General Gardening Discussion

Apparently the basic idea is to get a T shape like a one layered espalier, but they can be grown in all sorts of ways: http://womansworld05.atalink.co.uk/articles/gardens-and-gadening/281 Scroll down to the pic. of the hamburg grape to avoid all the bumpf... My vine weevil and chafer grub ridden...

liz The honeysuckle is only about 4 years old this is the second time it has flowered as last year it was a deep reddish shade and this year the flowers where the deep reddish and just as they where coming out they are changing to an orange/yellow shade now, The plant looks healthy nature is a...

I can always spot a 'goody'. Very nice!

Agree with Chobart - looks like a penstemon - don't know which. If so, it's half-hardy, so take cuttings in the autumn to make sure that you still have some if it's a hard winter.

Jazid, that's what I wanted to say!! It has to be the ultimate favourite plant name! But I rather like phlox of sheep! Sorry!

Golden euonymus should also do OK - and hosta's should manage there as well ferns. Primular vulgaris (the wild primrose) should also manage as well as fuchsias - especially magenallica, which I've grown in similar shady positions.Take a look at the RHS site, which should expand on the...

They are truly a delightful spring flower, and bring back many memories for me too.

i like heuchera's myself, i have sown some purple palace,bressingham and green finch?, buyer was not able to identify, but said it looks like green finch. Also have a 2nd year strawberry candy one in my wee greenhouse. :D

Right, hot water, sand and cement it is! Thanks!!

dont know what size jervis balcony is mine is quite big part of the flat structure iff it is a balcony attached to the building will have to be carefulrosa

Good to hear...You are very welcome!

That sounds reasonable pete. I have this year cut back again in the hope that goodness wuld go back into plant and not into something I was going to remove in early august, but I see your point about it stimmulating more growth, so will re think my schedule.

Oh my word, don't blame you, you'd be there forever!!Think i'll give it a go on mine.

Thanks for that thought Liz. I will give it a try. Dicentra has been very disappointing this year. The last couple of years it flowered for 10 weeks, but this year - short and battered.

Lowest for essex was 5, but may think about getting in my summer bananas cause the leaves might crisp. Not sure if the nights are long enough now for frosts are they? I need a fleece that stretches from corner to corner, or one of those stadium roofs that close up. [ 29. May 2006, 12:26 PM:...

Rain...what rain? yes it is a very vibrant blue tending to purple most eye catching the leaf is like yours.

Thanks guys, I think I'll hold onto it but keep it isolated from everything else and see what happens.

I use pelleted chicken manure too. No smell and it really does a grand job. Mulch with garden compost in the autumn, two handfulls of pelleted chicken poo per bush in the spring and two more in the summer and that's it.

Bougainvilleas flower on new wood, so I feed mine furiously with Hi N for 3 or 4 weeks to encourage shoots, then Hi K for 3 or 4 weeks to encourage flowers, alternately all through the summer. If you can stop them loosing their leaves during the winter they get a flying start the next year, but...

Once you've salvaged what you can - instead of planting it in compost - fill a small pot with ordinary soil from the ground, the sandier the better - dampen it and then plant it. In my experience mint, marjoram, oregano like a lot of herbs do better in soil without the addition of nutrients....