General Gardening Discussion

Not much happening, just a couple stragglers from the summer hanging on. Erythrina bidwillii.Castor oil plant. must be 10ft high.A camellia cutting has open a flower, usually it April.Feijoa fruits. A freebie from a local nursery, Diantus, must drop by soon to get this months...

wood avens root is edible and was used as a clove substitute. thats all i know about it beyond it being everywhere here

Yes - it's why I questioned my decision to start growing them again a few years ago @CatDouch! I suddenly remembered why I'd given up on them many years ago I love them, but you have to work with what suits you, and the time and effort needed, otherwise it's just a lot of disappointment! I'm...

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

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...

Least youl be able to tell Michael where he has put them , thats if you dont forget pete

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...

New Thread ... What is looking good in July 2025

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

The first two are self seeded but the others are part of what we originally planted and are beginning to look good whilst most of the rest of the garden is fading

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...

First bloom of the year!! In June! Beautiful Tricolour

Sorry to hear that.

stormy pink - from Great DixterJenny namaste

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

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.

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 would say the lower flowers with those green wings and singular bumps as styles suggests a dock. Docks are monoecious meaning they have both male and female flowers seperately, I would hazard to say the lower ones are female and upper ones male, if you open up some and look for anthers without...

It says nothing more informative than "Pink" on the label! I bought two last year and only one reappeared this year. Paid full price for those. I'm going to try this one in a sunnier spot than the first two.

Cool

These are the ones I have here -

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...

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

Well, the beans were sown and the Douce de Provence peas but OH hadn't cleared the weeds in the bed I wanted to sow the Kelveden Wonder so they've ended up in a 60cm wide, 15cm deep pot and will be grown for pea shoots for salads. I can sow more in the ground once OH does his stuff.Didn't get...