I grow them. Some in cattle drinking bowls, others in troughs and one in the Alpine house. I buy ph6 soil locally from a gravel/topsoil/sand...
They'll enjoy their holiday. Some cactus are hardier than others. Opuntia for example.
All my cactus either live outdoors (under a glazed pergola) or in the Alpine House. They've never had the luxury of being indoors. Frost gets some...
[ATTACH]Got a Griffin and when I said we're a very windy garden, they sent extra bracing with the construction crew.
I would never put it in a greenhouse. It's an outside plant. It'd also probably need to be repotted into a larger one.
I put a piece of weed membrane over the hole instead of using crocks.
Hebes.December 2022 killed all 20 of mine.Second time of losing them, so no more.
[ATTACH] This little Oxalis comes from just one place in South Africa. Very vibrant colour in the flesh.
Tiny, though.
[ATTACH]Oxalis versicolour..
Remove it, because it will only give ongoing trouble. Either replace it with Ilex crenata or go with a different design idea there.
Beaten indoors after a few minutes because of the wind, the rain, the cold. :(
Leafing and flowering totally out of season because Physoplexis comosa is deciduous!!!![ATTACH]
Absolutely yes. One of the best things you can put in, without doubt.
I used to put farmyard manure on the outer edges of a square hole or at the edges of a trench when I was planting trees. You can't beat real...
Alpines atop two limestone boulders made to look like a dolmen more than a metre high.[ATTACH]
Yep, I find them a tad difficult. They can die for no obvious reason and often after only 2 or 3 years. I planted three here in this trough five...
Canna and the last of the water lilies for this year.[ATTACH]
Autumn flowering Gentian.[ATTACH]
When it's leafing, give it water when the soil is dry. Candle Plant's flowers are not the most exciting but it's a plant that always draws...
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