General Gardening Discussion

I have to say that Little Lady is one of my favorites - they have a few beds of it in the Hampton Court Gardens in Herefordshire - they are tight, compact little bushes - and the scent is incredible. I have one in a pot - and it does well with our Dumfriesshire weather! My Hidcote got a bit...

fletch lift tubers rinse off and repot chaek for weavelf if so discard compost cover with fleece place in sun

I have hundreds self sown from last year that weren't killed off through the winter! They're doing fine! :D

Its going great guns now - it seemed to come from nowhere. Even got little flower bunches forming. Now to consider that home winemaking kit.........

Try Googling "Hollyhocks-Rust". There's quite a bit of info. available. However, I've tried a variety of ways to combat rust and none of them are completely effective. If I can't stop the rust this year I'm giving up and growing Canterbury Bells next year.

As well as a Trachy you could use a chamaerops humilis or the blue one cerifera. Also a paulowina tormentosa ( the foxglove tree) keep it coppiced down to about 1ft every spring then it will grow to about 8ft with humongus leaves, uou get loads of new shoots but cut them all off bar one. My...

I've had a few from there, JB! I even used 3 clematis from there on a job! :D One very happy customer! I often get real bargains from places like Poundstrecher, Instore Poundland or Lidl - a few losses, but most survive and even thrive. The number of people who've told me they got a...

Most of this seasons plants supplied in garden centre and are cultivated to ensure they are a good size for sale in Feb, March and April. Therefore they all need protection from frost, and then hardening off before planting.However older plants, like the herbacious perrenials and roses etc...

My amaryllis is in flower right now. I bought it as one of those gift sets in a pound shop and it's been a reet good'n ever since! In fact, it's had several babbies and they're now flowering as well but all still tucked up in the same pot - though not, I hasten to add - the original!

I also want terrecota pots but not to paint them I want to put them on our new decking with lavendar and geraniums in them.

I couple of years ago I looked out of the window to see a squirrel eating what turned out to be the last strawberry as he had polished off all the rest. I ran to chase him and he was so stuffed he could hardly move. So your cage is a brilliant idea.

Try putting a length of shoot in water and see if you can get roots that way.I have a few of those plants.Don't know why they are called money trees as I have never had any money growing on them :(

great thanks for the info didnt realise they can take that long to germinate like to see a pic so i dont upset the plant to much thanks again. :D

I think Yaks are small, I have one in a raised bed, its been there for about 12yrs and its still only 4ft tall.

:eek: .... Thank you jjordie...We love that!

Wow - I love the Cosmic Garden link, JarBax, really awesome!

I planted some for my g-daughter, didn't bother soaking them and they all came up in just over a week. All the best

A bumblebee has taken up home in one of our bluetit boxes. I'd placed some dry moss in it in early spring to encourage the birds, but they are too late now - the house is occupied!

Thanks, pete, will look out to buy it as I think it's lovely.

Hi awizzbang, I have a well established one trained to a trelis. Previously had one in the garden just tied to a stake. Found that it couldn't taks very satrong winds and was easily uprooted. The trelissed one though is doing fine. Cheers, John