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Christmas Cactus or Schlumbergera: Normally start flowering in December and go on to the early spring.They can start in October if its was a plant purchased from a garden centre which has been forced...
Carrot root fly. If you grow carrots you will at some stage have problems with carrot root fly.The flies home in on the smell of the carrots and lay their eggs in the young...
If you have recently purchased some plug plants one problem you might have come across is that they can be hard to water especially when the plugs become dry or they are a plant...
If your Wisteria plant is forming flower buds but they are not opening it most likely to be a nutrient problem i.e a lack of magnesium so try feeding your wisteria in early spring...
The best solution we have found is to use jeyes fluid diluted one cap full per litre of water either sprayed on or from a watering can with a fine rose.Also we have in...
The two critical items with lemon trees are the soil or compost pH level and the feeding.The soil compost needs to be slightly acid so you need to carry out a soil / compost...
If you read the side of a plant food pack you will see it has an index such as 7:7:7 or maybe 10:3:5 this relates to the NPK elements of the feed. N –...
Building a retaining wall – the key to building a retaining wall is to retain the soil but not the water.Over 80 percent of the retaining walls that fail through cracking or simple collapse...
Normally a large percentage of the seed from Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’ the red flowered chestnut is produced sterile and so the plants are normally propagated by grafting.However any of the conkers that do...
If you live in a city space for gardens is often at a premium but roof gardens can be a great solution.Suitable roof can providing space for you to create a garden and often...
