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Talkback: Plants on railway embankments

Buddleia back very hard in the Spring. They are capable of putting on 6-8 feet of growth in a season. Back in 1960's my parents hired a boat on the river Shannon, Ireland for holiday at Easter time. The meadows as we sailed along were just the most by hereisabee

28/11/2011 18:36:50

by RAVEN

Talkback: Do we really want wildlife in our gardens?

garden for wildlife. I'm with you about lawns, Richard Many of the loveliest gardens have done away with such and have wild flower meadows to stroll through. As the price of western style food goes up because of increased demand it will be even more by Wild Soundscape

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05/02/2012 17:29:12

by Pipstrelle

Talkback: Recycling in the garden

introducing worms from my sister compost but they seem to have disappeared. what am I doing wrong ? HiCan you give me the name of the beautiful RED flower that was shown on Gardners World 24 April 2010.Toby was talking about the September 2009 meadow he plans by LGNOTTS

28/11/2011 18:40:41

by Moyab56

Talkback: Biodiversity at the Malvern Show

so easily if there is different immunity to it in the plant population. Carpet bedding has little biodiversity while a wildflower meadow has a lot. Hope that helps. I am sure you are not at all lazy if you ask questions like that. Having had some by Wildman of Pershore

28/11/2011 18:43:36

by happymarion

Get Rid of your Lawns

, plantains, you name it. It has 'evolved' from the meadow it used to be before our little estate was built in the 90s, and the meadow over the other side of the fence supplies it with plenty of weed seeds, if ever I run out! It is steeply sloping in some by Palaisglide

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12/08/2012 18:13:27

by ChapelGirl2

Talkback: Plants for small gardens - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2009

(whilst certainly lovely naturalised in a meadow area) is hardly ideal for a small garden where I feel everything has to earn it's keep far more. boring. what about some climbers? and some hebes and epimediums? i'd stick in a prunus ukon with greenish by akebia

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24/11/2011 15:28:25

by titaflan

Talkback: Southern oak bush-cricket

at Christmas. All gone now, however, and I never did find out what they were. http://www.mandysutter.com/blog/ Great piece Richard, This year my wild-flower meadow/lawn has been rich with all sorts of bugs including grasshoppers and crickets. Although by judyjenn

28/11/2011 18:44:09

by terrycc

Feeding poor-soil loving plants in pots?

, you can give them a feed. Two or three times a year will be fine - much more and you'll get leaves at the expense of flowers. A couple of extra points.... the reason why wild flowers, when grown in meadows, demand poor soil is that if the soil does by Lunarz

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16/07/2012 10:41:20

by Lunarz

Moss

/50 to the area. Resow with a shade tolerate grass seed. Note! Apply Sulphate of Iron periodically throughout the year. For a more radical approach try relaying area with a broad leaf meadow turf or even couch grass. Both of which seem to grow fairly well under by Typewriter

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08/03/2012 19:10:55

by Ron

Daunting

compass) east facing. my thoughts were to 'section' the garden off into areas..eg meadow, orchard. i have 2 daughters ( 6 & 8) so want to make it fun for them too. any suggestions would be appreciated many thanks I would suggest that initially you just by andyjp007

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30/01/2012 23:17:06

by Samuel.

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