General Gardening Discussion

Was in my local garden centre today, and they had 50% off seeds ... I would expect, at this time in the season, that you ought to be able to buy current-season seed at a discount

Cheers for that will stick to a big pot I think

Now, I sort of have to retract some of my sentiments about the J Arthur Bowers stuff - despite being initially unimpressed by the texture because of some of the wood, and the fact that it generally had the appearance of wood shavings that had rotted a bit, over the past week or so I have noticed...

How is the Algarve?lol

Now THAT isa bargain Victoria!!

In fact I'm afraid I gave it too much water, too. I'll do as you say. Thanks

Depends how much area you need the lawn?. plants will do a lot better in a wider bed and it would be easier to have more than "one row" of plants with which to disguise the fence - a deeper border in essence. No idea if it suits what you want to do though.

It's a Somerset thing.

Sheep eating plants!

At 6.30am, I went down to my "gifted" bed in the High Street to cut and remove the old Spring plantings , weed and fluff up the bed. It has struggled over the last month with the wind and the cold ( it's on the north side) but at leasts it's tidy for the Battle in Bloom judging on 18th July, Jenny

Thanks. The seed package raved about the scent, but I am not a fish person at all, so if it smells fishy it is going to the compost heap.

Absolutely lovely!!

Yours are likely to be more hardy grown "hard" from seed (although I left my seedlings outside by mistake last winter and That was That :( ) I think they look nice as a "thicket carpet" when young ... and then you can select the one(s) you want for a tree from that carpet, perhaps?

Thankyou Yvonne

Actually, Victoria, Poppies love the dry heat and should be at home where you are.........I'll send you all of the varieties seed heads and you can go from there. It'll be interesting to see how you get one. Once they're established as plants they'll be there for years!!

If anybody has a Costco card (or knows someone who has one), their plants are well worth a look cos you can pick up some real bargains The plants are a good size and a lot cheaper than you'd pay at the likes of B&Q At the moment they've got good sized Acers in for £15. They are the same...

I made that search and followed that route too ... are we sharing a packet of seed then?

I'd put Trachelospermum on that fence, Clematis armandii will be trying to grow higher and get unruly along the top I reckon. Here's an example of it in flower (scroll down a bit to see the type of fence its growing on)

I doubt it is neutral, I think for Rhodies to thrive it is more likely to be acid. Having said that there are some Rhodies that will tolerate alkaline. If you were going to put it in a container, and its a Pink/Blue type variety, then you'd need to use Ericaceous compost if you wanted it to...