General Gardening Discussion

thank you all for your posts, I really appreciate itI had to retire early last year due to Lupus, so it was the first proper year in the garden. I managed to find out how to get the seeds from baby and large snapdragons, and stored them as directed. Ive sown some of them, and they have...

I'm going to plant mine out this morning and hope for no more frost.

I wouldn't give up on them yet Lenten Rose. Some of my lavenders have yet to start into growth again after that long cold spell. You should see some sign of growth over the next four weeks - and hopefully they will survive the close hair cut.

Been thinking about this a bit more, aspect and photo would be helpful, but with economy in mind and the fact that if its your first house you may move on soon, why not try to hold the bank together with planting - not best option, but as I said cheap one and may solve a drainage problem that...

perfect! what a brilliant idea! :D

Oh yes I have done that. when I unpotted them they also had loads of little baby bulbs round them so they should make good full displays next year. I have fed them well too.

Hi, there, Barndweller - welcome! If you've taken conifers out, the soils will be very dry and dusty, I presume? It'll need organic matter dug in, for sure, whatever you plant. I presume there is enough depth of soil to grow whatever you want?Are you thinking of a formal entrance way by...

agree with both suggestions. I know J Parker does tamarisk http://www.jparkers.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.standard&continueaction=category.search&search=tamarisk&producttype_id=48246How about rosemary? It does as well as lavendar in most situations - extremely tough, but nice with it.

i THINK YOU MAY HAVE BETTER RESULTS WITH ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF POTS/CONTAINERS. YOU CAN GET SOME FAIRLY GOOD SIZE THINGS FROM RECLAIMATION YARDS ETC.. IN THEORY ALL YOU ARE DOING IS CREATING A LARGE CONTAINER.

I learnt all the basics from reading the 'Reader's Digest Guide to Creative Gardening' - it has sections on perenials, annuals, bulbs shrubs etc. There are beautiful pictures with descriptions, cultivation & propogation instructions and suggestions of companion plants and colour schemes. It...

Thanks for that. I think I may have overwatered. I will leave them to dry out for a while and put them into the sunshine.

Thank you everyone. The flowers on this plant are really lovely.

Globosa smells nice tho. :D :D

No don't do that, it will just multiply! It loves to be broken up, the worse thing you can do is to dig the patch before you spray as it fragments, and bits miss the spray.

I grow sunflowers and i allways find that the ones i start off in pots are the best ..if you plant them straight out in the ground you often find the seed gets eaten..i start my seeds off on window ledges and they soon grow..i usually put a little stick up them to support them till the third...

For dahlias I think you need one of the large mophead. Don't know too much about them but for exhibition purposes, RHS A-Z classes 'Giant' as over 25cm, (10 in). 6 full pages listed of dahlia varieties but just one taken at random D. Cream Alva's 1.3m tall (4 1/2 ft.) and 60cm (24in) bloom :D ...

Most of my latin came from having to do extra maths sitting at the back of a latin class. The taught latin was much more interesting than the maths book I was supposed to be working through on my own. Thanks for the reminder about Life of Brian - must see if our son can get hold of it on DVD so...

I bought my first mail order plants last autumn, those frilly pansies "Tu-tu", and they were successful, I'd do it again.I bought some F1 geraniums this spring as they were the same price as a packet of seeds, I've just planted them out.

OK just trying to be different, but how about training a euonemus round the wall and grownig a clematis through it. this would give you all round colour with the ecergreen, an early and spring clematis with a few daffs for spring colour.

For a slightly different purpose, though! Liquid storage, fair enough, but just imagine the idea of the liquid being released as needed!!