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Talkback: Autumn heatwave

seedlings! And the violets are flowering their socks off again in the "Woodland Edge"garden at the Botanic Garden, competing for compliments with the lovely pink and white Cyclamen hederifolium who usually have it all to themselves in the autumn.Pippa, you by Anonymous

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28/11/2011 18:44:16

by Denise Smith

colour in a shady garden??

is planted and scattered the seed of yellow Corydalis which grows very well in shady areas. It's a wild plant and is rampant but is very effective and very colourful in problem areas. I have a shady bank under trees - apart from greenery (ferns, hostas etc by one girl and her dog(s)

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01/07/2012 05:56:38

by auntie betty

Talkback: National Insect Week

. To attract wildlife to a garden, planting flowers is actually way down the list of priorities, well below being untidy, leaving grass to grow long, making a log pile, putting in a pond.Tina. Many midges (biting and non-biting) have aquatic larvae.Paula M by Dragonfly

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28/11/2011 18:40:58

by kredithai

Talkback: Big Butterfly Count

, ladies smock, violets and honesty will all grow in your grass and attract the orange tip and green-veined white to lay their eggs, and remember a clump of nettles in a sunny spot is invaluable. Small tortoiseshell, peacock, painted lady,red admiral by Fran

28/11/2011 18:43:58

by sungreenhouses

Talkback: Unpleasant plant smells

has died to me! Dead nettles/ lamium. Nasty acrid smell. Eeeeurgh. I'm with Shrinking Violet in hating privet flowers. Sorry if I'm getting boring, this is the third thread on which I've said this!! When I lived next door to a privet hedge I couldn by Marinelilium

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01/07/2012 03:04:08

by susan_lily

BBC Gardening Arrivals - Meeting Point

the virtue of being more interactive (I hope). Off now to do some serious gardening. The sun is shining, and nature calls, as it were. Are you going to leave us guessing, Violet? Who were you? Only small bit-part player on the beeb in recent times, Alina by Gold1locks

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14/05/2012 08:30:28

by Greeneddy

a very miserable lady.

that grows only whatever plants it is that you want, as they will be the experts. thank you Bookertoo - one question - do I need to take them indoors in the Winter or am I able to grow them in the ground.? Here in South Wales we have some good old frosts by dudsybabe1

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17/07/2012 12:29:59

by jo4eyes

Pound shop plants- any success stories?

amount of success with cheap plants. Reduced stuff from B&Q or Homebase seems to do ok - I've got some nice heathers that I got 6 of for 50p, and very rapidly growing African violet in the house that was nearly dead when I bought it. I'm also seeing by Surbiton_Margot

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16/04/2012 16:46:16

by diggingdoris

Thugs

and they are starting to grow way too large for my garden, so they will have to come out. Yes Kate i,ve been there,done that but they are pretty{ invasive} that is My Himalayan honeysuckle is quite well-behaved - no problems in years. Now, the Welsh poppy is a different by pamajo

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22/07/2012 21:11:27

by christopher2

What's the weather like in your area?

in Dunbar. Heavy rain earlier. Yes, the problem in non germination. Tried one lot indoors and one lot in the greenhouse weeks ago and nothing at all! Thinking now of buying some seedlings and growing on. seaside oldie wrote (see) Yes, the problem in non by David K

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08/08/2012 13:39:20

by Palaisglide

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