Container Gardening

I've got a 4-yo air-layered Wisteria tree growing in a 10 inch pot currently (same one it arrived to me in 2 months ago). It's wonderfully healthy having seen off a heavy slug attack, & growing crazily (as they do).However, I'm trying to prepare it for when it'll hopefully be ready to flower...

Thanks Anthony, really informative post. I suspect it must be the temperature situation then, yes. The stems themselves don't feel like they've "cracked" they just look and feel bendy, so in that case perhaps if the temperature stabilises they will recover they're shape? It's a shape is all, as...

Damage wise looks next to nothing now for only having potting it up and moving to a shady area. Obviously a bit of scorching of the leaves and a feeling of bareness due to a bit of brutal pruning of the damaged stems.

Hi Fuchsialady,Just make sure that they don't dry out completely during the Summer. Can't you just sow some annuals on the top the pots and sprinkle a little compost over them. I'm thinking something like Candytuft, Godetia, Clarkia, Cornflower or other hardy annuals.

Its kinda north facing (ish).I want something that grows tall for the shady spot that doesn't bush out too much.I haven't got the pots yet but was thinking quite large ones to make them a feature as well as the plants...Prefer something that i can just keep tidy year to year rather than...

I know it's a late reply but you can bury the stems. They will take root quickly and help stop them being top heavy.Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

Thanks for responding - in the bin it goes

One of the things about Buddleja's is that they take extremely easily from cuttings so you could always start another off in case the original one kicks the bucket......having said that since Buddleja's can be found unwanted and unloved on waste ground, old industrial sites, buildings, roofs,...

If it's any help..i did have some success with a jasmine that grew for years in our conservatory and scented the whole house when it was in bloom. It needed a fair bit of maintenance and it only went out the door when it outgrew the room!

This summer, you just know we are going to want to see pictures of them planted up, don't you?

This pastime could get to be habit forming, but this is definitely the last one.

Oh sh** @Anthony Rogers I'll get them in pots straight away. Cheers

Will let you know in the morning when I go in the garage. There are two types of liquid slug/snail killer - the one for areas where there are only flowers, shrubs etc. the other is good for allotments, raised beds and areas where there are fruit and veg. We used the one for shrubs/ flowers. You...

Thanks Pete - what I was hoping was the case with it. Believe it or not, I got it as somewhat of an experiment after encouragement from a leading bonsai forum to downsize it to bonsai, but now we've seen the leaf size & type we're not quite so sure on its potential . But i'm happy enough to...

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Garden is looking rather colourful

They all have a hole in the middle.

It'll do far better in the ground. Here's a photo from five years ago of a Jasmine that we planted ten years beforehand.From the other side..............The steel hoops that I used to form the arch rotted away and it is now self-supporting.

Gareth You are rather unlucky. I have never had caterpillars on any of the plants you mention. Brassicas yes, Aquilegia yes, gooseberries, tomatoes and chillies yes and other assorted plants. I generally pick off them or for bad infestations I use an organic insecticide containing fatty acids...

Colinn, this is lovely! I think I'm going to steal this idea and like Lolimac mentioned, do it as a bench. Beautiful.