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HOYA - WAX FLOWER
and lavender around the base of the pergola which has a seating area - so visions of  warm evenings surrounded by wonderful scents!   Nice to dream...... Thank you once again.   Trachelospermum jasminoides is a lovely plant - mine is flowering     at the moment by pinkpeony
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29/06/2012 13:15:21
by pinkpeony
Snails - the French have the right idea
have bounced back though and I am on a mission to grow plants that snails wont eat,.    Plants I have grown that haven't been eaten by them are euphorbia, fuscia's, lavender, roses, granny's bonnet, geraniums, jasmine, some grasses, azalias, heathers by raspberry0131
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14/09/2012 18:07:37
by Peat Ballan
edible non poisenous plants/bushes
be great. Heres what ive thought so far .chives . garlic.mint .lavender. Rosemary.nasturtiums. something in my brain is saying violas would be ok too but i could well be making it up. ps you are really helping me as i could troll the net but whats wrong by kerri
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12/03/2013 21:10:10
by kerri
Box Blight
of the plants but the outside looked ok.  He said to cut out the brown and they would grow back.  You could maybe watch the programme on BBCi player just to check but I'm sure that is what he said.  Hi, Thanks for the response. Willowplanter, I am a little more by Helga
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04/08/2012 20:05:05
by Neil. McDonald.
perennial plug plants
I have taken advantage of the 36 free perennials from T&M. They have arrived and been potted on. Can anyone advise me if when the best time to plant these out into my garden is? The set includes, lavender hidcote, geum Mrs Bradshaw, digitalis by melanie walker
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07/08/2012 14:31:31
by christopher2
Dogs eating everything.
Suzi, I was brought up with a household of dogs including lab crosses?, the best way to tire them out & to stop them eating everything is to walk them. When I was growing up we/I used to walk them for miles.  At only 2 years she has loads of energy by Suzi
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17/04/2012 17:35:49
by Suzi
Talkback: Quiet beginnings
if you do not wish to cover a very big wall and have a large pot - make sure you feed and water anything that is growing in a container. when is the best time to prune lavender? I was told a trim in september would suffice but mine is now so overgrown by Malclm
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28/11/2011 18:30:28
by johnmoore84
Talkback: Bug hunt and rosemary leaf beetle
it is cold, cool when it is hot, hide it from predators and parasites and are a useful byproduct from its liquid diet. Many sap-suckers have the problem of sucking so much food to get enough protein to grow that they have to find some way of getting rid by caitlin
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28/11/2011 18:31:34
by Rosa
Talkback: My gardening year
- talk about lack of structure! I wince every time I walk up the road towards it. My most delicate lavender has just died. There were voracious caterpillars (some kind of saw fly?) in it. I hadn't realised before that such creatures liked lavender by maureen60
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28/11/2011 18:42:45
by Kate Bradbury
Talkback: How to grow mint from cuttings
and pineapple mint all growing like crazy and they all came from cuttings from my neighbours garden... They gave me permission to take it first of course! You can grow lavender in the same way, just take cuttings from a lavender, poke them into a pot of compost by luke
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10/06/2012 07:10:19
by Dovefromabove