General Gardening Discussion

I leave nature to deal with aphids too. Almost every year my runner beans get covered in blackfly but the cavalry always arrives to deal with them before the beans are ready. My many roses also get them but they cause little damage and eventually the ladybirds arrive to clean them up.On rare...

I don't even have a sycamore tree in my garden any more but my neighbour and the farmer across the road have several.

If you dig them out away from the roots, they won't even know you've moved them

Passiflora incarnata ? It’s a passion flower that is frost hardy down to -15°C or so, and tolerates drought. However, it will spread when it’s happy, so might need to be kept in check.

do you mean adding it on top of the existing soil, or removing a couple of inches of the existing soil and add john innes there?Also, i heard that jasmine and clay are not good friend because of drainage...

I have noticed this morning that some of my forget-me-nots are blue, some have pink and blue flowers on the same plant, and some are totally pink. They were all blue a few years ago. I liked them when they were all blue but I also like them as they are now. It seems more natural to me somehow.

Get down, trace back the roots and dig it out.... It's cheap to do so.

Thanks for letting me know @JennyJB .

I sure am, katecat58!

I use them as rags for wiping things, but the Red Cross will take clothes that can't be worne again because they can get money for them.

No, no,no, that's a blue daisy - very rare and special, you could flog the seed on ebay........

I'd agree that it's best to just leave them for now @robbo, until you have some flowers. The general advice is - if it flowers before June, don't prune. That's simply because the early flowering types flower on old wood, and only need a general tidy up if they're getting too big for the space....

Our thoughts are with you both @BenCotto and our kindest wishes for your future together … however long it may be. xx

I have never had much luck keeping geums going, but I could be very tempted to try Maddy Prior or Etrixia from that website. Best look away before I get carried away!

Hi @Jocko - I'm also a 'new' ish member here. Hope your health continues to improve and you get some decent weather for your gardening exploits. Take it easy Looking at your pix, I also think rats are the most likely reason, as they can certainly get through samll gaps, and make the most of...

Thanks pd, I think I'll go with that

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

The bottom half of my raised vegetable bed was leylandii chippings - no problem at all.

I've just taken delivery of a 20 metre roll of copper tape to put round my pots. That, combined with a garlic spray, has certainly helped in the past.

Our airport from timesanddate is between Cheltenham and Oxford, and they have a completely different weather than we have. I can't use timesanddate for that reason. If we come from Glouc., Warw., Worc. and pass Cirencester, it's often sunny. As soon as we leave Thames valley and go up the...