General Gardening Discussion

It has been known for a long time that frogs shriek or scream and that it is due to stress or alarm but not many have heard it. Totally different to the normal mating calls. Even Newts sometimes squeak when picked up

A magazine forced upon me one of those bags of free seeds and actually the Larkspur sounds like my kind of plant.I need some help with the seed sowing plan, I can't sow them now in "a prepared seed bed in where they are to flower" as such a thing doesn't exist Quite possibly I'll revamp a...

Thanks for that. Probably right about the soil, or absence of it, and about re-potting, although goodness knows how I'd get it out. Agree about weight, too, I often do that with outside pots. I'll try the weight test when I can find a way to get close enough to get my arms round it!

Google 'slug pub'. Brew your own bait.Slugs are even eating squash flowers before they can be pollinated, or eating the whole flower including stigma shortly after pollination, perhaps too soon for the squash to develop.

Yes thanks to you both

The landscape architects I worked with used to specify 150mm for grassed areas, 450mm for landscaped areas (shrubs) and 300mm to rear garden areas for growing stuff. They thought more about shrubs tban vegetables.

Both van Meuwen and T&M have removed the BVG reference from their website addresses. BVG shut down all plant development and new cultivar trialling in 2017. The current company is probably worth less than when they acquired it, as I assume they must have asset-stripped to some extent by selling...

Yes, but it's still a small bit of wood in constant contact with wet ground so the rot is inevitable

Ok. How big / spread does fargesia get?

I tried Westland New Horizon late last year and found it to be very similar, regarding growth of plant, with Jacks Magic.

You shouldn't have any problems there, virgin soil that has been through an 8mm screen blended with spent mushroom compost.The problems are when you buy from greenfield sites, where the problems start, but who is to blame?I watched a programme called "Inside the factory" there was a part...

Quite like that, don't think I've seen one beforeI'll see if there's one nearby, thanks

@pete your mate could well be right, over the years I have lost plants to overwatering so am on the cautious side.

@JWK I always think of Chelsea a bit like I think of a fashion show. The problem isn't the show, it's people copying it without using their imagination and putting their own twist on it, being a tad more subtle in their own style and understanding that the show and the high street are two very...

To be brutally honest even the good one looks like its not happy. Is it a sunny aspect? As said earlier a repot would help.

@Jack Sparrow I have ringed a couple that I'm fairly sure are hollyhocks, there are several more I think, but use those two as a template. I was looking at a seedling about 30 minutes ago and thinking it needs to go in the ground.

I would temporally connect it to a mains tap at the top end, with another hose, so the extra pressure will dislodge any blockages or air locks.

I don't know what your conifer is.We often prune the top of our small bright green conifer (Cupressus i think) and then the tree happily grows back over the cut area and looks good again. Cutting of the dead growth 'may' work for you too.

I'd cut back the stems with the the dead leaves still on them.