General Gardening Discussion

Thanks @CarolineL, I totally forgot about that RHS colour index, glad you reminded me. I was hoping to grow three in small glazed terracotta pots to maximise the cascading effect since they don't grow particularly wide. Yep, I noticed the same thing when doing a search, so much variation which...

That has done well for a 27 year old plant! Must be your green fingers and well draining sandy soil.That's a lovely memory to treasure of you both shopping together too.

I've seen healthy buddleias growing out of gaps in the brickwork in bridges, at least 5m from the ground. It'll take more than a bit of pruning to kill one!

Get them in the ground!! Let them flower and die back and they should be fine as can be

The nursery is local to me and to be honest the prices are high and the plant quality isn't the best, and garden furniture is unbelievably expensive, shame really I like to shop local where possible.

Comfrey is growing by the roadside around here ,thanks to the wet winter.

Thank you.

Hi,Well you can have colour and herbs in there, though not sure about garlic bulbs, perhaps suited more to open ground.For herbs you want soil or compost but with at least 30% of added grit as they like it on the free draining side and in a sunny spot.Chives will grow up and give nice...

Hello All, well nothing happened since 2012. We decided to invest on other parts of the house and wait for the children to outgrow the ball and rough and tumble phase. Now we are ready to do this.We want some small evergreen trees and several shrubs/plants to provide variable height and all...

These are the guys I bought mine from.Grass Seed & Lawn Seeds - UK Supplier - GSS DIRECT LTDThe seed mix is much better than what you get in packets from a garden centre. And being farm suppliers, it looks like they're still running.

So I decided to sacrifice one and squished it open to see if it was an egg. Alas, no - it's filled with milky substance and nothing else. Yep, I'm pretty sure it's a berry of sorts, not an egg I have a project to redo my pond as it has a leak and I need to empty it and lay a new liner, I'm...

I think there would be a lot of confused people in the supermarket if Woo did that.

Hi Perki, Thanks so much for getting back to me. It does look like the Clycinum is growing from the root which really threw me. I won't cut through that huge root though now! I might dig out the Calycinum and try and re-cover some of the pine root system. At least there's time with lockdown....

Plant breeders rights loop holes. A breeder can register a no propergation rights that last for 25 years only in UK law, this is why some of the originals from this Japanese breeder have had a name change a few years back, for example, Surfinia Hot pink, became Crazy pink. The originals like...

The first flower on the Petchoa ! The colour is called Cinnamon, quite nice, but possibly not for a mass basket planting. I think I'll mix it with the other colours yellow and white.Petchoa - Cinnamon

My guess is overwatering.Does water build up in that outer pot?Think it might have root rot, let it dry out between waterings, I find they don't actually need lots of water.

Great post Janet. I’m going to look up the wild about gardens campaign now.

I definitely get where you're coming from on not being able to see the walls and fence. At the end of the day it's about what you like. I agree with Macraignil that ivy is pretty good for wildlife - just that it has downsides too.Fan trained fruit trees are the other option on a fence - a...

I pinch out after 4 sets of leaves, in fact just did it a couple of days ago. I actually plant my SPs out in early April, so maybe in a week or so.