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Communal garden - council keeps destroying our plants

On 12/05/2013 in forum

on in the garden and who's responsible.   Sometimes if you all guarantee that the garden will be maintained by the tenants, they can be persuaded to call the 'groundsment off (I won't call them gardeners).   Good luck  Unfortunately councils these days - and other


Plants on railway embankments

On 05/08/2008 in Unassigned

used to maintain a very small garden in south London where somebody had planted one. It had wandered off along the chain link back fence and had colonised every garden for about fifty yards. It was so thick that I could safely walk along it, but nobody


attaching a trellis

On 11/03/2013 in forum

need in the future to paint or maintain the fence you won't have a problem removing any plant material. Derek Battens are excellent as they allow room for air to circulate around the plant and thus reduce diseases such as mildew and climbing plants can


Growing sempervivums

On 11/11/2011 in Plant features: Structural

''Reinhard' is vigorous variety, which forms clumps of upright green rosettes, thrown into sharp relief by the almost black leaf tips.S. 'Reinhard'Similar in colouring to 'Reinhard', 'Fernwood' has larger, more open rosettes. It maintains its colour well throughout


Talkback: How to grow aubergines

On 17/02/2012 in forum

of garden advice articles suggest 'maintaining a temperature of 21 degrees' Without heating my greenhouse, which is impractical and definitely not 'green' how is this achieved? My greenhouse varies in March, from 5 degrees to 30 degrees! i have had no luck


Talkback: Future Gardens and Butterfly World

On 28/11/2011 in forum

to maintain high impact plants and the accessorize!! I found some great stuff at www.gardenloverz.co.uk. I think that the British town and countryside would benefit if the railway companies were to sow wild flower seeds on the banks so that bees


Talkback: Gardening with children

On 28/11/2011 in forum

up our pergola kit. It was fun and from then we spend time in maintaining our little garden once in a while. Thank you, James. Bookmarked the lot. Roll on Spring as I have a ferocious little digger - child, not Antipodean, I should add. Why is your


Vigorous climber needed

On 21/02/2012 in forum

's worth remembering that all the weight added to the tree by the climber can stress the trees branches and even bring them down in strong winds. The truth of the matter is that privacy is always a difficult thing to maintain, and there is no easy answer


Whitefly

On 12/06/2012 in forum

you need to maintain, which is rather tricky in an unheated greenhouse at the moment if you are in the UK! I plant french marigolds, whether they work or not... Ladybirds?  You can get ladybird attractant, adult ladybirds and ladybird larvae on t


Bringing a pond back to life... error with 1st post

On 24/03/2012 in forum

skills but have never built or maintained a pond before so any advice would be very much appreciated. It is a two tier pond, the higher tier appears to be a plastic base with no lining though seems to be intact, the bottom tier looks to be made of stone


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