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Ireland's foremost gardening expert Gerry Daly is the editor of Garden.ie. Answering questions on RTE radio, and around the country for many years, he has acquired a unique knowledge of the problems faced by Irish gardeners. He blends high-quality scientific expertise with a practical approach.

Questions and Answers

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Tree and Shrubs
  1. ❀ Griselinia hedging and ground preparation
  2. ❀ What is this tree?
  3. ❀ Yellowing of foilage on laurel hedge
  4. ❀ Vine weevils
  5. ❀ grisilinia hedge
  6. ❀ feeding new hedge
  7. ❀ Japanese knotweed
  8. ❀ Tree too near house?
  9. ❀ Crimson king caterpillar
  10. ❀ ideas for steep slope in garden
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Flowers
  1. ❀ Garden post Ophelia
  2. ❀ Creeping Thyme as grass alternative
  3. ❀ Dividing Flowers
  4. ❀ Freesias
  5. ❀ eradicate bamboo
  6. ❀ Identify a plant
  7. ❀ Day Lilies
  8. ❀ No flowers on Peony Rose
  9. ❀ raised beds with not much sun
  10. ❀ Wild flower
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Lawns
  1. ❀ patchy and stunned lawn
  2. ❀ Lawn weeds
  3. ❀ Blobs of Jelly
  4. ❀ Foxes digging holes in my lawn
  5. ❀ New lawn
  6. ❀ Overseeded lawn
  7. ❀ Selective Weedkiller on New Seed
  8. ❀ Sowing a new lawn
  9. ❀ Magpies are destroying the lawn
  10. ❀ moss
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Roses
  1. ❀ Pruning Rosa banksiae ‘Lutea’
  2. ❀ Problem with rose bush branches falling over
  3. ❀ growing roses from slips
  4. ❀ Rose in winter
  5. ❀ New Rose bed
  6. ❀ Rose sucker
  7. ❀ clipping from roses
  8. ❀ A rose that jug Ashton flowered
  9. ❀ Rose Mildew
  10. ❀ how to plant rose seeds
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Vegetable Growing
  1. ❀ Earthworms in compost bin.
  2. ❀ Pumpkin
  3. ❀ Weed Killer on My Raised bed
  4. ❀ Potatoes and Flowers
  5. ❀ Slug damage to plant?
  6. ❀ Cutting-grown potatoes; too many sprouts
  7. ❀ Rhubarb leaves being eaten
  8. ❀ Scorzonera won’t grow for me
  9. ❀ Dog Poop in the Veg Patch
  10. ❀ Pea problem
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Fruit
  1. ❀ Disease in apple trees
  2. ❀ Fruit bushes
  3. ❀ pruning summer fruiting raspberries
  4. ❀ Codling Moth on 6 old trees
  5. ❀ plums
  6. ❀ Little holes on Plum Tree leaves.
  7. ❀ No fruit on loganberries
  8. ❀ Apple Tree
  9. ❀ Aphids and infections on pear trees
  10. ❀ Ageing plum trees
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Greenhouse
  1. ❀ Cape gooseberry
  2. ❀ Leaves of tomato plants
  3. ❀ Grape vines taking a break!
  4. ❀ greenhouse in winter
  5. ❀ Feeding cucumbers
  6. ❀ skinny tomatoe plants cause?
  7. ❀ Courgette covering other plants
  8. ❀ Keeping slugs and snails out of growhouse
  9. ❀ Peppers plant looks weak
  10. ❀ Ants in potted peach tree
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House Plants
  1. ❀ Overwinter bougainvillea
  2. ❀ When to replant poinsettia
  3. ❀ Indoor Plants
  4. ❀ PeaceLily leaves turning yellow
  5. ❀ peace Lilly pot size?
  6. ❀ brown spots on anthurium leaves
  7. ❀ Slugs in pot plants
  8. ❀ Plant name?
  9. ❀ I need your help
  10. ❀ What is this?
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Garden Design
  1. ❀ Blank canvas, large semi rural site
  2. ❀ Gardens to visit with a scooter user
  3. ❀ bamboo maybe?
  4. ❀ Rotavated back garden
  5. ❀ Plants in Rocky area that is shaded by trees
  6. ❀ What plants for South East facing bed
  7. ❀ Gates/turnstiles
  8. ❀ Turning hummocky field into garden
  9. ❀ All year round colour in West Mayo
  10. ❀ narrow garden
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