General Gardening Discussion

Have you heard about this? http://www.friendshipestates.co.uk/yew-collection/yew-collection.html

or the monkeys ate him

Glad they came good Waco, and they were in the greenhouse mix I think, weren't they?

Peter, I can't find your thread on the Salvia cuttings, so I'll say here that I went and collected the three rootings this morning, thank you very much.Also, I have good news ... the S guaranitica, the Salvia being the discussion of this thread originally, has a mass of little roots on it...

We have problems keeping the Leucojum vernale going. The bulbs just disappear, it could be mice or soil conditions. I can keep the tiny autumn flowering ones in the rock garden and in pots no trouble, other than hundreds of self seeded ones and distinguishing between the bulbs and grass!

http://www.duchyofcornwallnursery.co.uk/

Another interesting one is the flame creeper, Tropaeolum speciosum - as it not only has lovely red flowers followed by vivid blue berries, it's a climber, so you get the height element too! Have a look,...

sorry pam can't help you but hope you get someone soon.

Unless that album you've linked to is public, you need to copy the image tag into your post here.

Well just like Newbie I'ave been using my new cold frame and I am pleased to write that my cape daisy cuttings are rooting so well that they are coming through the bottom of the pots.Everything else like the lavender & the fushcia cuttings look good and alive although no roots coming...

....my hubby did!!!Read here!

Its a great thing - enthusiasm. :D :D :D

I heard on the radio that the Dutch government has bought a huge amount of peat bogs in Ireland for the purpose of preserving them and not allowing them to be dug up!

Hi TO Thanks, will leave at the mo, thanks for advise. KG

not me helen, ha ha! yesterday i watched my neighbour sweep the front street (half way towards my house & down the rest of the layby) of all the leaves and berries off the trees. he swept them all up even around a neighbours car & bagged them off. when he had finished i looked over at my half,...

Hi Bekimac - it's not wooly aphids, though I also have that problem elsewhere :rolleyes: . I think the Aphids are actually called Lupin Aphid and they are falrly new in this country (from America apparently) They are larger than normal aphids and as I understand it are not eaten by the usual...

A good bit of advice when buying turf is to buy direct from the grower and ask to actualy look at the growing field before you buy. Thankfully I am blessed with an excellent turf suplier local to me.

Paula, it must be you that I'm listening to on the radio on 104.01 fm :D

Brilliant Job Pal,well done to you

Well i think I did the right thing. we have had cold night s but no real frost, and most, if not all my bedding plants and half hardies are showing no ill effects. I fact you would hardly know the night had been cold, although one canna is looking a bit battered, but thats probably the wind...