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When to move a Phormium Yello Wave

Hi, Could someone please confirm when's the best time to move a Phormium Yellow Wave plant...its starting to out grow its current position and I'd like to move it to a more suitable position. Thanks for your help.. Never had nor grown a Phornium by Greenfingered Amateur

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08/03/2012 20:09:54

by Fonzie

New Zealand Flax Flower

? It could be. The stems and flowers of Phormium Tenax are quite extraordinary. The flowers are clustered along long thick stems, about 6 to 10 feet up in the air.The flowers are also especially attractive to bees. It's not unusual to find half-a-dozen bees by seaside oldie

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04/05/2012 08:54:35

by backyardee

Tropical garden

agree bamboos. (need to confine them) tall grasses, palms, Phormiums, can help achieve this. I think it's better to grow things your environment, soil, geographical situation and skills support. It makes for easier gardening and happier plants by bluejan

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01/04/2013 11:46:53

by Verdun

Advice required for low maintenance raised beds?

annual begonias in, they look very nice and once again low maintenance, just a little water when they need it. Hope this is of some help, good idea to look at the labels on shrubs to see how high they grow. Each spring with most of the shrubs I care by Fabio

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13/04/2013 20:57:30

by Sam12

Restore and revive

for Mediterranean type planting in gravel. Taxus varieties......slow growing narrow like Stamdishii, low mounds like Coppershine...Juniperus Sulphur Spray.Phormiums, dwarf purple berberis, santolinas, thymes, euonymous Emerald n Gold. Etc low growing bright blue by Dianne Jarrett

15/03/2013 11:02:52

by obelixx

Talkback: Top 10 plants for containers

ASAP as the garden is bare!!is ther any plants that will fare well against these evil creatures that will also produc some nice flowers?? Same as the first to as just starting out. My green tennax phormium has flowered this year. Is it possible to grow by shize56

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10/06/2012 14:29:44

by Green Magpie

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

06/04/2013 00:02:45

by Verdun

Evergreen bushes

answer if you can give a little more detail South facing, against position in a sheltered position. An evergreen azalea or rhododendron will happily grow in a large pot whatever the situation. In sun choisya ternatta.....the Mexican orange blossom by Caz8

06/05/2013 20:20:15

by clk

Gaillardia death

the same problem and what am I doing wrong. Is there a solution to my woes? I love gaillardia , but grow it each year from seed - mine doesnt survive so I understood it to be an annual . This year If I get the heating sorted in my greenhouse I shall try by Woodgreen wonderboy

21/05/2013 22:13:32

by Lyn

Garden Planters

as it is what you like that counts. Simple classy style containers....I would plant a single red cordyline or Phormium in one with convolvulus mauritanicus .....purple blue cascading flowers all summer....flowing over the sideConvolvulus cneorum .....lovely by Ryan Lloyd

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27/03/2013 20:47:19

by Verdun

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