General Gardening Discussion

I agree with Dave. If you have just moved it - it did not like the move. As Dave says, in a healthy plant roots and foliage are in balance. If you reduce the roots (as you must do when you move something) you must often reduce the foliage to keep them in balance.

Good advice Waco,My father had the same problem on 2 1/4 acres, has woodland behind him and he is at the bottom of the hill, so all excess water used to soak into his plot and stay there, he got a mini digger in, dug a trench 18" wide along the back edge and down one side to the bottom, where...

The fruit will be black when ripe - hence the old name of Black Lovage

Hi Shaun, Dave has a valid point about the Leyllandii, but if you have a railway line the other side, they are probably the thing to cut the noise down. Just promise to keep them trimmed & feed the lawn etc. Look through the forum & also have a look at container gardening. You...

Lady Chatterley springs to mind.

Well what you lot have told me are Spanish bluebells are so fare behaving very well, as to ground elder AAhhhhhhhhh........don't mention the word before I have to go to bed! Nightmares agsain!

Mine just dropped dead! Antithesis of a wild fl;ower I would have thought though.

As way of an update, I can now see little green shoots from my rocket seeds which are outside and from courgette seeds, kept indoors for the moment. After 1 week, thats pretty good. I'd have been starting singing to the little blighters if I hadn't seen signs of life soon!

Thank you all for your help and advice so far! Much appreciated!

The 'in thing' according to the television makeovers is to paint it pale blue. But I think that draws your attention to it. If it was mine I would paint it green. That way it just disappears into the background.I wouldn't use a trellis (something more to buy, to paint, and to rot) but would...

Definately a turfing iron. i spent several days this winter lifting and relaying turf to make way for a new grass and herbaceous bed. As with the posted photograph the end is rather worn but still will do a good job. Push with right thigh and right hand on implement; keep at a steady angle and...

hi thanks for the help.my next door neighbour has a big fern tree in her garden and we wondered if that had anything to do with it.as the soil is very dry no matter how much you water it

First thing I did when I moved here was search out the sloes... Have now found a satisfactory spot that I can reach with the aid of my crutch! I've made sloe vodka too as one daughter isn't too keen on gin. I've got several little sloe bushes grown from seed. I hope each year that THIS YEAR...

My daughters hay fever allways used to start when we lived in the country ..as soon as the gorse came out ..frogesque should make a book with all her lovely photos..they are more clear than some in my herb and botany books..

I drink dandelion tea every day..made from the leaves..its good for your liver and water retention..it doesnt taste very nice but you will soon get used to it...some people drink dandelion coffee made from the roots..the dandelion is not to be laughed at allthough i know you dont like them in...

Cheers Waco... will have a look out for it.

Try thishttp://www.tmac.clara.co.uk/urgring/faqshade.htm

well we finally ordered all the wood yesterday to be delivered next weekend! I am sooo excited!Mind you we were a bit like the keystone cops trying to work out how much timber we needed. In the end we had an amount of timber so we added a few bits extra for 'just in case'Cant wait until we...

Eye, eye, something strange there, who nose what that can be Fran. :D

I have only grown Alocasias under glass so I have no expreience of growing them outside and personally I wouldn't try to. I had never heard of Poly untill your post but looking at pics of it it appears to a hybrid of Amazonica/Sanderiana or similar.I have not grown them for many years so I am...