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Talkback: Blanket weed in garden ponds
have alot of slugs and snails. so we need a lot of frogs to help so, come spring, i will take out some frog spawn out of my pond in my own garden and put it in. i just hope that does the trick. I have just done a wildlife pond on the allotment i have by Josquine
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03/05/2012 08:15:58
by Botticelliwoman
Talkback: Grasshoppers, butterflies and wolf spiders
wildlife meadow has also been the source of many new insects and butterflies to our garden. Although not as exciting or exotic as your findings we can all still have a good variety of 'life' in our own plots by andrew littleford
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28/11/2011 18:44:05
by kaycurtis
slug pellets help
,just needed to know so im not harming the birds, new to all this gardening stuff,just need to stop all the cats now .   Have read of this----- http://www.allotment.org.uk/gardening/slugs-snails and this http://www.wildlife by matmats123
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06/02/2013 00:02:36
by Welshonion
Talkback: Tidying your garden in autumn
i think that we should learn to live with the wildlife in our gardens as it helps us and we help the wildlife not only that its great to be able to look out of the window and see all the different birds about on the feeders in your garden you help by petethegardener
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28/11/2011 18:41:26
by elle m
Talkback: Garden foxes
into the garden,they  are part of the wildlife around and do in our case take out a lot of the rat population ,you have to live with them to be part of the environment we live in ,annoying sometimes but so are humans.You cant choose what comes to visit or what you by gatehill
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08/12/2012 07:40:25
by jatnikapyar
Nettles
Will a clump of nettles encourage wild life into my garden,as the garden is small i dont wont to leave them there if they are going no good. I wouldn't go so far as to say that nettles encourage wildlife into a small garden.However, nettles by Cranesbill
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12/06/2012 22:36:25
by obelixx
Any ideas as to what this water lily is?
I have a wildlife pond in my garden (5 x 4 metres) which had an assortment of water lilies in it (amongst other things). Last year I was given a water lily which I can't identify. The inside and outside of the petals are pink at the base by Peterupnorth
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14/08/2012 18:57:00
by Welshonion
Getting rid of slugs
Have just read an article in the Daily Telegraph on cottage gardens and thought I would post this excerpt which refers to delphiniums: "To counteract slugs, he buys aluminium sulphate from a chemist and puts two tablespoons in two gallons of water by SwissSue
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15/04/2013 04:47:10
by cilmeri
Talkback: Wildlife-friendly plants
is surrounded by rushes but there are several gaps - any ideas for suitable wild-life and insect friendly plants please. We have left some long grass and wildflowers in our garden and would like to do mow it twice a year as suggested in this article. But at what by kaycurtis
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11/05/2012 06:12:08
by Gary Hobson
Talkback: First damselfly of the season
Hi RichardI expect quite a few people will have seen Large Red Damselflies as their 'first': that's certainly what happened in my garden (see 'Emerging Large Red Damselfly' on http://thegardenpondblog.org.uk/2009/05/09/emerging by Richard Jones
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28/11/2011 18:38:44
by Anonymous