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Laurel hedging

Any suggestions where to purchase around 25 x 5ft laurels online for trade or best prices?

Started by Steve in Plants

8 Replies · Reply by Ayegardening Ltd Mar 16, 2015

Shrubs selection and suggestion to provide screening.

Dear AllHave been asked by one of my clients to select and plant some form of natural screening for his front garden. He doesn't want any form of hedging, but would like something more naturalistic.I am currently working up a list and would like any

Started by Nick Gill in Plants

4 Replies · Reply by Nick Gill Mar 11, 2015

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How to go about recruiting a particular type of person

Hello there, everyone. I would appreciate some advice on a situation we find ourselves in.

Work has been pretty busy so far this year for all the services we offer, and we're finding it really hard to balance everything at the moment.

What would really

Started by Nathan - Plews Garden Design in Business, Landscaping, and Careers

3 Replies · Reply by Geoffrey King Mar 16, 2015

Introduction to Autus Organics

Hello all,

I run company Autus Organics. I thought I would take some time to introduce our services.

About Us

Autus Organics is a UK producer of Biostimulants and associated products for the following industries:

Agriculture
Horticulture
Turf indu

Started by Graeme Todd in Business, Groundscare, and Health and Safety

2 Replies · Reply by David Cox Mar 2, 2015

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Keep daffodils away from food, supermarkets told

Supermarkets have been asked to make sure daffodils are kept separate from fruit and vegetables in a bid to prevent customers mistakenly eating the poisonous plants.

People have been known to mistake daffodil bulbs for onions and the stems for a popu

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

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Does Latin have a place in everyday horticulture any more?

When I attended Merrist wood back in the 80's I rather enjoyed the weekly plant identification tests (known simply as plant idents).

I achieved a 98 percent success rate.

I will never forget having to get my tongue around Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

11 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk Feb 8, 2015

Landscape supplies in Monmouthshire & Cardiff?

I've just moved to Monmouthshire and wondered if anyone can recommend a local hard landscape supplier?I'm doing a show garden at RHS Cardiff in April so I'm looking for materials to show off.Also interested in getting in touch with local landscapers

Started by Lisa Cox in Landscaping, Paving Materials and Advice, and Plants

4 Replies · Reply by Nick palmer Jan 31, 2015

Looking for Hard Landscape suppliers in South Wales

Started by Lisa Cox in Landscaping, Paving Materials and Advice, and Plants

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How are your pansies this year?

Having been round all of our gardens in the past couple of weeks, I've been disappointed to find a very high failure rate of our autumn planted pansies in both borders, tubs, planters and baskets - some at 100%!. I think it is probably down the the

Started by Colin Hunt in Plants

8 Replies · Reply by Jane Harries Jan 25, 2015

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Record number of UK flowers bloom but can we trust the data?

“Fifty years ago people looking for plants in flower at the start of the year found 20 species."

"368 species in flower is an unprecedented 15% of the flowering plants in Britain and Ireland – an “amazing” total. The high count was partly due to the

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

2 Replies · Reply by Darren Walters Jan 11, 2015

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How commercial growers root-ball open ground stock for lifting

I've spent a fair bit of time root-balling throughout my gardening career.

Most of the time I've dug around and undermined the plant before lifting the root, as undisturbed as possible, and then wrapping in sacking and tying the wrap up just above th

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

3 Replies · Reply by Paul Doyle Dec 19, 2014

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How to trim Buxus in to a perfect box ball

Any gardener who's ever trimmed box hedging or box topiary will know how time consuming it is.

But, have you ever wondered how commercial growers create perfect box balls on open-ground root-balled stock?

Wonder no more...take a look at this video.

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

2 Replies · Reply by Adam @ SLGC Dec 18, 2014

Honey Fungus!

Hello again,

I'm hoping someone might be able to offer some advise on honey fungus. My clients garden has honey fungus and they would like advise on how to deal or control the infestation. I have read all the advise on the RHS and other websites ab

Started by Melissa Jolly in Plants

6 Replies · Reply by BensBotanics Dec 23, 2014

allium bulbs?

Last year i got a bunch of allium pinball wizard and they flowered brilliantly. Some where in temporary positions and i planned moving them this autumn. As a result i lifted them to dry them out and replant in november. However, when i lifted them an

Started by Simon Smith in Plants

5 Replies · Reply by Eugene Baston Dec 16, 2014

Bamboozled!

Hello. Can anyone help me with suggestions for lifting and dividing an old clump of bamboo - it's about 20 years old. I have attached a few photos - the clump is about 5' x 5' x 5', right next to a garage and between two small ponds. The customer ide

Started by Austin Campbell in Plants

9 Replies · Reply by Austin Campbell Dec 14, 2014

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Crisis for India's cotton farmers

India's cotton producers say they are at a crisis point, because global prices are plunging and falling demand from China is hitting exports. Even the central government stepping in to buy up their stock has not been enough to prevent heavy losses.

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

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Meet the modern-day mistletoe harvesters

“Once an apple tree gets to 25 or 30 years old, it develops cracks in the bark,” calls down Guy from his ladder, where he’s hard at work with his scythe. “Birds land on the tree, deposit the seeds and, before long, the mistletoe starts to take hold.

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

1 Reply · Reply by Acacia Groundcare Hire Dec 12, 2014

Dicksonia Antartica Tree Fern.

We are proposing to refurb an office courtyard garden, where we have a tree fern that has outgrown it's position, heightwise. Having seen crates of new arrivals at the wholesale nurseries, they just seem to have been cut off as a trunk. So, my questi

Started by Colin Hunt in Plants

10 Replies · Reply by Trish Reynolds Dec 7, 2014

Looking for advice on small standard tree, container plants and planting through gravel/weed fabric

I've been asked by a potential customer to provide suggestions and price for her front and back gardens. She wants a general tidy, including removing weeds that have grown through fabric and gravel in the front garden.

She then wants suggestions for p

Started by Austin Campbell in Plants

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Invasive Japanese Anemone

I have tried to dig this plant out once in a client's border but it is now but with a vengence blocking out light to the new planting and taking over once again. I have already lost a few plants.
Has anyone else come across this problem, or has any t

Started by Michael long in Plants

6 Replies · Reply by Agrigem - Sarah Kimm Nov 13, 2014

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