General Gardening Discussion

Sow the nigella and cornflowers directly outside, no point in doing anything else now. Other favourite "quick fix" annuals of mine include poppies, nasturtiums, English marigolds and night-scented stock.And take a look at the Thompson & Morgan website, which has a sale on and free delivery...

We've two hanging seed feeders, plus the little house I made myself and two peanut butter feeders. So they're always busy.Hard to get photos, as by the time my wife has called me into the lounge, they've all flown off. They come back as sioon as I go out of the room.Anyway, I caught a...

@CarolineL I'm not sure if they like free draining but they are on a south facing free draining slope so free draining seems to suit them as much as the echiums. I think they went in last year, maybe the year before. We wanted them to echo the kniphofia that are nearby but are not yet in...

So maybe you should get six one and half a dozen of the other. ..

Thanks @NigelJ, that was what I thought. I'll do a combination of both then, collect some seed to see what comes through but have a few known backups as well!

Thanks all - I'll try the perlite tip for sure. Maybe a mix of some in soil and some in water and see how they get on?! And geat shout re washing up bowls - I've got lots of perennials that I was planning on dividing and was dreading the sheer number of individual pots it was going to take! ...

There is a dobbies near me i would not go there my freind bought me a cucumber and tomotoe plant from there no bigger than your thumb andover charged £1 50 EACH , they told her put them outside they grow well l i put mine for a while in sunhouse to grow abit but DESPITElooking after...

I've just trawled through the photos of the garden I took in May and deleted quite a few. I'm left with 169. I file them away by month. i.e. 2019-5 Garden. These join the 2,500 plus photos on my laptop and duplicated on a back-up hardrive in the "Garden" file, a subsection of my "Home and...

I used to bring back cuttings and seeds from India. Then got serious and used to pack the gel pots purposely sold for rooting cuttings, so I could start them there. Bougainvilleas were about 20p on the local markets. Just before leaving, I washed the soil off, sprayed them in insecticide to get...

thanks pete. I have given it the provado treatment to cover the wriggly option

@AVFAR Ooh yes Viburnum beetle, they really stink when it rains or damp moist weather when they are under attack.!I think the best thing is read here as they are not the easiest to get rid of..

We haven't used them but we did get a quote from them some years ago and it was more than I was prepared to pay. A relative uses them and is more than happy with the service but his lawn is much smaller than ours. When we received the quote it was a monthly payment for x number of...

Thanks for the interest. Unfortunately there are just three lugs for the shafts of the wheels to fit in. The rest apart from a few spines is just thin plastic.

Hope this is the right place for some hanging basket tips (if not, where is?). 2 years ago I had a nice cone basket made up before my very eyes by one of the staff at Dobbies. I watched & listened very carefully as he explained what he was doing, thinking that every Spring I can reuse the basket...

Yes Mike.....I am watching recordings of Chelsea For sure it is “artificial” and money is no object it seems esp for the displays yet I am enjoying the programmes A few Cornish growers have done well incl Kelnan Plants ......amazing restios, (I have a couple here from them) proteas and other...

We moved in a house with enormous cherry laurels behind the shed last year. We needed gardener to come to reduce them properly. Looking at picture I wouldn't go neither by red nor blue line. I would leave just a trunk or 2-3, depending on what's inside, on manageable height to ease pruning...

I'm not sure @HarryS I would have thought potash was unlikely mainly because I always associate that with flowering. I've got a couple of small ones in pots and I find they need more water and feed than you would expect to keep growing well. My small one in the ground gets dry in the summer...

Looking close at the lillies. Verdun, yes could be lily beetle but. The foliage appears to be exceptionally clean and damage free except for a very swall nibble close to the base of the defective plant. Lillies are susceptible to an assortment of viruses, not all being drastic, but...