General Gardening Discussion

The Champagne Socialists at Bbc Glasgae have more or less cancelled this already. Its been off air most of the summer. They will claim ratings are low and this will enable them to scrap it altogether. To be replaced with a cooking,antique hunting,pc, bore athon focussing on Glasgow or Glasgow.

How old is the bamboo? It looks as if it could be Phyllostachys nigra, the canes of which go darker with age ending up as shiny ebony black after a couple of years. Not sure about the twining stuff could be bind weed. I would cut off at ground level, remove and then treat regrowth next year with...

Our winters tend to be colder, and drier, than the UK, so we often see a winter low of -10c, and I have known a week when we had a daily high of -5c. That being said, the last few years have not been that cold, with just an occasional -10c.I have worn out a snow-shovel in just 6 years, though!!

Hi,Likewise, am keeping our young Delphs in pots under some light cover over winter, though its often slugs that eat the new shoots just as they start to come through the soil, so you probably never see any shoots, making you think the plant has not survived the winter.The same can be true...

You picked a really good one @ThePlantAssassin, old and reliable cultivar which won an AGM in the early nineties! Nick

My Neighbour swears by 'Wet and forget' and I must say it's worked a treat.

Hi. We have a very large Photinia, more like a tree than a shrub. It must be about 18ft high or so and I am not sure how to prune it. It looks terrific but it is getting out of hand. Can it be hard pruned? It is quite bare at the bottom.

Thanks mike that's very kind of you but i tend to stick with F1 plants these days they done me proud up to now

Shiney, that’s lovely. Adds so much more to the garden and our plants

Adrian's father, Alan, was also a brilliant gardener and we still have the tree that he gave us. We were originally introduced to him by my cousin who was a specialist Dahlia grower and had his own small nursery. Things weren't as commercial and frantic in those days.

No problems. Glad to be of help.

They dont look that leggy to me.

Thanks everyone, I unexpectedly got a reply from CWGC and they say it is thuja plicata.

I’ve got Ipheion “Wisley Blue”. It’s a super plant flowering for well over a month from the end of March but as you live in a climate with colder winters, that might be delayed. It’s really pretty and cheerful. Like @CarolineL ’s the leaves of mine are just beginning to emerge. The leaves do...

Fond of Diablo.....have it here with solanum Alba on the wall behind it creating a sheet of white flowers and geranium Orion in front of it

The bees love Hollyhocks so I sowed the seeds in spring, on the packet it said they would flower next year...........well they have flowered this year. I have two in pots around 2ft tall, ready to plant out next spring.

Nice one Cindy

Hi CindyAre you trying to inprove the drainage for the phlox and put them into bigger pots but to keep the weight down on your shelves , yes perlite will be fineSpruce

You're right, ES, the dead parts of the mushroom will not cause more mushrooms, it's only the spores that cause reproduction, so you need to break the reproduction cycle of the mushroom by using the rake and breaking up the mushroom before it matures to the stage where it will start to produce...