General Gardening Discussion

There are lots of hazel trees around where I live - beautiful. Have to be quick for the nuts! I love hazelnuts - gorgeous roasted!

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Rick, assuming you want a hedge about 6ft high and about 3ft thick, then cut your hedge to a height of 6ft and a thickness of 3ft. It will look like a load of sticks but I promise you, you will end up with a beautiful privet hedge. David.

thank you for your reply, sorry for my mispelling to sow ha! well i'm going to sow a few seeds tomorrow and leave them in the greenhouse for the winter. now if it doesn't work then i'll have to sow the rest of the delphiniums in the spring.

My whole garden seems to be clay. It is getting better though just after 1 year of turning it all over Titchmarsh style. I do need more organic material in it though, but i need to get rid of some of my current soil because my beds getting too high according to my g/f

Most of the blackberrys have finished round us!!

They only sent me the kernels - looks like someones done the cracking for me

Can you give us a picture of the whole plant.Looking at the leaves in your picture, I'm inclined to agree with John.. June/July is very late to plant a shrub - fortunately with this summer survivable. But it would help to see the totality.

Cyclamen, if fresh, a couple of days. Clematis, not till spring.

I took the seeds from my white delphinium, could I sew them now or should I leave them for spring.I like gardening but i'm clueless when to sew? thankyou for reading it and i will be grateful for your attention to sew my seeds. :confused:

JarBax beautiful pics beautiful flower

Hi Bettyb - I'm sat here listening to the rain against the window!!!! We had some sun over the weekend, but at the moment, its either too wet or too hot - nothing in between (mind you, our hot is likely to be positively cold by your standards!!!!!!!! :D ) We have hardly been out in the garden...

Hi, David. Thanks for that, will do so. I think I'll trim it into a nice shape (it's a bit straggly looking) in the Autumn, feed it and then maybe ... just maybe it may flower next year.Hope all is okay with you?

Thanks roders, just hope the forecast winds dont do it any damage.

Thanks for your help the flowers look superb cheers

Did it ever flower? I have several types of Incarvillea in full sun and they flower their heads off. It will have been grown from seed and sometimes you can get plants that just don't seem to be keen to flower. Sometimes you wonder whether it is worth giving such plants house room. You might as...

Geoff is right, hardy cyclamen do not need a temp of above 16c. to germinate. Any higher then they go dormant. If you try the paper method, then do not be in too much of a hurry to plant them up when they have germinated. They form a tiny bulb first from the food in the seed. Take care not to...

Walnut, thanks will give it a go.

Fonzie and Marley,Thanks a lot for the info, still freezing and defrosting at the moment but will keep you both informed of the progress :D

Borrowers,We keep getting loads of tiny black things around, they seem to hover in hoards. We live close to a farm and also to the new river, walked a dog t'day and there were millions of the little blighters in these hoards, they also seem to like my Australian Bottle Brush for some reason ...