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I believe that is the one. When I looked for orange fungus, I only had images of the grown version. Your link has picture similar to what I have. I has an extremely hard time”skin”. With the first one, I thought the foxes had nailed it to the ground. Would you leave it or remove?

If you can, then that would be ideal, but I bet you would pay for it on the house value...This is the thing though - you get these EVangelist types that bang on how we should all go for EV's, solar and home battery storage and pontificate about how wonderful it makes their life and how much...

A good one to try which will tolerate clay @Andrew Funnell is Calamagrostis Karl Foerster. It has a columnar form, growing to about 1.5m in flower. Others include Panicum Northwind, also narrow and columnar, and Miscanthus Malepartus which is a larger, vigorous grass. The three have different...

Double digging was something devised by senior gardeners for the apprentices, under gardeners to do over the winter. It kept them busy, out of trouble and you knew where to find them. Meanwhile the senior gardeners where in the glasshouses taking cuttings, sowing seeds, smoking pipes etc. Every...

Use your search engine and input - how to use manure for fruit trees. This will help.

Just passed a house with a young sapling in a small bedding in the front garden. Sadly they have piled on a lot of fresh manure and buried part of the trunk in it. I was tempted to knock on the door and explain to them the error of their ways but my OH would not let me.

Sounds as if you need to clear your search history and remove your cookies....

Well first post of this thread in 2026.So I have a few packets of pansies, I see these for sale soon well before the summer bedding, as they seem to like a cool climate and bolt in the summer. So wondering what is the best time to start growing pansies from seed? Do these need as much heat and...

Proper plant talk.

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