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Help......idea's needed!

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  Posted by lynda (U14596964) on Sunday, 29th August 2010

  Hi, Im needing a few hints and tips on what i can do with my garden..... Im hopeless with plants and flowers I have a large back garden, which has been a work in progress for the past 3 years we have managed to compete the decking and have a large grass area but i have a boarder/ space that need filled between my grass and pathway, thing is they are diffrent levels and in stumped on what to do with it....any idea's???? also I have a fern tree(dicksonia antarctica) and no leaves have grew this year, they old dead leave were cut off and it was protected in the winter and idea on what i can do with this so it growns nexy year.... there are a few cats in my neighbourhood and i think they mights have been peeing on it. Could this have killed it?

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  Posted by nanpickle (U14258493) on Sunday, 29th August 2010

  Oh Lynda, on Essex Radio Gardening programme yesterday someone else had been told to cut off the old leaves of her tree fern. The presenters told her to find that person and beat them with a big stick. Apparently she should have folded them up pyramid style, stuffed straw inside and tied them to help protect the plant, then fleece over. The general concensus was that she had lost the plant. They did advise leaving it until next Spring to see if any more leaves appear, but were very doubtful. Sorry about that. Nan x

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  Posted by Trillium (U2170869) on Sunday, 29th August 2010

  I did the leaf folding over thing with my tree ferns last autumn and then wrapped them in fleece, but lost them all the same. It was one stinger of a winter. If it hasn't shown any sign of growth this year then Nan is right, I'm afraid, it's as dead as a doornail.
  
  But I left my fern trunks in situ this year and grew purple morning glory up them (Ipomoea Grandpa Ott). They looked wonderful, and suitably exotic.

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