General Gardening Discussion

I think skips have been designed with a built in safety factor, it would be nigh on impossible to fill a 2 tonne skip with 5 tonne of rubble for instance, I've always filled my skips to the "fill level" or not much more, but i have seen skips made 2ft higher by doors around the edge and still be...

Thanks to all for your help, plenty for me to look into with hardware & very local forecasts. It seems only like last year but since time flys by it is probaly nearer several years but I remember the met office were spending about £60 million on a new computer which would make weather forecasts...

Mine bloom every year in a shaded (by Jacaranda and Melaleuca) dry rockery in clay earth. Have had them for 14 or more years.

@Tetters I have Rebecca and Limpsfield but would like a Jaqueline Postel too. Love the scents.

I have the same Sedum Simon and leave mine to die back fully. In early Spring you should be able to pull the old stems away gently and will see the new ones already budding underneath.

That is almost total coverage on the eastern half! Knowing what States lie underneath those lights that have green open areas, I would say much of that light pollution is unnecessary.

Thanks for the tip off Harry, I will look to see what I need. Right now nearly all my cuttings are doing OK but I wonder if they will survive the winter so might order some from Brookside as insurance.

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 !

Up until a year or so ago gardening was a chore for me. I tended to do the lifting and shifting jobs. Now that I have a bit more free time Ive started to enjoy my time gardening.Plant preference is tropical / tropical feel and arid. We have a tropical area, a med. area and now planting an...

I'll def bring them in. The shineyland ones are the green one at the top and the greyish one on the right

Cheers @Verdun , I was hoping now would be OK . Just had a new fence fitted , so would like to get the Montanas topping it next year. I will fill the hole with a soil sand and MPC mix , and use a Gro-More slow release feed. Can't use blood fish and bone or Molly and Bella ( with us for a week...

Thank you for the information @Barb in Pa but the two Hollies I have are quite enough for my garden. Thank you too That's what I needed to know. Because I've planted them side by side and against a boundary I needed to get the spacing right, not only for their growth but access to the...

and I'll have another look at it and see what I can do.

Oh no.............

You'm right Pete UK's first Wollemi pines from seed | Kew

Thanks everyone. Great ideas!Assumed co.uk was for British gardeners so apols for that. Am in UK.

I love them all, Freddy. In a good year you can smell the blossom 25 yards away, and now that the Seasons seem to be blurring you shouldn't be surprised if they flower earlier than Spring and then repeat flowering during the year, Don't worry if some of the plant's leaves turn brown during...

Good evening @Freddy great choice my friendMedium yellow Large-Flowered Climber. Registration name: Golden Showers Bred by Dr. Walter E. Lammerts (United States, circa 1950). Introduced in United States by Germain's (Germain Seed & Plant Co.)in 1956 as 'Golden Showers'. Introduced in...

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