General Gardening Discussion

Could be right gandygardener, it is watered regularly but it does sit in an area were the wind whips right over the top of it.

Evening, JarBax, mine don't survive MY winters in the pots but grow wild. I'm at a loss ... don't say a word, roders!On the other hand, English lavender thrives by me .. must be a heritage thingy!

Thanks, I'll try to be patient. (No other option really!)

Hello, lapod, lucky you ... both with the hebe and the robin families!

Sorry Mrs Bobs, all gone !

Hi All, just digging the garden over as we are re turfing it. Its very chalky. I was told that turf does well on sharp sand, so was thinking of doing that. What do you think? I can put a picture on later if needed. Thanks

I'll have to get friendly with the neighbours then. After a border dispute with one of them that went on for months I've been put off from attempting to befriend the other side. I could always put an ad in the local shop window and see if a kid wants a bit of extra pocket money for a couple weeks.

I use a little knife thing that you shove through the root under ground, and if you keep doing it, it will discourage the dandelion eventually, since it can't photosynthesise.http://www.organiccatalog.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=57_216&products_id=1952It's a pain, but it works, and it...

Looks like a pot chrysanthemumhttp://images.google.com/images?q=pot%20chrysanthemum&hl=en-GB&sourceid=gd&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2006-49,GGLD:en-GB&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Thanks paladin, ive planted one just a week ago and the bottom leaves had turned a slight reddish colour

I have quite a bad greenfly problem in my garden this year. My silver birch was absolutely covered! I bought some spray for it which has cured the problem, but it's nasty stuff and I don't want to keep using it everywhere. So, I'm looking into buying/encouraging ladybirds. A few Qs- Is the...

Sunshine trees have different ways of growing some send down huge tap roots and find the water table with few surface roots for gatherig nutients, others are shallow rooted and have lots of roots near the surface and get their water and nutrients this way,the privet family are in this class of...

walnut, thanks for the encouragment. i dont know about being able to soon give you good folks advice, but give me a few years and you never know I do have a lot of gardening books although you would never know by how little i know!I found a pic of my lavender bush jarbax (as it looked...

I've been there a few times - and loved it! It wasn't too difficult to get there from Hemel - and I got parked in the street right outside it the last time :eek: Free, at that! I chose the right time on a Sunday, apparently!I think I saw it at its best with Autumn colours - absolutely...

Hi SunshineYup, if you need the space for summer stuff, it's fine to dig up your tulips & muscari bulbs, I do. You've done the right thing in storing them in trays to dry out naturally too. Once the foliage has dried off, you can store the bulbs ready for planting out next Autumn.

hi every one, just wanted to let you know that the shammrock plant i have got is not the one that flowers its the 3 leaf shammrock, abit like the 3 leaf clover, and its very hard to get hold of this plant, so if any one knows much about this plant and can tell me as much info regarding feeding,...

I like to sow into a 4" square pot - saves on compost, nice and deep for the roots, doesn't encourage me to sow far more seedlings than I can use, and they fit nicely together to save space - then prick out into seedtrays or celltrays. I'm less keen on celltrays than I used to be because I think...

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As the leaves are blotchy yellow, not yellow with green viens, I guessed it wouldn't be the Iron or nitrogen deficiency, so my going for Epsom Salts was just another thought. Also as I have recently watered it, I cant add more water with food until it dries out a bit. I have removed the main...

Scotkat,well done on your beautiful new garden.It looks fantastic now it is complete and I expect you are having great fun in buying the plants for it.It is lovely of you sharing them with us