General Gardening Discussion

yes, a type of caterpillar , he told me the name, did not write it down. Yes, inside a butterfly house. Blue Bells? not sure, doubt it, truly don't think they bloom this late . None of the plants had an ID on them. I just knew several from what I have in my garden. Its a very old...

It looks like the soil in my front garden. It's a bit of a nightmare in hot dry weather. I'm sure you'll sort it though. I foolishly put potatoes of all things in mine this year. That's probably why we're having a heatwave and drought. If I'd filled it with Mediterranean herbs we'd have got a...

10 days, no replies... I think you could start your enquiries here: Careers in horticulture / RHS Gardening

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Hi everyone, I've got a couple of pots labelled as "echinops the giant" which i grew from seed, obviously they're scabiosa stellata sternkugel which is fantastic as I've tried to grow them before without success, I'm just wondering if i pop them in the ground now will they self seed and return...

I have always wanted Bears Breeches and recently acquired a clump from a neighbour. I just planted it in the dust and am hoping for a large clump…..eventually.

I've had a look today and found a couple of branches will bend back, so I'll tie them to train them out of the way. There will still be some that stick out across the steps, if I can't coax them back with string I'll have to prune them. Will wait till after flowering and then decide.

Some people don't like the smell of the foliage though and they will need regular pruning. Aldi and Lidl have Japanese Acers about once a year in late spring/early summer. When young they can grow quite fast, I've had seedlings reach 3-4 ft in a couple of years and I find that smaller plants...

The size of the container isn't critical, it's the amount of water and (to a lesser extent) food that will determine it's rate of growth. What is of concern, though, is the scarcity of surface for it to stick to! Parthenocissus climbs by means of small suckers that attach themselves to the...

@Victoria We started them off in the greenhouse and with all of the plants we have in there they were neglected apart from watering. We never got around to potting them on and didn't feed them. We didn't take them out of the greenhouse at all.

@Victoria I've tried some of the species and had success with C redheriana, C tangutica and C coactilis others like C lahdakiana and C naupalensis were complete non starters (old seed?). I started in spring with the tomato seeds at about 20°C never a high germination rate,but enough for me. I...

Thanks for replies and advice @JWK @noisette47 @ricky101 It could be a fungal attack (can't see evidence of red spider mite) so I've cut all the dead stems off and noticed some new growth coming from below compost level. I may treat it with a fungicide and hope for good results. I don't think...

Just mix it with some Green waste.

Thank you

My wife swears by Tomorite for all her flowering plants. I mix and match. I like Richard Jackson's "Flower Power".

The company (Botaniworld LLC) and paperwork are from Massachusetts. Test strips and the bottle could be from anywhere.

@03carrdI think that the bamboos priority would be to get a shoot up into the sunlight before it begins to grow much underground. I would be inclined to leave the remaining rhizomes and see if they start to grow again, if they do then glyphosate would be the easiest answer.

I would sow them in MPC rather than scattering them about. They probably would be eaten off otherwise.

i did go down the Stihl route - came in in June22 used on our hedges and works really well, so very pleased with the purchase , as i can now do ALL the hedges (and we have a lot) without laddersit came with the same strap i have for the strimmer - so that seems to work fine.I would take...