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Esmee Godwin fund

On Sunday, we supported a local charity www.justgiving.com/Esmee-Godwin-Fund

For our role, it started some weeks ago when we at T&S Plants came up with the idea to support this fund raiser, forever.

We decided to donate a Tree, which was planted yester

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Poisonous plants to dogs

 

Does anyone have any specific guidelines on what not to put into a planting scheme which could cause harm to dogs?   I've done some research and there are quite a lot which come up which seem to be toxic, but in reality I don't know which are the ma

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What is this gorgeous plant please

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The Athletes Village, Osprey Quay, Portland, Dorset

Between August 2011 and January 2012, the South West Landscape Centre (T&S Plants) sourced all of the plants for this venue. 

In total this amounted to around 5,500  2-3 litre plants and 65 specimen trees.  These plants were for the 77 houses on site,

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Philadelphus that won't flower

Can any one help?

I have a customer who's Philadelphus will not flower. It grows like a weed, and swamps everything else in the boarder, but what ever I do it will not flower, not one bloom.

It's got plenty of light in moist soil, I've cut it back let

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Plant ID

Help - having a mental block - what is this? Client got it from her father in Birmingham who grows it under a twisted hazel.

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Transplanting palm trees

Hi...Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about transplanting palm trees?  Bearing in mind I'm thinking of 5-6ft ones which were planted about 5 years ago.... here in Yorkshire.

Thanks, Melissa

 

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T & S Plants AKA South West Landscape Centre

Just got back from a 200 mile round trip to pick up plants from Steve and Tina at the South West Landscape Centre.

Okay you might think I am mad doing a 200 mile trip but I did stop off on the way back to a few other places that I don't often get the

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Evergreen hedges and struggling plants close by

Hi

I've found in my own garden that  a couple of small trees planted close to a privet hedge are rather slow growing and not doing as well as I'd expect.  Now realising that privet are very hungry and probably deprive plants close by of water and nutr

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Nothoscordum gracile - Friend or Foe

Has anybody had any experiences with this plant? I known that it is fairly well established in the UK and where I´m based in Spain, it turns up frequently among potted plants and in flower beds. For those who aren´t familiar with it, it´s a bulbous p

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Plant ID required

Can anyone identify this plant? Latin name too would be handy. Small yellow flower.

It has a small yellow flower and self seeds freely. It's usually a bit more low growing but if left to grow...

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Container Supplier / Ideas

I was commissioned to design a garden about 3 years ago as part of a new build house.  The project was delayed when the client became ill but is now back on track and our first meeting about landscaping was today.  

I specified some really great polis

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Stachys - problems!

Anyone else had any problems with Stachys byzantina 'Big Ears' or 'Silver Carpet' suffering over the last Winter/Spring? One client said they looked all Winter as though the cat had thrown up over the plant bed, and they are struggling back into grow

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Females within Horticulture buy the most plants as Trade customers, a myth!

Through some recent posts on LJN it appears that some within our industry think that Female Landscapers and Garden Designers spend more/buy more plants than male counterparts.

In fact, this is not correct.

Having been involved in supplying Trade custom

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Poorly Tree Fern

Hi 

I have two 6ft Dicksonia Antartica in my garden approx 4ft apart in 500x500x500mm stainless steel pots.

One is and has been producing healthy sized fronds whilst the other has been growing very small fronds and has been doing so for 3 years now....

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What would you plant here?

Started looking after the grounds of a Nursing home late last year and am trying to brighten it up a bit in places.  This is just inside the entrance and certainly needs brightening up!  North facing and quite dry.

Darren

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Sick hydrangea

Out of the blue my hydrangea turned into a very sick plant over the course of 2 days. Has anyone got any idea what this could be? It was doing great beforehand, really vigorous growth.

The leaves now are just pulling out at the slightest touch.

I can't

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Acer griseum specimen required

I've just posted a request to see if anyone has seen a good specimen of Acer griseum in a nursery - especially one that is already peeling as the ones I've been offered are large but with no peeling bark. They are large trees but have been grown at s

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Preparation of beds for planting

My first garden design should start to be built this week and in a couple of weeks I expect to start planting. What would you advise I should ask the contractors to add to new beds, in soil terms for planting ? Also there will be some raised beds for

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Tree Recommendsations

Afternoon - not after any cake or anything but its my 40th today and I'm working!! I'm knocking it on the head in 30 mins then going out and embarrassing myself...

I am looking for about 20-25 small trees for a holiday park near me. The customer has r

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