Thanks for the replies. Sarraceniac - the bamboo supports are on the outside of the greenhouse. That greenhouse has three panes of glass on that...
I must be more organised in future!I'm sure this first photo must have been a cutting taken last summer: [img]These tatty looking bulb...
Just thought I'd show off my home-made cloches and sweet pea supports which I finished today. [img][img]The cloches are made from bits of...
Hello Lady of Leisure - Ventnor and Bonchurch certainly have their own micro-climate on the island and there are more flowers in bloom there now...
Thanks for your replies. I really wish I could find a local gardening club to share local knowledge. There are so many seeds I want to sow this...
I've been here less than two years and last year was slow to sow and plant. So far the weather isn't as mild as last year but if a packet of seeds...
Thanks for the comments. The style I think I'd like is to reduce the vast amount of work involved. Although I enjoy gardening, it can take several...
Is anyone interested in throwing some ideas around for my garden? I could post some photos etc to give an idea of what it's like now and perhaps...
Surely a self-perpetuating annual would set seed now and flower again next year?
Can anyone tell me why when seedheads are ready for collecting, I should store and save the seeds rather than sow them now? Anything sown in the...
Thanks for looking. Think I have to dig it up although I may have a go at transplanting a bit somewhere.
A number of these have turned up and I'm not sure whether to pull them up or leave them.[img] [ 28. August 2007, 07:14 AM: Message edited...
You could scatter some foxglove seeds around. Rabbits won't eat that.
Thanks for those links. The centre is too far for me - I'm on the south coast. The seed mixtures are good, but I'm hoping to collect enough seed...
Thanks for those links, it looks as though work starts very soon!
Can anyone point me in the direction of simple, how to, instructions on converted a lawn to a wildflower meadow? It would have to be sown in...
I'd be very interested in joining this and not just for rare seeds as I'm trying to develop my very large garden which this time last year had...
I'm only just getting started on collecting seed, but from what I've read so far the seed is best sown at the time it would have dropped. Has...
Hi CajaryWe live in the same part of the world, although I can almost guarantee I'm further south than you! There are so many rabbits here I'd...
Which brings me to another point......I don't want them to get overly large so is it okay to restrict their growth now? They were planted in...
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