General Gardening Discussion

Thanks again. They were back again today. We decided to try an experiment putting some of the basket filler they like into an 'empty' hanging basket so that they could help themselves without wrecking my plants. We then had to go out. When we returned, the whole 'lump' had gone; so we'll never...

ah - ha!!!! perhaps thats why my Sweet Peas are always thin and patheticaaly straggy compared to the neighbour's whose are always bushy and thick and soooooooooooo much better than mine......hopefully now, I may have some decent ones.....(well, we live in hope..)

the first thing i noted is two colours of the fence, i think they should all be the same, secondly i think in the lower area, the soil is below the path, and it should be level, it looks a bit poor, but really difficult to say from a piccy, anyway i suggest you need to build up fertility and get...

1)Senecio Greyii [metre high] is a salt and wind tolerant species, its grown for foliage rather than flower, and can be used to act as a wind barrier, it will need trimmed annually or it grows rather straggly,, 2)Escalonia is a good all year round hedging type shrub which is evergreen and has...

Photinia Red Robin..... Very often if you lightly prune when the red is fading it will reward you with another another flush of red foliage,moreso with larger plants.

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the seed i mean

That's not very nice Orchid man, no flaming on here please!

apologies for pic quallity (jack of all trades, master of none.) :D

all types and i heard you need to infect them with symbotic fingus. were can i optain this from?

Hi there,Thanks and happy to be guided by the consensus although grateful to Pete2255 for confirming that there was some substance, albeit outdated, to my incorrect assertion.Many Thanks.

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.