General Gardening Discussion

Thanks to those who helped me last year. Just wanted to let you know my garden is doing well now and is a far cry from the mess it was when I joined Gardeners Corner last year! I have posted a new thread in the gallery with my photos: My First Garden - progress since October

Ordered mine last week and they came 2 days ago, fantastic Looks like there'll be no shortage of herbs for us lot

did you have problems with a mobile horse shelter and planning?

Crushing it is. Yeurgh.

Despite the new mysterious lawn rings (you can pretend aliens landed) your garden looks fantastic, I love the different areas. It'll come back quickly I'm sure

Good afternoon this is my Cape daisy in its third year ,I usually put a plastic bag over it when the need arises, depends on the severity of our winter I have had one that lasted almost 5 years and I make sure it is in a sheltered spot surround by other plants

The problem is that it shows the Council's culpability. They knew about it for a long time and did nothing until it was too late. Typical of councils.If you had a business and left things like that until it was too late, you go bust!

They want to make a rubble garden so they can dump a load of crap under it... Be watchful.

Can you not scrape back some of the gravel and plant them in the soil (assuming that there is soil) underneath? It'll save a lot of messing about and they'll multiply better too. If this is not possible, leave them undisturbed for a couple of years, again to help them multiply. You can top the...

We thought ours had died 2010/11 winter,strongy gave me a lot of seed mine are budding this yr and one of the yellow ones has started to flower..long wait but worth it

Something that needs to be considered, imo, is that it can be quite easy to over-water, the result being poor germination

Yes, too late to sow seed, they will flower very late. In my garden centre they have pots of seedlings - 10-20 seedlings per pot. They work out cheaper than buying seeds! and I count the seedlings in the pots and select the ones with the most!

DUnno if relevant / helpful but mine is planted with the bottom of the planting hole lined with a piece of pond-liner. So under it is bog soil / water, but the roots can grow sideways into dry, and soil on the surface may be dry too, but deeper roots will be sat in boggy-ness

Herbaceous Peony dies down to the ground each winter, and over time forms a clump. Shrub Peony forms a bush, which does not die down each winter. Intersectional (Itoh) Peonies are a cross between Herbaceous and Tree Peony types (basically just "expensive" )

I can vouch for Peter Beales quality and service. I paid the same for mine and have to say, you get what you pay for.If you factor in fuel and time running around looking for the ones you want, you may be as cheap getting them delivered.the three I got from PB are coming along superbly.

For me, its dianthus (lots of different ones have good fragrance), and night scented Stock. Its tiny, but very fragrant after sunset.I guess it partly depends on when your gatherings will happen. Many fragrant plants get their trigger to release their essential oils when its sunny. Some...

When I was showing dahlias,I did the bamboo cane trick,it was to put a bamboo can with a hollow top so that the earwigs went into them to sleep,when we found which cans had them in we poured bug killer in as they could ruin a good vase of show dahlias,and ruin a years work.

Rhododendrons only bloom once a year on buds which develop the previous year (any time from July/August onwards). I would deadhead it, give it a feed with some slow release ericaceous plant food and keep it watered so it can concentrate on becoming established so it will give you a good showing...

Ah, the offer was a 'two climbing plants' offer, so I didn't buy two passion flowers. The other was a honeysuckle, and is merrily scrambling up a trellis at the end of the garden, so I can't compare. I'll probably just leave it, and cross my fingers. :-)