General Gardening Discussion

I've always wanted to grow tithonia but my attempts have always met with dismal failure. Cleome is a bit easier, but they grow fast and if sown too early they get hard to manage in terms of space/potting on before planting out time.

Thanx for a great link, I can see where i've gone wrong to date, in my borders too. The critters page is interesting........... I got a recipe for racoon, in an old cookery book by sainsbury's. I still looking off racoon tho' Love the rest of the site

Hi Madahhlia, welcome. Thanks for the kind offer, but Leicester and Lymington are quite away from each other even though you house my favourite rugby team! LoL, we must have been close neighbours, just a short swim across the Solent. :D

Yes, you are right, flowering times in absolute terms will change, but you might think that in one location plants would flower in relatively the same order, even if they were all foreward one year and all behind in another.

We pickle wild chanterelle mushrooms.

At least you have Cal to blame - I managed much the smae without feline help....I'd go for it too, LoL - enjoy the surprise andd delight in anything coming up - adding a whole new spice to growing from seed! :D

Hello... my first post here!

We had it at work on an adjoining plot. Its roots can attack and penetrate concrete foundations. Someone said its not notifiable, however it is an offence I'm told, to propogate it or remove it to a different location. We had to install a six metre deep steel sheet pile wall to prevent it...

I've put it into a pot and placed it in the border behind a plant to keep the roots shady, on closer inspection the flowers do look like the ones in the pics, so I'm not confused anymore There are only two flowers out but it is only small.I bought a freckles some weeks ago (another half...

I've grown them from seed this year and have them on the window sills throughout the house climbing up a cane. They are quite easy to grow from seed and by the looks of things a LOT cheaper.

thank you blackthorn and frogesque pleased to hear it will be fine and i threw it away not thinking i could use it as a cutting

Just see this belatedly, not sure Pete, I think there are some naturally coloured ones. Aglaonema normally have narrower leaves but there are always exceptions in botany.

Hi Ellie, from your list of creepy crawlies the one I would be most worried about is the tiny red spider. If it is really, really tiny then I think you may have Red Spider Mite. David.

Thanks for that :D

Yes, looked them up, and the one's you chose are lovely. Bit disappointed with the Mourning Widow, flowers don't last long, and are much smaller than I expected, albeit a smashing colour.

THANKS PETE I'VE SOWN BOTH AT QUARTER INCH IN FINE COMPOST SO MAY BE JUST UNLUCKY. NEXT YEAR I WILL DO IT YOUR WAY, AND HOPE IT WORKS FOR ME THANKS FOR YOUR REPLY

another of the sunset clematis its an american variety long - flowering bought it in B&Q

Here it is before it was moved, together with a close up of the flower spike. Looking in the book I seem to remember it is the Gigantum Foxtail Lilly, normally they are about 4ft tall.I don't think it has much scent but certainly not unpleasent.

Why not try Ideas for Gardens software? http://www.ideasforgardens.com/

Yes, they are the people who produce the Strep food that I've got - a good source, forgot about that one, KF! :D