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Living wall

Morning everyone. 

One of our high end clients has a property that has a living wall, the wall was poorly maintained by the developer and it all needs replacing, with 500 plants which need to be 9cm pots. I'm thinking thymes, oregangos, ajugas, sedums

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Learning plants names etc

Anyone have suggestions to learn plants I.e YouTube?

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Buddleja ( Buddlia ) Super plant of the future ?

Please forgive me for what maybe an obsession, but I have always been fascinated and in awe of the prolific Buddleja ( Buddlia ) bushes / trees that I have a skill for noticing, where they grow in the most inhospitable and bizarre locations, railway

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Trachelospermum

We plant quite a few Trachelospermum jasminoides with no problems.  We have one garden where we planted 12 and they almost all failed.  I thought it was a bad batch and we replaced them.  The 2nd lot aren't doing much better, with this being a typica

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Non flowering wisteria

Are there any serious wisteria experts on here? I need to pick your brains. 

I have a wisteria that I have been maintaining for a few years now, but the damned thing is refusing to flower. It seems to be a variety that comes into leaf early, it is alm

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Charging for sourcing plants

HI all,

I set up as a sole trader two years ago (one week before lockdown...) so am still very new to this.

Increasingly I'm being asked to source plants for clients - eg evergreen shrubs to fill 12m of border, plants for sunny 10m planter etc etc

This

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Runner Ducks

As some of you know I'm restoring a couple of 28m Grade 2* beds, using the original Georgian planting plans. The client has just signed off on £7000 worth of plants....quite an investment. We will start receiving the plants soon. Now the problem, we

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Do Cornelian cherries taste good?

Hey Folks!
I have some Cornelian cherries in my garden. I need to ask that does they taste good or are the Cornelian cherry has some healthy nutritious properties. If so how it can be used.
Thank You!

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Any advice?

A client has asked us to buy a specimen shrub - he's fallen for one that is basically going to cost the best part of £1000 by the time we get it to Wiltshire. It is to replace one that has been killed by the previous gardeners pruning it in the winte

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Plant Identity

Hi all, just after a little help identifying this plant please. Seems to be a grass or bamboo of some sort but just unsure of what it is exactly. Hoping to identify so I can establish how to properly look after it. Many thanks.

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Moss and lichen on roofs.

Do you think moss and lichen on the roofs of houses and bungalows needs to be removed or should be left alone?

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Italian style garden

I've been asked to design an Italian garden for a lady who hails from Calabria in the south of Italy.

The plot is not very big and athough it has a view of the sea you would ordinarily have to stand on a chair to see it over a 6' fence (cannot be redu

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Mature (20+ yrs) Japanese Maple and Camellia on offer

Hi all, I have an usual enquiry and I do hope you can help.

I'm trying to give a new life to a couple of beautiful trees in my front garden (Kingston upon Thames), that have overgrown the available space to grow.

Both plants were planted by me 20 years

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Bark

Evening all,

 

just wondering if anybody has had any success using the bark app? Does it generate leads of any substance? I'm always wary of these things but you never know,

 

thanks in advance,

 

Ben 

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Ginkgo Biloba - Damaged

HiI have a customer that has a Ginkgo Biloba in their front garden. However, it looks like the tree has been ringed by strimmer damage and due to this the trunk tapers in at the base. It has started to recover, and leaves are growing back. There were

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Renovating box topiary

I'm here again asking for advice!

A client of several years has, ever since I have been doing the garden mis-shapen box balls and cones around the garden. She has decided she wants them all a uniform size and shape as when they bought the house 10 yea

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Cut flowers.

Morning all hope everyone is  staying safe in these  intesting times we find our selves in.  I have a question about cut flowers...I've been considering growing on a small scale flowers specifically for cutting, I think that  due to the up surge of p

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Rhus typhinia tiger eyes

Evening one and all,

Has anyone got good feedback on using The small shrub Rhus typhina tiger eyes?. I wanted to plant it by the front door of my house, with a bamboo root blocker around it.If it is likely to escape and run like Ronnie Biggs, then I w

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Box caterpillar moth in the Chilterns

Anyone else working in and around the Chilterns, particularly High Wycombe?

This last week I have come across box caterpillar moth in two of my gardens in High Wycombe. It's the first time I've come across it up here, I had been hoping it was just tha

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