General Gardening Discussion

Yes - thank you both. I've just sowed parsnip seed with a row of radish in between to remember where the parsnips are!! So I'll check about once a week - fingers x'd!

I have sent for hares Tail which looks a bit like your photo. Lets hope they all put on a good show. i was thinking of putting Cosmos Chocolate inbetween. i think I saw it once at a show.

OK thanks Tigerlilly

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Not tried that one, but regarding the flowering time, bear in mind Daves Garden is an American site and may have been sown in better a climate than ours and flowered earlier. Give it a try.

They are H. orientalis, and very lovely they are too.

Definitely cosmos, and the chocolate ones are a joy. I also like daisy-flowered things like argyranthemums, echinacea, osteospurmums etc. and also astrantia,dahlias and, of course, you can't do without geraniums in one form or another.

Excellent VistabileI tear the leaves off and put them into a bucket, cover with water and then wait for it to infuse? is that a word? when it's gone dark and smelly! pour a bit into my watering can top up with water and spray over flowers; then the splodge that's left I add to the compost bin...

Thanks. I will wait to be on the safe side.

Thanks for the advice guys - going to get going on it when the spring is with us.

Thanks,I'll have a look and re-plant accordingly when I get round to doing it. Thanks,Dan

Fuschias are also quite useful in pots with some of Peter's reccomendations. I also use a mix of Perennial grasses and Cannas with the more tender plants - do not appear to need as much water but a bit less colourful than Busy Lizzies..........

Try.... Iris foetidissima (evergreen, orange seeds)- periwinkle (vinca)- variegated sorts, pretty blue flowers- spotted/variegated laurel (aucuba japonica) - can also have berrieseleagnus - maculata or "Gilt Edge"epimediums.... oh, and euonymus "Emerald Gaity"euphorbia...

I've always grown mine from late April to late september, flowering in May/June. The ones you buy in shops around Christmas are out of sinc with our seasons, and need to be grown on from now till late Sept before allowing to rest. Then keep them cold but frost free until the following March,...

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Sounds the easiest solution - division. Thanks all. Leucojum

Thank you for your replies they have been really really helpful

Thanks for the input Pete and Walnut. G.house it has to be next year with Boss lady's faux rat-skin coat standing by for emergency.

I would Agree that it's Prunus laurocerasus, possibly P... l... 'Rotundifolia'

In Elect propagator 3rd Feb also Bird of Paradise Pete.