General Gardening Discussion

Here's a few around my garden taken in May this year. I don't know the varieties of the clematis but they were real showstoppers. As with all the bobby dazzlers they were fleeting so I'm pleased I have the pictures as memories of their glory. The hawthorn flower is really pretty and I had to...

I've still got my R D Gardening Encyclopaedia here with me now, dont use it much any more, but it was great source of knowledge some years ago to me. Paulabear, the termonology comes to you after a while without you realising it, you tend not to notice you've picked up a lot of new words and...

Well done Helen, bet you are busy now...filling your greenhouse for winter soon.Ladybird

As Pete says - if there's fruit there has got to be a flower and they will be sited where the berries form. They are likely to be very small, and green for you not to spot them. From the shape of those berries, take a really close look at your shrub each month for any little bump that was not...

5. Watch the Shawshank Redemption or any one of several war films, cut small holes in trouser pockets, and deposit small amounts in the exercise yard each time you're allowed out Seriously though - I was going to comment about underestimating the amount of spoil, because there's always a...

Hi, I did it this way, Red grape with seeds, variety unknown.Late spring when new growth was well under way I let a low level, blind (non flowering) shoot trail across the staging for about 2 feet. I then enlarged the hole in a 8" flowerpot, threaded the vine shoot up through it, added an inch...

Thanks Pete - that looks like the one, same kinda sprawly growth as well - how can they say the flowers are insignificant - whilst the bracts are lovely the flowers nestling in the centre are nice too.Bayleaf - thanks I will check these out too - I am intrigued by what has appeared from what I...

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Sorry everyone, forgot the topic was bizzie lizzies etc- Getting rather bogged down with my bulb problem.

Thanks for the advice. I will try it. I do overwinter in the green house and normlly cut it down to about 9" but don't water it very much in the winter.

priceless, rositue

I have 60 ft privet hedge and, as pete said, little will grow close to it except grass [and briars where do they come from], I grow a few exotic'ish plants in large planters.

Do you know Pete, I was going to post the same thing :D

Hi Arwyn - we've just got our new site finished today - with 6 different types of nepeta, have a look here: http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000934 [ 11. September 2005, 03:51 PM: Message edited by: pete2255 ]

Floris,Sorry, sow them in a half tray in spring, pot up the stronger specimens, and as Brazil said, plant out in May. Once established, they can be left outside overwinter (but would advise fleecing them over), and would advise a trim back to 6 inches from the ground in Autumn.Hope this...

Re sweet Williams: I saw them potted up singley in a nursery at a price..as Perennials. My Dad used to grow them in big swathes all down the garden path as my Mum loved the scent he just made a drill in the Autumn and scattered the seeds lovely, I can remember the scent 60 years on.... a...

Excellent, thanks for your help folks. This site has been brilliant, I now have a couple of lovely big pots of heather growing on my front step and am about to become the proud mother of a proper baby herb! Yay!

Welcome, jen. Hope you'll enjoy GC!As for your privet hedge, it rather depends upon where the sun/light gets to the adjacent ground.If it's in shadow most of the time, then you'll need some shade tolerant plants like calendula (cultivated buttercups) or bluebells.If it's in the sun for...

Sunflower and pumpkin seeds are yummy in home-made bread too!

Your very welcome - and thanks for the link. Her garden is quite something