General Gardening Discussion

Hi all,Am going to try and sow a wildflower meadow at the back of the garden this spring. Just thought I'd run it past all you experts on here. The area was grass but I would say very poor in nutrients. I stripped off the turf and have just dumped a load of old sand/subsoil from beneath an old...

Great, sounds like a simple job then, perfect for me! thanks for all the feedback.

It's very nice......found C. Astra Nova "Z009085" also.....Flowers are smaller I think.

I have one going on the kitchen patio at the moment. I didn't get any fruit on it last year. But here is one I had for several years on the lean-to which fruited prolifically, however, it just died after a couple of years.

In addition to the concentration, it's the stuff they mix with Glyphosate to make it 'stick to the weeds' that makes the difference in effectiveness (plus affects how nasty it is). If anybody's got a few minutes to spare, Google ' efficacy of glyphosate sufactants' and 'toxicity of glyphosate...

@Nigalius How long has it been in the pot? They do need potting on every two to three years. I give mine a good root prune and plant them back in the same container (the containers are approx 60cm across) in fresh compost. Every spring I give them a feed of slow release ericaceous feed (such...

We all seem to want a blue one!

Thanks for the advice noisette, that's really helpful. I'm not too into colour coordinating, so I'll let mother nature take care of that, but will certainly try the cutting down thing, hadn't read that, just to take off the dead leaves when they die.

Roger, Wilco!

Thank you very much Loli Im relieved to hear it can indeed be pruned without losing all the gorgeous flowers we had one years ago that was enormous! and im very keen for the one we have now not to get that size thanks again

Oh gracious I feel your pain! We get it too, hubby is forever cleaning he patio.

You did and so did I! What I said was that I thought that the heat of the house had germinated the seeds only for the seedlings to discover that there was naff all light (owing to the short daylight hours) and had stalled. Most odd.

Aren't they! Twelve months a year here to one degree or another.

Welcome to Gardeners Corner This "I wade Meadows"Built on a flood plain by any chance?

Slow growing should be ok as tortoises as slow anyways

Hello,Could anyone tell me where I can buy Musa Cavendish Super Dwarf Banana plug plants please??Online or around Merseyside?I would prefer them quite small as they are for my two children.Thank you in advance Matthew

I found a copy of this book on the weekend. Haven't read through it yet, but on skimming, looks interesting.

Is anyone still up for this idea? I've just won an auction on eBay of 45 packets of Suttons Luffa seeds

Still miss Geoff and his "Victorian Gentleman's Garden".