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Talkback: Identifying bumblebees

On 26/04/2012 in forum

, it stands to reason if nicotine kills people, what chance does a BEE stand. hope people work this one out before it is too late It is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo important to maintain bee populations. Without them pollination will not happen.If plants


Talkback: The Leyland cypress

On 28/11/2011 in forum

requiring a fee. What the hell is the big deal anyway!? What is so precious about these ugly, dark green, dusty, life sapping trees? We all want privacy, no doubt about that and there are many plants that are beautiful, easy to maintain and neighbour


Problems with newly planted topiary box hedge.

On 19/06/2012 in forum

an exclamation mark.....another case when the 'edit button' would have helped, had it been working. Hi David, I suppose im just looking for some general information from others that have box. How do they care and maintain them? etc... Dont know if you have box


Tomatoes

On 06/08/2012 in forum

as your growing space allows; (2) judiciously trimming foliage on individual plants to avoid walls of clumps of leaves; (3) remove the lowest branches of individual plants to maintain a gap of at least a foot between the lowest foilage and the soil. Fungal


Our NGS Open Day

On 07/08/2012 in forum

, let's just say that I won't be posting any photos of my petunias or fuschias. Pam, your garden is stunning- The baskets are fantastic and everything looks so lush. You must work so very hard on maintaining it. What a lovely video to start the morning


Get Rid of your Lawns

On 12/08/2012 in forum

be maintained using a small hand-mower.But to have a large area of grass, which has to be mowed using a petrol, or even worse, a ride-on mower, seems to me to be utterly ridiculous. Frank is correct in saying that a garden tells you a lot about the gardener. I


Clematis nelly moser

On 13/02/2013 in forum

and containers with plastic to maintain high humidity, then place them in bright light but not direct sun. Once rooted, plants can be potted individually and later placed in the garden. Many clematis can be propagated by layering (Figure 14). Select 1-year


Talkback: Damson trees

On 28/11/2011 in forum

? They are both in a fairly sheltered walled garden. I am helping to maintain a plum tree which I am quite concerned about. It has been a bit negleted, so it is pretty tall 15ft?? ,the variety is Victoria. I began to prune old wood, crossing branches out etc


Talkback: Sparrows and sparrowhawks

On 28/11/2011 in forum

gruesome end.It it eco terrorism at it's worse. Think of the Sparrowhawk as the ecological equivalent of a leopard or other big cat. By helping to maintain a healthy community of small birds, you are conserving a top predator. If small birds weren


Talkback: Death-watch beetles

On 28/11/2011 in forum

in to control in the first place. The trouble is that these old buildings, with inaccessible, giant wooden timbers, could be dunked in poison for weeks and yet the beetles could still survive at the impenetrable core of the beams. My only advice is to maintain


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