General Gardening Discussion

Me please!!! And Grandma is banned from watering....

Hello all, I'm sorry that this update is a bit later than usual but I have only just recovered from staying up to watch Children in Need on Friday night, what a great event for such a good cause, regards Steve.http://www.myallotments.blogspot.com

The other possibility is that your health problems are associated with the damp conditions that encourage the fungi, so its the climatic conditions rather than the fungus. I tend to suffer from congestion and I tend to be more chesty when it gets damp and cool. As a child my mother was advised...

i would guess that it is water damage to your leaves caused by water on leaf and being dried with sunlight!

i managed to cut through a wasp nest in the headge i was cutting and stapped myself with a screw driver trying to clean the lawn mower blades never used a screw drive for this again lol

When I first came here - I found tall yellow and red single tulips. Not knowing that tulips should be lifted, I let em bide. They were in a reasonably sheltered spot in cultivated clay - came up year after year, even crossed to provide me with some interesting yellow and red colour combinations....

It looks fantastic, Rich!T'other half's lime tree is now recouperated from a curly leaf symdrone and looks great and my ruby grapefruit is doing well in it's first year (with me). Do you expect to get fruit?By the way, the Bilbegia has rooted and is doing exceptionally well, thank you! Not...

Expensive like that though. All I do is mix ordinary Roundup with a wallpaper paste and paint that on instead, much cheaper!

The old stems and seedheads look fantastic when frost comes, again assuming it's probaly Autumn joy.I totally agree with Jazid on this one - a great plant, even though designers like it! :D

It's not mentioned on the BBC site or on Amazon, r200, but if you follow this link, you can get some useful info here http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/how_to_be_a_gardener/The books are good too, as are all the Titchmarsh books, although I've been told that he doesn't actually write them...

My first attempt with overwintering cannas I was given totally different advice - fortunately they survived it! I won't tell you what it was, as it's NOT the best routine, involving keeping them damp.... :eek:Here's the Hart Canna link to the cultivation page - excellent...

That's a lovely compliment!! Thank you! :DWithout the kind people who trained me a few years ago after I had a breakdown, I wouldn't know either - so thank them!!

I'd water it first then!

Thank you again Dendrobium and also to Waco, Palustris and Lady of Leisure, for your info. and observations, all most helpful.

thanks for the help i'll try and keep the seedlings heated lol thanks.

BTW - thanks for that, Peter! Pity it wasn't a useful answer, though! There was one time when I was in a section, and a new-comer posted, I answered, she got it and thanked me, all within 5 minutes!! Is this a record?

I obviously can testify to a lot of the "annuals" actually being tender perennials. My Lobelia can be a bit "hit and miss" on surviving, usually "miss"! :D However, my Alyssum maritinum done from seed a few years ago is still blooming now as are my begonias.On the other hand, I have had...

Yes Kandy..Sorry for not acknowledging that info before Thank you .

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:eek: Pruning terrifies me.I tried to cut back a viburnum once and killed it stone dead. :(