General Gardening Discussion

Thanks Peter, that is reassuring, it sounds like it's not entirely down to my incompetence then!Have been trying to grow Aquilegias too, but nothing has sprouted at all from the seed tray. Did you have to put yours in the fridge to get them to germinate?

looks like the one in my book Nathan

Yeah it dont sound good, if you should lose them you could try next year buying the bulbs in autumn and planting them up yourself. Its much more satisfying, and interesting watching them grow and they dont suffer the change in growing conditions that they do when you buy them in flower.

thankyou mrs cloudy i will go look in the library 2moro and yup we get lots of rain as we are in glasgow

Thanks Fran. Unfortunately our Coltsfoot is extremely deep-rooted. It can go down at least 3 feet and travels stealthily along before popping up elsewhere (and everywhere

In what way were you not impressed?A couple of years ago I bought a Conniston summerhouse from Waltons via the internet, and I was generally happy about the process, though it was not perfect. As the cost was over �£1000 I visited Waltons ( 2 hour drive) where they have a display of...

Hi Everyone This is my first post so here we go. I have cleared the edge's of my garden along the fence lines,it was full of nettles,brambles,climbing weeds someone told me it was"MILE A MINUTE",i have dug it all over and got out as many of the weed roots as i can,now what i need to know is i...

lol y thank you! i have been dieting!!!!

Many thanks Pete

Greetings to all and may your fingers always be green!!I would like to construct a self-contained stream to run for about 20ft - any information on design eg. lining, pump capacity and power, resevoir siteing and size would be gratefully appeciated.

P.S....give it plenty,PLENTY of water after you've moved it & water regularly for a couple of weeks.

The chalk would probably leach into the hole eventually. If a bigger pot is out of the question try taking off the top two inces of soil (even if it means getting rid of some of the roots) and top dressing with ericaceous compost. You say it's looking miserable, you're not watering it with tap...

i have a corner patch which was completely covered in ground elder. I dug up what i could, and placed 2 layers of membrane on top, leaving holes for the shrubs. I'm just about to tackle the new growth this afternoon, and put yet another layer of membrane down, covered with bark.That said,...

Guess id better give you the address. :Dwww.gardenaction.co.ukTold you short attention span :rolleyes:

'They' say 6 months but it depends a lot on what type of soil you have and where the heap is, sunny/damp etc. If it's clay in a damp shady spot it could be more likr 18 months.

hi everyone, ive just sown the above named seeds, i was wondering,does anyone have an idea how long these take to germinate any info would be appreciated

Steve,that's the one!!!We thought ours were beyond saving - but they are doing great now.

Ok Id think it will survive but the side that is badly damaged will not regenerate from bare wood.

Thanks for the reply Ray. Unfortunately the new fence is coming next week!!! We may be able to leave at its current position and work around it. I'm worried about a post for the new fence being put in next to the base of the honeysuckle thus maybe causing damage to roots. Will keep you...

We have an indestructable passion flower!It was growing over a huge ceanothis (sp?) bush/tree last year which was so huge and out of control we decided to cut it down.At that time the passion flower consisted of several long spindly strands draped over the tree.When we cut it back I...