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Fritillaria growing wild in a French meadow

France is a great place to visit in the spring time if you love seeing wild flowers in the meadows, ditches and banks.

 

I passed a field this morning that was absolutely full of Fritillaria.

 

Does anyone know of locations in the UK where these plan

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Cherry Blossom

I have two adjacent cherry trees in blossom (different varieties).  The weather is chilly and damp so there are no bees around.  I presume that if the blossom falls before the bees arrive I'll have no fruit.  Is it feasible to hand cross pollinate ?

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Digging up a box hedge

Hi, an aquaintance of mine has taken on a house with a box hedge, about 4 ft high and 2 ft wide which was planted about 10 years ago.  He needs it to be removed due to a large extension they are currently building.  What are the chances of it being s

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Established indoor climbers

I am looking for very tall indoor climbers that are flowering and well established. Can't find any suppliers with suitable stock at this time of year. Will almost certainly have to be a specimen  plant.  Suggestions re suppliers would be much appreci

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Tree and Plant sizes

Through LJN Chat last night, we threw up the question about Tree and Plant specification, and who knew what.  It transpired that no LJN Member on Chat last night knew how to specify a Tree for a project or to buy, so here goes.

 

Trees - are sold comme

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phormium tenax and frost protection

Hello i live and work in the chew valley area of somerset and have a customer who would like me to plant several phormium tenax {green and purple} around a pond area, i have bought the plants and am now slightly concerned about planting them. The che

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Winter/Frost Hit Plants

New maintenance customers coming through which is good news but notice how the recent weather has effected their plants. Any advice on the following:

 

Two standard twisted bay in large containers don't look well. Leaves are 75% brown and not looking g

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First Aid for a damaged Cherry Tree

A client has had a flowering cherry tree damaged by a car/delivery van which has resulted in a large piece of bark being scraped off the trunk. Its not been barked (..there is 2/3rd of the bark circumference left). It's gone thru to green wood.

 

Wha

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not a Growers Winter

Early snow, hanging around for weeks, not ideal for plants.

 

This Winter has witnessed some dramatic plant losses for many Growers.  We have heard various stories of such, the latest being a Grower we know throwing away 800 French Lavandula kept in a

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Fully hardy Agapanthus?

First off i am just outside belfast and near the coast to give an idea of the climate.

 

Has anyone had good success with any varieties of agapanthus that have survived well in the ground over winter? If so what was the variety, did you mulch it or cov

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SWLC a promising start, with record sales

 

Four Garden Designers in this afternooon at the same time, interesting....and many thanks to them, and all that have supported us. 

 

The future is somewhat hazy, but for plant supply and service, the future is (we hope) SWLC.

 

Thank you to all.

 

T&S 

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Plants, pricing and pain?!

Recently qouted on a planting job - buxus hedging and received a reply stating that my plant prices were too high. As this isn't a comment I've run into before it made me consider how I had worked out my prices.

 

On plants what I normally do is try an

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Rose

Hello any brilliant flower identifiers...

A client has a rose which died  but which they want to re-plant - they have a photo of it (attached) which is all they haven left - anyone able to help me identify this please - it has an incredible scent appa

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Raymond Blanc 'sorry' over restaurant's tree felling

Two historic trees were felled outside the entrance to his Oxfordshire restaurant that were subject to a preservation order!!

 

Come on - anyone worth their salt would of checked before even attempting to fell them and I don't think he done them himsel

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Silver Wattle Acacia - Sick - Causes?

Hi All,

 

A client has a silver wattle acacia that seems to be rapidly dying at the moment.  I have been visiting regularly for several years and it has always seemed relatively healthy - one or two small branches were dead.  Now whole sections of the

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Rosa Banksiae

Hi All,

 

Anyone have any experience growing this rose? Is it hardy?

 

I've had a few customers ask us to stock this rose just lately and I've always thought of it as on the tender side.

 

Thanks

Rachel

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What is a Tree Planting License?

I have been asked for info on a tree planting license for 16000 trees we have just planted for a multinational pharmaceuticals company.  I, nor any contacts of mine, have ever heard of one.Any of you lot come across this before, and if so what are th

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Can you ID this tree please?

Hi All

 

I'm looking to identifiy this particular tree  (centre of image, staked) can any one point me in the right direction please?

 

 

Kerry

 

Image 1

 

 

image 2

 

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Crocus

Couple of shots of some of the 4000+ naturalised crocus I planted for a couple of clients late autumn last year. Many thanks to the Juicers who offered me invaluable advice at the time. The photos don't really do them justice, and I hope to take some

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Heavy Duty Pot Movers

Anyone on here supply them? I've emailed a few companies and they are obviously too busy to be bothered to reply...their loss.

I'm looking for kit than can take pots up to 160 ltr but is narrow if possible less than 2ft 6 inches - the 4ft wide movers

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