General Gardening Discussion

Just came back from pub to see fab aerial display from bats that look like they're nesting in he back hedge! I had no idea they were there!

Nice! Keep up the good work

As someone who grows just about anything I like in pots, Wisteria is one plant I wouldn't grow in one. In order to be successful you would need a huge one and even then the roots would quickly fill the pot, they grow that quickly.

It could be Davo, have you looked at the links about diseases I posted earlier, you might be able to ID something through them.. Also look up to see what hornbeam is resistant to and there may be an answer..

For Pete, Mean sea level pressureThe mean sea level pressure (MSLP) is the atmospheric pressure at sea level or (when measured at a given elevation on land) the station pressure reduced to sea level assuming that the temperature falls at a lapse rate of 6.5 K per km in the fictive layer of...

How about Yew Beefy? I must point out though that Yews, particularly their berries are very poisonous so not ideal if you have young children.This is my own young one, picture taken a couple of years ago.

Wait until it has flowered and the leaves are dying back slightly, so you're looking at end of September/beginning of October...........not in a hurry are you???? But keep it watered after the move.

How many dandelions are there? I can't see any in your photo. If there's only a few, and your lawn is more lawn than dandelion, then the trick is to take a large flat blade screwdriver, and push it in straight down close to the very centre of the rosette of leaves. Then simply lever it out,...

Parterre perhaps?Obviously need adapting, but something along these lines:or something more geometric:

That's 'cos I have Shotgun Slugs to load up with against them pesky varmints My neighbour thinks he's just unlucky having all those Snails and Slugs.

Third picture looks like dog piddle.How high up is it

Ah ha, my dahlia's are starting to put in an appearance. Both the one's left in the ground over winter and the one I lifted into a pot Gazania

Thank you both, plenty to keep us busy then!

Daylilies. In this garden they just will not do anything respectable. They look lush when young, then keel over and look rather ugly and then flower sporadically. I've tried everything and thinking of just pulling the lot out after this year. Had no problem at all in previous gardens. Tough...

Pete, Thanks for that advice. I'll give it a shot.

did not read them all myself. back to it later.

Piccie of my first Brug flower this year, Brugmansia arborea grown from seed a couple of years ago:

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. It's a time consuming job that I should just accept will take time and cannot be quickened up? Determined to get the damn thing out and will spend another day on it tomorrow!

Thanks Harry!The fern is a diksonia antartica

tons up here. and some later ones coming along. All is well with my hosta family