Got my BES journal today; apparently foresters are considering reducing the amount of Beech planted in the S.E. as the weather conditions are...
lawks! Have to agree that it's not a great plant but my clients like it and I presonally think it entirely better than all the common Forsythia...
You should probably get away with a soil test kit from the local garden centre. It only becomes relevant if it is way off neutral in which case...
Willow fedges are available commercially though I forget where. Web search should do the trick. Beware with willow the magnificent number of...
pH of the soil, not the cr*p!
You can add salad crops, radishes, strawberries, all cane fruit, artichokes, marrows and their ilk, most cut flowers, beans and peas to Hornbeam's...
red petioles and shoots should help as well, though not for me. I've been at the footy.
Don't want to be the usual fly in the opintment but it doesn't look like 'Dawn' to me. That has rather more crinkly and matt leaves, has usually...
Blimey Palustris how cold is it, I've got some that have charged through -18C?!I can send you a bit this winter if you like/ if you reckon it...
First one possibly vitifolium, the dissection on the leaves looks about right. Other one difficult to tell. Wait till the leaves and (Ihope)...
What got me into it? Combination of factors.My grandfathers infectious love of it - it saved his life in Changi camp where his alloted job became...
They stay like that, I leave the dying stems - they provide winter structure - but you can chop em down if that suits, I wouldn't mulch over the...
Usual probs of Rosaceae hybridising by the look of it. If the obvious solutions aren't correct what about C. x lavallei cultivars: 'Carrierei' or...
I have been fighting the perennial tulip fight for some years and would appreciate advice. In my experience a few varieties seem to cope better -...
My gunnera has survived about -12C with no signs of damage. I chuck the leaves on top and weigh them down with a few old bricks so they don't go...
Wise move!
Well said Palustris. Blowers are noisy its true, but for us commercial gardeners they are IMO unquestionably the biggest labour saver since the...
And you can eat them!! :D
OK OK. I've been off the air. It is one of my strange Amaranths, as discussed some time ago somewhere on GC. It is an A.gangeticus otherwise known...
Good to see you back mate, here's a garden curiosity to frighen the children...[img]
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