General Gardening Discussion

Any ordinary plant food will do. I don't water mine in winter, once they die back and become dormant they can fend for themselves. Don't forget to put some polystyrene or broken pieces of pot in the bottom of your containers to help drainage, and in winter raise the pots up a little [for...

HB ... first nibble on the Thai Dragon .. no heat but will nibble more tomorrow and see if any comes. Then he'll try the Naga. :eek: I'm only the messenger! :rolleyes:

Oh, I love Bess with an attitude .. better than any Rottweiler!Our cat Penguin actually brought a Rottweiler (Blake) up in Bucks ... she was afraid of no one. The owners of Blake however were not so amused when they used to take him walking and he reared up and flapped his paws around like he...

Thanks Hornbeam & Frogesque Here is a pic taken this afternoon (not very good quality tho') Most of the plants are just starting to flower. Anyway, next time someone tells me they are weeds I'll be able to say that they are Aster amellus.

just be aware.......

Leave them to self seed if you want them to continue, or collect seed as they die after they have flowered.

Hellow flowerofshona and welcome to GC! Another hurray (I have one with my ginger) two new shoots have shot out of my Hoya!My is in a shady spot, no direct sun .. but that's because I get a little more of it here! :DHave patience, sit back and relax and maybe yours, too, will spring...

Yes they lay the concrete on a good hardcore base and the gradients you may or may not request are screeded in. Over the part cured flat concrete is added you chosen colour powder then over polythene (for a smooth finish) the moulds are pressed into the mixture. Another layer of colour powder is...

Thank you all for your help and guidence, happy gardening!!

They need hard pruning if you want to keep them within bounds, and to get a reasonable shape, but I've found cutting back into old wood is not successful. I don't so much deadhead through summer as mini-prune!

A member of Bath freecycle is looking for the white 'propapak' ones, made of the white expanding polystyrene used for packaging- he can't find them anywhere and the ones he has are crumbling.

I hope the trellis is big and strong, cos C. montana can get BIG. One of ours is now at the top of a 25 foot tall tree as well as covering the Summer house (12 by 8) roof. Also that depth of soil is a little shallow for Clematis (in fact a lottle shallow). They really do need a deep root run to...

More feasts in store then! I've been watching the bushes round here. One day soon they'll all disappear except for the 'blind' ones. I still haven't worked out how the squirrels know, perhaps it's weight as they are dumped on the ground without a hole.

Its a good one, you can see the layers formed by the new flushes of fronds. Could that be the cones forming in the centre?Dwarfing the BOP. :D

Lovely ideas, thank you. The Delosperma cooperi will be ideal in another area that is going to have a tall wall, I've seen lots of gardens around here that have something similar/same so it must do well. I think a cotoneaster will be perfect for the flower bed, now just to choose which one!

Lady of Leisure so love the colour of Lutos. You can but the plants here but I have never grown.Can imagine a splash of colour. [ 15. August 2006, 07:30 PM: Message edited by: Scotkat ]

Juliet. I think sedum is a really tough plant and could probably be divided at any time. But as the others have said it is probably best after flowering in autumn, or in the spring.However there is nothing to stop you taking some cuttings. I took some earlier this year and they are all...

I have seen problems in a few areas, only one of which I can categorically state comes from the bark, but once I started thinking about this possible transmission route I also noticed the new arrival of symptoms sometimes corresponds with the application of the mulch. I now only use pure bark -...

Hi Rich! Welcome back to GC - Co Durham is a great area isn't it? As for the rain, since the heatwave subsided it has hardly stopped!Look forward to some pics of your world tour.

I've not grown it myself, so I go along with what Fran says, try pollenating it by hand. Try crossing it with the pollen from the caerulea. Just a thought but why do you want the fruit? Once the fruit start to form they tend to slow down the flowering.