General Gardening Discussion

Hi critical , the video has been really useful to me as well . I always find planting Dahlia tubers is like planting a set of bagpipes . Never to sure on which bit does the actual work .

Ok thanks for that - I might go for the Iris, I used to have that and it was fine here. Will go and google the climbers now.

Your trees are having a wedding Kindred! Very pretty!

There was an article on Gardeners Question Time on the radio yesterday about Lupin Aphids , could it be these ?

They are hatching in the very real sense, even if the terminology is not quite correct. The outer seed casings have ruptured, and the embryonic plant inside is forcing its way out into the big bad world. Hence hatching

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I'll give it another week or so and pay my local amenity site a visit as we are allowed to recycle anything there. They have a large bin set aside for plant pots and trays that I'll go through and take what I need. At this time people are buying bedding plants, so I'll be popping in every week...

The problem with a lot of Nurseries and Garden Centres is they tend to stock what is in 'fashion' and will sell, those plants that aren't tend to get forgotten which is a shame.

I love those paint mixer cards, the names are a riot of marketeer's indulgence, right now a few of the better ones from Dulux:Sophisticated Sage, Love Note, Scent Bottle and Thimble Case We recently used "Frosted Steel" for our Hallway, it's appearance is neither "Frosted" nor "Steel" - it's...

They are Jenny, but then I'm biased. Love this time of year, there's so much going on.Sowed lots of summer flowering seeds in the front this year, so hopefully that'll be just as colourful in a couple of months.

It could have been bad storage, think the pot it was in was under a leak in the plastic greenhouse roof Maybe kept dry it is hardier, but it didn't set seed either, so I'll never know

I plant with chicken pellets - some in the planting hole below the rootball, some around it when almost backfilled (so that covered by soil, just, rather than on-surface).When I fertilise "draught" I spread it about a bit - sorry, probably too much information for the ladies already!. I have...

I've grown a wide selection of Arisaema this season. Two pots have germinated (well, "germinated above ground", I haven't checked Google for the other varieties to see if they are only hypogeal in the first year, I know some Arisaema are). The two pots look pretty manky; I had them under lights...

Manually killing all the adult beetles you can find would be a good start to alleviating the problem. Trouble is they are shy, nocturnal and dusty coloured so not easy to find - shame they are not a nice bright scarlet like certain other menaces. I've heard it suggested to put traps (e.g. a...

Transplanting our strawberries the other day, we came across some wee white grub things in the soil - a bit of Googling later revealed that they were almost certainly strawberry root weevil larvae, however information about what effects they would have or how to get rid of them, was fairly...

Thanks for the replies topsoil seems to be the way to go then, and give it all a good stir it's already quite gravelly, with the smaller stones in the soil

and Beechgrove Me too. You talking "Dozens" or "Hundreds"?

Cloudy this morning but brightened this afternoon and it got to a lovely 20 degrees, not quite as warm as yesterday when it reach 22..........fingers crossed the approaching cold snap doesn't produce too bad a frost and isn't too long

Oh it probably was, can't understand how the manufacturers get them mixed up and can't tell the difference but it happens. Was in a pedantic mood is all lol