General Gardening Discussion

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Hi grinch it is Trachycarpus FortuneiIt is fully hardy down to about -10 and it flowered for me this year too. Frost wise it is mostly killed by crown rot where water gets in where the new leaves emerge and continuous freezing and defrosting causes fatal rotting. They can be renovated from...

Beefy Teddy Bear is cool!

cooled off in the north east, went to alnwick, northumberland today the same there, foggy all the way up the coast, at least it hasnt rained and no wind.

they are allready on show hornbeam..dont they look brilliant!!

Lovely, Dag! Mine are droopy with lack of water. Rain promised for today so fingers crossed

The careful placing of a trickling and lapping water feature will help soften those traffic noises as well. This will cut down on noise while your new buffer screen grows.

Thanks, Liz! I always like to know things like that! :D

see page 5 on the pdf file! http://www.rhs.org.uk/learning/education/documents/level2syllabus.pdfif link doesn't work, go to http://www.rhs.org.uk and follow the steps, learnig, then exams, then gen cert level 2, and get the pdf file for the syllabus - and page 5 there. Have fun!

I hope it makes it for you BM, I've had similar in pots but they've always dropped off for me. Feed it well, good luck mate.

I have a very nice clematis montana "elizabeth" has red leaf, and pink flower, not as rampant as white one.

I thought they looked raised already in concrete?

I don't know whether many of you have tried this Pelargonium species - P. acetosum. It is one of the more unusual, carrying rather succulent blue-green, crenulated leaves and clusters of pale coral, spidery flowers each up to 8cms. across. It has a very long flowering season - almost year...

Hiya Steveb, Unfortunately you can't get proper scrumpy any more. Thanks to the EU (grrr) who seem to think we can no longer think for ourselves.(Don't get me started!) You used to be able to buy it by the gallon in any containers you happened to have knocking around. We'd go along to a farm on...

Same here - we are in heat wave 32 degrees, but 15 miles to cost whitby and they are wearing winter coates!

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...