General Gardening Discussion

Save our toilet roll tubes, they just rot awayand cost nothing

We had a pair of Collared Doves nesting in our pear tree, and we had been watching them for some time. They had a pair of babies, but one day I came home from work to find them gone (they were not far away from fledging the nest) so I thought they may have just dropped out of the nest so I...

Thanks Banana Man for the welcome and for liking my name. An ex-boss nicknamed me 'flounce' because I do, apparently!A favourite-sounding word of mine is 'lascivious'. :wink:Thank you Poppy for your mothball advice - I'll remember that advice for next year. :D

No bee orchids in there then Hornbeam.

That a nice semper bed, quite unusual, there seems to be a renewed interest in them. The portulaca should get going soon, looks like its going to warm up where you are.

He is a little sweetie, isn't he! aaarrgh bless his little cottons.Get 'em started at a young age ey..hee hee

I know the feeling :D I've had some great plants that I didn't plant :(

Slugs ate all mine - well most of them year before last, I got a load more - 50p from local nursery then all others came back. One of them is very strange, it first flowers wjite then pale blue then delphimium blue then pink - not sure I like it really as it does not seem to know what it...

That is exactly why I want it, I can smell it just thinking about it.I am hopeful for the thyme too - we will see.

I must add that mine are grown in a large nursery glasshouse not a domestic one and are able to keep winter/spring temperatures (to produce large numbers of bedding plants) higher than most folk can so I do have an advantage.

I can just picture all those mullein caterpillars marching on round to the West Midlands, certain of a friendly welcome......

Yes you have to watch the sap,can cause skin irratation

if they have "nice green grass" whatever is underneath must suit their lawns

All done, in pots in the greenhouse, also some Bessera elegans which were trying to sprout, poor things.

My honeysuckle is in a pot it is fine, flowered recently all new growth doing well.rosa

Is this it:http://images.google.com/images?q=Lilium+bulbiferum

Liz.If your seedlings are in the places you are happy with, then just leave them alone.They should come up at the right time, and will grow bigger each year.I have pricked out some of my seedlings into a shallow alpine trough mixed with compost and leaf mould.At the moment they are dormant...

I can see both those pictures. If you want them to appear in your reply you have to put the at the end like this:I have put a space next to [/img] so you can see what I mean. Then you get:andcoming up without clicking on the https. If you look at the pictures in photoshop and go to...

A friend of mine chopped back a huge Rambling rector a while after flowering last year (just when she shouldn't IMHO), and it sat there and looked all but dead for the rest of the year. This year its 8ft high, bushy and dense, and had quite a few flowers. Might be worth ignoring your rose for a...

Now slowly drop the height with each successive cut till its at the right height for you. It'll need feeding in a few weeks time (if you can water it afterwards)