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growing wildflowers for bees and butterflies

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  • Hi Nutcutlet,

    Just to let you know I've PM'd you!

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    Thanks ffb, I've got it. and answered



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Hi Nutcutlet,

    Please could you read my message to you on

    flowersforbeesandbutterflies! Many thanks!
  • Hi Nutcutlet - I'm going dizzy and probably driving you dizzy too!!

    I now have my toolbar back, but I still can't read the PM you sent

    me tonight although I can see the start of your message as clear

    as day.  Every time I click on your message all that comes up is

    my original question to you I asking what to do with my wildflower

    garden when it dies back.  Think I'll go to bed and hopefully get out

    the right side tomorrow!  By the way please ignore the message I

    posted to you prior to this one - it just doesn't make sense as everything

    I typed disappeared somewhere in cyber space!!

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    There are a few glitches around right now but I'm learning to live with them.

    you can cut it all down when everything you want to seed has seeded. Don't overdo the cultivation, you want to keep the perennials. just a bit of a rake and a weed out of anything you don't want. you can throw in any extra seeds as well. Did I ask you if you wanted any lesser knapweed, there'll be plenty of that, it's one of the most reliable plants out there,



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Thanks Nutcutlet - just off out, so will reply to you later.

  • Hi again Nutcutlet.  Thanks very much for all your good advice which I will

    be sure to follow. I would very much like some Lesser Knapweed please, as

    I want to try and get as many wildflower species to grow as possible.  I'm going

    to try to post a photo of a white flower which seems to be spreading

    everywhere in my wildflower garden and wonder if you could please identify it

    for me, as I think I need to get it pulled out before it sheds its seeds, otherwise

    I won't have room for anything else next year! Thanks again for everything!

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     Don't know if this has worked but here goes Nutcutlet - photo of the

    white flower which seems a bit invasive - do you have any idea what

    it is please?  It's not as good a picture as I'd hoped so I'll post

    another one to give you an idea of its height!

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    Hi ffb, looks like achillea, if so leaves will be quite feathery looking and greyish green.

    A pic showing the leaves will confirm (or not).

    going off line for a while now as OH sorting out the phone wires. Main PC keeps losing its internet connection



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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