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Invasive plants to avoid
've recently planted an orange flowered sister of lysimachia Firecracker that I'd be happy to have make itself at home but I don't like the yellow flowers on purple foliage of Firecracker itself nor the thuggish green leaved form with yellow flowers.    I really like by christopher2
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02/08/2012 10:55:06
by christopher2
Talkback: Butterflies
, and the things we plant as well as the things we do (or don't). It's as important considering the role of our gardens in providing egg laying sites and supporting caterpillars as it is flowers to feed butterflies. I live in South Norfolk and have been plagued by John Waters
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28/11/2011 18:37:18
by Rebeca
Talkback: Aphids
it not make the vegetable garden look pretty too, gardengirl! Have you tried Limanthes douglasii "the poached egg plant) as a green manure. Dig almost all of it in, in the spring, and what is left will flower very early and you will find very few weeds can by delmonte
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28/11/2011 18:43:57
by steve001
Talkback: Overwintering chillies
laden with unripe pods.I treat jalapenos as biennial and they do produce flowers and pods earlier than ones sown from seed.Aphids are a general pest when bringing plants indoors and should be treated as such. Hi Kate,We have a naga chilli sitting by Mandy
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15/05/2012 11:27:14
by LLamalashes
Help identifying plants.
but it was a familiar popular one.  The flower is on a tall stem and is white - like a giant Cuckoo Pint thing but exotic.   The leaves look very similar. yarrow2 wrote (see) No. 3 looks like a bit like a houseplant I had which died on me through neglect..  I by Bonnie2
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24/04/2012 06:58:44
by lilylouise
Mystery Plant
Hi New member here- hoping you can help! Does anyone know what this plant is and how best to prune it? It had small white flowers and then small red berries. The leaves are turning white, then red, and dropping off from the top down - I presume by bookmonster
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03/01/2013 13:12:45
by Ladybird4
Geraniums (not Pelargoniums)
then no new flowers and the foliage has orangey brown tints on the edges of the leaves. I've asked this on another forum thread but thought I'd better get the subject of Geraniums on it's own thread - sorry if there's another Geranium thread which I haven by yarrow2
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01/08/2012 18:32:30
by christopher2
Talkback: Growing chilli peppers
Twilight and habanaro orange (very hot!) and the most difficult being Chiltepin, up to 12 weeks germination.If you bring the plants indoors in the Autumn they will produce a higher yield in the second year and can last up to 7 years. Oh, and don't forget by Ghost
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28/11/2011 18:38:31
by CJ
Talkback: Snails and song thrushes in the garden
it a more suitable home, if it is liable to eat my produce or spoil my flowers. It is easy to grow plants for the slugs and snails which they prefer and then collect them and put them under a hedge, where they will be happy till a predator lower down by Dragonfly
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28/11/2011 18:40:29
by 2012story.in
Blossom Trees
I have a border 11m x 3m. I would like to plant a row of 3 blossom trees - magnolia or crab apple possibly, or any other you can suggest ? I would like like prolific flowering, low growing ( 2 - 3m max ), approx 2m spread with a nice leaf.  Can I by Stephen Lawrence
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15/05/2012 23:02:07
by basmithr