General Gardening Discussion

Thanks to all for your comments and advice, this has been very helpful

Normally seed packets give spacings between each plant and spacings between each row of those plants. Just ignore the row spacings and plant them all equidistant apart.

Hope they help, if I find anything else will let you know...

Sorry to hear that and worrying to hear. I hope I don't run into problems This is my first year growing orchids - and I get a reall buzz, when I get a flower spike.BTW why do they produce little drops of fluid? I've noticed it on all three of the types of orchids I'm growing. Nothing as...

Thanks Hornbeam and Pete think I might just pop the ugly plastic pot into a nicer ceramic one until spring then. My wife wipes the leaves regularly with a banana skin , makes them shine , can't do any harm can it ?

soaked them last night on will plant tomorrow. Have a day off work (hope the weathers ok) :D

Hello and Seasons Greetings to you all, just to let you know that I have added this week's update to my website, regards Steve.http://www.myallotments.blogspot.com

There's a well established one in a garden in Pangbourne near the top of a hill, though in a sheltered spot agreeably, that must have been there quite a long time. It must have see the -15 to -18C we caught back in Jan 1985.

That was certainly some venture you took on W and what a result. A fantastic garden.

My grandad was a keen gardener and i remember helping, well more hindering him in the garden when i was a child, It must skip a genaration in my family as my dad hated gardening, cut the grass was about it. Have always wanted to have a decent size garden to grow veg and plants. Just bought a new...

Regrettably Dendy the use of water at the RHS this summer was obviously quite considerable and although the river next door continued to flow there was little water to spare. The area is also surrounded by golf course including the new one at Wisley and many of them do not have a spring or other...

Thankyou strongylodon.I did give it a good drink when i got home cos it was as dry as a bone but will be carefull not to drown it with love.

good advice T G thats how i done mine for years.

I started out looking for software, that mainly had a dictionary of plants. I never really found one. Many appeared to have a lot of plants, but once you eliminated trees, plants over 6 foot and under 6 inches, there were very few left over. And I never did find Artic Bramble on sale in the...

The same happened with mine. Lovely leaves but no flower bud. I've done the same as you Frogesque and cut back the leaves. Doubt if I'll get any flowers this winter but I won't give up on them. I've just bought a new one and am awaiting growth. They're amazing bulbs and so rewarding when...

Thanks Waco - yes thats the one. I have never had much success with it. It doesn't like being trampled on either. I did it one year, and it survived, but when I did it the second year it didn't survive. :D

I've bookmarked that to read later - ta, Nick! Yes, I DO see why tissue culture is desirable! :rolleyes:

Another site to take a look at to identify your rose.http://www.pbase.com/yvonneii/allroses&page=1

Congrats on kicking the weed Paladin, & Mrs Pal too!! You'll have a small fortune stashed before you know it and then you can blow it on enjoying yourselves.Sorry to see you're off work again. Hope you're feeling better soon.

Try Mahonia member of the barberry family in flower now through winter, nice smell, berries late spring they are poisonous but birds love them cat proof