General Gardening Discussion

up date ,after the loss of only a few lower leaves the small yucca has now recovered.the large plant is in recovery mode ,with just a few central leaves a shade of yellow

Depends on what kind it is, some are hardy some are not. In general if it was bought as a house plant it wont be hardy exept in a very warm sheltered spot.

Its doing OK pete so fingers crossed XXX

I'm guessing, but it looks like yucca elephantipes .So you can cut it back to where ever you like it will regrow. You might want to reduce the amount of new shoots it makes though, so as to stop it turning into a large green mass.

I do like Violas Clare, I bought a tray or two last spring for our caravan. They flowered very well all early summer. In late summer I noted a lot of growth in the limestone gravel under the planters.... they had self seeded in the hottest and driest summer for years !

ATTENTION: THESE SECATEURS ARE NOT ORIGINAL ROLCUT !!!!! These are cheap plagiarism of Taiwan and have nothing in common with the famous RolCut-quality as everybody will remember. RolCut had been a brand in the UK, which had sold the secateurs of the manufacturer Original LÖWE from Germany...

On thinking about it some more, I might actually have a bash at this idea.Every time I trim the hedge between me and next door, I have the same idea. Always I intend to one day get some of the broken paving slabs from out the back and make a path along in front of the freshly trimmed hedge. I...

You'll need to get them soon Joolz - they need winter cold to bloom.

well for inside the box i would only do flat cushionlike plants, like alpines. So the kind of what you've bought already. blue colour: lithodora diffusa (at least I think its diffusa and not another one (blossoms april), also a nice blue one is veronica prostrata for purple colour: aubrieta, in...

Just looked up this plant ''lapsana communis'' and found this description.... It is a leafy plant, the uppermost leaves being narrow lanceolate, intermediate height leaves are wide laceolate, some with blunt fowardly-directed teeth whilst the lowest leaves are nearly oval but tapering to a...

I've got one coming soon so I'll stake it up or put it near the wall lol

Mine is Nasturtium 'Phoenix'. Half of them weren't Phoenix-y at all, just normal nasturtium and, contrary to the photo, not a single one was red. Orange or yellow and that was it. Guiltily, I got rid of the lot because I don't want any orange or yellow in the garden (not cos I dislike them, just...

Thanks John, about what I was expecting, and I think a little short for what I need front-of-border.I did a batch of cuttings, earlier in the year, 50:50 compost/sharp sand, whereas normally I use 50:50 Perlite, but I had run out of Perlite. A later batch was done with Perlite. The Perlite...

Cheers Nixon, will do.I've just ordered a beautiful rose from the Pockcocks site you mentioned. Expensive for delivery though! still hopefully it will be worth it, looks very beautiful.Thanks for that.

Just got back to the Deep South after a week in Edinburgh and a week in Lancashire.I know the weather this year has been a bit, er, "challenging" for us gardeners but every garden I peered into (and the countryside in general) was looking pretty damn good. And the herbacious border in the...

Thanks for the info on Geoffrey Smith, Geoff.

It'll be best to leave the two, usually if you try to delete one both will disappear.

Definitely cosmos, and the chocolate ones are a joy. I also like daisy-flowered things like argyranthemums, echinacea, osteospurmums etc. and also astrantia,dahlias and, of course, you can't do without geraniums in one form or another.

Has anyone mentioned nettle brew?Never seen anything like that, it is quite impressive.

@Perki These are nice plants you've added and very unusual