General Gardening Discussion

now is the time to start gathering flower heads etc for making pot pourri.. Basic Potpourri Recipe Instructions:Choosing the botanicals: Decide on a color scheme. It can be very natural and earthy looking or very brilliant. It can be made with 2 colors or many colors. It can be simple...

A garden in Manchester many years ago kept records of the number of snails and slugs they killed. Over a period of 5 years they removed over 200,000 of them "with no visible diminution of numbers!". I'll bet there are still plenty in your garden, just well hidden!. If the plant is dead, then do...

Really LOL? The fragrance in the evening is intoxicating - I just have to go out to have a sniff :D

Thanks pip..daz

I will try my best john

Lets get the frogs bred asap!! Nice cite that Liz

Pond liner sounds a very cheap method of making the roof waterproof. You cannot of course nail or screw anything through it as you will lose the waterproof integrity, but the sheer weight of decking on top will keep the liner in place. But I would add bits that overhung the edge downwards to...

Wow that maurelli is slow isnt it.The ice cream i got of ebay mmmmmmm.How ever i got a sikki of ebay and its doing just fine

Well, they must be very nearly frost hardy Dave

Hoping it isn't this, blue:http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pestnote/grape.htmIf it is, it's a notifiable disease, and Defra have to be informed.Otherwise it could be oedema caused by wet soil and a damp atmosphere. To cure it, stop watering and improve ventilation, and I'm told the...

Thirteen days on and the Cycad has produced twelve new leaves ....I hae removed all the old leaves now as they looked tatty in comparison so I'm left with my new growth from last year and this! :D

Thanks for the replies so far - yeah, i've seen plenty of refs for marigolds, but couldn't find anything for nicotiana.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana One variety at least is where they get tobacco from - nicotine is poisonous...

haha they're too far away to be bothered with such like. Well I tried it and there seems to be no residual smell.

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Exciting!!! - one would hope

Thank you verry much guys im going to do another soon.No the stream never floods however it goes higher when its raining heavy.The widlife is awsome we only moved here last year so iv never really enjoyed the garden cos it was to mesy to go in.Up to now iv seen kingfisher, foxes, loads of fish,...

Don't forget to keep trimming, them, top, front and sides, all the way to the base, so you get plenty of thickening out of growth, GP!

Thankyou Dorsetmike.I plan to pot them on again into bigger pots then put them in the ground later where they`ll stay.I will take your advice with the rest of them.

Ignoring the names, I like to keep a note of the newer shrubs in my shrubbery. The paulownia has the large leaves centre shot. Paulownia tormentosa's eventually flower when mature, but by this stage the leaves are that much smaller than if pruned annually. The flowers appear before the leaves....