Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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I think this must be the latest in the year I've ever mowed the lawn for the first time. Also managed a bit of dead-heading and clearing. Still a bit breezy to get the weedkiller spray out, though.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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My crocuses have finally given up the ghost so it leaves another container empty for Summer bulbs. Not got around to cutting the grass yet but most of my neighbours have been cracking away today.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Lovely Howard.Something keeps eating the tulips.
Alec Sheldon
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Cut first time for me today.
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Rhododendrons - £6.99 at Aldi; irresistible!
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Jan Higgins
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Button wrote:Rhododendrons - £6.99 at Aldi; irresistible!
Just make sure your soil is acid enough or plant in a pot.
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Button- Location: Dover
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In a pot for now, but these get to 6' - 10' eventually! The dwarf ones and the camellia are thriving in the garden though, and just about to bloom.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Slightly off topic but there was an extraordinary incident in my back garden today when a strange cat entered my garden. My psychotic dwarf moggy has ruled the four gardens in my sector since 2002 and doesn't let interlopers in but she was so busy drinking filthy water out of an old washing up bowl that the intrusion went unnoticed.
Reginald Barrington
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Button wrote:In a pot for now, but these get to 6' - 10' eventually! The dwarf ones and the camellia are thriving in the garden though, and just about to bloom.
Your Camellia is about to flower? That's very late.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Button wrote:In a pot for now, but these get to 6' - 10' eventually! The dwarf ones and the camellia are thriving in the garden though, and just about to bloom.
Yours will be fine in a pot, the container size will restrict its growth. When we moved into our house we "inherited" a Rhododendron in an smallish ex plastic water tank, still going strong after about 14yrs just a bit leggy, we have not bothered to prune it as it seems happy as it is.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The lovely weather has shamed me into doing some work in the garden and put down some dried mealworms for the magpies and collared doves that visit regularly. Thy always fly off if I open the back door but today a magpie was munching away 10 feet away, maybe the sun had got to it?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Bumble Bees seem to be doing well, seen a few enormous ones this week in my garden and still only April.
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Alec Sheldon- Location: Dover
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Had an enormous bumble bee in my little computer room yesterday, had hell of a job to get it out.
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