General Gardening Discussion

Yes, they do. You can cut the flower head off and new flower spikes will form, so if you miss yours you get a second go!

Its doing OK pete so fingers crossed XXX

Goosegrass or cleavers is a valuable plant to the herbalist as Wildflower has already pointed out. It is really easy to pull up when it is scrambling around and yes - as it is full of minerals, it will make valuable compost. However - compost it BEFORE it sets seeds. That is true for all...

Well I can send you kilos of the beastly seeds if you insist!!

Cheers everyone, not been out to check on them since yesteday morning. If it stops raining I will go and have a look and dispose of them. :D

Get out the cool shades, clag on the suncream and have a great break roders! Interested to see what you manage to come back with

someone once told me that "new Dawn" would do OK on north face wall, but have never tried it myself though I do grow it.

I would leave more than 10 days.

One of my favourite biennials are Sweet Williams, which are making a lovely display in my garden at the moment. I have been told that it's possible to extend the growing season of this plant so as to have it in flower from Spring until Autumn. Is this correct and, if so, can anybody tell me how...

can you compost sticky weed???

Thanks a lot for the information. I had a good look this morning and saw the green nymph. I also saw a couple of ladybirds on them so I will leave them alone.

Hornbeam that's a lovely colour. I do agree with you. All the books and TV suggest putting a variety of different things into one pot. That's OK if you only have one pot. But if you have a number it looks messy. I tend to restrict pots to just one type of plant. Is is the same principle as...

Hi and Welcome!Rhodes are evergreen so you should always have the dark gren foliage which you can use as a backdrop for brightly coloured flowers. Don't be tempted to dead head them though. Next year's flower buds will already be forming under the mass of brown petals and if damaged or removed...

Thats nearly it for another year. :(

dendrobium thanks for the help. I will try potting some cuttings to use for filling in the gaps. I am having problems posting pictures which for some reason are visible on the preview and even after posting but a few hrs later are gone. I have posted a link to some pictures I have of the garden...

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There are seedless varieties avalible which is probably the best option. I do remember reading about a spray which sets the flowers and also makes the grapes seedless, but that was a long time ago, and probably only available commercially, at a guess.

Lupins do all sorts of things, pink purple and cream sonds great, just don't expect it to flower for long

Have some Callistemon Salignus, PM me address

Me too, I'd love some!!