General Gardening Discussion

Thanks Sheal, that gives me a bit of confidence with the soil situation. Defo need guy wires if I'd put it in lately so that is also a good tip until established.GG

Thank you, JWK - exactly the sort of answer I was hoping for.

Hi guys,Thanks for your replies, sorry for the late reply, I wasn't online.The more comments I read, the more I think I should maybe not plant wild garlic (or woodruff for that matter), or I might end up with it invading my whole garden. I shall have a good long think. Maybe I will plant it...

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Highly unlikely but in our litigious society such remote possibilities have to be a part of the decision making process.Look at the picture carefully and you'll see what looks like a tennis court to me. I suspect that this is the type of development where you can get away with that.

I can't wait to see your ducks @Gwen austin I hope the garden & the house are still in one piece after those strong winds

If you want a rough lawn to practice on, my dogs prepared one just for that. Pesky little rascal paws at it, but then my digger marks make me a culprit also

I suggest againt ever using sand because it often will leach calcium over time and kill the plants.

Look at what was developed in Cambridge - this could help the bees tremendously. This site asks you to sign up but you don't have to, just hit the x. I personally enjoy the news in their emails... and this one is quite timely given this recent discussion.

Only a couple as Anthony says, the pots are in my carport so they don't get blown around the garden.

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I agree, we need a photo when it is in full flower.That's because it was begun before you were (GC) born

@JackJJW if you get a hold of a good general bulb catalog, that carries early spring all the way to the last blooming alliums, you then read the bloom time of the bulbs, that way you can coordinated something blooming all the time till at least July, from a bulb. Then next you think of...

Thanks Hsuh. They are attractive shrubs but need to be kept tamed. Although the flowers are perfumed I don't like the smell of the foliage, it reminds me of Pelargoniums which has a similar smell. I find it quite harsh, so a good reason for not growing those either.

I sow nothing outside because of the climate and my sandy soil, so everything is started in my electric propagator. That can prove difficult when there are a number of seeds that need to be started at the same time, but I then go on germination times.My seeds are in date order of when they...

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Every little helps, oh no wrong supermarket lol

Well none of them seem to have broken through the surrounding dormant couch grass that's all keeled over but time will tell. I hope for their sake it isn't what it looks like.

That's the problem with reading items published on the internet that are heavily weighted one way or the other by interested parties. We, the general public, don't have the opportunity (time, experience, education etc.) to sort the wheat from the chaff with regard to these matters.Most of...