General Gardening Discussion

i would suggeset starting up your own hydroponic garden, its alot more efficiant and cheaper to maintain. :D check out the link...

why dont you start up your own hydroponic garden, its brilliant mine works a treat try the link out in my signature

my fuit tree has never had any problems about it, as for your nectarines im sure they will grow after time...

:D OK, just a thought, do you get lots of bees round the flowers?? They can have a knack of knocking the flowers off some plants as they come out from collecting pollen, but I think this is more with bean flowers. Just a passing thought anyway. :D

Thank you for that, I will certainly try your suggestions, I am just starting a new bed in the garden so I can prepare that as it will be a sunnier spot for it.

Well done Nathan...Ladybird

Hi ya Bert, Why not get a load of viginia creeper plants & plant then close together, they just romp away. You can get the type that is for brickwork as it is very clingy like ivy , whoops there's another & it's evrgreen both of these would grow equally as fast as leylandii surely. Then...

Yep, I,ve got that one aswell Ladybird, cant match your Dec. flowering though.

Thanks Brazil :D

mine are all entangled with all my Clematis on posts...and flowering too.Ladybird

Hiyathanks for that message, i will get onto researching them names you mentioned.thanks againanyone else got ideas?Will

Used to live in Brum, and we had whirlwinds, windspouts that used to redistribute patio furniture and small shrubs!

Tinkerbell, sister Sue will gather seeds later on, she's much better at things like that than me, and my greenhouse won't be available until the late spring. Its moving house - to the other side of the garden, away from marauding kids

i'll have a look now cheers

Fingers will be crossed in spring, but hopefully you may seem some fat flower buds forming before then. If not, then patience - they are worth waiting for.

Hi Charlie, I had a google & found these two sites. They are american but from what they are saying it is the humidity. Have a read & see what you think, http://www.bachmans.com/retail/tipsheets/indoor_plants/Gardenias.cfm http://www.molbaks.com/infopages/gardenia.pdf It would seam you can...

Another way is to fill a clay pot with sand, plant them in that in late autumn and leave them outside all winter. This worked for me when growing acer and wild rose seeds.I say a clay pot because it is less likely to be blown over, and I say sand to avoid waterlogging, and with fewer...

Either "root out" or a brush killer should do the trick, if applied to newly cut surface.

Hi nokd, the datura will need to be taken in before the first frost, likewise the fuschias. Lipstick plant is probably a house plant anyway and wont survive frost. Sufinia petunias are treated as annuals and die in the winter so leave them out. As for the rhodos, well really need to know...

Must be the zonal type then, not hardy, but flower all Summer, but need deadheading to encourage more flowering....Rust ? never heard of being prone to...only the Butterfly like them , then get caterpillars after... eat all the leaves...if you let them. Ladybird