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  1. ARMANDII

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    I''ll be like you, Sheal, sitting out in the garden in shorts, Haiti shirt, shades, licking an ice cream cone on Christmas Day here in Sunny Cheshire.:hapfeet::heehee::heehee:

    I pressed the button on my Pine Cone and the tape that came out of the bottom said "Don't ask me", rubbed the Seaweed between my fingers and got green stains on my fingers, so I went on the Net to see what the Met Office was forecasting for the Winter and they said "Very possibly a cold and hard Winter" Now that makes me feel so much better because they haven't got anything right for years and now I know we're going to have a mild winter.

    Seriously, I think we're all licking our "garden wounds" this year with the losses of perennials [shrubs and herbaceous] from last Winter. I've lost long established, and loved, plants, like Cordyline, Cistus, Grapevine, Roses, Conifer trees. My 20 year old Pampas Grass looked, in Spring, as though it was dead but has slowly recovered and one or two plants took longer to put growth on.

    But again, Britain being Britain, April was well above average in temperature and brought other things on by at least two weeks, so now we're having to find ways to extend flowering periods into what should be the normal time. Don't you just love gardening:D:thumbsup::heehee:
     
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      Have to say no losses here since the winter and then only because of my laziness in leaving things out which should have been in.
      One problem I have come across ios that two of my friends are keen users of bedding plants - both have suffered almost complete loss of their 'Busy Lizzy' plants, I was told that there has been a virus around causing them to die back - has anyone else had this problem?
       
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      I checked the forecast with our technical department,

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        I think that we need to move the calender on two months.

        We were picking blackberries weeks ago, the fields in the area have mushrooms, English apples are ready and being sold, there is morning dew and mist, and probably much more beside.

        I have to agree that this year certainly hasn't been good in relation to the veg growing. Our failure rate has sadly been massive.
         
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        Hello Barnaby
        Simon tracked the BL problem down on the thread below. Seems like a lot of us are suffering from this mildew :mad:
        It would be interesting to know what percentage of GC posters have the BL mildew ??

        http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/general-gardening-discussion/35762-busy-lizzies-totally-gone.html
         
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          Not Busy Lizzies but my Dandelions are coming down with mildew & some sort of brown rust.
           
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          I've decided not to bother with outdoor ones and have been reading up on constructing hot beds in polytunnels.
           
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          Now theres a thought.
           
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          Ziggy, I think you're the only one on GC worrying about the state of your dandelions. :heehee:
           
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            They make a nice wine, Sheal, although I'm not sure if Ziggy has tried them for that.:D

            The biggest problem for me this year has been rust, mildew and black spot on the roses. Normally some of my roses will get through untouched but not this year, all have been affected to varying degrees.:help:
             
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            :D Important crop in Zigsworld (Zigsworld, party time, excelent:hapfeet:)

            I have a bad reaction to one of the chemicals in coffee(not the caffeine)

            So by weeding round the best ones i'm self sufficient in Dandelion Coffee, have been for 2 years now:dbgrtmb:

            Recently found a new roasting method that has made it really rich:thumbsup:
             
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                I haven't Shiney, Zigsworld goes by the motto of "Why pay for it when you can grow it, catch it or make it":heehee:

                But thanks for that as i'm now considering adding Acorns to the brew:dbgrtmb:

                I think they have to be processed by washing with spring water gathered by virgins or something.
                 
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                First made Dandelion wine in 1977:thumbsup:

                Thats the good thing about em, you can make wine from the flowers & still get coffee from the roots.
                 
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                Are there many virgins in Somerset then Zig?:scratch::love30:
                 
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