General Gardening Discussion

hi thanks for the help.my next door neighbour has a big fern tree in her garden and we wondered if that had anything to do with it.as the soil is very dry no matter how much you water it

First thing I did when I moved here was search out the sloes... Have now found a satisfactory spot that I can reach with the aid of my crutch! I've made sloe vodka too as one daughter isn't too keen on gin. I've got several little sloe bushes grown from seed. I hope each year that THIS YEAR...

My daughters hay fever allways used to start when we lived in the country ..as soon as the gorse came out ..frogesque should make a book with all her lovely photos..they are more clear than some in my herb and botany books..

I drink dandelion tea every day..made from the leaves..its good for your liver and water retention..it doesnt taste very nice but you will soon get used to it...some people drink dandelion coffee made from the roots..the dandelion is not to be laughed at allthough i know you dont like them in...

Cheers Waco... will have a look out for it.

Try thishttp://www.tmac.clara.co.uk/urgring/faqshade.htm

well we finally ordered all the wood yesterday to be delivered next weekend! I am sooo excited!Mind you we were a bit like the keystone cops trying to work out how much timber we needed. In the end we had an amount of timber so we added a few bits extra for 'just in case'Cant wait until we...

Eye, eye, something strange there, who nose what that can be Fran. :D

I have only grown Alocasias under glass so I have no expreience of growing them outside and personally I wouldn't try to. I had never heard of Poly untill your post but looking at pics of it it appears to a hybrid of Amazonica/Sanderiana or similar.I have not grown them for many years so I am...

The sad thing is that if you take seed from a wild plant (not to be done except with permission) and grow it on in your garden, even then they become bigger.

I think I would be digging up the soil to see what was under it!

Thanks to all for the advice. I'll leave it where I can. JC

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Update - well it looked dead as a dodo a couple of days ago, but when you looked at it close not only were leaves forming but also flowers - on the cuttings!!!So I cut of dead leaves, took out flowers amd I may be in with a slight chance 40/50 optomistic.The re potted mother plant is going...

All good advice so far. I did find this too from crocus. http://www.crocus.co.uk/Catalog/GardenPlants/sale/christmas/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=617 It gives a fairly good general discription..

We saw our first on Sunday.. So maybe summer isn't quite so distant after all......

I empathise heppy, I not only have weeds but sheep eating my stuff too!It is as already said a continual battle.

Hi Waco, Many thanks for the adviceI also had a lovely red broom which I only discovered a few days ago had been broken & died - I suspect the neighbour's kids - so, i'm sorry to have lost that. I still have two huge yellow ones, one which is right @ my bedroom window & a joy to see...

Oh whirlimix - you sound just like my husband now ratteling on about how he is going to maintain same!Well he is not all bad AND at least he does his own ironing!

Lovely picture, I will have to go up and see if the flower field (limestone set aside) is flowering yet.