General Gardening Discussion

They're a bit susceptible aren't they? I ended up dismantling mine when gales were forecast, moved all the big pots that were overwintering, wrapped up the plants and then re-assembled it afterwards Even with heavy planks and concrete blocks holding down the edges, they don't resist wind. ...

The monkey tree, fab! Slow grower as you know, but very healthy.

Could you order them & get them shipped to a friend in USA & then he resends them to you..? Or your friend orders them for you & you send him the the money..? I would be quite happy to do the latter for you, but I am in UK & not travelling to Jam' land any more.. Our seeds are not always the...

I have acid soil and have used bark chip on occasions over the years with no ill effects that I'm aware of. Unless you put down bark really thickly it doesn't work that well as a suppressant but does work reasonably well for a while at least if you lay about 3 sheets thick of newspaper down and...

I've got the same problem with moroccan mint growing through my Daphne cneorum. I just yank it out as soon as it shows...it'll give up before I do!

it could be a hanging basket variety of sweet pea

Ours did that as well . So I tied the top of the framework to a drainpipe - then some of the local cats started to sit on the shelves if there were no plants on them!!!

Beautiful, your avatar looks a bit like it.

Really? Oh, it would be good if it did! I only planted it last year, and am yet to see a flower from it.

Thanks so much, that's very reassuring. There's no obvious ash tree now but, as I say, we only moved here in December so there may well have been until recently. We'll ask around.

al n - I would plant mine in a pot so I can bring it in in winter, but I think they do much better in the ground. pete - mine has gone into a shady relatively damp spot. So hopefully it will feel a bit more at home. Oxfordnick - there were also some really small ones. But I decided that the...

You need to dig them up. May well get more frosts, and that will kill them. Even if not with the cold soil at this time of the year they will be slow to sprout and come out of dormancy, and unless it stays dry any prolonged wet, before they have sprouted, will cause them to rot. Fill a pot...

Often, yes. What sort of bulbs are you after? www.angliabulbs.com have some more interesting things, prices tend to be good, and bulb size is "generous" - sometimes "huge" IME! A number of folk on here bought from them last year and gave good reports. Lilies? H W Hyde and Sons...

Indeed, leaf looks smaller I think? But after your posts I think Euonymous would make a suitable "buttress", only faster its something I hadn't considered before, as I'd only considered Box and thought "Too slow for me"! That's very kind, thanks.

I was born and bred in Spalding and still here although I did escape for 5 years in the 60s to live in Bristol. Sadly these days it is not the lovely quite Market Town that it was when I was growing up in the - dare I say it in the 40s. But then I suppose that goes for a lot of places today.

How about trying the new Roundup Gel.

I have "Queen of the Night" in my tubs above, they are open now,for some reason I cannot be without that variety,

Pictures of the back lawn before and after . Scarifying , spiking (hard work ! ) ,patches reseeded and top dressed with a mix of top soil , sharp sand and MPC ( all sieved - hard work again ! ) The new seed is just starting to show after 2 weeks . I am using the sprinkler but hopefully we will...

You can't remember the 50s Pam ! You had to stab the jam lid to release it . Salad was a slice of ham , a sliced boiled egg , two leaves of lettuce and a tomato ! Radish and spring onions if you were lucky ........Sunday tea was very boring !

Looks like a Gerbera...lovely flower