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There's no need to concern yourself about the colour of the light for early growth. The different colour lights are for growing indoors to raise the plants to maturity with an emphasis on the red/orange/yellow part of the spectrum for flowering plants and more towards the daylight/blue for the...

Do you mean you bought them as new bulbs or they were from your own stock ? Were those that flowered planted in a similar ceramic pot ? They look quite healthy but without seeing the actual bulbs, it's difficult to gauge whether they are of full flowering size or not or whether the roots are...

What sort of weeds do you have and what size lawn ? Some you could just dig out with a trowel, others you could perhaps paint individually with a weedkiller. When you get around to reseeding, have you considered including something like Daisies or Clover to break up the green ? I'm sure...

Personally I think you'd definitely sell them at those prices . Trust me, if I was nearby you'd definitely make some money for charity .

When I was on the farm the manager went down the road to a farm that was going over to solar panels. They told him the land could be returned to agriculture if needed, he was fairly skeptical, he said the amount of concrete going in to support the panels would cost millions to dig out before...

Has anyone mentioned hemp agrimony? Great for butterflies etc. Saw them covered with red admirals at Aberglasney

Maybe I'm mixing them up - I used to grow lots of different primroses

It is that time I think when they go out into the fresh air ... so I had T'Other Half bring the small ones out. I think a couple may not survive ...I will have him bring the big ones out tomorrow.

I don't have any experience with them, but I do recall from another forum (now closed) that the main negatives about the plant that others reported is that it only flowers for around 3-4 weeks, it grows very quickly and can be hard to maintain as it only flowers on old wood so can quickly become...

I always look around at this time of the year and what needs doing seems overwhelming, but it usually all gets done, once you get some half decent weather it's surprising how the jobs get sorted.