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shrubs for cut flowers

Hi buds, I'm redesigning my pal's garden for her and want to include a small shrubbery. (Will that word forever start the Monty Python theme going in my head!?).This will involve adding plants to an area currently backed by laurel and a humongous by auntie betty

26/04/2013 05:37:08

by auntie betty

Berry-eating birds will need more help this year

shrubberies for winter food will need a bit more help to see them through the winter. While so many of us provide food for the seed eaters (sunflower,peanuts, nyger etc) some of us forget the blackbirds and thrushes which do not visit the hanging containers by Dovefromabove

30/09/2012 07:46:53

by Dovefromabove

Bird Boxes

year, I don't worry about it. We have a box that has been hidden in shrubbery for years, its impossible to get to it but it hasn't stopped the Bluetits from nesting. Birds will clean out a box themselves so I wouldn't worry about it. Better to provide by staffsmags

16/11/2012 12:49:12

by Caz W

North Facing Front Garden

of the day. I have considered planting it up with a variety of ferns, hostas and mahonia giving it an exotic style look combined with a shrubbery. Would these plants be ok in this sort of position and has anybody got any other suggestions to add a bit by sarahandrob

22/05/2013 13:15:33

by AndytheScientist

B******* Magpies

I live in a suburb in a country town with plenty of large trees and my garden has shrubbery and a bird bath. Yet we seldom hear birdsong and if I put out fat balls and bird feeders, there are no takers. (We don't get rats and mice either, which is a by Gardening Grandma

03/02/2013 18:42:00

by Gardening Grandma

Starting from scratch

into putting in bedding and shrubberies, but work on finding out a bit more about the kind of plants that will naturally thrive. Winter is the perfect time for a bit of research. I've looked for some suppliers of tough plants - have a look at this link - which by Warthog

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16/12/2011 15:42:24

by Dave Shah

tree heights

years 20ft and easily pruned .She said that most heights were wrong for plants and even if she looked them up they were contradictory.So again thanks I am going to try the cercis-now to get the gleditsia out from the middle of the shrubbery without by caravan queen

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06/01/2013 18:23:52

by caravan queen

Talkback: Garden birds in the snow

of prey and my garden birds will keep away at times when cats are snooping around. Also birds do like to have a bit of shrubbery nearby to hide in quickly should they need that. A birdbath nearby is always an attraction to encourage visitors ...even by kathryn-brock

24/01/2013 22:51:23

by 4get-me-not

Talkback: Valentine's Day flowers

in bloom in the shrubbery - forsythia, kerria, chaenomeles and yellow and red hamamelis as well as the very scented sarcococca. And in pots and my "Persian Runner" there are sufficient pansies, violas, and wallflowers to make a posy. No way, of course by Kate Bradbury

28/11/2011 18:43:05

by Boo Emmins

rabbits

has bolt holes & rabbit latrines in the lawned areas, as well as several burrows in the shrubbery areas. I have found that even those plants which are suposed not to be favourite rabbit food will in fact be eaten - they seem to find any newly-planted stuff by Jack by the hedge

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16/05/2012 09:44:56

by hypercharleyfarley

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