General Gardening Discussion

Ah- if you may not be there more permanently, it's certainly better to wait!

Hidepending on the model yes you can replace with a new spring . Give it a google with the make

Many thanks. We have neutral-slightly alkaline, quite sandy soil here plus hard tap water here but the other camellias do well, so I'll probably give one a go.

Hello allThe Photo of My Back Garden for November is now available which is the Last Photo of the Season.For those interested you can find the relevant Post here:My Garden ProgressThanksKevin

Well I bought a bulb planter which seems to work very well. I've planted about 100 or so Tulips and some Purple Sensation Alliums too. We will see what comes up.

It's in a stupid place. OK for now. I might need to find it another ' unsuitable ' place eventually. Impulse buys often grin while they bite you on the bum . I might just show it a picture of the council bin.

My grandfather used to just break and bend the green stems over at right angles.

That's an off shoot, I cut the main trunk a couple of year ago as it was too huge.

Our allotment cage is just coppice hazel posts and netting stretched over the top. Tbh we don't need it anymore because there is such a lack of birds that we leave it open now.The only bird issues we have is the occasional wood pigeon going after the pea shoots or cabbages and for those we...

Wood probably won't be affected, terracotta depends on whether frost resistant or not, higher quality pots are likely to survive better.

Yes the dreaded beetle , it’s easily sorted with a spray .. but where it was it was a shared hedge and it was me paying out and cutting it all the time ..

Thanks for the replies.

Clematis Armandii is a bit of a thug, so I wouldn't recommend for that situation. However I have one (cheap from Morrisons!) called clematis x triternata rubromarginata. It's delicate and cute. Not supposed to be evergreen, but it's holding on well. The sites say it's vigorous, but I haven't...

If it's in the lawn, just mow it. It is green after all. Weedkillers are noxious to wildlife as well as plants and a real problem as they leach into waterways.I have it appearing in a couple of my hosta pots where it does its thing before the hostas really get going and then get hidden. ...

I know I'm a few years too late,but I did find some of these suggestions veryfunny

Soft Buddleja cuttings will root in water.

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Lucky you, no frosts. In England we throw them on the compost every year and buy or sow new ones in spring. In fact, I thought it was an annual!

That's good to hear. It's better for the plant to remove the dead seed heads soon as the flower has fallen. Then rather than put energy into making seeds, the energy goes into making the tuber bigger, so more flowers next year. If they were in the ground, then you can let them seed and get more...

Monty did a piece on box blight, for no other reason Longmeadow was suffering from it, if it hadn’t it wouldn’t be covered, so saying have a planned segment on diseases, pests and when a plant is in poor shape like lack of nutrition or stressed.House plants are massive now with the younger...