General Gardening Discussion

What a lovely garden! I admit i spazzed out when i saw your gorgeous doglet."Daaad.. Daaad.... dad what are you doing over theeerree."

I wasn't inferring that the seeds for the last people are still on the plants Pete :DBut Geoff Handley put me onto the idea of sowing Allium seeds (that do need a months's cold stratification) outside before Christmas - and it has worked a treat. The RHS seed germination guide says they...

Thanks for the thoughts. Looks like I have to hang fire for a while.

Hello Lady of Leisure - Ventnor and Bonchurch certainly have their own micro-climate on the island and there are more flowers in bloom there now than anywhere else on the island. St Catherine's point (Niton) and West Wight are probably the most exposed places. West Wight has a reputation of...

Thanks Scotkat.

*hugs the Daphne Odora Marginata Deutzia thingy regardless because its lovely*

I have to agree with you Julia just like good old Geoff Carol does indeed have a real passion for plants something that Monty just doesn't seem to have and you guys are right a bit too arty farty for me, After all in 'real' gardens most of us like nothing better to get 'down and dirty' :DI...

I'm new to the forum. I've been reading the posts for a while but only joined yesterday. Any way here is my contribution.Like some of the other posters I�d get rid of the straight lines. I�m a great fan of shrubs as they are easy to maintain and a lot are evergreen.I�m...

I seem to have sitrred up a "rats nest" with my topic.. thanks for all your interest. I was told about the fat balls from the Pest control officer for our council.. so thought he would know what he was talking about. Haven't heard about peanuts though. You live and learn don't you!!!

If thats a cordyline roders you want to bottle it, a bush form could be something new. :D

Seems you have your work 'cut' out Lol. I don't like pruning Bougies, I always get stabbed. :D

I have a willow tree which is about 20 foor high. when I bought the house about 5 years ago it was large and sprawling but we hired a tree surgeon to cut it back by reducing it height by about a third. it cost about �£150.2 years later we cut it back again and this time to a more attractive...

Cuttings are very easy, and I think this is the normal way. My book on propagation says August and September, but there is a specialist nursery close to me that does a lot and I think they take them about now or a bit later. Division isn't mentioned as a means of propagation.

Bunslip times are still 'ard or at least it is for me 'blooming hard' not being in the garden that is! :DWhen one so enjoys one thing we tend to preach to one another the joys of it sometimes it falls on deaf ears but we keep trying and I for one also love reading and seeing other's gardens...

It looks good though.

Hi crowleyi started mine off last yr the beginning of feb as i could'nt wait any longer :Di have a conservatory so i sowed them in a black pot (absorbes heat) placed cling film over them and put them in the window with the raidiator underneath they took 5 days to come through and i had...

hi Pal, I have 8 different types of Phormium plants, I planted them all in moist soil together with the recent rains these beauties have grown taller than me. I am 5'1" tall.I love them because they are low maintenence and gives your garden colour in the winter.Fancy.

Yep, we used to grow broad beans and cress. We did the thing with dye as well to show how the water was taken up into the roots and then into the leaves.I remember how delighted I was when my brodd bean flowered. I'd never realised that you could get black and white flowers.

Dig them out - you'll have to loosen the soil anyway if you are going to sow/plant wild flowers.

I grow freesias every year under orders from my MBH. In their natural climate (S. Africa) they produce the leaves about Sept, and then sit there all winter and flower in the Spring. They need a period of cold weather to make them flower. In this country you can get bulbs about now that have been...