General Gardening Discussion

Thanks everyone i'll get started soon, just waiting for my baby to get better shes been sick all week ! My garden is quite mature the last couple here were here for 14 years ! Just want to add a bit of variety colour and wildlife

Alan - welcome.I love Echinacea. And I think they should be worth persevering with. I have plenty of slugs in my garden, but The Echinacea seem to get through OK. It may be a matter of size. Very small plants are always in most danger, but once they have become bigger and better established...

Yep, sounds familiar. I use a fraction of the ones I have over the year at different times...but still end up with more when I buy more plants. I did speak to a garden centre once asking if they'd take them back and re-use them, but apparently it was too time consuming to wash them all (the...

My dream is a big box of seeds like Nigel Slater has! Knowing you have years worth of food in a few packs of seeds it truely amazing

Hi Many would prob disagree but i would say in spring rake the moss hard ripping it out with a springtine rake dress if needed and over sow, then leave till sept-oct and repeat. If moss is a particular problem also look at other means of control such as removing worm casts before mowing, mow...

Ok Dave, yes, whats native and what isn't is complicated and probably something you can never get to the bottom of.I'm not sure we sent the Aussies rabbits, I think its more a case that, they took them out there themselves. But then we are back to who is the native population yet again, and...

Added to my favourites!

Climbing nasturtiums are annuals and would do well. You can save the seeds for the following year.

Hi So sorry to hear of your plight, we never expect to bury our children, so I can imagine how important this is to you.. We have a family plot I tend & I rotate pots as John says planted up with seasonal plants.. In general rabbits dislike very aromatic plants, plants that ooze caustic milky...

Thanks for the info.I received these plug plants two weeks ago,and my intentions was to take them from my utility room which is sitting around 20 degrees for the last two weeks.I am going to transfer them into my greenhouse and supply heat with a gas heater thermostat controlled.I just would...

Everything here seems to have survived quite well apart from our Musa which I haven't uncovered yet, but doesn't look too good. Somehow, I seem to have planted the more tender plants in the more sheltered areas of the garden . That's a bit of luck! :hehe:

Thanks for all the replies....certainly given me something to think about..as for the pic..looks like my it skills have failed me yet again..will def find out the exact variety by the end of the week! It is an evergreen (well it was!). It also was starting to go a bit leggy..wasn't really sure...

Good news then? :yho:

first one looks like a form of geranim/erodium perhaps. second has a look of forget me not about it, but not a forget me not. A picture of that one when the buds open would help.

Oh, it's brilliant for those evenings when you just sit by your allotment plot and watch the grass grow. Pop! Pop! Pop! And if you run out, just take a laptop with you. http://www.virtual-bubblewrap.com/popnow.shtml

Hi Rosiemongrel, she was a beautiful dog & friend I am sure, you must miss her greatly.. I have 2 patio roses in pots as memorials.. These seem to do well in pots.. I suppose they are a couple of feet tall & lovely & bushy..They are Sweet Memories..and Sweet dreams..They are both in...

Thanks for that link, I have been wondering when I could prune my Nelly Moser which is outgrowing it's space.

In addition to Matthews websites you could also try this one, even though i think it will probably give you the same info.Simon

No I have never seen it in anything bigger than 3kgs maltaron. A compost accellerator is really a a method of ensuring a massive increase in the bacterial population of the heap. You do this by adding a high nitrogen source.In the garden centres you can by Garotta in powder or liquid, but it...

Congratulations Sam, :gnthb: :yho: You have a wonderful garden and they obviously knew how to get quality when they needed it. :ntwrth: :ntwrth: