Flowers
Botyritis in Freesia I am still growing my freesias as I have done over the past few years but sadly this season I have mostly ignored them and the results are now showing. Last season I had a small out break of botyritis and combatted it with a spraying and drenching programe but this...
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The Complete Garden Flower Book The ultimate source of inspiration for the gardener, The Complete Garden Flower Book offers a host of ideas and advice about a vast range of different plants, from perennials to shrubs, herbs to cacti. This handy resource covers every flowering plant you can imagine and shows how to get...
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Garden Talk News
Garden Talk News is a work in progress still. As the wind howls around the house there is no better time than now to sit down and continue the work developing the the theme.
Developing the site takes a bit time, however there is a lot of pleasure gained by seeing the progress,...
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End of bulb season
The end of April marked the end of another season of selling the freesia bulbs. Once again if I had several thousand more I could of sold them as well.
Using the auction sites as my selling platform has been my most successful venture and I think this year I will concentrate...
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Growing Buxus English Box
I grow my freesias in the greenhouse which means I have an empty shadehouse year round so this season with the help of a friend it was decided to diversify and offer cheap plants of all sorts at a cheaper rate by selling them as smaller...
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Take an existing business to the Internet Thirty- forty years ago it was quite normal for the wife to stay at home, be the main childcare support, look after the house and in doing so provide a happy loving environment for the family unit. The man of the house provided the earnings and it...
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A work from home mum starting out on the Internet.
Thirty- forty years ago it was quite normal for the wife to stay at home, be the main childcare support, look after the house and in doing so provide a happy loving environment for the family unit. The man of the house provided the earnings...
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Early end of flowers
The freesias were very late flowering this year and as we have had a very warm spring many of the flowers all flowered at the same time giving a shorter season.
I must admit the greenhouse did look beautiful with an abundance of flowers but as most of the florists in New Zealand...
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After a very poor start to the season with a severe drought , then incessant rain bringing about continual low light my flowers are in full bloom and looking really beautiful.
I have a lot less bulbs this season as I really thinned the trays out at the start of the season and it seems...
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Flowering at last
What a bad start to the flowering season it has been . We have had almost continual rain for the last month, hence lack of sunshine hours. I cannot remember a season where the end of winter is so wet and the ground so sodden. It sure makes working out side very...
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