General Gardening Discussion

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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 !!!!!

@Plantminded, I probably paid more for mine though but yours may do better in the long run. I think bareroots often do. This was my Easter treat to myself (one of them anyway, there may also have been chocolate). My avatar is Midnight Blue, but sadly not my own plant, which was new last year and...

Watered half the planet. We haven't had any rain all April and are expecting 20c next week so everything got a very good soak, and after half an hour, another good soak.Peat free compost is tricky to water, and as most of my plants are still in containers, watering is a form of art.Potted...

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...

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

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...

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...

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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

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...

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

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.

These are the ones I have here -

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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