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Trade wholesale nursery Bedfordshire

Morning everyone

Does anyone know of a good wholesale nursery in Bedfordshire?

Have a good day everyone.

Started by Jason Bright in Plants

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plant/weed ID please

Can anyone identify this plant/weed for me please? (Pardon my ignorance). It has appeared all over customers gardens over the past few years, and though I feel it is a weed, customers like it for the red flowers. It does crop up all over the place th

Started by Dave Lockney in Plants

12 Replies · Reply by Angie Silver Jun 27, 2013

The economic, social and environmental impact of tree diseases in London

Started by Landscape Juice in Plants

1 Reply · Reply by Landscape Juice Jun 13, 2013

Carex Pendula

Hi all (as above) if anyone is working on gardens with mature species in that the owners want to get rid of we are buying. Not interested in anything small but large clumps...TIARich

Started by Richard Boyd in Plants

7 Replies · Reply by Richard Boyd Jun 13, 2013

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Can I cut down a tree with a Tree Preservation Order on it?

Thinking of cutting down a tree that is protected? Well it's worth thinking again.

A Dorset man who hired a tree surgeon to cut down a tree in his neighbour's garden has been fines £75,000 plus £50,000 costs. The tree was covered by a Tree Preservati

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

4 Replies · Reply by Steve London Stone Jun 13, 2013

Plant Books

Hi all, can anyone recommend a good book that identifies plants and suggests best positions to put them, I would like something I could use when talking things over with customers and keep in the glove box.

Started by Mark Burton in Plants

7 Replies · Reply by GEMS Cambridge May 29, 2013

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Do you offer a guarantee on the plants you supply?

I had an email from a landscaper asking for help and advice regarding plant guarantees.

"Do you have any info on how to provide a guarantee on plants?
I have planted gardens for many years with very few casualties and mostly the plants die due to the

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

8 Replies · Reply by Rosalind Rosewarne Jan 26, 2017

Hornbeam hedge - leaf retention

Picture on left is looking in, on the right, looking out

Hi, this 100m hornbeam hedge is just greening up but it has not kept it's dead leaves through the two winters we've been working here. It was an 'instant' hedge planted at this height and cost

Started by pete in Plants

11 Replies · Reply by pete Apr 19, 2014

Shrub and tree insurance

Hi, I just wondered if anyone has any advice on insurance for garden shrubs that I could offer clients? I am mostly concerned with supplying Box as they are relatively expensive and I had a problem with Box blight in a clients garden last year. Thank

Started by Melissa Jolly in Plants

3 Replies · Reply by Richard Boyd Apr 30, 2013

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Don’t fall for Ash Die Back scam

Spring has finally arrived and so have the rogue tree surgeons warn Warwickshire County Council’s Trading Standards Service!

Warwickshire householders and landowners are advised not to employ door to door tree surgeons offering to carry out tree surg

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

1 Reply · Reply by andy @Doughty Garden Maintenance Apr 30, 2013

Tree Pits

Hi folks

Has anyone come across these tree pit systems. Our firm has been doing large planting projects for years. But weve never been asked to plant trees in a tree pit system before so its all new to us. We now how to do the tree pit through researc

Started by Matthew Amos in Plants

2 Replies · Reply by David Grimes Apr 19, 2013

Hollow in Crook of Beech

2 branches removed from a Beech for aesthetic reasons, both sound and one only a few degrees above horizontal. My instinct is to leave well alone so far as the 2 hollows are concerned, both of which had a capacity of about a pint of water and debris

Started by John Baker in Plants

11 Replies · Reply by andy @Doughty Garden Maintenance Apr 2, 2013

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Is this euonymus?

http://www.growsonyou.com/hywel/blog/22573-a-variety-of-variegations7th pic down variegated leaves and red stemsI know the website suggests it is, but I have two customers with 10'+ trees with leaves and stems exactly like this, would they be euonymu

Started by Darren Walters in Plants

4 Replies · Reply by Darren Walters Mar 19, 2013

Apple tree pruning

Don't normally have any trouble with thinning/pruning trees but this one has me slightly puzzled as to the best way to proceed.
Basically, its a very old tree.. the main trunk goes up to about 8' where it splits into 6 smaller "trunks". These all go u

Started by Geoff Norfolk in Plants

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Making a bog garden under a willow

If I excavate to 500mm depth to create a bog garden using holed plastic membrane under maybe 50% of an old willow tree overhang, am I going to kill the tree? I suspect I totally am so don't shoot me down. I'm just being hopeful.

Started by Di Blood in Plants

2 Replies · Reply by Di Blood Mar 3, 2013

Half-price camellias and blueberries

A UK camellia nursery is having to sell stock following major snow damage to its growing structures to make room for repairs to take place.

This means gardeners will be able to buy large camellias and some blueberries for half their normal price incl

Started by Landscape Juice in Plants

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Plant identification

Anyone know what this is? My parents took a photo today and asked, and I haven't a clue at this time of year....

Started by Daniel Gillings @ DC inc in Plants

14 Replies · Reply by BensBotanics Feb 22, 2013

Plant nursery sussex

Hi, i was wondering if anyone could recommend some good plant nurseries in east and west sussex, preferably ones that offer a trade accountThanks in advance

Started by Myles jennings in Plants

11 Replies · Reply by gary newton Feb 16, 2013

Monkey puzzle tree looks sick

A client of mine as a fantastic garden however her monkey puzzle tree is looking sick.
She says rabbits might have tried to nibble it.
All other plants and shrubs look OK in the garden.
Any tips to save or is it a goner

Started by Bespoke Lawncare in Plants

5 Replies · Reply by N. F. Trees & Gardens Feb 10, 2013

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Alan Titchmarsh is 'a complete muppet', says Tory minister

Owen Paterson hits out at celebrity gardener who criticised the government's countryside policies.

A cabinet minister has called TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh a "complete muppet" for criticising the government's countryside policies.

The environment s

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

6 Replies · Reply by Fenlandphil Dec 19, 2012

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