General Gardening Discussion

I read an article about this elsewhere, where it disclosed that some local authorities are making a big profit out of this (but are not proposing to pay gardeners for supplying them with their valuable garden waste).

Didn't bother this year with zinnia the slugs usually make a meal of them, I dont know if they come true but they may do if that's the only variety you grow

I've fitted them myself above ground for front garden, but we had professionals do the back garden and they reckoned it doesn't matter. Since the rot happens at ground level, the rest of the post above ground will still be mostly OK. And putting post and spur in the ground together makes it...

@Abrob1 hard to tell from you pics but they look like shaggy ink caps to me have a look HERE

Thanks Loki!

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...