General Gardening Discussion

Liz. I can do it so it can't be hard.Just cut out the spine of the leaf and plant the two halves in the well drained compost with most of the leaf sticking out. The babies form in a short while.

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In the UK a couple of my cronies in the production trade reckon that you grow lavenders from cuttings late in year one, then cut them hard in year two maybe three or four times and sell them in year three as solid globes of grey-green with flower spikes coming up..I think if you follow this...

PIECE OF CAKE ROYSTER ha,dont like laburnum full stop :D :D

Dave.. Re Smothies I asked you as I was told to add Yogurt after whizzing the fruit and that is really nice...Fat free if your slimming Greek if your not...

I LOVE MY BAMBOOS BM i just go bamboozel ha. good man.

Oh Thank You Liz, I'm glad you liked it. I found it heartening that so many people are giving it a lot of thought. But what a wonderful involvement of the teenagers - how nice that a tree gets their imaginations going. Well done tree - an inspiration to us all. Trees really do touch lives.

Thank you, I shall look forward to the hazelnuts, if the squirrels don't get there first!

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Hi, does anyone do anything special with their decking over winter? A man who gave me lots of advice with the building of it said to keep it looking good it was best to cover it with a tarpaulin over the winter. Does anyone do this? and would that blue plastic tarpaulin do or would it have to be...

I've been using chippings in a wood land garden area - 2-3 inches thick - and it really works as weed suppressant! Just forked in last years, we are on heavy clay, and the chippings help loosen it up. I get trailer loads for free from the guys who do our hedges. They are always keen to...

Not being critical DaveP, Pete and Waco ... shouldn't you be speaking in "what's looking good in September"?Time is advancing ....

Is that so strongy? I think its greened up a bit now, but having said that, everyone else seems to have had a lot of rain this weekend, but all we had was drizzle.

Fancy, re the missing light at the top of the lamp post - as Ickleweed mentioned as the header to the pic "Almost there..."Ickleweed, I really like the sinks - they work in this situation very well and your planting schemes are spot on!Good luck with gates!Kind regards Roy

Thanks Palustris, they did start dying from the base up.I wondered if the foxes had damaged the roots when they disturbed the bed.I did plant them deep but will get systemic fungicide can you recommend a trade name.

Thanks for all your remedies,some were more helpful than others but you all had me in stitches. My hubbie's not sure to expose his dibber in the garden as it might upset the neighbours.But with my nagging he will relent. Thanks again.

.... and you lived to tell the tale, Dave! :D :D Are you still quaking or is that why your avatar friend (sorry, forgot his name) is nervy?

Jazz - I am sorry, I think I may have responded out of my own alarm. Sometimes I forget that what I find pernicious someone else may be okay with.As far as Garden Centre selling plants - almost anything can be considered a pest - I grow Eomecon, the Himalayan Poppy which a lot of people...

But in quantity they are 'cheap as chips' luckily. About �£3 per 100 pairs. Vinyl are better than latex as they don't rip quite as easily. I don't wear them except for spreading some chemicals, and machinery servicing. There's precious little loss of feeling, but I kind of feel that its an...

One of the very best utilisations of sempervivum I've ever seen for decorative purposes is the clock in Princess Street Gardens, Edinburgh. Sorry - no pic. Sure many of the GC members are familiar with it. Would be great to see pics of other plantings around our towns and cities.Really good...