General Gardening Discussion

Thank you Ivory, you are indeed correct, I have never known which oxalis it was. See here:

Look around the net for some silk one's....you can't tell the difference on camera.:thumb:

Hi, thanks for the reply, my plant seems to be a double but it is all the same colour with no dark centre at all, it is a very heavy flower and seems to be flowering well even in its first year . the pic of yours has a dark stamen ,which mine does not seem to have . the flower is almost a...

Yep, heard similar stories. They (the owners arent particularly well liked around the villadge) Never worked there though.

Thanks, I'll visit the garden centre before I attack the garden tomorrow

I've got one coming soon so I'll stake it up or put it near the wall lol

DaiI used to get sooty mould on my sweetcorn plants. How easily it came off depended on how long I'd left it there. Check out this link; you need to scroll down a bit:Sooty mould is the most common ailment of bamboo according to these people who are specialist suppliers.

Just to let u know that Wickes have got their decking board reduced to £3.99 and there are 20% vouchers in papers. I got my voucher from yesterdays sun. We went and got some wood and some decking board and we saved £19.90!

I put black plastic down on my veggie patch till I was ready to plant it. You could cover it with a tarpaulin then put some pots on it to make it look better??

Yeah - that's what I'd have done

:D:D:DOh talking of humourous description my all time favourite is ALthea Ficifolia, in Chiltern catalogue ( I love this catalogue wholeheartedly):Introduced from Siberia at the end of the 16th Century (but how? the writer wonders, no road and 300 years before the railway), this is...

I wish I'd got a digger in to level mine. Good luck

I remember it Bob:thumb::rolleyes:

Well as far as I'm concerned Dave we need a ginger that starts flowering in early July, has a good scent and continues to flower until October. A tall order I think.:D I have tried later flowering ones but usually found that by early Oct the light levels are not good enough for them to...

From work i recycle the small containers that house brazing nozzles. They are airtight, and great for the job.Before that, it was just biscuit tins like the rest of us.

I don't get harrassed, four houses on the East side are recent owners and we have established a very friendly group. The house on the West side just ignore us, won't cut the thorn hedge (now 20-25ft high) and have four noisy b***** dogs, two of them Alsations. I cut my side of the hedge but have...

This is the first year that I've been impressed by bizzy lizzies They are planted in a container in quite a sheletered area and are obviously enjoying it

They look good Capney:thumb: I bought some this year and put them in tubs and baskets. They were on sale alongside bedding plants when I went to the nurseries in the Selsey area.

Hi Gioia, I have had a few gardens/spaces ranging from a large drip tray from a terracotta pot as a kid, to the good sized plot I have now, and the secret is scale not size. I most certainly do like photos-they are the best threads and posts for me. I can help as much as you want, but...

So I looked up Hebe and could it be Hebe Annulata ? If so would I be right in thinking I should pretty much leave alone?