Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire
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May 2024
11:35am, 11 May 2024
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Eynsham Red
We have a Rowan in our garden and the white blossom on it has been amazing this year. The downside is, and I’ve only just become aware of it, is that Rowan flowers smell like a rotting corpse someone tried to conceal with a floral perfume, or the scent of a well-used public bathroom that uses extra strength deodorisers. I’d been looking in the undergrowth for a dead animal until I learned this on t’internet! |
May 2024
10:24am, 12 May 2024
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3M
Good to know, ER! I won't plant one of those...
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May 2024
4:37pm, 12 May 2024
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Lesley C
We have two in our garden. No blossom on them yet.
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May 2024
5:15pm, 12 May 2024
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Cerrertonia
I have several rowans, all of them have fairly nice smelling blossom I would say, although none in flower yet. They are quite unusual in being mostly pollinated by beetles although it attracts bees and flies too.
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May 2024
5:42pm, 12 May 2024
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Velociraptor
I have two rowans in my garden (hoping they'll flower this year, they were too small last year), a small sapling in a pot that I've got a place for if Tink doesn't want it for her garden, and another self-seeded one that I might allow to grow where it's landed. I like them, and they're unfussy enough to cope with my garden.
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May 2024
5:48pm, 12 May 2024
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Eynsham Red
Does anyone know how to deal with convolvulus which is growing up through our compost heap?
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May 2024
8:32pm, 12 May 2024
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Cerrertonia
Move house?
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May 2024
8:40pm, 12 May 2024
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Cerrertonia
It grows back from any tiny piece of root, so although it's not too difficult to keep under control, it's very hard to eradicate. If you have the time and patience, perhaps passing the compost heap through a riddle is the way to go?
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May 2024
8:48pm, 12 May 2024
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3M
I "inherited" some convolvulus with some raspberry bushes I was given 4 years ago. (😡) I've dug be bed out and replanted the canes over winter in an attempt to get rid of it. It's back again this year. 😭 There's less of it though, at the moment. I'm trying to pull it out as soon as I see it. Another year... The raspberries are good, though. |
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May 2024
10:06pm, 12 May 2024
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Eynsham Red
It’ll will be a bit tedious Cerrertonia but I guess that it’s the only option.
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