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My back garden is just so wet, i cannot now walk on it at all, as my feet are sinking down into the mud/swamp and its only September. We have 3 children and we cant let them out to play as its just too swampy-would we better to just pave it all, or is there something we could do - I do know once when we had good weather, that when it did dry out, we had cracks in teh ground big enough to put your hands into - We did put extra topsoil etc on it, but doesnt seem to have made any difference
Sunflowers - have sunflowers in a pot and they were flowering but now have closed up. Can you tell me why they might have closed and what to do with them?
You mentioned a flower with "big white blossoms" on Trish Taylor programme this morning (Sep17). I can't listen back on the internet at the moment due to gremlins. Any chance you could tell me what flower you were referring to?? My German husband still can't believe that you guys can plant out that sort of thing already - they would all freeze in the ground over here.
There is a bad looking split in the base of this juniper. I'm wondering if there is anything I can do to save it and if it's not a problem, is its position of hanging over a wall in a sunny, well-drained (almost dryish...) spot not a good one for it?
What causes black spots on brussel sprout leaves . Starts at the bottom leaves and works it's way up.
I want to dig up roses that have been growing in my mother in laws garden for the past 30 years and plant them in mine. I have been told they might not survive because they have been too long in the ground and this worries me can you guide me as to how i can move these beautiful roses without causing damage to them. Many Thanks
Hundreds of (small-size) wasps are buzzing around in my weeping willow. On the stem and the branches there is busy traffic of wasps, and flies of all sizes, and fat blackflies. The leaves of the shrub under the tree or coloured black. So probably, flies and wasps are feeding on excreet/fungus from the blackflies. The remarkable thing is that the grass under the tree is literally covered with wasp corpses, and even more that these corpses are missing the hind tip of their abdomen, which is empty. Are they killed/poisoned, and then eaten, or are they being consumed from within? What is happening?
The old oak tree was cut down over 3 years ago. I have drilled lots of little holes in it, filled them with the appropiate tree stump decayer chemical every autumn and covered to no avail. It is still as solid as the day it was first cut.I do not want to have to go to expense of stump grinder, or trying to burn it. I would be very grateful for any useful tips or advice you could give me to solve this problem.
can I save sunflower seeds for sowing next year?
I have a laurel hedge that is about 2/3 year old. However i only planted it last october. Should I prune the hedge and put fertiliser on it for the winter? I want the hedge to be thick and tall. Some of the trees are filling out while others are quite tall and not so thick.
My grissilinia hedge was badly dmged by frost, but is showing signs of life now. I have pruned all the dead wood. I now have 1/2 hedge with spindly limbs, & the other 1/2 is cut down to the ground as new shoots are coming. Should i leave these long spindly (but healthy) limbs, & wait for the new shoots to "catchup" or cut them back too ...ie start the hedge from scratch?
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