General Gardening Discussion

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Brilliant, Steve!!!! :D As an ex-teacher of kids like these, I'm convinced you've got the answer!

Be patient LoL. Mine is full of leaf.. Full of potential..... But as yet no flowers. Where there's life....there's hope

Glad you got your size sorted. Lovely orchid and if you found it growing wild in Hawaii then yes - it's a wild orchid.

Welcome leeky85Aquilegia grow very easily. In the long run it is usually the other way round - you just try and stop them growing! We just trow them onto the ground and let them get on with it.Good growing ---------- shiney

The could look quite stunning with black tulips ! M-L

Thanks Hornbeam

Piri-piri ripening in the hot sun!

If Lupins are dead headed they won't re-seed ...however they can be cut back to the base when the first flowers have faded and you may be get a second later flush of flowers. M-L

hi, Chri$ and welcome, as Tangle says Magellanica are really the only fuchsia for a hedge, with a multi pack hopefully you will get the light pink and white ones as most hedges seem to be the commoner red variety.

Hi Plotty.Well done again for a great update. As usual your vegetables and flowers look fantastic. I could just eat some of those raspberries.I am sure you would sweep the board at any shows you entered. Daniels flowers look good as well.It is nice to see a young person with so much interest,a...

oh no!i cut my sweet william right down to about 4 inches when the finished flowering.i did dead head them for a while but nothing came of it.mine are in pots and ive just put them in the gh.please tell me i havnt killed them and theyll come again next yr. :(

Love the loosestrife.. The great willowherb is a mystery the birds have been attacking mine and the one in the back garden now looks very sorry with no flowers on it..as i was waiting for the seed capsule..but i think the birds got their first..

Tangle ....I think you'd struggle to kill it stone dead !...where pruning has not been done for several years, a few strategies can be employed. One is to completely remove the old cordons except for a six inch renewal spur at the head of each cordon. Allow new shoots to grow down the wire to...

Thanks both of you for replyingBelieve me, it's not my first choice - but it looks like a solid mat around 2.5m x 0.75m I'm not sure I'll have any other options. I guess I can start just breaking it up by hand - there's SOOO much there that if I kill 1/2 of it in the process it's really...

shiney i will have to try your lemon balm cake recipe..as i havnt tried that..sounds really interesting..

You can cut the flower stalk down but you should leave the leaves.

Well, I'm totally fed up. Was so excited at the weekend as my newly planted honesuckle were in bud, only to find today that all the flowers have bean eaten and leaves are in holes. Aarrghh!!! I've looked under the leaves and can't find any caterpillers, though I have found some green fly. ...

We had a ESP a few years ago called Fennel and we called her Fenn - all the litter were named after herbs - I liked Basil but we wanted a bitch

Lovely pic. wildflower, another plant that's a must have for next year!