General Gardening Discussion

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...

The sad thing is that if you take seed from a wild plant (not to be done except with permission) and grow it on in your garden, even then they become bigger.

I think I would be digging up the soil to see what was under it!

Thanks to all for the advice. I'll leave it where I can. JC

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Update - well it looked dead as a dodo a couple of days ago, but when you looked at it close not only were leaves forming but also flowers - on the cuttings!!!So I cut of dead leaves, took out flowers amd I may be in with a slight chance 40/50 optomistic.The re potted mother plant is going...

All good advice so far. I did find this too from crocus. http://www.crocus.co.uk/Catalog/GardenPlants/sale/christmas/?ContentType=Plant_Card&ClassID=617 It gives a fairly good general discription..

We saw our first on Sunday.. So maybe summer isn't quite so distant after all......

I empathise heppy, I not only have weeds but sheep eating my stuff too!It is as already said a continual battle.

Hi Waco, Many thanks for the adviceI also had a lovely red broom which I only discovered a few days ago had been broken & died - I suspect the neighbour's kids - so, i'm sorry to have lost that. I still have two huge yellow ones, one which is right @ my bedroom window & a joy to see...

Oh whirlimix - you sound just like my husband now ratteling on about how he is going to maintain same!Well he is not all bad AND at least he does his own ironing!

Lovely picture, I will have to go up and see if the flower field (limestone set aside) is flowering yet.

How about some ferns in containers as well, helps to make the most of your colour by adding the all important green background, and would be happy in the most shady parts along with those Hostas?

Soil was really nice today after a bit of the wet stuff on it. It's also warming up in the sunshine so I planted out a couple of small trees I'd been holding back.

Hornbeam, that is a lovely picture of your violets.

Thanks - to both of you. I will wait and see. Hopefully there will be some sign of life soon.

Thanks for your replies!Amanda

Stinking after on the beach - mine come back smelling sweetly after all that salt and water! well after it all dries out that is.I wish you luck with Parkers ferns, let me know how you goet on. I bought the grasses too and the red one is pathetic, it is in my hospital ward, but could end up...

I'd definately dig through the soil to remove any bulbs lurking down there before putting membrane down, from experience, there are always a few left which manage to get though membrane - grrrrrr. I had to lift membrane to dig out bulbs - which I thought I had removed.