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Talkback: Stinging nettles

wouldn't use it in a wildflower meadow except painted on to individual plants if I really had to. I would never us a Monsanto prodcut on prinicpal. Nettles are an indication that your soil is probably too fertile for a good wildflower meadow and, as a by Debs

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06/06/2012 09:19:59

by Laura Corin

Talkback: Big Butterfly Count

(see) Skipper... Common Blue... Meadow Brown(?)... There were plenty of each of those butterflies about. I'm in Warwickshire, and we've had appauling weather for the past 3 months. So the idea that butterflies have been wiped out by bad weather isn by flower 7

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29/07/2012 21:40:39

by lovetogarden

Talkback: Wet weather and wildlife

Hi Kate, I saw a Sparrow hawk on my way home from the train ,It was trying to catch a Swallow but the Swallow was to quick,It look's like the Swift's have finally gone,I have seen two Swallow's today not very usual round here,What I took for meadow by oldchippy

08/08/2012 10:52:16

by Dovefromabove

Talkback: Common daisy

I never consider daisies to be a problem. In fact I love the fact that they are wild and have a meadow-like quality. And I have fond childhood memories of making daisy chains with my gran. Glad someone else likes daisies. I like to see them in a by donnabbc

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09/04/2012 08:03:52

by Chromebaby

Talkback: A poke in the eye

It's only the *very young* leaves and *very young* shoots that are eaten. It is my understanding that older leaves and shoots are definitely toxic. Pat Meadows - who lives and gardens in the USA, but not in the South. They sound wonderful. Anything by Tricia MacCurrach

28/11/2011 18:30:04

by Obsidian

Sh**s Sorrel

**tweed - still lots to move but I'm getting there. Their new home ... This is the little S**tweed and the flowers ... Now I need councelling. I have the same problem 'everywhere'. It is in the meadow and travels into the garden borders and this year by Robot

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27/05/2012 19:35:46

by Wintersong

lawn brown ead and dying patches...

the roots of plants - http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly When you see starlings and crows probing into the turf on meadows and playing fields etc it's the cranefly larvae that they are looking for. It may be that this is a bad year by gardeningfantic

13/08/2012 08:24:31

by gardeningfantic

Suggestions for planting in a sunny, boggy site.

well. Most other things I grow have already been mentioned. Ooh, thxs folks. I'm drooling already. Have noted all your suggestions. She may like a frittillary 'meadow' after seeing those in Oxford. The geums- yes Caz, they look so much better on a by jo4eyes

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18/02/2013 22:38:49

by jo4eyes

Disappearing daffodils

Has anyone else noticed a problem this year with declining numbers of daffs appearing where they are naturalised or semi-naturalised in grass. I have a meadow which suffered badly in the wet summer last year, which was then followed by a very damp by Northyorkaster

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15/03/2013 07:54:56

by figrat

Where do you grow your Allium's?

in full shade so Im open for suggestions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Fritillaries are native meadow flowers and do well in some sun (mine are part sun scattered around mature shrubs). They wouldn't like full shade. Are you wanting more suggestions for other by lucky3

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13/05/2013 21:44:00

by Woodgreen wonderboy

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