Comments on: How I can help your garden http://helenyemm.com Musings, rambling, tips and gardening advice Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:17:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Freddie Grzybowski http://helenyemm.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-778 Freddie Grzybowski Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:00:49 +0000 http://helenyemm.wordpress.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-778 This is a good post, im pleased I found this. Ill be back again down the track to check out other posts that you have on your blog. This is a good post, im pleased I found this. Ill be back again down the track to check out other posts that you have on your blog.

]]> By: penny chamont http://helenyemm.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-627 penny chamont Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:32:48 +0000 http://helenyemm.wordpress.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-627 Dear Helen, Following your enthusiastic report about le Jardin plume near Rouen, a couple of weeks ago, I visited it last Friday with a French friend I was staying with, who lives in Rouen. She knows the garden well of course. We had a lovely afternoon and meet Madam. I gave her your article! Unfortunatly the night before we had a really hard frost so alot of stuff had been knocked down, never the less it was a great pleasure and will go again at a different time of year. Madam was thrilled to be coming to London to collect her Garden of the year award to day. Maybe you were there? Many thanks for both the regular article and the note about jardin plume. Penny Chamont Dear Helen, Following your enthusiastic report about le Jardin plume near Rouen, a couple of weeks ago, I visited it last Friday with a French friend I was staying with, who lives in Rouen. She knows the garden well of course. We had a lovely afternoon and meet Madam. I gave her your article! Unfortunatly the night before we had a really hard frost so alot of stuff had been knocked down, never the less it was a great pleasure and will go again at a different time of year. Madam was thrilled to be coming to London to collect her Garden of the year award to day. Maybe you were there? Many thanks for both the regular article and the note about jardin plume. Penny Chamont

]]> By: Mary Nourish http://helenyemm.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-606 Mary Nourish Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:30:13 +0000 http://helenyemm.wordpress.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-606 Quite a lot of my plants haven't flowered this year including anuuals such as Alonsoa, some roses and several other plants.The flowering tips are distorted and holes have appeared in the top leaves. I believe the damage may have been done by Capsid bugs though I have never seen any. If you think this is the case can you give me any advice about what I can do to prevent this happening next year or what else may have caused it. Thank you. Quite a lot of my plants haven’t flowered this year including anuuals such as Alonsoa, some roses and several other plants.The flowering tips are distorted and holes have appeared in the top leaves. I believe the damage may have been done by Capsid bugs though I have never seen any. If you think this is the case can you give me any advice about what I can do to prevent this happening next year or what else may have caused it. Thank you.

]]> By: Cliff Woods http://helenyemm.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-567 Cliff Woods Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:35:26 +0000 http://helenyemm.wordpress.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-567 Dear Helen I enjoy your page in the Telegraph every week. Can you please help. My fig tree, re-potted in the spring and about 3 feet tall, has given about a dozen delicious ripe fruits this year. It has now thrown about 100 new baby figs. What should I do about them. My Italian neighbor who claims to be an expert says to remove them all. Is that right? Last year about 15 baby figs survived the hard winter and these are the fruits which developed. Most grateful for any advice. Regards Cliff Woods (Poole, Dorset) Dear Helen
I enjoy your page in the Telegraph every week. Can you please help. My fig tree, re-potted in the spring and about 3 feet tall, has given about a dozen delicious ripe fruits this year. It has now thrown about 100 new baby figs. What should I do about them. My Italian neighbor who claims to be an expert says to remove them all. Is that right?
Last year about 15 baby figs survived the hard winter and these are the fruits which developed.
Most grateful for any advice.
Regards
Cliff Woods (Poole, Dorset)

]]> By: janet paul http://helenyemm.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-512 janet paul Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:54:31 +0000 http://helenyemm.wordpress.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-512 Re your advice about copper tape around pots containing hostas, I have done this, but inadvisably stood the pots against others without the tape as they contained plants apparently unattractive to slugs or snails. It seems that slugs and snails can jump from one pot to the other, avoiding the copper tape and devasting the hostas. However, some of the hostas seem to be having a second period of growth at the moment which are untouched for some reason. Re your advice about copper tape around pots containing hostas, I have done this, but inadvisably stood the pots against others without the tape as they contained plants apparently unattractive to slugs or snails. It seems that slugs and snails can jump from one pot to the other, avoiding the copper tape and devasting the hostas. However, some of the hostas seem to be having a second period of growth at the moment which are untouched for some reason.

]]> By: michael http://helenyemm.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-430 michael Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:47:36 +0000 http://helenyemm.wordpress.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-430 Hello Helen, do you have a address for a rosedealer which is selling the lawrence johnstone rose. For your kindly help with best regards from a juniorgardener in brandenburg/germany Hello Helen,

do you have a address for a rosedealer which is selling the lawrence johnstone rose. For your kindly
help with best regards from a juniorgardener in brandenburg/germany

]]> By: Jean Millar http://helenyemm.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-197 Jean Millar Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:28:45 +0000 http://helenyemm.wordpress.com/how-i-can-help-your-garden/#comment-197 Dear Helen - I have a garden that was laid out 25 years ago and I have fiddled with since. We had a wall put in for privacy from a proposed development next door which necessitated removing all the existing plants in one part and starting again which I have done with modifed success. I don't really want a garden designer to come and start putting in lots of hardscaping. (I live in a black wooden barn in the Oxfordshire countryside, and feel that many designed gardens around here are too townie) I would love some constructive advice on improvements and suggestions for improving the planting to get it to look better for longer. I have very thin dry chalky soil as I live on the edge of the Berkshire Downs. I live near Didcot, a longish journey by car from Wadhurst, 45 minutes from Paddington. Best wishes, Jean Millar What are your rates fro a visit, and is this the kind of thing you can help with? Dear Helen – I have a garden that was laid out 25 years ago and I have fiddled with since. We had a wall put in for privacy from a proposed development next door which necessitated removing all the existing plants in one part and starting again which I have done with modifed success. I don’t really want a garden designer to come and start putting in lots of hardscaping. (I live in a black wooden barn in the Oxfordshire countryside, and feel that many designed gardens around here are too townie) I would love some constructive advice on improvements and suggestions for improving the planting to get it to look better for longer. I have very thin dry chalky soil as I live on the edge of the Berkshire Downs. I live near Didcot, a longish journey by car from Wadhurst, 45 minutes from Paddington.

Best wishes, Jean Millar

What are your rates fro a visit, and is this the kind of thing you can help with?

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