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Thanks... Even tho neglect feels worse than disease somehow! Feed and water it is

Who, ME??lol

Around mine I either have borders or I mulch with wood chips sometimes over weed fabric.. My fruit trees are all mulched with well rotted wood chips every year..

Hi All, I recently removed 5 leilandei that were planted by a previous owner and were shading everything. I have a North-facing garden, but surrounding houses are shallow so it's full sun all day. The soil is light and not claybound - surrounding houses have flourishing apples, plums and birch...

Hi everyone,I just bought a Summer Sun on Gisela rootstock from ChrisBowers websiteI plan on building a square raised bed in sunny corner of our garden but I am unsure what size to make the square raised bed. This is the first time I am planting a tree ever and i have bought a stake and...

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Thanks so much for your replies. By looking at the websites provided I think Im going to take the plunge and have a go this summer. Cheers you two!

Hi All,have a pear tree in the garden, and for the last 3 years has been troubled with leaf curl. Nothing I have tried has cured the problem. As normal, this years abundant blossom gave way to fruit forming, but once again are falling off. Its time to go. I have just purchased a couple of...

Still looking for some expert advice from this forum if possible????

Unless your new ones are on a dwarfing rootstock (intended for pot growing perhaps?) I think it would be worth investigating why they haven't grown. Might they have been pot-bound originally and the roots haven't ventured out of the original rootball? or the soil / drainage / something is...

Silver birch are "flimsy" looking trees, I think they are much better planted in a thicket than a row. But perhaps you don't have enough" depth" to do that?An alternative would be to use multi-stem plants, Silver Birch respond well to that, and grow up to make a nice "clump" in that...

RHS says Full Sun or Part Shade (but now I come to think of it I think I have read that they do best in Full Sun :( ). Need Acid or Neutral soil though (that's never stopped me here, but maybe they would do better without Alkalinity (RHS says the Winter-stem ones are OK with any pH)I've...

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Woo, I think you're now the proud owner of the first standard grown Plum in Britain!

Our Juniperus horizontalis clearly isn't aware of of this. It gets a light trim most years just to keep it within bounds.

Should be able to see the graft - it will be a thickened part of the stem, and usually only an inch or two above the ground - about strimming height in fact :(

Interesting, thanks Whis4ey. I was assuming that bog standard Japanese maples (rather than "poncy" ones) would be easy to propagate, but if seed is the only easy way that explains why they do them in that way. Blast! Thought I was onto a winner for a moment!

Not especially, no :(

Can't remember the name (if I ever knew it), just get a tall growing variety. And when the flowers look like getting above nose height layer some cuttings and start some fresh plants. The flowers on mine are now about 12 feet up and not so noticeable as I walk past morning/evening.