Container Gardening

I have a wonderful honeysuckle, had for years, that goes nicely on my deck corner railing. it is a certain type of honeysuckle that keeps itself tame. so be careful what your planting. have a awesome neighbor friend that has one in a container for years. she lets it ramble on her deck.

The planning stage for me is an exciting part of garden design Nick..... Yes, preparing the whole bed and aiming then for suitable plants that will thrive in those conditions is the way to go Not just colour but shape and form too using contrasting or complementary plantings. On paper, I make...

I don't pot them. But last spring thought about setting up one of my hanging pots with bulbs to put out by my mailbox in April and have them bloom there. I have a hook thing at my mail box. Have to ponder this.

Hi guys and thank you for reading my post.I have some Fargesia rufa bamboo and I plan on using it for a screen to block out overlooking neighbours.Just wondering your views on what I can build for them? I was thinking about 2no, 1.5m x 300mm x 400mm in height.Will have removable back for...

My guest room is pink and I HAVE been tempted to paint elephants on the ceiling

Why not contact your local garden centers, lots of them will deliver and you usually have a decent selection of well known brands to choose from.

Cypress roots generally go down more than they go out, so the pot might limit growth. They also don't grow as fast as you might want for a screen.Bamboo will certainly do the job well, and it'll give you your screen more quickly. It's also damn near impossible to kill. I like green stemmed...

Thank you both for your words of wisdom! Will definitely take a look at all that you’ve mentioned-thank you!

Thanks fellas. Can't say what variety it is as - along with a couple of other similarly affected varieties - it was rescued from a deceased's garden.

I've never thought much of them for plants, but maybe their plant quality has improved?I do buy, and have been very happy with, a lot of bulbs from them (actually from their Parkers Wholesale arm - they seem to be happy to sell bulbs in relatively small quantities)Out of curiosity I had a...

Yeah, its a thug. Don't plant it out, don't share its container with anything else, and don't let its roots escape into the soil through the drainage holes.

Looks like Ficus carica , never seen one grown as a house plant before.They tend to be deciduous when growing outdoors, I'm really surprised it has leaves at this time of the year.

I bought plugs ... cheap as chips Van Meuwen have knobbled their website at present, so i can't see Qty/Prices, can't remember exactly but around 10-20p eachby the Autumn they were ready (but I didn't plant until early Summer following year)

It's a characteristic pf Clematis Armandii that initially worries many a new owner , Adam let me/us know how you get on with it as once it's settled in the ground it will grow away at quite a rate and will flower for you next year if it doesn't this year.

Greetings from Shoreham-by-Sea.I have a wonderful (to my eyes), greatly overcrowded, but very healthy Aloe Vera in our north-facing bay window. I say healthy, well, the main, upright section recently collapsed under its weight, but, at the same time it has produced two flower spikes, so it...

There is century-old science that water will not readily move between layers - so better to organise the bottom to be soil-to-air rather than soil-to-gravel-to-air ... but ... when I see that it says nothing about a clay pot with only one drainage hole in the middle and providing a means for...

Just thought you might like to see the impact repotting has had on our Susan!

Sounds like that might help. Check with parents if they have been feeding theirs - if so that may be all that yours need to cheer them up.

Brilliant ideas. Thank you!