General Gardening Discussion

Billybell,well done all your flowers look fab.There is a chap I know from my days as show secretary for our local area ,I will have a word with him and see if he still has his little black book,he was a keen show man in Dahlias and Chrysanth's.He used to have all his stopping date's from when he...

Yes, the pansies are flowering well. Will the tomato fertilizer affect the small buddleia and hydrangea plants in a good (or bad) way?

Lovely down here, might shut the greenhouse door though

Oh well. Just dump it then, the pot is easy enough to sterilize if its plastic. Cant think how a fungi that affects living plants could have got in there if you were using a purchased compost.Dont think I'd bother too much with the Hyacinths, probably best to buy some more.

Violas look lovely in pots and will flower their little heads off from now through Spring. They can be grown in a relatively shaded position and some of them are nice and fragrant.Keep deadheading to keep the blooms coming.Picture 1 Picture 2I get mine from Gardening Direct. Free...

The stonework looks good. I would face that little wall with tiles or maybe wood? Then it would look attractive even when your plants are in limbo

Thanks very much, I'll look into all of those. :-)

You can also get a white Grape Hyacinth Jack.

Brill! That's good to know shiney, thank you.

Just a few well rooted cuttings of Hydrangea and Buddleia.I know that the Buddleia should be okay but I'm erring on the side of caution and want to help them through their first winter if I can.

Looks great

I bought both prepared and non prepared bulbs last year. They were both planted on the same day and left outside, the prepared ones put in the shed to be kept completely dark. Both were subjected to the same temperatures, although the shed marginally warmer.Only that set sprouted and grew in...

Yeah, last year we had Roses and Fuchsias to cut for our table on Christmas Day which was nice.

.... what a little bit of paint will do. Some pics of work as it happens

Canna cleopatra, has different colours in the leaves too:

Hi All.Looking on web today to get some extra wide large bubble wrap @ 1.5 Metre wide for the greenhouse. It is a job I never look forward to as trying to get a Alliplug through 2 layers of wrap is a pain.I should say it goes through the wrap ok but always a problem trying to get the alliplug to...

Some great advice there, thank you very much.

They look like Cabbage White caterpillars. I think the only way is to pick them off by hand.

You win some you lose some unfortunately Silu. Is it worth hanging on to one just to see how it goes or should I say grows? It's amazing what people will buy, at the right price of course.

That is impressiveWill be interesting to see if it continues with this next year. Or the impressive size is due to it being forced.