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it in gardens.Quite why so many of the flowers in our gardens during these early months of the year are yellow, I don't know. Winter flowering jasmine has been followed by forsythia (don't get James Alexander-Sinclair started on this again), daffodils have

the leaves went yellow and the flowers dropped off.I inherited it with the house 6 yrs ago. I have cut it right back. I have a honeysuckle which is infected with what I thought was whitefly, but these flying insects with the same characteristics as whitefly

, and the colour may be more like the native species, white and yellow. But...... you never know. It should certainly produce fragrant flowers. You won't have long to find out! Ohhh are they soon to flower? It has never done that. It is getting quite big

My peas had been growing well in a pot but over the last week I have noticed that the leaves at the base of some of the plants are going yellow and now seem to be dying.  They are about 2 foot tall and are flowering. Any suggestions as to what

is to wish good luck to everyone who enters. New varieties of winter-flowering heather give a great show for months and,even when not in flower, look good. Have you seen the yellow heather in the temperate house at Kew?

Hi all, I have a peach tree and a nectarine tree. Both are dwarf and in pots. They came as bare root trees a month or so ago. I potted them both up at the same time. The peach had many lovely pink flowers with I hand pollinated and is not leaved

Julie I'd take a guess at meconopsis cantabrica, the yellow flowered welsh poppy. They do self seed very freely but I quite like them I've had several of the welsh poppies self seed here, they are pretty. I think they tend to disappear after they have

how to get the best from yellow lilac in colour it is the primrose Sorry David, I'm not sure what you are asking i'm trying to say what is the best way to enhance the colour of the lilac With almost all plants the colour is fixed in it's DNA. You

I have a front garden border with tulips which were planted in the winter. They came up a few weeks ago and were a loverly display. Earlier this week two of them had there flowers 'snipped' off about 2 inches below the petals. Now there are 4

When we think of irises our minds tend to wander towards May and great swathes of big, brassy flowers over sharp-sided, sword-shaped leaves. Either that or drifts of yellow flag iris on the sides of pools and streams. We tend to ignore February. Big