General Gardening Discussion

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!!

Upright or trailing I would plant them in 3"pots water and some feed,pinch out leading shoots to encourage bushy growth,when plants are more substantial then plant into basket,never let them dry out........Good Luck and very Welcolm to Gardeners Corner... [ 13. April 2006, 07:42 PM:...

thanks very much for your replies, I will just keep an eye on it for now and see if it improves when/if the weather improves

if they're hardy perennials, and they've obviously been outside before you got them, then plant them now! (If you ave a slug problem, scatter slug pellets around them) BTW - put a label by them so you know where they are!!! If nothing else it stops you digging them up again, and people...

Like holly they have male and female plants. The male catkins are longer and more attractive whilst the females have dark purple berries later in the year.I was looking at one today and it's planted beside a wall. The top that grows above the wall (6ft.)has suffered wind and frost damage but...

Triffids come to mind!!!!

We've one about 15 feet long and trimmed to about four feet high. It gets fed if I remember to do it about once every three years. :rolleyes:I would guess that the answer is that it depends on how rapidly you want it to grow. [ 12. April 2006, 10:10 PM: Message edited by: Dave W ]

I used to be a housekeeper on the 'bonny banks of Loch Lomond', and in the garden there was a Crinodendron at least 30'high...first time I had ever seen one, and thought it was lovely! There was another in the village but only about 10'high.

what you have to work out is if its boggy all the time or boggy now then baked in summer. there are not many plants will cope with both, but loads will cope with bog, so take heart.willow great, and there are some very small varieties. also cornus - great winter coloured stema if you pick righ...