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Tree identification please

Can anyone identify this tree please, it's supposedly from New Zealand, but Iv'e never seen it before?

Started by Anthony Toop in Plants

3 Replies · Reply by Anthony Toop Jun 21, 2019

Aerating your lawn annually is an important part of a healthy lawn care program. Using a machine, we remove cores of soil from the turf. This reduces soil compaction and thatch so that your lawn can breathe and receive the moisture and nutrients it n

Started by James Steve in Landscaping, Plants, and Soil & compost

0 Replies · Reply by James Steve Jun 18, 2019

Problems choosing a plant for an established hedge

I seem to be struggling to find a place to buy plants that are fairly established.

I am looking for a cost effective hedging that is already 50cm or taller, and would need 3-4 plants per metre.

Ideally small leaved, which is why I originally went fo

Started by Rob in Plants

7 Replies · Reply by Paul Doyle Jun 11, 2019

Spittle bug survey

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48383730

"Scientists are calling for volunteers to record where and when they've seen spittle or spittlebugs, in gardens, meadows, grasslands and woodlands..."The results will be used to map the distribu

Started by Tim Wallach in Pesticides and Plants

1 Reply · Reply by Vic 575 May 27, 2019

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Plant labelling printer

Hi all,

Alongside my garden maintenance business I grow plants and shrubs as well as buying from wholesale nurseries to supply to customers. I am wanting to label these plants with my logo and the usual blurb about the plant etc to add a a profession

Started by Ben Gooding in Plants

4 Replies · Reply by Neal Barker @ Etesia uk May 28, 2019

Shrub It Up

Evening all,

Looking to plant up a customer's border. Space for 3 small to medium sized shrubs. Customer wants as much year round colour as possible. The border is surrounded by a small box hedge so need a some height to be visible over the hedging, w

Started by PGM in Plants

13 Replies · Reply by Geoffrey King Apr 13, 2019

Wholesale nurseries in East Anglia

Sadly, after many years of trading, Fordham Wholesale nursery (South east of Ely in Cambridgehshire) is closing in the summer, and I'm now starting to panic slightly as there doesn't seem to be another good wholesale plant nursery I can use instead.

Started by Anna McArthur in Plants

1 Reply · Reply by Julius Bell Mar 24, 2019

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Shoot identification.

An elderly lady is concerned about a plant shoot in her garden, she said last year it grew to about three foot high with a white stem.

The bed will get tidied up in a couple of weeks time and I'm still trying to work out what is in it.

Andy

Started by Andrew Betteridge in Plants

12 Replies · Reply by Busy Bee Garden Services Limited Jun 17, 2019

ilex

Hi All,

I need to repllace some large drifts of Boxwood with Ilex crenata, in heights varying from 50cm to 100. Has anyone good first hand experience of using Ilex in this manner and what varieties work best.By that I mean is there one variety e.g. 'g

Started by Paul Doyle in Plants

5 Replies · Reply by Paul Doyle Feb 9, 2019

Seaweed meal in borders

Evening all. I've only been using for a short while now but have been impressed with the results of liquid seaweed on my lawns. I am looking into using seaweed meal in borders.

We manage some quite large herbaceous borders and currently use a mix of

Started by Glen Stillman in Plants, Soil & compost, and Suppliers

8 Replies · Reply by Jes Gardner Dec 9, 2018

Mitox machines

Hello everybody I'm looking to diversify my garden metal work business to incorporate garden maintenance I currently use husqvarna for my saw and brush cutter use. However I have also got a mitox brush cutter that was gifted to me as a back up and to

Started by John Handy in Business, Groundscare, and Landscaping

3 Replies · Reply by Graeme Brown Sep 10, 2018

plug plants supplier

Evening guys and gal's. I'm after your recommendations for plug plant suppliers please. I have used kernock plants before and been happy with the plants but I need a good supplier for a few dozen plants at a time rather than a few thousand! Thanks, G

Started by Glen Stillman in Plants and Suppliers

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Watering service.

Hi all,

hope everyone is surviving the heat etc! Just wondering if anybody has experience with offering a watering service, I guess mainly targeting people going on holiday for long periods over the Summer, any advice greatly received!

Started by Ben Gooding in Design, Groundscare, and Landscaping

3 Replies · Reply by Darren Walters Jul 29, 2018

Looking for plant and tree wholesaler

Hi Guys! We are just about to start quoting for a several thousand plant/tree planting scheme in Devon. Can anyone recommend a good quality, reasonably priced supplier that can potentially deliver to Devon. Thanks.

Started by Henry Scott in Plants

3 Replies · Reply by Andrew Midgley Jul 24, 2018

Conifer hedges

Anyone cutting them at the moment? A couple of people have asked me to trim them this week but I've suggested they leave them alone during this heat and drought.

Started by Colin Anson in Plants

2 Replies · Reply by Jim Gibbon Jul 20, 2018

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Beech hedge reduction advice

I've been asked to reduce a mature beech hedge by around half down to a height of 6 foot requiring cutting through stems of up to wrist thickness.

I've not done this to beech before and would just like to know if this is advisable during a drought?If

Started by Green Girl Garden Care in Plants

19 Replies · Reply by Green Girl Garden Care Aug 1, 2018

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Network Rail lose Japanese Knotweed case

STOP PRESS: The Williams case was successful at trial and is already considered a landmark case. Network Rail appealed and the High Court accepted that it was important enough to justify leapfrogging it straight to the Court of Appeal. It will be

Started by Phil Voice in Pesticides and Plants

1 Reply · Reply by Phil Voice Jul 3, 2018

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