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MyrtleFennelGeranium "Joseph Green" still flowering well. It started flowering within about 3 weeks of being planted as a bare root this spring, and hasn't stopped.

that could be thrips, those are the smallest ones i believe. spider mites are visible to the eye just tinyall the pests are contagious, the main problem with greenhouses is the predator cycle is disrupted

I wonder if the hosepipe applies to Greg Wallace?

I had to dump a load of diascia from deJager that were doing nothing but surviving. Pulled them out for a look. They were strangled by tea bags but it was bit was too late to help them. They're compost now. I didn't notice the tea bags before planting. I should've checked. Diascia are pretty...

Another vote for a tripod ladder here. My dad's old potato fork, & his pull push hoe. The hoe was a prize at one of his work horticultural shows.

Everyone is entitled to celebrate their own culture if they feel strongly enough about it. By the same token, people need to have respect for other cultures too. If you live in the same country or community it's considered integration - we hear this word being bandied about constantly and yet...

I did something very similar to your friend @Thevictorian, and several years ago went for a fair few drought tolerant plants only to lose them for the same reasons.After that I just decided to keep growing things that I knew were suitable for the garden in a "normal" year (whatever that is),...

My Dymo machine is an antique..it embosses the tape...about 1980 vintage. I bought a whole load of tape very cheaply years ago on e bay..only a few left now. Never had probs with fading. Sadly Dymo no longer make the embossing machines. Birds tend to leave labels alone. If sticks are cut too...

15th July 2025This morning, I got both the palm trees removed from the planters and the flowers replanted. We're now looking for something slightly larger to go in the middle.The large palm was cut up and binned, as it's garden bin week, while the small palm was moved to the front garden,...

My big ones will be difficult to repot too but I haven't got many like that now, several have died recently, so I've got mostly small ones now. I can't resist buying them though, I bought three new ones last week ! but they were small, and ones I didn't have.

If the flowers are opening and then dropping without any fruit forming, it sounds like a pollination problem.