General Gardening Discussion

That's a great idea, I didn't realise that garden centres would have them so early in the year. Lady Boothby looks beautiful, I'll look out for it. I like the website you linked to, I'm enjoying browsing around it and reading their descriptions, they seem to be real enthusiasts.

An orange and yellow columbine

I like the all-pink look, I haven't seen that kind of snapdragon before.

Zowie Zinnia is a 2006 All-America Winner.

Mine were bought-in plants (they never made it the second year) of about that height, The nurseryman advised support as the top growth was disproportionate to the rootball size. The ones waiting to go into their new home have been potted on and are shorter and wider Must admit that the few...

For those of you who have such an independant grower or nursery, please please give them all the encouragement and support that you can. For they are an endangered species. This is especially true if a long standing family business, for they will likely fall within the grasp of the latest Budget...

There is a house up the road from me that always has a good show of these in the front garden, I think the owner has either died or gone to a care home as the house had a for sale sign recently and new people parking outside.I doubt they will survive some how, but maybe, it will probably end...

Thanks

It's having them too deep, and in consistently cold wet soil, that's the problem @Wild_Violet , so allowing them to establish in a drier setting at this time of year is best, before planting out in better conditions in 6 months time. It then allows good establishment through the drier part of...

Thank you for sharing,Is anyone selling on here?

Vinca major and minor. Forget me nots. Monbretias.

Thanks again for your insight, food for thought.

Thanks, @Plantminded .

I had a friend in Belgium whose bulbs were routinely excavated by local pheasants and a couple of peacocks who'd escaped from home.

I have shallow soil in places, most of the rock breaks up if you hit it hard enough with a pick and if you have an edge you can lever it up in sheets, there is also soil and roots between the sheets. In other places there are seams of metamorphic limestone smooth, gloss and absolutely solid and...

Thank you for your advice.

That’s very neighbourly of you @pete . The rate of growth is quite amazing when it’s cut, I’m wondering whether it might be a silent protest! Thanks for the photos, very impressive.

We have Alstromeria in the ground and in pots. They are quite hardy but the pots can be put under cover or sheltered in the winter if they are new. We just cut off the dead flowers and cut back in early Spring. Be careful about transplanting or pulling the stems as the roots tend to be...

It often comes down to experience, and also confidence. If someone asks about what they should do with an acer, and when to prune etc, I'm always wary of what I suggest. Saying to anyone novicey, or inexperienced with them [and that's often why they're asking the question] to do it at any other...