General Gardening Discussion

Fiona. Your tickets arrived this morning - just three minutes ago. Again, many thanks. Peter

Aaw thanks Palustris! That is sooo clever!!! I admit to not doing technical!!!....but as my computer whiz brother said to me..'yes, but you can garden!' So all is fair!!

Hi, PeterS. Wow, Robin's site is mind-boggling ... I never thought there could be so many! I've put the site in my favourites so I can take time to try to identify mine! Mine bloom for at least that length of time, but to be honest, I can't remember the the one I bought two years ago not...

Thanks Chips.Looked at your profile but only a redX instead of a pic of you :D

Thanks Pete, I'll give it a feed. I'm just about to re-pot it into an enormous pot (actually the old water tank from the loft - recycling at it's best!) I'm going to try it like that until next year, and then decide what to do with it. But if next door keep winding me up it might just find...

Hello Liz, I keep my cuttings in the greenhouse over winter but it is not heated. However, we seldom have a hard frost here as we are right on the coast, I will give it a try, thanks for your help.

I have six melon plants. On a previous thread I asked if I was ever going to get any females flowers. My plants then started getting a bit over grown with side stems. So I decided to do a prune. Since then I have had 6 female flowers all of which I pollinated and it looks like a few more are...

Thank you guys, off to the shops!

Thanks for your help Royster and dendrobium (some kind of plant??)!the link to thrive is really helpful am going to speak to them and see if they can be involved or help in our project in any way!once again thanks for your help,Manny.

Hi, If u go on ebay and look for valsplants, they have beautiful established ones in stock. Have just bought one for my garden for �£8.99 including p&p. Came v well packaged and in v healthy condition. Have bought quite a few plants form this seller and would recommend her highly. Hope this...

BeforeStill to paint the base blocks my greenhouse stands on.And after.I would dig up your grass or put membrane on top of your grass.You may havedone this already.I would start preparing and planting now personally with the forecast away to change wet wet wet soon.Be nice with...

They look more like toadstools to me, but they seem to be eating anything these days. I could never eat anything related to athlete's foot.

they sure will, Rich! Tehy probably didn't realise you ahd a car - they'll never have seen it before! :D

Hi Dawn.I keep mine on a south facing windowsill with net curtains which stops the sun being too strong.These are mine that are in flower today.

Well, here's hoping - and fingers crossed for next year! Looking forward to my first crop :DYou'll be looking forward to tasting them soon, then Nick! A special celebration pepino or two - or maybe they make good wine..... :rolleyes:

got both pms - ta - have replied.Still a few streptocarpus if anyone else wants them - and rather a lot of spiders, once I've potted them up!!

Thanks Fancy so do wee since it was finshed ate out on the patio every day as weather jsut perfect even breakfast.Today the rain has come again.

I agree Chobart - I think the distinction between Biennial and perennial is very grey. Some perennials are better grown as biennials according to Christopher Lloyd - such as Lupin. And again according to CL, some biennials are much more perennial if you cut the spent flower off quickly. Th...

I have a new Weigela, very dark red, which flowered earlier in the year and is now flowering again! One of the 8 lovely little shrublets [well-rooted cuttings] from Glenville Nurseries, all are doing well. Buddleia Alternifolia is about 3' high despite my hard pruning to keep it in single stem...