General Gardening Discussion

Thanks windy I thought my bin would be no good as I didnt have right position in garden for it.Ive been busy gathering up all the stuff to put at the bottom only got small amount of grass, leaves, paper, and egg shells, just now but I will keep adding to it . Who would have thought Id get all...

...or maybe, don't!

I've got a few like that in my alpine bits, blue and yellow ones - they're so pretty. I also have the big, yellow ones that are good for cutting into flower arrangements (with alstomerias and penstemons for example).

I like rosebay willowherb, it can look stunning in drifts. I have loads of poppies in my garden this year - I love them. Another "weed" I like is red/pink/white valerian, it grows out of the shingle around here.I'm told the definition of a weed is a plant that is growing in the wrong place,...

Thankyou Woo,glad you like them [ 01. July 2007, 07:46 AM: Message edited by: Kandyfloss ]

Sounds like you've had an interesting visit PeterS

I was advised to feed my Echium fastuosum cause it was losing leaves - i have to admit I was giving them all a starvation diet cause I thought they grew in rocky places, so i fed them and there has been quite a spurt of growth on the big Echiums. But then I was thinking the rocky places they...

Morning walnut. Do you mean you want to try the Melia or are you referring to my jaunts? I't's too early for me to be thinking logically!

Hi Mac a matter of weeks keep the water level about one and a half to two inches up the cutting.Check the leaves carefully there's a tiny green caterpillar thats the same colour as the leaves and sometimes rests on the leaf veins can cause this sort of damage,If you have a systemic bug killer...

I had a Lady Boothby some years back. Kept it in a 12" pot. It did well in year 1, but hardly flowered in year 2 and 3, and then chucked it out due to lack of space and too many other better fuchsia standards - Checkerboard, Lye's Unique, and Tennessee Waltz to mention just three of the commonly...

This has been a most enlightening thread! thank you all for your comments, I have loved it so much.

Begonias, new guinea impatients, fatsia will be evergreen, mimulus, theres lots

Thanks Oktarine, yes I have been busy as usual but it is very rewarding and satisfying, your updates are very good as well I have been following them with interest when I can, regards Steve.

Roy some of us have a limited amount of room I would love to let things grow to their full potential but not really practical, I think you can obtain the same effect as you describe if you scale down your plantings with careful pruning. Dendy you are forgiven

Funnily enough, I got them a couple of years ago when greenfly attacked my indoor herbs and wrecked them.Depending on the weather I also get those horrible small harvest flies so having decided to grow my tomatoes inside on a sunnny windowsill this year I've got the carnies in with them. So...

It might One way to find out is to 'plant a seed'

Yes, you are right Pete. After making the post I removed all my other cuttings and I saw Diascia had lots of roots on the surface of the soil as well.I suppose it is back to basics. Plants need heat, light, air (at leaves and roots), water, and nutrients. And if they get them they can grow...

Thanks I'll put them into the fridge for awhile and see how they do.

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!! I wasn't referring to you Miraflores. You'll have to go to Mole to see what I meant. I loved your poem and I sang it out loud too - not that I can sing very well. Sorry for the confusion.

thanks blackthorn - for a minute there i thought i'd actually managed to stump gardeners corner... oh me of little faith...think i'll give it a go, saw it at a mail order nursery called bertrams blooms. they've got some really interesting stuff there.