Other Plants

I cossetted mine for the first few years but now I find them popping up in unexpected areas of the garden. Not sure if they have seeded or if a stray tuber has been thrown out with the compost.

Hi and Welcome If you mean for a Christmas display ? yes it is to late to get them into flower but not to late to plant up have then for February / March in the house still time to plant them . So carry on as you would of done and as soon as you see about a inch poking through bring them in...

Never grown them Rusty - but with this very cold weather I would certainly keep the pots in a cold frame overwinter.

Clueless I have used that joke for years? Madahhlia, keep it inside for winter. Sand in hole? Erm! I tried that couple years back thinking echinaceas needed very free draining soil but they want good soil. Sunshine yes. In spring incorporate compost of some sort into hole, decent size...

Trouble is, they are big, quite blousey, but very prone to breaking off at the base !

Our garden is very cold, many things which survive elsewhere, just freeze here.

Yeah, I was meaning that too

There is a picture I still regret not taking as I was roaming around the very north tip of Washington State on the Pacific coast side. It was a field of lavender. I saw it from the road down a path and should have turned in. Seemed that in this area lavender does really well.

"Mini Hosta" vs. "Dwarf Hosta" - What's the difference?In 2011, the American Hosta Society standarized the qualifications for mini hostas, effectively eliminating the term "dwarf hosta" as correct terminology. The AHS recognizes mini hostas by leaf size (the leaf must be smaller than 6 square...

I split up some big daisies, Leucanthemum, today and replanted them but the tops had already died off. Just a bit nervous about moving stuff whilst still flowering- just!

I've been growing this for a couple of years now with no success yet. One plant in the garden and one in the greenhouse. It forms tubers rather like a Dahlia so it may just be too immature at the moment.

Ah! I did similar but lifted mine into a big pot of ericaceous compost and feed lightly with miracle grow for acid loving plants. Leaves came back on what looked like dead branches. My plant though is a different type to yours though.

My young variegated one planted last March is showing a bud, it has lost most of it's variegation though.

Hi - Madahhlia. I too had read that D. excelsa was just a varient of imperialis. Excelsa had several flowers for me and they do seem to be very similar to pictures I have seen of the imperialis flower. But otherwise I would have said they were very different plants. Imperialis has very...

I'll let you know when I collect the seed Kristen, its nearly ready

Me too!! (Must be catching )

Doesn't sound a very promising site for heathers to be honest. If it's an old wall, and has naturally been colonised by ferns, mosses & lichens as you say, then it's probably already providing a good habitat for those species (and possibly specialist invertebrates as well). Trying to plant...

They have a very good delivery,will use them again

Steep in hot water and sip

Thank you to all for the great suggestions. I'm not sure what I'm going to go for but I'm now armed with a good list and am about to head off to the garden centre. I'll let you know what I found/purchased. Many thanks again.