Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / May 2007

I'm thinking of buying a rotary soil sieve from Coopers of Storford to speed
up the my compost sieveing. Has anybody any experience of these ? Are they
robust enough for about 1 m3 of compost a year? Any comments appreciated.
Trefor

I have this weed growing all around the fence, and into the yard at my
house.
It grows along the ground, up the fence, up trees, and tangles up the
lawn mower blade.

Colleague of mine saw this in a front garden in Hampshire and we
wondered what it was?
http://www.writerslife.net/flower.html
Anyone know what this is?

Beside calling this flower Centaurea (which I've always done or called
it Bleuet des champs) what do you call it?
http://cjoint.com/?fEs6lCTAwA

My sister bought a house in Zone 6a (NW New Jersey) in Dec., and I
convinced her to NOT rip everything out until we got a chance to see
what the previous owners had planted. Good thing- she LOVES her maroon-
colored bearded irises and pussy willows!  This one has me stumped

Google these two words together
Gaucho Honeybee

This tall purple-blooming plant belongs to a friend, who wants to know
what it is.  I have no idea.  Anyone?

I have an image of my garden in jpg format
to share with the group.
Is it possible to post the image in this forum?
I tried but no success.  

I was wondering if anyone can tell me what sort of pests/insects carry
the mosaic virus that roses get. I understand that its a virus and is
transported through propagation but im doing an assignment on it for
tafe and have been told to find out which insect vector is a carrier.

My lemon tree has plenty of fruit, I feed it, debug it but the fruit in some
lemons is brown & partially dried out, why?
Thanks
Sandra

Did anyone see the gold/orange sky and land  at about 5 a.m. this morning,
it was fantastic
kate

(ARA) - Due to rising human population and suburban sprawl, land for
bird habitats is decreasing. With the ever-increasing abundance of
concrete and asphalt comes the disappearance of food sources and
nesting grounds for birds. The good news, however, is that you can

Maybe there's something that somebody will say that could be of help in
the following situation.
Just a metre beyond the boundary of my garden is pole with an electrical
transformer on it, i.e. a large grey box up near the top.   From this

What did everyone think of last night's tv programme?  As always, we became
very irritated with the number of plants whose name didn't appear onscreen,
though that improved when Carol Klein was in the marquee.  But why oh why do
they, every year, take us away from Chelsea and off to ...

This strange looking jelly fungus growing on a Cedar tree is the bane of
apple growers.
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