General Gardening Discussion

I had a white foxglove amongst mine but i sowed two different sorts ..wild foxglove and the excelsior ones which are mixed so the white one probably came from that batch..

they are just the commen red ones and the pink ones have a very pale green leaf..thats all the ingo i know..has the person as moved abroad

Thanks Frogesque, I found it very difficult to get bits of root, but my bit has now got a little flower on so I can look out for seedheads, and try to spread it. Now it's in my garden I can examine it at leisure, without people thinking I've gone potty grovelling about by other peoples'...

Well if they did then it's a bonus, lol!! Very 'vetchy' isn't it?

I haven't tried apple pips as I have a Ballerina tree already but I do have a Pear seedling about cm tall started in the Autumn and two Lychees 6cm and 10cm tall started at Christmas. At the moment they all live under a shrub for protection. I may Bonsai the Pear and one Lychee for my...

Sorry don't know Michael. usually leaves turn yellow because they don't like too much water or they don't like too much lime in the soil. Hydrengas like water, but tolerate lime, so don't know what your problem is.anyone else out there for Michael?

There is a nice pub in Shorewell,who's name escapes me, that we always head for when we have been for a nice long walk. We sit outside in the garden,and watch the trout swimming in the pubs trout stream.Brilliant.Forgot to mention the Steam Railway that runs from Havenstreet-Smallbrook.Lovely...

Now slowly drop the height with each successive cut till its at the right height for you. It'll need feeding in a few weeks time (if you can water it afterwards)

A friend of mine chopped back a huge Rambling rector a while after flowering last year (just when she shouldn't IMHO), and it sat there and looked all but dead for the rest of the year. This year its 8ft high, bushy and dense, and had quite a few flowers. Might be worth ignoring your rose for a...

I can see both those pictures. If you want them to appear in your reply you have to put the at the end like this:I have put a space next to [/img] so you can see what I mean. Then you get:andcoming up without clicking on the https. If you look at the pictures in photoshop and go to...

Liz.If your seedlings are in the places you are happy with, then just leave them alone.They should come up at the right time, and will grow bigger each year.I have pricked out some of my seedlings into a shallow alpine trough mixed with compost and leaf mould.At the moment they are dormant...

Is this it:http://images.google.com/images?q=Lilium+bulbiferum

My honeysuckle is in a pot it is fine, flowered recently all new growth doing well.rosa

All done, in pots in the greenhouse, also some Bessera elegans which were trying to sprout, poor things.

if they have "nice green grass" whatever is underneath must suit their lawns

Yes you have to watch the sap,can cause skin irratation

I can just picture all those mullein caterpillars marching on round to the West Midlands, certain of a friendly welcome......

I must add that mine are grown in a large nursery glasshouse not a domestic one and are able to keep winter/spring temperatures (to produce large numbers of bedding plants) higher than most folk can so I do have an advantage.

That is exactly why I want it, I can smell it just thinking about it.I am hopeful for the thyme too - we will see.

Slugs ate all mine - well most of them year before last, I got a load more - 50p from local nursery then all others came back. One of them is very strange, it first flowers wjite then pale blue then delphimium blue then pink - not sure I like it really as it does not seem to know what it...