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What did you do in your garden today?
What did we all do in our gardens today....? I arranged some pots on my patio - box balls, Purissima tulips, Birma daffs & Barret Browning daffs (click on photos to enlarge)...     and placed two barrel planters with Albert Heiin tulips by LeadFarmer
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04/05/2013 20:43:44
by AndytheScientist
Talkback: Gardening mistakes
James :)Keep the great articles coming, please! how to grow pinks carnations better Relating to the missing planting of tulips and alliums. I experience similar problem. In my case, I wait for the opportunity to plant (if tulip are planted later by tadrcf@aol.com
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28/11/2011 18:41:15
by Janet
Jewell garden - suggestions
, Rose William Shakespeare 2000, Some iris - burgundy, sapphire blue, deep blue and a wine coloured one to go in. Growing through also is a selection of astrantias. and Lobelia 'Queen Victoria'. there should also be some bright orange tulips but seem by Matty2
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27/04/2013 21:32:34
by rusflorum
Protecting container plants in Winter
with brunnera Pots4: calluna Vulgaris (beauty ladies) Pot5: carex, viola, anemone Pot6: ophiopogon, viola, tulips and crocus Pot7: garlic (to be planted this weekend) Thanks all! Sorry above not easy to read - I spaced it out as a list but on submission it by Supernoodle
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06/11/2012 22:02:46
by Dovefromabove
Orange flowers
I grow loads of blue perennials and shrubs but I want more orange flowers. Ideas please. I have echinacea tiki torch, marmalade and summer sun, have orange dahlias, crocosmia and couple of annuals. Geums, varieties of heleniums, roses by christopher2
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09/09/2012 17:20:42
by christopher2
Talkback: Planting snowdrops
I have tried for years to grow snowdrops from bulbs but all failed. Last month I purchased some snowdrops in pots that were well past their best but in-the-green. I have now replanted them all in a big pot where they will be left undisturbed. I by happymarion
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16/04/2012 21:29:18
by Hollie- Hock
Talkback: Growing spring bulbs
I've just found a packet of tulips that I bought but obviously forgot to plant! Is it too late now - I live in Provence, France. RegardsRoslyn Sadly, I think it's too late. However, if the bulbs are still solid and sound then do try planting them by Alice
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28/11/2011 18:38:10
by morphette
Talkback: Nature in the garden
so far but the weather here is still very mild.  They will (probably) be back when it gets really cold. I grow teasels and evening primrose for the birds, they really like the seeds.  What other seeds attract them?  I should say that the fields here by rogerT2
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19/03/2012 20:45:57
by DAT
Ornamental alliums
in pots, depending upon how they handle the driest months. Good luck with yours I grow several alliums with no problems despite the extreme cold so they are among my faves.    I shall be planting more every autumn for the foreseeable. Tulips, on the other by Swedboy
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27/05/2012 16:28:11
by Berghill
no more food talk please :o(
I am too full to think of food and my thoughts are wandering outdoors.  Has anyone got bulbs showing?  I can see tiny snowdrop tips and daffs and the leaves of crocus but is it too late to plant up the daffs and the tulips that i didn't get time by budlia63
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04/01/2013 22:17:44
by Busy-Lizzie