General Gardening Discussion

For epiphytic orchids that is certainly true! Most Dendrobium species are indeed epiphytic, but the reason that D.phalaenopsis and D.nobile have been so heavily hybridised and are so widely sold is that they are so tolerant that they also grow as terrestrial plants in the wild.

E candicans is in my opinion more tender than E pininana, which stands a chance in mild winters. Never got candicans or wildpretii through a winter outside, but only tried both once.

I thought the same Andrew and planted some aquadulce broadbean a couple of weeks ago also going to try some pea douce provence once it dries up enough Just got to keep ontop of the slug pellets or I will never seem them

If you're ever down this way I'm sure we can arrange a shopping trip

Thanks for that Pete - that was the reason for my dilemma. We had pretty cold night time temperatures of around 4ºC last week, with frost at the weekend, but we're back to minimums of 11/12ºC this week. I'm on heavy clay which can get pretty soaked during the winter.

Thank you noisette, I know nothing about lilies, so probably would have got the wrong ones

Seems a very good price to me too, will have to pop in and stock up

I'm guessing OK for an approximate leveling job. Never used one but guess it has to be dead centre on the line. Used a water level years ago, similar to Jiffy's idea, but now laser levels are fairly cheap for basic jobs.

Cheers for the 'heads up' Mr Clueless! A very useful site...

Of course Alliums are easy to divide. Anyway, I also love all types of them. But the smaller ones can remind you of wild onions (which need pulling) So for me the smaller ones have to have some type of defined circle area, or spot that I can know that is them in the late spring when they...

It's certainly standing the test of time and BBQs

Holly goes one step further, it takes energy to produce the prickles, so its worked out that cows can only reach upto about 8 foot, above that it produces leaves without prickles as they don't need protection from grazing animals.

One other thing - about location/aspect. I think west/south facing is suggested because of frost on east facing? I'm really tight for space, but I do have a spot which is east facing, but well sheltered by black bamboo (pic attached). Would this be too cold? Thanks

I was given one years ago and filled it with notes and plans for the garden in UK. Very useful for jogging the memory, and no electricity required, although I did get through a few erasers

Got email response from them.Hi Sean, It's impossible to say from the photo if the Canna has virus or is clean. As I said, they are fresh stock from US so even if they had picked up a virus this year it wouldn't be showing yet. I think lots of people see a defect or odd colouration on a leaf...

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Thank you for those diagrams, Harry, very helpful indeed!

Bought my new shed from Elbec this year and it's a decent shed for the price. Don't buy from Waltons as my previous shed came from there and was utter turd.

You haven't said if the wood is rough saw timber / fence like cladding or smooth tongue and groove. This dictates what treatment you can use. If you have a tongue and groove cladded shed then your choices are limited because the water based stuff won't adhere as well to it.

If you accidentally sprayed it .............accidents do happen