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Thanks digger. Just worried about the cost of professional tree person, just moved house and money is a bit tight.
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So what sort of poison can you use? I'd actually like to kill a tree I've inherited, I don't want to pay someone to chop it down and take the roots out because the surrounding plants and shrubs are lovely. It's a horrible great big green leylandii type thing. Two weeks ago I ripped up 25 of the horrid things, varying sizes from dwarf to about 7ft. That was so great. But the one that's left is too big, it's about 4 or 5m tall. If you ask me they should be classed as an invasive weed and banned, like
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Sadly it the appeal of Himalayan Balsam flowers fades pretty quickly if there's a lot of it about. I live near the River Severn, and long stretches of it are now completely overgrown with HB, completely obliterating the native (and far more beautiful) flora. Whenever we go for a walk along the river, I take my gloves in case I see some HB. Ripping it up is great fun!
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Thanks for that fatmarrow, I've just added it to my favourites.
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I have never used slug pellets, Kevin, so I don't know. I just have a hunt for them in the morning and the evening and put them in a bucket. I sometimes throw them on the path and see if the birds get them. I've tried physical barriers and crushed eggshells but they didn't work. As for your onions, although I've never grown them, it does sound a bit odd that they would just disappear. If they had died, then there would be something there, a bit of wilted foliage or withered bulbs. Slugs can wipe
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Thanks for the advice sue1002, I've spent quite a bit of time looking at Greenhouses on the internet, but hadn't spotted that one, it looks quite nice and a reasonable price too. Could well be finding a home in my new garden!
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Hello all, wonder if anyone can help. Have inherited a small pine tree in a pot (could possibly have been an ex-(mini) Xmas tree), I like it but it needs potting on and a couple of dead branches removing. Is it the right time or should I wait?
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Hello all, have just moved into a new house and want to buy a greenhouse. Don't have a big budget and was wondering what type of glazing you all thought was better, toughened glass or polycarbonate? The glazed look of the polycarbonate isn't very aesthetically pleasing, but the adverts imply that the diffused light is better because it avoids scorch. I had rather pictured myself sitting under glass on sunny afternoons with a cup of tea surrounded by all my seedlings, and polycarbonate just wouldn
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Well thanks everyone for replying. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to reply but I got carried away with gardening in 2004 and drifted away from the boards, but I'm back now, I'd forgotten what a valuable source of information these boards are and what a friendly bunch you are. I'll be contacting Felco to see if they'll sharpen them for me. I've been using some cheap secateurs from Tesco lately and they're ok, but I've just moved into a new house with a much bigger garden (hooray!) and I'll be wanting
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Have you got a link to some pictures of the new echinaceas? They are my favourite perennial; I've just moved into a new house with a much bigger garden and I would like to fill it up with drifts of them.
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