General Gardening Discussion

Thanks everyone for your advice. Will have a go at cutting them down to more suitable height! May come back for more advice! Many thanks.

that's a really useful site, Froggy - I googled earlier and came up with nothing very useful - just the description of the plant, nothing about m/f differences - (not even where the tail is!!) It's a great plant tho - very useful in a native hedge in particular

Hedging.co.uk is very good for mail order - or at least I've found them so. I ordered some BERBERIS JULIANAE which is now waiting to go in - that's an evergreen, prickly as anything! they're only a foot high and already covered in spines! :D

THANKS! now know what to look for, I realy would like to try re stock from the fruit if possible.did not know it was poisonus, not surprising as the big orange fruit looks to delicious.

Hi Charlie - I'm assuming you mean Box.English Box (Latin name Buxus sempervirens) is a small native British tree, it thrives naturally on chalk downland or limestone soil. Slow growing and small leaved it is particularly usefull for topiary or formal hedges. There are also golden leaved...

sorry could not get link - but just went to amazon and bought another of his two books AAhhhhh.... He was a musician (as am I) so got "well tempered gardined" will have to see how it compares to Bach! not bark

thanks for reply pete 13 deg is min temp its been there about 2 months been told they need lots of water & feed but not sure how much & when Also got a dicksonia antartica one with a good root ball that seems to be doing ok sorry can not get picture to upload will try again later

Normaly speaking the Calla Lily is a repeat flowering perennial and can go outside in the summer. Have seen them outside many times - no problems in cutting the dead flowers off.

thank u i think my husband may of mowed too soon as we had a lovely display last year it was the first year of them being in the garden they are well seperated

Many thanks Palustris - I'll give it a go. Oh yes, and commiserations to frogesque - I promise you they are like the proverbial bad penny. They ALWAYS turn up every spring !! Well, maybe not next spring - now where's that Roundup ? :rolleyes:

lovely picture, Waco! I love stuff growing so naturally! If you want to, you can edit your post, delete the photo, and put in the reduced version! But such a nice picture looks good that big! :D

How about Polygonatum for some spring interest, lots of different types of foliage available (I've been researching for myself-its a woodland plant so will tolerate loads of shade). All sizes available too - the large one grows up to 5 foot

will have to stick to magic mushrooms then!!!!

well i can tell you a rough cost now! Its tannelised timber I have ordered ( should have been delivered by now- hope no one nicks it) The design is approx 12 ft long with 3 uprights and 5 maybe 6 crossbeams. I phoned round a few timber merchants and the quote was from �£60 to �£140 for the...

There are quite a lot of different orchids - and how yo treat them all varies a bit. Do you know which kind you have? I expect it's a phalaenopsis, as they're the most striking looking ones available in garden centres! But I was given a dendrobium at Christmas - (hence my name!) - so can you...

Probably the nicest alley in Liverpool! Certainly beats the one behind my old terrace house in Kenny! I could have taken lots of photos like Lisa's one out there - yuck!

They're pretty big, aren't they, those barrels? What I've done in the past is to get bulbs in deep round the edges, so they come up every spring, and have a tallish evergreen thing in the centre, like a spotted laurel, or some other shiny-leaved plant, and have bedding in between, which I...

Be aware, it propagates from root cuttings. That means that every time you get fed up with it and dig it out - it comes back. I've got mine in a couple of pots. I already have a flower stem on one.It can get powdery mildew. That white covering that plants get. It is not fatal but weakens...

Yes I know about the soil etc, but wasnt sure if it was safe to repot while in flower.Thank you for your reply

Nope my skimia did not like me - definately turned its legs up in the air and dropped dead. I have one saracocca which survives but has not grown since I bought it about 10 years ago. Lilly of the valley loves me but the slugs eat all my solomons seal.I also have a mahonia which you would have...