General Gardening Discussion

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.

Thanks Pete Looks like it will be Operation 'Colonize the Summerhouse' this Winter then Which requires much cunning and stealth...as it's currently spawn 3s playhouseI've put a lot of thought into their positioning...and think I've got the ideal spots for them...only time will...

I take it you don't have a snail problem then. I remember a quote I once read" you don't have a snail problem, you just have a duck deficit"

Hi everyone; Two years ago I bought a young Garrya eliptica (tassel Bush)from our local garden centre, but because it was only 1ft tall I pruned all the fruiting tassels off in order to divert its energies into growth instead of flowering with the tassels but now it has reached a decent height...

Home-baking by my MIL is well worth coming for! Honest! Her scones in particular.... it's a good thing I get plenty of exercise!We all like you as you are, Windy - don't change! :D

I just bought a pale yellow one earlier in the week, lots of buds but no flowers yet. Will post a pic when they open.

wonderful to hear that your views accord with mine and indeed the coucils. I made a complaint to the council - whose officer reacted in much the same way - its fly tipping they said, and he can't just cut down trees that are not on his land - there will be a registered or unregistered land...