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Recent Content by Tropical_Gaz

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    Pond Update - finally sorted out some photos!

    Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the comments!Hopefully this year can have lots more time sat watching the fish rather than making them a new...
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 28, 2014 in forum: Water Gardening
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    Butia

    Good quality plants too.
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 22, 2014 in forum: Other Plants
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    Yucca - will it survive outdoors?

    As pete says the usual house plant yucca is Y elephantipies and generally this is not that hardy. But in London, if planted in a sheltered spot...
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 22, 2014 in forum: General Gardening Discussion
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    best product to use for insulation in greenhouse

    With the greenhouses, we do provide some heat, but work on frost free, rather than keeping "warm". on the darker sides and at the bottom we use...
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 22, 2014 in forum: Greenhouse Growing
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    best product to use for insulation in greenhouse

    Greenhouses tend to have lots of gaps and drafts, plus hort glass (or safety) is pretty poor at insulating. we do use bubble wrap on the 2...
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 22, 2014 in forum: Greenhouse Growing
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    Pond Update - finally sorted out some photos!

    If you are more interested in the plants, we put together a series of photos just of the plants in the raised beds by the pond...
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 22, 2014 in forum: Water Gardening
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    Keeping stuff alive in the arctic blasts

    For many plants the biggest risk is the damp, trying to keep things on the dry side can help, but then you have the risk of RSM (red spider mite)
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 9, 2014 in forum: General Gardening Discussion
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    What Jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2014..

    Jobs for 2014... too many!, replant the area damaged by fire, build shed for fish quarantine pond, maybe rebuild existing garden shed to be...
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 8, 2014 in forum: General Gardening Discussion
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    Keeping stuff alive in the arctic blasts

    Its much cheaper to provide artificial light to a dark warmer space than to heat a bright cold one.We use an insulated outbuilding with minimal...
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 8, 2014 in forum: General Gardening Discussion
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    Cottage garden fused with tropical

    Theres plenty of cross over between the two styles, both can have quite a relaxed approach to design and appear to be unplanned in style and...
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 8, 2014 in forum: General Gardening Discussion
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    Pond Update - finally sorted out some photos!

    Not quite, but i suspect a couple of them would take to it if we tried a bit more often
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 8, 2014 in forum: Water Gardening
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    Pond Update - finally sorted out some photos!

    We have about 15-20 koi - i dont actually know how many, but id miss one if it wasnt there. The oldest we have had for about 5 years, maybe a...
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 8, 2014 in forum: Water Gardening
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    Pond Update - finally sorted out some photos!

    The gift of ginkgos was from a good friend of ours, who did not want us to publicly name. We were very touched.We have shown some pics of the...
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 8, 2014 in forum: Water Gardening
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    Pond Update - finally sorted out some photos!

    Thanks everyone for the comments :) Much appreciatedJoolz, on that side of the shed every tile was nailed down to avoid any slipping, hopefully...
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 7, 2014 in forum: Water Gardening
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    Butia

    From palm centre?
    Post by: Tropical_Gaz, Jan 6, 2014 in forum: Other Plants
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