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Feb 2017
3:06pm, 24 Feb 2017
4,306 posts
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Helegant
Thank you. I was told (by the Thompson and Morgan web sit) that nasturtiums keep some predators away. Sorry to sound daft, but is there a better way?
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Feb 2017
3:10pm, 24 Feb 2017
33,216 posts
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FleeCircus
Depends what the predators are. The main ones which bother me are snails. Bastards. And pellets are about all you can do for them (you can get organic ones). I do grow nasturtiums and pot marigolds and let poppies and other flowers self-seed but I have lots of space and like some colour, if you have a small space then don't worry too much about flowers. Lots of other people will grow them nearby!
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Feb 2017
3:11pm, 24 Feb 2017
33,217 posts
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FleeCircus
And Hanneke: are you sure? If so that sucks  But there seems to have been some very dodgy advice going round about immigration issues, I hope you're checking the rules really carefully and that it's not as you think x
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Feb 2017
3:12pm, 24 Feb 2017
4,307 posts
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Helegant
Aha! Thank you.
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Feb 2017
8:21pm, 24 Feb 2017
13,161 posts
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Dvorak
I like nasturtiums! Also, they are something which much prefer common or garden soil to compost. To avoid sprawl, you can give them something to climb.
First leaves open on a raspberry cane the other day (before the  ). Many other fruits about to follow. However, the leaves on my citrus in the (unheated) greenhouse have yellowed and are falling. Hopefully just the cold and they will come back as it hasn't been greviously freezing. (Lemon, calamondin.)
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Feb 2017
1:52am, 28 Feb 2017
13,178 posts
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Dvorak
First flower of the year on the camellia yesterday. A little surprising as it had been near zero last night. Though sun in the morning. Sub-zero tonight, hope it survives that.
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Feb 2017
10:43am, 28 Feb 2017
4,315 posts
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Helegant
I like camellias. We once had one that thrived behind the garage where no-one could see it. It had been accidentlly transplanted when foundations were dug, then the ground was covered in cement during building work. Give the reaction to that, which was beautiful blooms, I deduced that they quite like lime.
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Feb 2017
3:20pm, 28 Feb 2017
4,815 posts
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Markymarkmark
I have a little pool of lovely bluey/purple crocii, and some tete a tete mini-daffs which I rescued from a supermarket pot last year, happily blooming through my lawn. Oh, and hellebores.
But my sweet peas on the windowsill are far to tall and spindly to support their own weight, and too stupid to grip the little flower sticks in their pots. They need to go out and start to harden off -but we had a fairly hard frost last night!
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Mar 2017
12:52pm, 1 Mar 2017
7,347 posts
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Garfield
Our camellia tree hasn't flowered yet...there are buds but no bright pink flowers yet.
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Mar 2017
6:37pm, 10 Mar 2017
68,832 posts
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Hanneke
Evrything is starting to bud, bulbs are in full flower, well the narcissii and daffs, and I have shopped in Aldi for all sorts, including some gooseberries for a client, a red gooseberry for myself, I only have green ones, and a yellow raspberry.
Because of lack of time the garden is rather overgrown with weeds though
But I did harvest 2 kilo's of rhubarb and sold it already in the village shop
But i am hoping to spend all weekend working on it, as well as putting spuds out to chit, plant onion sets and prepare seed trays and sow stuff
Lovely camelia, must get one, i love them, but the squirrels will probably have the buds
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