General Gardening Discussion

I'd go for willow whips,cheap as chips .

I planted out a lot of the seedling Auriculas when we first arrived, just so as I did not have to spend hours watering them. I have found a fair few of them completely rootless and no longer connected to the ground. First time I have ever had this happen with plants in the garden. Really...

Sad, sad oldie am I. Have you thought about visiting your local garden center. I am sure you will find a display of popular cacti and succulents. Just a thought.

We only do a bit of weeding and some cutting back. Otherwise they look after themselves. Everything here has to look after itself as we have so much to do. The picture above is about a third of our front garden and that is small compared to the back garden. It gets harder every year ...

Our front garden cardoon gave us an amazing show in the summer but threw up a welcome surprise...... a new shoot (stalk) developed and it's now (December) trying to flower despite all the frost we've had, not a southern softy?

I would have to do some research, google about, get a tree book from the library and look at listings on line, see what the Birds like to eat. plot down the size type when grown, color comparison to my other plantings, etc. Part of finding the process is what you discover as your searching,...

HmmmFor reasonably quick impact you're struggling.Echiveria take a year before they are anywhere near mature. Yuccas and agaves are at least two years before they are a reasonable size.If you go to the tropical side, bananas (ensete and musa) will grow reasonably large in the first year...

Only in time will it grow back or should grow back, they isn't much you can do but wait.

Cyclamen. Sowbread.Primulaceae.Believed to be around 19 species. Root type. Tuberous. From seed sown as soon as ripe and in the dark. 14-18 months, and your new plants should be flowering. Smaller species best for rock gardens etc. Hardiness, fully hardy to frost tender. ...

Yew is my current favourite! But if rosemary is in the list then probably lavender should be too. Lonicera ntida and even privet...

Thanks, very nice photos, yours look a lot better than mine.

I'd leave them until Spring. It protects any delicate growth and still looks good through the winter.Some of ours still have flowers on them but we shall cut the top growth off as they're beginning to flop all over the place. We'll cut them back late March to early April - if we get around...

thank you

I cut all ours back in November ....probably not right but they've never complained and always return!!:bigthumb:

I have to endorse the other comments about cats knowing what's good for them - or not. We have a large garden with thousands of plants, of which most are listed as possibly toxic. The garden always has cats visiting with no deleterious effect. We also don't seem to come across any cat poo ...