. I can't remember what euphorbias look like and I like the sound of the cistus rose will look that one up as i by tinkabell
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21/06/2012 21:28:24
by notgreenfingers2
Small front garden planting
image - will try again once posted   Low maintenance evergreens include: phormium, bergenia, heuchera, euonymous (some), carex, cotoneaster (some), flat-growing junipers, choisya, lavender, euphorbia (some), aucuba japonica, prunus (some), ajuga, festuca by Yvonne Lloyd
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28/04/2013 21:51:46
by Yvonne Lloyd
Potting modules
in Roussillon/Apt in the Luberon and could only grow a few plants like Tamarix and Lavender in the red sandy soil. by PatMorris
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19/01/2013 17:45:23
by PatMorris
Moving a Curry plant
I would like to divide and move a large curry plant. Is this a good time to do it If it is the plant I am thinking of it is  a shrub- you cannot divide a shrub. You can take cuttings- they root like lavender fairly easily-and if you move it now by nanna26
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01/02/2013 14:25:45
by Dovefromabove
Help Need With Container Planting
shrub that I grow in a container by my front door. Dwarf hydrangea's, grasses like hackonochloa, stipa Tennuissima, elymus magellanicus, skimmias, sarcoccoca , alpines like lithodora, osteospermum ( take cuttings every year in case of losses by Luke Richardson
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06/04/2013 00:02:45
by Verdun