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« Reply #30 on: September 18, 2023, 01:15:20 AM »

The bushes are cut very precisely.   
http://flowermag.com/wp-c.../04/Highgrove-0332194.jpg
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« Reply #31 on: September 19, 2023, 04:30:54 PM »

This is a wonderful book on Highgrove’s gardens https://www.amazon.com/Hi...ook%2Caps%2C67&sr=8-1
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« Reply #32 on: September 19, 2023, 07:17:09 PM »

This is a wonderful book on Highgrove’s gardens https://www.amazon.com/Hi...ook%2Caps%2C67&sr=8-1

Thanks, DoV. I just put it on hold from my library - I was surprised to find they owned the only copy in our system.  Smiley
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« Reply #33 on: March 15, 2024, 10:45:17 PM »

Highgrove garden flowers look spectacular.   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBGhS3eZjQA
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« Reply #34 on: March 16, 2024, 12:36:11 AM »

OMG those delphinium! I’ve never seen their equal. I wonder how Charles keeps the snails and slugs from chomping on them? If I don’t put heavy amounts of snail bait, mine get eaten down to the ground every year. But of course, old organic Charles wouldn’t do such a thing.
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« Reply #35 on: March 17, 2024, 12:50:18 AM »

OMG those delphinium! I’ve never seen their equal. I wonder how Charles keeps the snails and slugs from chomping on them? If I don’t put heavy amounts of snail bait, mine get eaten down to the ground every year. But of course, old organic Charles wouldn’t do such a thing.
   
bumbershoot, I am glad that you like the delphinium.  Yes Yes Yes
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« Reply #36 on: March 19, 2024, 06:27:27 PM »

OMG those delphinium! I’ve never seen their equal. I wonder how Charles keeps the snails and slugs from chomping on them? If I don’t put heavy amounts of snail bait, mine get eaten down to the ground every year. But of course, old organic Charles wouldn’t do such a thing.

I've read that pans of beer are useful for snail/slug control.  They drown in it.

I've always wanted to get a bunch of seed packets from the Highgrove shop to make my own wildflower meadows, but since I only have a balcony (with no direct light) --alas!
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« Reply #37 on: March 19, 2024, 06:48:27 PM »

OMG those delphinium! I’ve never seen their equal. I wonder how Charles keeps the snails and slugs from chomping on them? If I don’t put heavy amounts of snail bait, mine get eaten down to the ground every year. But of course, old organic Charles wouldn’t do such a thing.

I've read that pans of beer are useful for snail/slug control.  They drown in it.

I've always wanted to get a bunch of seed packets from the Highgrove shop to make my own wildflower meadows, but since I only have a balcony (with no direct light) --alas!
Pans of beer are useful for snail control. But I did it once but would never do it again. Next morning all those snails were lying there dead, a horrible sight. Even if they eat plants they still are living creatures.
I guess and hope there are other methods to keep them away. Sad
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« Reply #38 on: March 19, 2024, 06:51:09 PM »

I don't think you can "drive" them away.  Yes, the initial "death drunk" would net a lot of them, but there would be fewer and fewer after that.  Otherwise, you'd need more "Hedgehogs, shrews, mice, moles, squirrels and even foxes" to control them.  You don't want more mice or moles or squirrels...
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« Reply #39 on: March 19, 2024, 07:19:09 PM »

Here's website that offers some tips on deterring slugs - and also killing them off, if you scroll down. Disclaimer - I don't know how well any of the deterrents work.

https://redemptionpermacu...-your-garden-organically/

I live in the country and depend on the mice, toads, skunks and snakes etc. to rid my plants of them. I do have some, and when I come across them I pick them off and squish them.

But that's me. I don't think I'd like the looks of a whole pan of dead snails either.

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« Reply #40 on: May 11, 2024, 12:12:10 AM »

Inside King Charles III's garden at Highgrove   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtW1N3Z2Epg
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