General Gardening Discussion

Foxgloves, Nectaroscordum and various other alliums are all getting into gear now.Camassia. I planted loads of bulbs in the autumn. The bees love them.This is one of my new Clematis from Morrisons this year. It hasn't climbed much yet so it's producing these huge flowers just above...

I'll say one thing about this dry weather, it certainly makes weeding (or, as I like to think of it, thinning out of self-seedlings ) easier when the roots are dry and the soil less clingy. I have managed to take out a few more Carex grasses without upsetting my frog. My slowworm has been...

Like the new Avatar Perki and the new plants.

I've planted mine out purely because of lack of space in cold frame and greenhouse. Here we're getting incredible sunny weather but nights are nippy, so I hope it doesn't slow them. No frost (for now). @Escarpment I had very varied germination. Seed from a specialist came up like cress without...

Admitted some of the park gardeners knew mum ( and her hobby of gardening) They would have a good natter about plants etc so probably were aware of her sideline while looking the other way !!!!!

Yep similar experience for me to. Replaced some alliums that were wrong with no quibble. Didn’t know they were the incorrect bulbs (labelled correctly) until they bloomed, made for a rather odd display.

Hi everyonejust bumping the thread as it has lots of pictures which I need to identify my daylilys as I had a magpie that pulled off the name tags even the ones 3/4 buried in the soil.Spruce

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...

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?

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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

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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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