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Overwintered runner bans

Figrat, I had this happen just once, a few years ago. About 5 or 6 runner roots survived the winter and came up again the next year. They are perennial in their native habitat, but the cold, wet and pests usually get to them in our climate. It by figrat

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06/06/2012 12:14:19

by figrat

Talkback: Gardening mistakes

been enjoying the late summer sun. Watching as the low sun moves around the garden, casting long shadows over the grass. I have been dividing perennials and renovating the borders trying to keep them looking fresh for next year and trying out new by tadrcf@aol.com

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28/11/2011 18:41:15

by Janet

Wildflowers - to dig over soil before planting or not?

flowers here. What would be the best way of dealing with it, and if I bought young plants is it best to sow nowish or in the spring The trouble with a native wildflower meadow is that it's all over by July and looks dull and is, more importantly by Barry Hayter

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05/08/2012 15:25:55

by Barry Hayter

Plant identifying help

rosette the first year, then flower and often die then, though I see that marshmello has a perennial one. They grow in the flagstones of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, quite amazing to see this huge plant come up where there does not seem to be any soil by GlosGardener

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06/06/2012 15:11:04

by Emma Crawforth

flower buckets, mushroom cartons and noodle pots.

My greatest triumph is a large perennial and evergreen garden (grown from cuttings and gathered seeds) that is sitting looking lovely in flower buckets on my brick-paved driveway - and it cost me nothing at all! I have limited mobility which has by Dinah

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06/01/2012 13:54:56

by Emma Crawforth

Alstroemeria (Peruvian Lily)

border. To overcome this I dug them up to replant behind perennials that disguise this gap. Alstroemerias do spread so best where they can't "bully" their neighbours. The varieties I grew didnt seed .i grew hybrids...but still a bit thuggish Think I by Rosa carriola

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31/03/2013 12:59:08

by happymarion

Talkback: Bug boxes

to the UK from southern Europe and North Africa, but which cannot survive our winters, so any release of adults into the wild will have no effect on local genetics, because they all die off each year any way.Releases of native butterflies, for conservation by Anonymous

28/11/2011 18:37:51

by mal

Talkback: Gardening for bumblebees

terrestris. No-one knows exactly why this species has started establishing winter colonies, but one theory is that some foreign strains that were imported from Europe to pollinate tomato crops escaped from their glass houses and cross-bred with our native by fifi

28/11/2011 18:42:58

by Anonymous

Redesign of garden

My garden is tiny, just four-metres squared. I've got a very small lawn area (at my partner's insistence). I'm hoping to make the lawn smaller, and circular, to make the garden look bigger, and plant shrubs and herbaceous perennials around it. Has by Kate Bradbury

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15/03/2012 19:49:59

by andrew bullingham

realy big empty garden

autumn colour and winter stems, so acers, cornus and coppiced willows went on the list. We wanted to encourage birds, so we cut down a proportion of the larches and sycamores to replant with native trees and shrubs. So anyway: I'd start by thinking about by Diana Reynolds

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09/07/2012 16:29:12

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