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Q1 -听What does the panel think about autumn planting to give plants the chance to establish over the winter and hopefully survive future droughts?听听

Q2 -听Why鈥檚 my 鈥奐asmine Trachelospermum not flowering?

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Trachelospermum (star jasmine / jasmine)

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Q3 -听鈥奃o the panel have any suggestions for low maintenance shrubs, preferably evergreen, which can fill a deeply unattractive, large, bare earth bank in the front garden?听

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Sarcococca confusa (sweet box)

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Lonicera pileata (shrubby honeysuckle)

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Euphorbia robbiei (Mrs. Robb's bonnet)

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Vinca minor 'Miss Jekyll' (lesser periwinkle)

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Euonymus (variegated varieties)

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Herbaceous geraniums

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Viburnum davidii

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Cotoneaster horizontalis

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Pachysandra terminalis (Japanese spurge)

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Q4听-听鈥奍 have a five-year-old foxglove tree, a Paulownia, in my small back garden. Last year it grew too big, so I decided to cut it down. Since then, it's grown between 15 and 20 feet tall, with large leaves. Will I kill it if I keep chopping it down?听

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Paulownia tomentosa (foxglove tree)

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Catalpa bignonioides (Indian bean tree)

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Cannas

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Ginger plants

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Ensete bananas

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Q5 -听How tightly packed can I plant my herbaceous perennials to improve shading, ground cover, and water retention?听

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Stipa gigantea (giant feather grass)

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Q6 -听鈥奣ry as I might, I can never seem to grow agapanthus to flower. Can you help?

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Q7 -听What can I plant to get my mojo back?

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