Garden idiot with a garden I can't handle!

Thanks again, I'll get some more photos and put them in the ID section. I don't think it has white flowers but as I'm a bit rubbish I have to be honest and say that I haven't noticed! It doesn't have any at the moment put it that way.

Slight change of subject, and hopefully the last one before I start creating new threads for my many questions, but...

A couple of days ago before I had a response here I put a load of manure into some of the borders around the plants and hoed it in. Was this useful/wise? Should I get some more and do all the borders?

Also my wife arrived home today with a couple of kg of fish blood and bone and some liquid tomato fertiliser. Should I use either of these on anything or wait until next year?

 

Its a pieris

 

Should be flowering now (or just have finished flowering) if it was, no?

Yes, provided that the manure was not "fresh" - well rotted is fine around plants, fresh should be stacked for 6 months to a year before use in that way.

 

Mine hasnt just typed pieris into rhs and it says flowerss in spring although mine hasnt yet. Have a look on rhs website davids

 

Thanks, just had a look at the RHS website and it's almost certainly a Pieris. I have a feeling that it did flower last year in spring now you mention it but nothing this year.

Great thanks. It was ready rotted stuff from the garden centre. Are the fish blood and bone and liquid tomato fertiliser any use to me? Aside from following the instructions on the packet and just treating everything I'm not sure if they are of any real use at this time of year. Sorry I'm asking such basic questions!

 

You don't really want to be putting a lot of Nitrogen on the plants at this time of the year. Nitrogen will make them grow, and if you do that late in the season their new growth will still be "soft" when the winter comes.

Not sure about F,B&B but I think there is a fair amount of Nitrogen in them, and it is "slow release", so if so might be better as a Spring fertilizer.

Tomato fertilizer is good for ... Tomatoes!! ... but also anything else in flower / fruiting. So use it on vegetables like Cucumbers, Courgettes, Peppers, Aubergines ... and also on flowering plants like Tubs, Urns, Hanging baskets, and any other herbaceous or annual flowering plants you have (doesn't look like you have many of those, although they might be a good idea for next year to fill some of the gaps where you have "bare earth" just now.)

Others here may have different opinions though?

 

Thanks again, that's really helpful. I've got a fair bit to be going on with now and I've found a monthly to-do list / calendar on the RHS site which should give me an idea of what I should be doing at any one time

 

I'm sure it's a Pieris, I've allowed one to grow and it's at least as tall as that in the picture. Dave you can cut it back hard if you don't like the shape but it will also be successful as a tall plant, entirely your choice

 

Thanks, looks alright as it is to me so I might just trim it slightly to shape