General Gardening Discussion

not so much shrub as an invading force... a nice one, though!

Red Spider Mite. The bane of my life.

Dendro :D :DFletch ... hate to say it, but you're not in Scotland ... think (and I may be wrong) it's a wee bit colder there!

The edges look normal to me, as to why the centre is like that looks a bit strange to me. Do you think its been repaired at some stage.

Thank you for that Royster.

Going to add that all the C. cirrhosa are slightly tender, but they should do ok in Dorset. Here they tend to flower later and ours has been totally cut to the ground by frost twice now. The flowers do tend to hang down so you do not get the full frontal blast from them like you do with other...

Crouchend - I agree with the plenty of compost bit. And as Bayleaf says you can lay it on the top and let the worms do the work. I would also look into what sorts of plants like sandy soil. I am on clay - and you will be able to grow all sorts of plants that I cannot.

Point taken. I'll dig them up in the morning and put them back in their pot! :eek: Knew at the back of my mind it wasn't a good idea.

Thanks folks. Actually it is not really a problem as I cannot eat any mushrooms, so far all of them give me digestion problems even the most common ones. I just like to know what grows in my garden. We have three books on identifying fungus, but none of them are really that good, a bit like the...

It is going to remain outdoors and regarding drainage, the guy who carved it out for me said that it doesn't really need drainage as the wood will absorb any excess liquid, having said that I could drill some holes in it anyway.Thanks for your idea

It could be, but it is in quite a deep pot and certainly doesn't look waterlogged from the top. We'll see what happens

I was planning to pot it in a LARGE pot

My pravissima is in full bud already as well strongy, it always is at this time of the year. Dont think I'd get away with baileyana though.

Yup just Paladins ones, got those OK thanks,Oh and the ones before have arrived...I did nothing honest... very frustrating no pics :( when I like to know whats going on...and after ages watering tonight still no rain not a drop for weeks very difficult to start a new garden in dust.... ...

No watch the red dotted line, the one they call thickness. The blue line is the cold front, the red dotted is the air temps.

didnt know all that! thanks

LOL Hornbeam, sweet smelling slugs, nice..

We have portable units, found them easier than trying to knock through metre and half stone walls....less mess for one thing !!I'm off to check the oven, I've a giant sticky toffee pudding in there at the moment, and a tuna and salmon terrine waiting to go in the bain marie ...it's all...

I have a very small garden Fancy - so every square foot has to work hard. The Lupins thing was sparked off by Christopher Lloyd, who gardened pretty intensively. He said that he replanted some areas up to three or even four times a year. His argument was that people visited his garden over a...

I am going to plant them this weekend, the first living thing I've put in so far! thanks for the advice, have a good weekend.