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Talkback: Wilding the Chelsea Flower Show

On 28/11/2011 in forum

, like lichens and flowers on weeds, through a magnifying glass. You will never run out of interesting things in a garden like yours. Even the Chelsea Flower Show cannot compete with what nature has to offer. I suppose really the garden that attracts


Talkback: Leaf scorch

On 28/11/2011 in forum

sprinkler-irrigation.co.uk and it is great!!!!! They do loads of stuff, well worth checking out, especially if you have a water meter! Does anyone have an effective way to control weeds amongst asparagus ? I have a picture here, taken in my mums garden. I


Talkback: Hybrid musk roses

On 28/11/2011 in forum

it- but did he tell us about watering once they are planted up & in a greenhouse? I am moving to a new house 1 October. The front of the house is south-facing with a small "garden" in front. Right now it contains a few weeds and nothing else. I am


Talkback: Collecting fallen leaves

On 06/01/2012 in forum

, but at least it helps suppress the weeds so I suppose you can't have it all ways!


Talkback: Unwelcome wildlife

On 02/02/2012 in forum

a few seconds. Then a woodpigeon found the holly berries I had left for the fieldfare and such-like. At the end of the day we are only keepers of our little plots, and in the same way that we nurture flowers and pull the 'weeds' which are only


Talkback: Toad tadpoles

On 24/05/2012 in forum

looks like a beautiful mermaid. Mermaid, That a picture of Kate.Oldchippy. Keep going, Kate. When I used to do 10Ks (a few years ago) my stopping off point was the chip shop. Your motivational tool is a lot healthier!http://www.mandysutter.com/day-570-a-friend-in-weed


Talkback: Growing herbs

On 29/06/2012 in forum

leaves look like the mature ones too - it's reassuring it's not just another patch of weeds. (Unlike basil which always seems to turn into fat hen in my garden). The packet I sowed (Mr.Fothergill's) says "Coriander" and then underneath "Cilantro (for leaf


Talkback: Seed germination

On 01/07/2012 in forum

I have had same problem with butternut squash (even went and bought a new pack of seeds & still no joy) and lettuce, and most of my flower seeds...... amazing how the weather never seems to affect the weed seeds though! Dear Gardeners' World


Himalayan blue poppy

On 10/05/2012 in forum

of these lovely plants is just that, I'm afraid, a dream. I have hundreds of the blowsy bright scarlet double oriental poppies, which I can't eradicate ( even if I wanted to! ) which grow and proliferate like weeds!  Peaty soil, lots of rain, cold winters, late


Erythronium

On 30/06/2012 in forum

didn't miss them, Jean? When I first planted mine they only produced a couple of moth-eaten leaves in the first year, which would have been easy to pull up as weeds. It took about three years for them to produce flowers, although they are now thriving


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