General Gardening Discussion

thanks for the advice pete. Ill bring it in and see how it turns out. Ill e mail you Waco whwen i get any signs of life. this is the first time i have asked a question and i,m madeup i got a reply thack lads

Yes - son sr has already put a pitcher plant on the shopping list when we go the GC next - and son jr wants a cobra lily!! Your photos look fab!!

Thanks for replies. Will prune when (if) it stops raining!

Had a look, a lot of work going on !!Nathan.

I had planned to take my second trip to Norfolk this week - to visit Blickling Hall and a few other places. Looking at the weather forecast it ain't the best week for such plans both cool and wet - so sadly postponed til mid June. Hopefully the rhodies will still be out then as everything is a...

That sounds much better!

I have loads of white daffs. Crocus and a small white flower which is just about to flower, its just getting big heavy stuff to you - if anyone is passing you are welcome to them. Oh and spanish blue bells.

I agree with Waco. Its worth trying to drain it as much as you can, but at the end of the day it is difficult to fight nature. The water could be coming in from a large catchment area. Better to grow appropriate plants. Bearded Irises like the damp, and also tolerate the dry in summer. I have...

Blimey!... :D They is some cool cats! Typically Cornish [ 20. May 2006, 11:27 PM: Message edited by: Paladin ]

Found this link.... Little shop of Horrors...

I bought some very pretty pale yellow flowered heathers last year for my front window box. They didn't look garish or artificial but I think they must have been dyed as they gradually faded to white! I forgot to trim them and now they have tufts of green growth above the flowers!

Thats lovely Roders - bet it smelt nice as well.

I've still got some in flower - so could prolly send your a root, or when it sets seed some seed if you like.

When I was a kid in Hamilton, we had a vine like WAco describes - roots outside, and the rest of it in the greenhouse. I don't the variety, but it was a black grape. Some years we had great grapes, other years not - but it definitely worked - and that's definitely in your neck of the woods!

thanks to all for the great advise, i now know that i can leave and see what happens without doing any harm to the main plant

This is the one that looked really dead, I just pulled all the dead stuff off and you could seenew growth comming through underneath - better wait until it warms up though.This is a pink one which is not so rampant and still in flower

It is lovely to look at, but it is one of the most invasive thugs of a wild flower that there is in damp soil.

Mine grow like weeds, they have just finished and now dying back. They do not like to be moved, but I am going to have to do it as they are taking over.

you could give it a dose of sequestrine too

Hi Dag, I don't mind at all, this business of 'marking' has come up before and is always good for a giggle. The badgers haven't been at my containers either so I think it must work. As Hornbeam says, having badgers is great, but upsetting when your efforts are spoilt. We also have lots of grey...