This probably sounds like a daft question but you know when....

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You buy a climber from a nursery? Well i have just bought a honeysuckle and it has come with sticks and tape around it to guide growth, but it has a green rubber thing on the top. Do i take this off or leave it on? (hope my description is enough for you to know what i am on about!! hehe!)

 

The stake is to help it stay upright until you have it against a wall or trellis, where you can guide it by using strings, or patent clip things (scientific word there!!) - and the green rubber tip is to stop you poking your eye out when you fall over and land on it! :D Welcome back!! How's the raised bed going??

 

The green rubber thingy is to protect nursery staff and customers from the tops of the canes poking into their eyes. Personally I almost always remove the canes and the tape and the green thing and gently tie in the plant to the support up which I want it to climb.

 

Green rubber thing? on what?
They sometimes put something on the top of the cane to stop you poking it in your eye.

 

Thanks!!! (felt like a right dunce then!)

The raised flower beds have still not arrived!!! (not happy) So, as i am sick of waiting and my fingers have been getting greener by the day, i decided to tackle the 'alleyway'
Don't laugh, our house isn't overlooked you see and there is a huge patch of grass that is covered by a plastic net. However, there is about a foot of soil that i can get access to. So i have, planted some beatufil pansies (purple and orange, simply gorgeous!) and some primroses, planted a honeysuckle in the middle and in between some sweet peas!!!
how's about that! it looks lovely and puts the rest of the alley to shame!!! Ha!

 

Ok, now i feel really stupid!! thanks guys.

 

Sounds wonderful - fragrent and cheerful.

 

Probably the nicest alley in Liverpool! Certainly beats the one behind my old terrace house in Kenny! I could have taken lots of photos like Lisa's one out there - yuck!