Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / July 2008

I too these of my baskets and pots, all of which I grew from seed
except the hanging pink begonias.  Tonight it is raining, thank
goodness as it is parched here.
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Please can you help me identify this rose. My mother recently passe
away and we'd like to buy more of her favourite rose but we are no
sure what it is.
Any suggestions appreciated.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25833435/
" Eating a half serving a day of soy-based foods could be enough to
significantly lower a man’s sperm count"

Interesting ABC Landline program last Sunday on Potatoes and itbeing
Internatinal Year of the Potatoe. About 1,700 varieties exists.
Podcast from ABc if interested. Very informative about potatoes role to
solve hunger. china apparently double production last year and becamethe

I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a good online plant directory?
The ones I've got from googling are:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/
and

Earlier this spring I planted some cucumber starts in a 6’ by 3-foot plot
that apparently was overloaded with nitrogen.
After a few weeks in the sun they shriveled and died. I then dug out a “V”
section of the plot and replaced it with topsoil then

I have a leylandii border around the garden.
I would appreciate ideas for something to 'fill in' around the base so that
dogs can't get in/our dog can't get out.
Currently I hve a chickenwire frnce but it isn't very pleasing to the eye.

ID please. i think ginger...but...
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After many years of use my ISP has removed all alt.binaries
newsgroups from their server.  When I try to access
alt.binaries.pictures.gardens I get an error.  AT&T says it is doing
this due to child porn, but I have never seen child porn in

Has anyone any experience of growing this from seed?  I'm wondering how long
it takes to get to any reasonable size.

Tennis is having problems posting to this group and hopes to resolve them
with his ISP soon.  In the meantime he has asked me to submit a message on
his behalf.
Tennis has updated the Sale/Trade/Wish lists on his website and would call

Can you just pop the beans out of the pod and re-plant them?

In my garden is a:
Rhus typhina
The label, which I removed from it ages ago, says:
'Stags Horn Sumach' L shrub/small tree, thick widely branching stems

Just curious.  What is the difference between "Beans" and "peas"?  is
there a biological distinction? or just a linguistic/interchangeable
difference?
thanks,

Need some advice on how to remove kikuyu from the lawn. My backyard has a
large lawn section where the kikuyu grass has taken over.
Its located on a terraced bed above the paved courtyard. Quite a tricky
location to get to actually as there are no steps leading to it - only big