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shade loving plants and grasses

On 01/05/2013 in forum

cause an issue aswell. Any thoughts and ideas would be much appreciated. The space is around 1m by 1.5m Thanks Wrighty I'm new to gardening so there won't be anything too original here, but hellebores, hostas, ferns of varying colours. Aquilegias do well


Flowers we don't like?

On 11/03/2013 in forum

plastic! I like the double ones and they are great for a site that doesn't like sun, where not many flowers will grow. I have a space like that and grow snowdrops, daffs, hostas, astilboides, hellebores, primulas, hemerocallis, chelone, Japanese anemones


Help identifying plants.

On 24/04/2012 in forum

.com/albums/u183/gatheringdarkness1/Unknown%20Plants/ Hi Bonnie, the first one's a hellebore, the second looks like it's posssibly a scabious, the third looks very familiar but haven't a clue what it is - it reminds me of a peace lily, most often grown as a


New Years Day flower count

On 05/01/2013 in forum

; Iris unguicularis, several hellebores, Cornus mas.  cyclamen,pink rose rambler,pyracantha, mahonia,yellow jasmine, these are are out in my garden,around about there are roses,fushias,even sweet peas!the daffs  are poking through .are all those out


Making new beds from lawn

On 22/03/2013 in forum

Hi I'm new to the gardening game and have just begun to convert a large portion of my garden into beds to grow veg & flowers. So far I've managed to dig up and turn over a portion of the plot. I've dug in some horse manure from b & q, but some


Weeding - a forgotten skill? Discuss ....

On 12/10/2012 in forum

Looking about me as I do, it appears to me that the skill of regular methodical weeding is often ignored by gardening programmes and magazines.   You really do have to keep on top of weeding to give plants the best chance to grow well


Talkback: Top 10 plants for a dream garden

On 07/03/2013 in forum

Downie, the blackbids leave the fruit on the tree until the ground freezes, this is obviously their emergency reserve, I grow a lot of different lavenders from seed, other bird/insect magnets are oregano, rosemary and ecchium blue bedder,all have a


Talkback: Cleaning the greenhouse

On 21/01/2012 in forum

and an old fashioned scrubbing brush do the trick on most occasions ! Where do i buy elbow grease? i planted 8 hellebores last april/may purchased from a well knowen garden centre they were reduced after they had flowered but now when i was looking forward


Larkspur and Monkshood

On 07/04/2013 in forum

for the following year, try bringing them in and give em the window sill treatment. Oh great Lyn  Thankyou. That would explain why nothing has come up. I will give it another go and fetch them into the house. Thanks.x Larkspurs, I find them strange plants to grow


plants for part shade/ full shade

On 09/04/2013 in forum

yellow grass, a carex I think, growing really well in a dry shade similar situation. It does depend on why it's shade/what's causing it. Under deciduous trees lots of the spring bulbs pop up, flower then die back as the tree canopy above closes up


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