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Post by esther on Mar 31, 2011 4:42:29 GMT
I was tired yesterday after going to teach 19 Girl Guides how to decorate an egg on tuesday evening - thanks for that Georgie ( my Grandaughter) I didn't mind really - it was fun and they all ended up with a pretty goose egg decorated with forget-me-nots,lemon braid and pearls. So all I did in the garden was to trim back the dead leaves on my bay tree and pot up some fuchsias
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Post by grindle on Mar 31, 2011 5:20:55 GMT
we have a load of that growing on a bank down the lane, it looks pretty growing there, but I think that's where it should stay
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Post by Tel on Mar 31, 2011 5:50:47 GMT
Did some more digging on the allotment, in the morning, then in the afternoon took some more dahlia cuttings. Potted up some rooted dahlia cuttings into 3in pots.
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Mar 31, 2011 7:51:49 GMT
It rained until 3-ish, and we had some shopping to do anyway. Having walked Henry, I had 2 hours in the garden. Guess what I was dealing with! Here it is - Lamium galeobdolon. You can understand why our predecessors planted it - it's a pretty plant - but I bet they didn't know it would spread 30' x 12', and could go even further if it had crept off the bank on to the lower border - it was trying to. It should be sold with a health warning. Does it spread by seed or just by runners? I found some deep in a wood when I took Tonks out, I was going to plant it down in the orchard, under the trees along the bank. It would be great for the bees and in the orchard it would be contained unless is it spread by seed too. I've got a smaller, less invasive Lamium 'Beacon Silver', perhaps I should use that one instead.
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Post by Geranium on Mar 31, 2011 8:01:33 GMT
It must be both, Wf. I've found plants elsewhere in the garden, but removed them before they could spread. PLEASE don't be tempted - just remember my weeks of work to remove it!
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Mar 31, 2011 8:55:56 GMT
Thanks Geranium, I won't try it, I've had my fill of invasive plants, I'm still battling with Allium and violets
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Post by Cherry on Mar 31, 2011 9:42:58 GMT
I was tired yesterday after going to teach 19 Girl Guides how to decorate an egg on tuesday evening - thanks for that Georgie ( my Grandaughter) I didn't mind really - it was fun and they all ended up with a pretty goose egg decorated with forget-me-nots,lemon braid and pearls. So all I did in the garden was to trim back the dead leaves on my bay tree and pot up some fuchsias You have to pass on your talent Esther. Actually, it was an interest in your talent if they were girl guides and one or two of them might take it up later. That was good of you. My gardening was too brief really as I made marmalade when the rain came on. The lime peel could have been a bit softer, but there is no one booked for the caravan for a while.
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Post by cowslip on Mar 31, 2011 16:58:07 GMT
It rained until 3-ish, and we had some shopping to do anyway. Having walked Henry, I had 2 hours in the garden. Guess what I was dealing with! Here it is - Lamium galeobdolon. You can understand why our predecessors planted it - it's a pretty plant - but I bet they didn't know it would spread 30' x 12', and could go even further if it had crept off the bank on to the lower border - it was trying to. It should be sold with a health warning. That is known as a wild flower called Yellow Archangel around here. I didn't know that GC's sold it.
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Post by cowslip on Mar 31, 2011 17:03:39 GMT
I've been busy on the allotment this afternoon. I now have 2 rows of potatoes in, all my onion and shallot sets and carrots. I have also prepared a bed for sowing peas.
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Post by merlin on Mar 31, 2011 17:11:32 GMT
A good job done Cowslip, and very satisfying.
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Post by Geranium on Mar 31, 2011 18:30:41 GMT
Yes, Cowlip, unbelievably they do. I saw pots of it at our local Nursery when I bought my Prunus last week. Poor people who think it's pretty (which it is!) and buy one...all unknowing. I have almost finished removing it - I'm sure I'll spot new plants coming up, but at least the only Lamium is growing in the stone wall now. ;D I've been dragging our armfuls of Ivy from under the conifer, as well as bindweed, and pulling the dead Golden Hop out of the Eucalyptus tree. I had another bonfire, but I think it's probably not dry enough for all of it to burn away.
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Mar 31, 2011 18:43:37 GMT
I mowed, there was nothing else I could do in one day that could possibly make a difference so I moved plants around between the greenhouses.
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Post by Rosie on Mar 31, 2011 19:35:51 GMT
All i did was take a couple of dahlia cuttings, too wet, foggy and now windy to get outside today
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Post by joysie21 on Mar 31, 2011 20:10:49 GMT
My clematis armandii has been beautiful trailing all over the fence even gone next door if you tell me how to take cuttings you are welcome to them I had some patio slabs levelled this week as i was getting flooded with all the rain last yearMy camellia flowers are small this year shall i feed it i normally throw my tea bags around the soil [
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Post by peony on Apr 1, 2011 15:30:46 GMT
Planted up 2 more tubs of Lady Christl potatoes. Sowed some annual poppy seeds, started tying in the Delphiniums, sprayed the lillies against Lily beetle and moved my begonias from the back bedroom into the greenhouse. Potted on some hellebore seedlings.
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