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Post by Geumlover on Jan 22, 2013 11:03:01 GMT
The problem as far as schools go, is that they are damned if they close and damned if they open. People complain like mad if the schools close, but would be quick to sue if something happened to their child. And believe me people do.
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Post by Geumlover on Jan 20, 2013 12:38:27 GMT
Fortunately for us gardeners, over 90% of Dandelion seeds are infertile. Now I would like to grow both the whte flowered version (Taraxacum albidum). I have a plant which looks like a pink dandelion. Crepis incana. And I am sure I once read that there is a purple flowered Taraxacum.
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Post by Geumlover on Jan 10, 2013 10:39:49 GMT
I don't know where they get these reports and experts from, but an awful lot of what was said in that article is nonsense. When it first appeared I measured the black slugs which I see on my morning walks and many of them were over 6 inches long and one was 8 inches. This breed of slug also comes in brown, The majority of British slugs eat other slugs as normal parts of their diets. The most damaging ones are the small grey/pale brown ones and keel slugs. Many other types are not able to chew off green leaves, they eat decomposed leaf material. Slugs cannot interbreed, or at least it is very unlikely and the offspring would almost certainly be sterile, like mules are. If you want to see slugs in action, then crush some snails and leave the remains on a patch of concrete and watch the slugs rush to the feast.
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Post by Geumlover on Jan 7, 2013 18:03:22 GMT
Creeping buttercup has fibrous roots rather than a tap root. They are not persistent so as long as you remove all the growth points from the top of them, they will not re-shoot. You can have my Japanese anemone, now they regrow even after 5 years of Roundup.
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Post by Geumlover on Dec 19, 2012 10:56:58 GMT
Mice eating Hyacinths? That is a blow. We are in the process of losing every Crocus in the garden to mice and not sure but possibly the Anemone blanda too. Been trying to find out which bulbs are poisonous to the things. Snowdrops are and Colchicum and Cyclamen, anyone know what others? Hopefully Scilla, Tritelea(Brodiaea), Chionodoxa, Brimeura are inedible.
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Post by Geumlover on Nov 27, 2012 12:47:13 GMT
The only fertiliser we use is Growmore which is a general purpose one. Otherwise you need to look for one with a high N number on the formula which is always given on the packaging. Chempak do one, or you could look for Ammonium Sulphate.
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Post by Geumlover on Oct 25, 2012 19:44:51 GMT
Have a look here for all the different Clematis.http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/ We had over 100 of them scrambling over and through things here, not sure if we still have that many and a lot of the names are long gone.
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Post by Geumlover on Oct 16, 2012 11:12:57 GMT
Could the plant be Physalis alkekengi? They have seed pods which look like little orange lanterns.
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Post by Geumlover on Oct 8, 2012 13:45:17 GMT
I think the variegated Caryopteris is x clandonensis Summer Sorbet. It has a PBR on it so you may not propagate for commercial purposes. But if you want another one in the garden, cuttings are taken of the new growth in Spring.
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Post by Geumlover on Oct 5, 2012 16:38:59 GMT
I think this one is H. Goldquelle, but not sure, the label is long gone.
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Post by Geumlover on Oct 5, 2012 12:59:28 GMT
I found all the perennial Helianthus to be spreaders, except H. salicifolius which struggled and eventually died out. There is a paler yellow one than Lemon Queen called H. giganteus Sheila's Sunshine. The one in the posting looks like H decapetalus. This is Sheila's Sunshine, does not show that the flowers are only 1.5 inches across though.
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Post by Geumlover on Oct 4, 2012 16:07:48 GMT
Pruned some of the apple trees. No more water shoots now!
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Post by Geumlover on Oct 1, 2012 16:37:54 GMT
In that case I would prune them back to 3 buds from the point of origin, now. Just about to do ours, a bit late but it keeps raining.
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Post by Geumlover on Sept 30, 2012 16:11:57 GMT
Depends on what you want. If you want these shoots to become fruit bearing, then you prune in August/September as the tree begins to slow down. If you want new growth then you prune in Winter.
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Post by Geumlover on Sept 30, 2012 9:17:13 GMT
Silene schafta is pink. Silene maritima is white and the most likely one to be sold in a non-specialist outlet.
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