This is curious... A few years apart I got Alpine Garden Society seed of lilium pumilum. This year the 2 separate sets of bulbs have overlapped in...
I obviously also find photography tricky! I'll try to focus properly next time! :biggrin:
[ATTACH] Disa - I find these very tricky
@JWK, yes probably too soon, but a furtle in one of the other pots suggests some are a decent size. It's just the plants in this one weren't doing...
I pinch out tips when things seem to be growing straggly, but my friend who is a professional gardener says to be hard on them! So I've done that...
@lizzie27 @pete unfortunately I know what the council here are like. Another tree died in the same patch and fell into the stream between our land...
@lizzie27 was the tree on your land or council please? Here we have a big ash that is starting to get die back, and an arborist told me it should...
Over watering @Goldenlily26 ? Possibly, but the pot was in a very sunny position, and because it was a fabric type pot, it dried out quite a lot....
@fairygirl ah, I got the name the wrong way round! Ok, it's not as silly as many hosta and hemerocallis names... And it does describe the colours,...
[ATTACH] Iris Sugar and Butter (silly name)[ATTACH] Unknown double iris [ATTACH] Oriental poppy [ATTACH] Lilium pumilum before the latest...
I emptied a pot of Anya yesterday because the growth was looking really sad - it seemed to have gone backwards despite heavy watering and was...
@Jungle Jane that's strange, I bought a Hercules from them and it was great. My only problem was one of the Bayliss autovent cylinders leaked, but...
Hi @Craigh the Victorians grew named varieties of heliotrope but we seem to have lost them - unless you're lucky and the country house kept theirs...
@hailbopp my Echo petrol one was cutting out (at least 15 years old, maybe more) and the repair place said they couldn't get an ignition coil for...
That's lovely @Penny_Forthem and early I think!
Dug out a cornus Midwinter Fire. It looks lovely in winter, but it seems intent on sending roots sideways to put up new shoots everywhere! Not...
@hailbopp I have a Ryobi battery one, and a petrol Echo one. Ryobi is fine but the weight of battery affects balance - they supply a waistcoat to...
@Debs64 if you just click on Roses in the line that starts with Home, you'll see plenty of rose discussions re care
Hi @BenMunro your lawn looks pretty good to me! Bear in mind the turf will be a completely different soil to yours, so the grass may have a bit of...
Hi @hailbopp I have a clivia living in a greenhouse that is only just frost free over winter, so outside should be fine now. They're gross feeders...
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