General Gardening Discussion

use the info from RHS re plants that are less likely to get honey fungus - but they don't make any promises :( http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles1100/honey_fungus.asp

no none of them flowered but the ones with the brown leaves are the runty ones and it started off with blotchs on the leaves, I thought I had maybe sprayed them with bug killer or something, it was the top leaves went brown but I can see the beginning of new green leaves. It said on the packet...

Fair enough all, I wasn't suggesting anyone scour out their ponds on my say-so, but I do think it irresponsible of the BBC to promote these plants to new gardeners. Bananaman, I know nothing about keeping fish, so why is Elodea etc. suitable for your purposes and the natives listed aren't?

Brilliant photos!

I guess I have only had it a year, it was about 5 feet tall when I got it and is now at least 9 feet tall. My friend and I were looking at it today and she said about supporting it as it is full of fruit and as they get bigger it will drop and probably drag on the floor. I was made aware of this...

looks hopeful to me Sue. I'll give it a gander later. Off to mow some lawns!

It seems to be fairly easy to come by in most shrub nurseries in Britain.

This is an excellent on-line guide to organic gardening month by month: http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/todo_now/ornamental_now.phpSee further links from that page to organic vegetable growing, herbs etc etc.. All your questions answered :D

I didn't

Dave at the bottom of everones posts is where they live, I see yours says South Devon, Basil Fawlty country I believe. I'm in mid Kent, we catch the east winds in winter and early spring, but we do tend to get pretty hot at times in the summer if there's any heat about that is and it can get dry.

Any one care to identify them for me?

Dont think its flowers, they form on a small, usually downward facing, stem. Cant think what it can be though. :confused:

Bulbs sound good - like the suggestion...

Hi Mims & All Thanks for comments. These plants need lots of water, lots of food and patience!! The small one you have probably won't flower this year but should grow to about 3' tall. overwinter them in a conservatory or greenhouse, a temp above 10-15 degrees is ideal. Water occasionally so...

They're welcome to, save me vaccing up dead flies off the windowsills.. !! :D

Yep, leave them both until autumn/first frost then move the begonia which can be lifted and stored in a cool frost free place overwinter for planting next year. (I'm assuming it's formed a corm)Begonias will also take a bit of hacking when in full growth so if it looks like smothering your...

Not so sure it would like it up here anyway, but If I came accross one I would be sorely tempted - doesn't take much to tempt me anyway!

I'm not sure how much my water butts hold Probably about 50 or 60 gallons, I usually end up refilling with the hose during the summer, but due to the leakage from the victorian water mains that we have in the UK, combined wiyh the overpopulation, I cant this year. I'll just have to use...

Thank you everyone I eventually found my 1st and 2nd requests re.Boarders Thanks soooo much for advice I've printed them off and hotfooting it to buy the materials I need I am even going to take it a step further and take pics so you can see my garden (whoah, now I may be getting carried away...

I saw mine this morning at about 8am.but if I have to wait till later, I shall be late for work. It has been raining tonight, so I am not sure if it will come back tomorrow.The cine film I took with the digital camera only shows flowers as I was moving the camera so fast trying to film it.No...