General Gardening Discussion

Hello I have to divide and move several Sedums is it the time to do now and will they survive in light shade.Thank you

@Linz - I have some six cell trays going spare if you would like some?

I have broken up the old concrete path. It is now in big lumps. I am going to try to brake it all into small enough pieces to use as ballast for under my slabs. (@CarolineL ). I have bought a new hammer especially for this purpose. If I dont have enough concrete, there are plenty of spare...

@pete - just over four years. There was an air gap underneath it, but admittedly not much of one. I used OSB at the time basically because I didn't know any better - - won't use the stuff for anything again though, it seems to have behaved like a [email protected] - I can't use concrete, as I...

Its a fab variety queen mum its a Bicoloured flowers I had simialr called Enigma lost that in the winter of 2012 , thanks for the tip about "White superior"Spruce

Thanks @Verdun I'll just pot them up, think I've got some large pots hanging around.

I've made a start at sowing this year, onions went in last weekend and are now showing in the prop. Other than that mostly ornamentals, and not ones I've grown before. Sideritis cypria Aeonium simsii Brugmansia "Orange glory", we will see if that comes true? Cyperus Alternifolius, grown it years...

It could be that the Asparagus bed was past it's best, they can last for 15 or so years if looked after, I'd take a 50:50 approach and replant the most intact ones and get some fresh crowns. I'd also start in another bed rather than replant in the same soil to give them all a much better chance.

It's OK Verdun , I have a talent for killing any plant !

Does anyone on this forum live in or near Sandy in Bedfordshire and are wiling to share their plants, cuttings etc with me to fill up my very sunny south facing little garden? I’ve not long moved to Sandy and with the weather being so nice yesterday I managed to clear my one bed outside my...

Well April anyway, but keep them cool.

If anyone is interested i will update this thread but i also have a garden blog on facebook. Just search on facebook “chinnor view garden”

That's what we were told originally. I don't damp the sand and gravel but it gets wet when we water the plants as we use the hose to do it. I built the propagator in 1976.I have to keep burying it as the cat lifts it out every so often. Our previous cat used to do that as well. They like...

Hi @fumanchu the zones they quote seem to be related more to wetness and sunlight than to temperature, ie they seem more specific to fruit trees. I suspect soft fruit would work for you best - just whichever you prefer. I kept growing blackcurrants for ages, but my family found them too sharp,...

Hi @SimonZ nice! I particularly like the hypericum with exploding stamens and the one that might be a geum or gaillardia

We had two "spit" apple trees at Nana's place, they grew from the seeds my dad and her sister spat out when sitting on the wall and eating apples when they were kids. 40 years after the spitting, the trees were beautiful as apple trees are. The fruit were disappointing but edible.