Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / August 2008

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Anyone aware of the bee situation this year..I see very few

For twenty years I have had about two hundred pink Jackson & Perkins
climbing roses on the borders of my property. They have been
beautiful. Last year and this year some of the bushes have died,
others do not look too good. My gardener and I have tried various

This question is specifically addresses to those familiar with Gilmour
hoses and adapters.
1. Between their "high flow" and "full flow" adapters, which one has
greater water-carrying capacity? With names like that, even their phone

I have a Witch Hazel in my garden. It was bought from a nursery in a pot and
has been in the ground for about 3 years. We are on clay and so a lot of
organic matter was put into the hole at planting, and it has been mulched
each year.

Other than cucumber sandwich and pickle how else can I use up a lot of
cucumber without too much work?

I am about to plant a low, formal, evergreen hedge, approx 0.8 - 1.
metres high and 16 metres long. It fronts a lawn and borders on
pavement so needs to be resilent i.e. must be able to regenerate fro
old wood in case of vandalism.  Has anybody had experience of plantin

I want to begin a compost pile starting with some corn stocks but noticed
they are spotted with live black aphids. Would the compost wind up being
contaminated with these critters or their eggs next season?

I know this is the wrong newsgroup but I cannot find the diy one. Either my
server has removed it or I just cant  find it.  Anyway, I have economy 7
electricity and they have just replaced the meter with a digital one and I
cannot work it out and I have tried the internet but ...

I have a small vegetable plot in the garden and this year it has done rather
badly.  I planted carrots in there in March and just dug up most of them to
find they are more like baby veg!  The beetroot isnt really filling out
either and the only thing that seems to have done ok in ...

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Settled on a Geranium on our veranda this morning and is still there 12
hours later :-)
Four inch wingspan and three inch overall body length.

I have a Phal that has many roots growing from the top.  This phal had
a problems about a year ago with yellowing leaves.  I removed the bad
leaves and repotted the plant.  Since then it has grown several
healthy leaves but no flowers.

Earlier this summer (if you can call it that), I planted some
sunflower seeds from a packet I had had for some time, but had
forgotten all about.
About 5 or 6 germinated and grew to well over 2.5m tall, but no flower

For those of you who are searching for a remedy for moles, have tried
all the folk remedies without success. let me give you the answer.
I have been pestered by the little blighters for years, on and off.
This year particularly bad. After lots of research on the net, I came

Hello...
I'm curious what the tree in the follow pictures is:
Also...is the fruit edible?
Thank you,