General Gardening Discussion

Laurel grows pretty wide, I think you'd find it was a bit too wide (you can cut it as narrow as you like, of course, but the fact that it wants to be wide will work against you ) Plenty of other evergreen choices though. Yew cannot be beaten for a nice smart clipped hedge, Thuja plicata...

Bombard away. We like chatting on here.

I agree with Loofah Builder first.

I can see slime trails on what`s left of my dahlias, My hosta are in big tubs and I found 2 snails Wednesday after a cursory look.

WiseOwl, this rose is stunning. Literally. I am so getting it!!!

That made me laugh , best not show hubby he'll want one too , he'd have great fun on our hilly garden

They are perennial, but from what Pete has said they may need a little extra warmth during winter.Checked on mine last night and I've got the first set of flower buds forming. Probably like Tree Tomatoes and Pepinos the fruits will take an age to ripen but fingers crossed, if I bring the plant...

Hiya Rusty. I had a go at creating some standards many years ago, so I can't be sure of the method, so I stand to be corrected So, I chose a plant that had a 3 way leaf, as opposed to the usual 2. This helps to ensure a bushy end product with a good shape. Once the cutting had rooted, it was...

Your're right Kristen it's horrible sticky stuff. I'm not keeping it in the sprayer but in a 1 gallon container. I always rinse out the sprayer after use.

thanks for that idea

It's the reason I have over 60 planters in my garden Wouldn't have anywhere to put my collection otherwise.

I've packed a picnic ... pick you up at, say, "silly o'clock"? But keep it a secret .... don't want to tip Spruce off: it's going to be a surprise!

Ah well, it'll just limp along sulkily then.Covered me ass there already!

Smashing!!!!!!!!! Val

If you want a surrounding hedge on the cheap then propagate the plants you want - either from seed, or from cuttings. But they will take probably 3 years, 2 years if you are lucky, longer to reach matruity than "bought plants" - so you can pay your money and reduce the time the hedge takes to...

Thanks for the advice everyone.

When I lived in Sheffield, I was looking for a volunteering job to fill a bit of free time. I never got round to doing it (most of the schemes were either in work time or badly organised and managed). One scheme was an allotment that had been taken on by a group of volunteers who wanted to...

Why not just get a dwarf fruit tree (i..e a fruit tree grafted onto a dwarfing rootstock). That will carry a lot more fruit than these novelty trees. If you have the space to plant the fruit trees (again, you can select a rootstock that controls top-growth to a size that is suitable for your...

Lovely for you to say val.

Well he hasn't replied and he isn't online so it must have been a GREAT party!!!!!! Val