General Gardening Discussion

Thanks Dave for all the information on Strobilanthes. I've had the plant from a cutting for 7 years, and am glad to hear that the cuttings I took after it split are likely to do well. I have never seen it here, and yes it can look a bit straggly at times, but oh those leaves.Thanks also for...

I feel that flame throwers in this day and age should be avoided for all the non-green reasons and for the sake of the hundreds of bugs being killed which are beneficial too.

Moonloon have you tried imageshack to resize.

Ta Windy - will look it up. Maybe I could keep it in a pot and just put it where I want it in the summer

I've just bought some of these bulbs and this is part of the instructions on the packet "Cover in winter for strong frost for flowering next year". Does it mean that if I cover them I will get a strong frost? Seriously, would I be better staring them off in a cold greenhouse and plant out after...

Cheers dendy, I had forgotten that.

Thanks Strongy - will follow your advice gratefully.

We have some catkins in the herb/wildflower section that have come early..their are a lot of strange happenings..my opium poppys came back for a second appearance in the last two weeks..

Yay!! Baby trachycarpus is now in the ground As is one of my bamboos Unfortunately, eye candy gardening helper isn't back here til Monday, so can't go much further til then. Just soil titivation and clearing up the hedge cuttings for me til then. I tentatively planted out one of my Mina...

Scotkat - I am no expert, but I was told some are sold as 'garden mums' and are hardy, and some are 'pot mums' and are not hardy. The garden mums I bought two years ago survived outside over winter. I was also told that they are sprayed with a growth retardant to keep them small, but in...

That's a lovely picture of narcissus and winter berries Hornbeam, how unusual is that combination?You really are early in your garden.

Excellend Steve, and thanks for sharing.

hello have grown dahlias this year for the first time they are flowering beautifully but the leaves look abit sick!they are dark green with paler green veins in the middle.I grow on chalk but have recently mulched all of the garden with recycled material .Any ideas please on what this could be...

I bought Ann a new lawnmower :D :D

I think I will bring them inside as it might get too cool to ripen. There ae a few pics of Summer Choc on goolge mainly in sub tropical areas so the colour may be more intense there. There are some more seeds offered on ebay from France but I'll make do with what I have.

there is a nice bush you might like to try, that's evergreen (or rather, yellow!) with white flowers, and a scent - choisya ternata sundance , http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/1125.shtml and a winter flowering one -...

Hi Mil let us know how it goes

Thanks for your advice and info DaveP. Slugs are a problem here but I don't use pellets, so I will have to devise a cunning way of protecting it.

Many thanks for the instructions, Fran ... appreciated.

Hi Liz, That's exactly it...!!! Thankyou so much... I had another site & had waded part way through, but gave up for now. I often go to Daves Garden, it is a super site I think, but didn't have the correct name when I went there, that's how I got the link to Euphorbias that I had... Great I...