General Gardening Discussion

Welcome Leeky85 from kilburnBM

Floppy echium update! After planting it out it does seem to have perked up a bit. I think the lowest leaves are too far gone, but the top few are definately a lot less droopy. Yay!! I'm well chuffed. Just wish this bl**dy gale would drop :(

Thanks rosietu. I KNOW how important it is to mark/label things......you THINK you will remember them, but you just don't!!!! lol

thank you mona lisa. hope that's all it is. i'll give it plenty of TLC

I have quite a lot on the balcony i have even started my neighbours off underneath me have been helping them put their arch up and twig expanding trellis over the balcony fronts and sides, they have been up and seen mine and jan said oh i want mine like yours, they have put their climbers in...

I have looked at the plastic ones and not seen any large enough cant say i have seen stone effect ones can you get large square ones and quite tall as the clay concrete ones i have seen are the perfect size that i want. Dreading doing mine by the way also as my vine is already in a concrete-clay...

liz a nice pond with a few gold fish and ferns would look great then you would have the best of both worlds something to sit and admire maybe a little running water in the middle of the pond

How easy it would have been for you to make some excuse not to go. Takes two but it's often the way nice things happen - off the cuff, I mean.

Nice one for that matey, much appreciated....

Now I know how you have wonderful allotments. That lovely video was uploaded at 5am... WOW. I hope my allotment looks that good one day. I have three pumpkins growing this year and I eat mine, lovely pumpkin soup..mmmmmm Looking forward to the next installment.

I often leave a weed if I don't know what it is. I've had Herb Paris, Giant Lettuce, and (frighteningly enough) Jimson Weed. I've now got a Trillium which is odd as I have planted them in the same spot several years ago and they just faded away, and any number of Yew volunteers. Those I see as a...

We've had rain and clouds most of this week,but it hasn't cooled down much. As Rosa says, it's very hot at night, even in my stone cottage. I think my sweet peas have grown about 3" this week and at last have some flowers coming. Mine are in a sunny place, my neighbours' are in the shade and...

And you can usually prune the taller stems to a (much) lower bud without spoiling the shape at any time of year. Might lose a few flowers at the top next year, but hell, they have enough anyway.

worms with sunburn !!!

is it safe enough to to plant fritillaria bulbs in the earth now? Even though its too late for them to flower this year.What I mean is they wont lie and rot? [ 07. July 2006, 06:25 PM: Message edited by: sawfish ]

It is the natural character of the bleeding heart to die down after flowering in the spring, so I think this is nothing to worry about. They will reappear next spring. M-L

It's been a busy day and I've uprooted the C vimilus and planted the pink grapefruit in its place next to the lime tree. That was a bit shattering at 27oC even after the sun was going down! :( Sweat, sweat :( The poor C vim is now lying on its side where it's going to go .... tomorrow...

If they are already good bushy plants then you do not need to do anything, but if they are single stemmed ones then pruning to force branching from the base is a good idea. Cut each shoot back by about a third, now would be ok.

Hi Fireside. We have all had initial problems with pictures. Don't worry.Have another go. Make a few blank lines in your post (just press return several times) then copy the IMG line into the area of blank lines. It is not happy if it is connected to existing text.Then click Preview Post...