General Gardening Discussion

What a lovely thread. I have a sunny patio and grow quite a variety of plants, a fig being my favourite. It produced a few fruits for me this last summer. I also like to grow annuals from seed; these give me lots of scent, colour and variety for each season.

Bloomin lovely Quite sweet

Llorona Salmon and S. Ochrantha for me

I don't see any reason why it couldn't grow from the rosemary if a seed landed on it.On a larger scale, I have a 10ft field maple growing out of a junction in my willow tree 15ft from the ground. The roots of it are at least 5ft long as I can see them coming down from above, through the...

Its o.k. I did the same posted twice lol thanks

Sent 2 by mistake sorry

SimonZ......not too complicated. Wait until spring and then prune to a few inches of the ground if you want a more bushy plant...as I do....or to a little higher. (Stems will be less lax too if you cut harder) Cut to where lowest new shoots are growing; you can see then which stems are dead...

The acres look stunning. Its a tree that we have never had success at growing. Probably due to our south facing location and being on limestone.

Tithonias did well as did Salvia coccinea, but the stand out performers were the Ipomea and Mina lobata that grew, flowered and climbed all over the place, they kept going until well into October.

Just don’t drink it all at once, ok?

It's an Epiphyllum hybrid.

We have that one, I think, flowering as well.

They're so pretty, would never have thought of that!

That explanes it then and the wet sand As i've hauled compost and peat and other things i got to know how much things weighted to volume and when you said 70 tons of compost i thought " that is alot" and would have been one big heap!!!

@Clare G My new additions last year also included kniphofia popsicle, lamium and crab apple. All are doing really well. By next spring the lamium should be big enough to split and spread. In a few years I should have enough to cover the whole border, and all from one sorry looking plant picked...

I have two purple ones also, love the dark leaf color against the green around them, it looks nice with a large blue hosta near them.

Most geums are similar to one another in soils and looking after but there are some website's dealing with different sorts of different geums so it would be good to look them up for more info, Geums are proving to be popular as some are said to be slug free plant as well as...