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Low growing plants near a pool we can understand not wanting to attract lots of insects to a place you use for bathing. You could make it more tropical/contempory feel around the pool and...
Carbendazin – this has now been banned on the amateur market so is no longer available.
There are various reasons for yellowing leaves in the Pieris ‘forest flame’. It likes acid soil so you need to feed it with a lime-hating plant food. High levels of alkali in the soil...
Pampas grass in a pot February/March is a good time of year to cut it back.Ideally you should do it after the worst of the weather but before the growth proper starts,You want to...
Hypericum Rust H. calycinum is the tougher and shorter of the two but H.Hidcote has a sterile flower so produces flowers over a longer period. If you are looking for rust resistance, then H.Mystical...
A large conifer growing near to your house can potentially damaging the house however I would not cut it down in one fell swoop.The ground surrounding the tree has got used to a certain...
Ground cover under a shady tree. What is the tree – is it deciduous or evergreen? The problem with sites under trees is that they can be very dry. If you improve the soil...
Question Any advice on sowing vegetable seeds outdoors. Answer Seed sowing for vegetables in open ground:traditionally seeds have always been sown in rows.This allows for the plants to be weeded manually with the use...
Moving a Cordyline in an ideal world before moving a big plant the autumn before you should dig a trench around the plant and back fill with good compost and then in the following...
Sowing orchid seed your best bet is to surface sow the seed, preferably as soon as it is ripe, in a bright position and do not allow the compost to dry out.The seed of...
