General Gardening Discussion

My amaryllis is in flower right now. I bought it as one of those gift sets in a pound shop and it's been a reet good'n ever since! In fact, it's had several babbies and they're now flowering as well but all still tucked up in the same pot - though not, I hasten to add - the original!

Most of this seasons plants supplied in garden centre and are cultivated to ensure they are a good size for sale in Feb, March and April. Therefore they all need protection from frost, and then hardening off before planting.However older plants, like the herbacious perrenials and roses etc...

I've had a few from there, JB! I even used 3 clematis from there on a job! :D One very happy customer! I often get real bargains from places like Poundstrecher, Instore Poundland or Lidl - a few losses, but most survive and even thrive. The number of people who've told me they got a...

As well as a Trachy you could use a chamaerops humilis or the blue one cerifera. Also a paulowina tormentosa ( the foxglove tree) keep it coppiced down to about 1ft every spring then it will grow to about 8ft with humongus leaves, uou get loads of new shoots but cut them all off bar one. My...

Try Googling "Hollyhocks-Rust". There's quite a bit of info. available. However, I've tried a variety of ways to combat rust and none of them are completely effective. If I can't stop the rust this year I'm giving up and growing Canterbury Bells next year.

Its going great guns now - it seemed to come from nowhere. Even got little flower bunches forming. Now to consider that home winemaking kit.........

I have hundreds self sown from last year that weren't killed off through the winter! They're doing fine! :D

fletch lift tubers rinse off and repot chaek for weavelf if so discard compost cover with fleece place in sun

I have to say that Little Lady is one of my favorites - they have a few beds of it in the Hampton Court Gardens in Herefordshire - they are tight, compact little bushes - and the scent is incredible. I have one in a pot - and it does well with our Dumfriesshire weather! My Hidcote got a bit...

Has anyone grown these before? Are some of them supposed to look exactly like tomato plants or have I got a packet of rogue seeds?

Well GGerald I have no Idea how It works but at �£500 I think I will stick to doing this favourite task of mine by hand.But if you go to this link it might help,. i see It fits the vacuum cleaner that's definitely a no no for me :D [ 22. April 2007, 12:23 PM: Message edited by:...

Thank you all for your input, Alyssum is a "Cheshire choice" and snow white. I put them in a chair (out door type) last year, and ive just pulled it out and the alyssum is just starting to bloom. I bought the Ranunculus "Magic mix" in a pot last year, that was another I put in the chair that has...

Wow now thats propper banana growing lol verry good my friend.I think ill keep it in a pot on the patio.So i can bring it in the house in winter.Thanks mate good advice as always...daz

Wisteria is fickle. Some get going straight after transplanting, others take ten years or more. I know one, properly pruned (by yours truly) all across a house that stubbornly refuses more than two or three heads, another I put in a couple of years back as a miserable little twig that manages a...

Thanks dai, I have been watering it copiously and some leaves have recovered. You may well be right, I'll cut back the other 2 after they've flowered.

Nah - by the time I've chopped off the mantle (only way to move it otherwise it weighs a ton and is soooo unwieldy!) decanted it and pulled off all the little 'potatoes' and dead roots, the root ball will be about �¼ it's present size and all ready to blast again!I had this advice from one...

Sounds like your going to have some fun sorting that lot out Waco.

Thanks so much to everyone for your help - at the moment I am putting the spiky prunings from my other neighbours rosebush all over the exposed earth and it seems to be doing the trick! Hopefully it will work until we get our own cat, which won't be long now! just waiting for the baby to get a...

Thank you banana man for that.Il have a look tonight after gardeners world . an hour episode...cool..daz

Yeah my Mum and Dad have sent off for this too, they haven't got the room for another composter so guess where that's going to live??!! :D :D It's a great offer...might send off for one myself :rolleyes: