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Offline DaveR

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #375 on: May 19, 2013, 08:15:58 pm »
Thank you!  $good$

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« Reply #376 on: May 19, 2013, 09:24:54 pm »
Here is a condensed YouTube video of Gunnera growing from a shrub to its giant size, over 5 months...

Gunnera - The Growth Of A Giant
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« Reply #377 on: May 20, 2013, 04:16:11 pm »
Here's my little helper in the garden yesterday,  I've let him have the day off today as it's his 4th birthday.     <:<:<:<

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« Reply #378 on: May 20, 2013, 04:55:53 pm »
I know him, didn't he used to work for Dulux in Builder Street?

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« Reply #379 on: May 20, 2013, 06:39:59 pm »
Happy Birthday -- Frizzy will help him celebrate-- he is expert at digging big holes! :o
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« Reply #380 on: May 22, 2013, 04:15:14 pm »
I visited Holker Hall gardens in Cumbria yesterday. They were stunning. Sorry but my photos don't do them justice.
There were masses of tulip displays and wonderful rhododendrons in flower.

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« Reply #381 on: May 27, 2013, 07:03:42 am »
Can anyone help with the identification of this plant in my garden please? I've had it for a few years - it was a cutting from my taids garden which he gave me a couple of years or so  before he died so I just call it 'the taidy bush'. It's no taller than a meter high and the same width I guess. Just coming into flower the last couple or so weeks, pale lilac spikes, no fragrance (that I've noticed ), and evergreen, glossy, purple edged leaves -around 2-3ish cm large on woody stems. Think that covers the description - cannot find it on the internet or books - very time consuming to look! Be great to know what it is after all these years although it will still always be ' the taidy bush ' to me.

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« Reply #382 on: May 27, 2013, 09:57:26 am »
Hi Sam,
I think it could be Hebe Hulkeana. Your name sounds better!

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« Reply #383 on: May 27, 2013, 05:17:39 pm »
Ah thanks Hollins - think you're right....at last I know! Kept getting directed to hebes on the net when searching but I didn't think it was...apparently this kind is different from all other hebes so that's why I dismissed it as a hebe. It's also known as New Zealand lilac. Cheers  $thanx$

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« Reply #384 on: June 02, 2013, 09:06:05 pm »
A splash of colour!

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« Reply #385 on: June 07, 2013, 12:06:55 pm »
This good weather has sent my 'cottage garden' into overdrive !!
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« Reply #386 on: June 07, 2013, 01:56:31 pm »
That looks really pretty Nemesis.

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« Reply #387 on: June 07, 2013, 02:24:23 pm »
Thankyou Hollins-- It ends up as a survival of the fittest !
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« Reply #388 on: June 07, 2013, 04:03:25 pm »
Lots of lovely colour, very nice!  $good$
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« Reply #389 on: June 09, 2013, 02:03:06 pm »
When the Bee Flowers ( Lysimachia) are out it all turns to yellow. Trouble with that stuff is that it takes over.
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