General Gardening Discussion

Something I'm going to have a go at this summer Woo..... finger's crossed I'll have a good crop as I'm fed up with the supermarket stuff! :eek: Hel.xxx.

Whiley whatever you buy it will always remind you of your beloved baby in fact there's no better way to remember your lost love.As Dee says if you can get a plant that has some connection with your pet be it name, colour or habit then all the more better for it.My Flamingo Tree was planted...

All planted untill she gets another delivery she has broken her wrist so I was asked if I coudl take her plantys to my greenhouse.So between hers an dmyb own was very busy in greenhouse.Moved all my trays of plants in to greenhouse where I can put on heat ,from my conservatory in the...

thinking of getting one myself now got to bring the flutterbys in to the garden for kids to look at very prity little things

Thanks for that. I'll source out some bovine country pancakes, shame cat poo doesn't have the same effect.

I had to spread the old slug pellets round it last year as they even attacked the stems!!Thanks for the advice Peter I will persevere with the seeds

I agree with Pete and to be honest some of the ones that don't have great flowers more than makes up with their nice dense, evergreen, rounded balls alhough not all are green some come in a very lovely shade of greeny/blue ...whoops sorry guys didn't mean for that to sound rude but I have to...

Celia sweetie your old garden was very lovely and I like your poker method of planting too 'All in! :D Hel.xxx.

Ah Scotkat I'm sure you two girls had the bestest time together! Hel.xxx.

If you've got transport, try Freecycle. There's always people wanting to get rid of rubble.

At least you weren't "bittern" about itI'll get me coat

I planted three last year in different areas of the garden (three for two I think at B & Q) Not sure which one it is but it has variagated leaves and purple flowers in autumn, non of them have grown much and they look sickly, I am going to dig them out and put them in containers

wot ya wonna do is grow sunflowrs the chickenks will grow with them 8 foot tall chickens . :D

This is mine late yesterday afternoon.As you can see it has been battered by the wind just a little but still has lots of flowers. Lives happily in this stone trough but I think it will need moving soon. PS. You can see the black sooty bits on the leaves

Hi Peter thats a really constructive post thank you, Perlite is supposed to retain moisture as well as keep the soil loose for root development and drainage so i guess its multi functional, but for my garden its not really needed more sand will do fine next time and be half the price. It does...

Good luck with it Dave,bobj & PeterS - what can i say. Absolutely gorgeous.cheers

lifted and put in pot

How did you get on with the velutina seeds? They are apparantly one of the easier nana seeds to germinate, although I havent tried - yet.Gaz

I have a young plant in the garden. It sailed though most of the winter and was still producing new green leaves. However the cold snap in early March has cut it back to the ground. Poking around in the mulch, i have found buds forming so it should come back fine (i hope).But yes get it in the...

Hello again My last reply got wiped when the computer crashed. You can grow quite a lot of plants in a north facing bed surprisingly, certainly the woodland ones would do well. I have a bed with 2 trees in it and shaded by an enormous leylandii hedge. In it I grow: foxgloves, primroses,...