General Gardening Discussion

I doubt there'll be much flower this year Robert as I've cut it right back to about a metre high. I'll just be happy with leaves and maybe the odd late flower

I've discovered a large patch of Snowdrops in the garden that are just starting to bloom.

That does look good @Jenny namaste!Though I think Gardening Express is very hit and miss. I have ordered twice from them. The first time the plants were just OK. The second time the plant I ordered was terrible. These days I just avoid them.

Yes, that's right but you can use it for fewer. We use one layer for tomatoes and then pot on all the ones that look good and once we have got enough for what we want/need we then sell or give away the rest.We do the same for chillies as our plants are very popular and can sell all we...

Yes, I am not sure why, this dark brown strip of well cured earth, that razor’s edge, are among my favourite sights in the garden. Perhaps because they are such clear(cut) indications of love's labour's found.I have now had these metal edges for three years and am happy to report that they...

Just ordered some Asters from Bean Place nurseries and was very pleased with them. Clearly young plants but with extremely good root systems (had quite a struggle extracting one from the pot, but it wasn't "pot bound"). Just under £5 each for a 9cm pot , plus p+p of course.

Same here, the cut-flower value of mine has virtually finished because of greenfly infestation. After many years of growing sweet peas, this has been a very disappointing year in this respect.Alas, I'll continue to enjoy them as a garden display for the rest of the season.

There are no long technical treatises on how to do anything connected with gardening but his comments still ring true today. He had a childlike wonder of nature which my grandfather had and instilled in me as a child, something I seem to have passed on to my daughter happily, and a naughty sense...

Another factor in my problem is a thin, shallow, gritty soil with a compacted shale layer only a spades depth below the surface. It puddles in wet weather and it is like watering a sieve in hot dry weather. When I first moved here 20 years ago I planted fruit trees etc. but almost every year we...

In 2022, we were walking our regular route to the high street and saw some beautiful red and white dahlias in someone's garden, so I knocked the door and he invited me back in the autumn to get some tubers. A very kind gardener. I planted those in 2023 and they came up lovely.This year I...

You need them all! I need them all! They're magnificent aren't they?

stormy pink - from Great DixterJenny namaste

Hello @Kevin Cowans no worries my friendBuy Lonicera x heckrottii Gold Flame (syn American Beauty) Honeysuckle in the UK

I've had difficulty sourcing decent sized bush fuchsias but fortunately my cuttings are coming on space and should be a good size by the autumn

These are the ones I have here -

my friend seems to be having a problem with buttercup weeds in her lawn, how can she get rid of it ? Without damaging the lawn

Good deep sandy loam around 7 on the PH scale here. Front garden is very draining; back garden has better soil and holds moisture pretty well because of the huge amounts of compost and manure added over the years. Warm, sunny walled garden not far from the coast. Can grow wide range of...

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