General Gardening Discussion

Okay, smartypants!!! :D

*** I know I said I would post these last week BM.. Still better late than never...!! This is my tree at various stages of flower, including the frost damage....So starting in Feb, these were the early buds.. I think the colours vary so much because I have taken allot of them looking...

Looking back at your picture, I now notice the unopened brushes! I should know better by now than to contradict you especially as it's in your garden!

Wonderful pictures, and wonderful view - sounds like your really happy there.

hey i know this is an old thread but was wondereing if frogesque, you could possible email that vetative growth of duck weed thing my friend would be well interested and has not got a computer, i could then mail it to her!! many thanks

I planted two C. citrinus (bushes) last year in two very different gardens and they have both come through the winter with no problems. Admittedly the winter has been on the milds side but I'm still pleasantly surprised.

I love the tulips, but the daffs are a bit "washed out" for me. I have a garden full of white daffodils and I hate them - however they do sometimes look nice on the west side of the garden in the evening.

Hi Kf. No My Feathers are just Itchy sometimes, I should be allright But i will have to watch my big eyes though. :D

That's a nice view BM, some very plush plants.

The picture shows them to be quite healthy but I would reccomend some compost cover for now with perhaps a bit of general fertiliser - they are very hardy and rewarding plants

Hey, pete, maybe we are at crossroads here ... I meant they grow wild in IoW.

I bought one for my mum, and one for me two or three winters ago. Her birthday is on Christmas Eve, and it claims to flower on Christmas day (thus, I suspect the name!) so I thought it would be a special pressie! It hasn't let her down! The first year, it had one or two flowers (as it did in...

C. stans does not have blue flowers to my knowledge, they are white with a blue tinge. I reckon you need very good colour discrimonation to see that though. Do not buy C r. purpurea unseen, there are some poor colour versions grown from seed. A Nursery called Aulden Farm nursery near Leominster...

Thanks both, have gone and tied them to stop the wind ripping them to bits.

I think they go under the name Eustoma now.

Thankyou Dendy you must have been really busy today and taking good advantage of the lovley weather.Looking forward to seeing the clematis grow from seed I have never done this or taken tip cuttings so a nice challenge.Certainly was with us.

Excellent - many thanks. My neighbour told me to hang them like onions but that didn't sound right!!

Interesting,I have lots of blackbirds in my garden but haven't noticed them at the crocus

Agree with Palustris.I certainly wouldn't do the setting fire trick to it just now, but I do know various people who do this to their established plants, and thy thrive, I have to say! I just do what I mentioned, cut it down with hedge trimmers every few years.

Lovely picture! I found some yellow ones growing on my compost heap Friday allong with some Cyclamen and sprouting clematis.