General Gardening Discussion

My pleasure.To answer your question, I would be inclined to pressure wash with a soft lance (don't use a turbo nozzle) and don't go too close. Follow up with a biocide such as this - and that should help inhibit recurrence.

yeah the Kiwi that I have is Jenny but I'm not sure it enjoys being potted in a container.

I've been on and off with Tichmarsh's programmes, some I hate and some are OK.Not keen when he starts crawling around the royals, or the garden make over types.

Very smart greenhouses @kindredspirit and @BenCotto I have a Hercules Blenheim which is supposed to be strong. But I wish I'd got one with half walls like you two, as most things I grow in pots on staging. I once had a hex greenhouse and we had a storm. I only realised it had moved a couple of...

Ok thank you, will do. It's all plotting & planning & asking questions just now, but I can get started on the planting at the end of this month. Got some orders coming from Farmer Gracey and the local plant nursery will have more in by then as well.

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Planters in deep ugly horrible gravel Jenny, so permanent fixtures and canny use castors. Good ideas for roses thanks!

I'd seriously stick to your original idea of creeping Thyme Thymus (pseudo?)lanuginosus is a gem. T. prostratus too.

I hate weed membrane, the slightest disturbance and you cannot get it back down again. Cardboard covered in wood chip is my suggestion. renew every few years

Sea Holly seems to be a common name for eryngiums and it does look like a young eryngium plan um, which are quite commonly found bare root.I think it's to warm and wet, they tend to like good drainage and are very drought tolerant because of their deep fleshy taproot. I would follow the...

I'll do that. What a relief, it's such a beautiful tree. Thank you!

I watched a gardening programme many moons ago and they washed all the multipurpose compost off the roots from the alpine plants before planting as the compost was too soggy to the stems and the main roots and would cause rotting over the winter with holding too much water .... and the plants...

I think you're right, it needs something prickly and/or twiggy to help support it. Mine has neither nearby, just other slightly floppy plants! I do use a circular plant support around it, which helps keep it upright.I prefer Johnson's Blue to Rozanne, to be honest. Rozanne is another...

I should have said that Griselinia does flower, but the flowers are insignificant @TheMadHedger!

I have just donated as well. Thank you for the kind welcome we've all received this last week.

the hedge should be huge by now

I've just taken delivery of a 20 metre roll of copper tape to put round my pots. That, combined with a garlic spray, has certainly helped in the past.

Some monarda Panorama mix that I grew from seed a couple of years ago seem to have disappeared without trace - not even the dead stems from last year. One is growing (and the dead stems were still attached until I cut them down the other day) but the others, no sign. Sod's law the surviving one...

Geranium macrorrhizums should be happy there too. Might be taller than you want but Eurybia divaricata aka wood aster would also do well

That's the method I use Tinkerton I very rarely wear gloves.