On 27/02/2012 17:57, sweetheart wrote:

"echinosum" wrote in message
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sweetheart;952018 Wrote:
My verbena has flowered. Everything else seems to be dead or dying. I
haven't done anything different and I just cannot work out why.
Suggestions
would be helpful.
Have you spread something on it? There were warnings going around a
while back about some horse manure or compost or something that had a
herbicidal effect from some chemical that had survived the processing.
This mainly seemed to be problem a couple of years ago, but maybe there
was still some around.

No nothing on it. I had neglected it somewhat last year but its mature
enough as a garden and can usually stand neglect.


Are you close enough to a farm to suffer herbicide drift?

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Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay