Thanks for the help and advice. I will trim and feed, and keep fingers crossed!
Where I work there is a large beech hedge looking quite sorry for itself. The leaves look dark and unhealthy, and are starting to curl and shrink....
Hi, Back at the start of this thread, someone mentioned that a hedge trimmer was used to cut a beech hedge ...I always thought that large leaved...
Thanks for that info walnut...just what I needed.
I have come across a sack of this at the garden where I work. I tried some on the moss and it killed it almost overnight! On the limited...
I was actually staying in the same hotel as him and the film crew in Alice Springs, Dec 2006. I was too shy to go and ask what they were filming,...
Have just taken delivery of one of the 'on offer' compost bins, and am very much looking forward to making the lovely brown crumbly compost they...
Have grown some healthy looking chrysanths from seed...do I need to pinch out the growing tip to encourage bushiness or not on these? Thank you !
Well shiney ,that sounds like a job very well done, and it has paid off. I think I do lack a bit of gardening confidence, but I must learn to just...
What great photos and a fabulous place to visit, and even better to have worked there, ..what a privalege. Yes I love the wavy hedges....just...
Thanks for that. Oh yes, I had forgotten about seeing a wavy hedge in Devon...it looked really good, but doubt I would have the confidence to give...
In the walled garden where I work there is a lot of privet hedging, well established and quite ancient I guess. For trimming, there is one bit...
Thats just what I want roders! It's super!Thanks for all that info palustris....I will look up the alpine nurseries. I'm about 25 miles from...
Hi, I have an old wall, about 4ft high which I would love to see adorned with trailing colour! Any suggestions on the right sort of plants for...
Thanks for that dendy...yes I was looking at a Bosh. Mind you, we are way out in the stix and I can really make as much noise as I like!!! ear...
Hi dendy, Just done a 'google' on 'pine cones for mulching' and it seems we are ok! Shredding them first would be an idea too. Have you got a...
In the garden where I work, the previous gardener had used smallish pine cones on two raised beds for a mulch. They looked very nice and natural....
I'm afraid Monty Don isn't one of my fav presenters either.......he was sitting at a breakfast table next to us in a hotel in Alice Springs in Oz...
Hi folks, Have tried to do a search for 'gardening charges' as I am sure the topic must be on here somewhere but I can't seem to find it! Any...
ok dendy!
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