General Gardening Discussion

Thanks Walnut

Great plant, can also spread 3 metres +. can be kept to half that size, but it lose's it's inpact a bit..

My favourite bulbs for March/April flowering are narcissus tete-a-tete, narcissus Jenny (white), scilla sibirica, various crocuses, iris reticulata (though maybe a bit early) and hyacinths if you don't mind a bit of blousiness! I'm hoping to try some tulips soon too.

I agree with HarryS sounds like Virginia creeper

Thank you blackthorn. will do that. Could never understand how bulbs were 'made'! Stupid head aren't i?love your signature!cheers

No borrowers, I was to embarrassed to admit it coz everybody else seems to have no problem.:o 02

I've got a tree of Fiesta, which is a cox type so comes late and I think, stores pretty well. Has less disease problems than Cox. Independent assessment of apple tree Fiesta

Picked some up paperwhites from wilko, 3 for £4 and they're poking through already. Did see some in tesco/asda for £8/£10.. The amaryllis has shot up and got a bud, I'm so happy last one was just leaf!

It's a Somerset thing.

They are all winterflowering and highly scented.:flwsml:

Has anyone got any spare plants , the one seed I wanted to sow for summer and forgot.Silly meToo late now.Want to make a hanging ball basket with them

All soil can be improved Paterson but most soils are just fine. Can you show us a pic of your soil - a general view and a spadeful - and we'll tell you what you've got and how you might improve it.

Hi crowleyi started mine off last yr the beginning of feb as i could'nt wait any longer :Di have a conservatory so i sowed them in a black pot (absorbes heat) placed cling film over them and put them in the window with the raidiator underneath they took 5 days to come through and i had...

Thanks FreddyNo, not normally next to the radiator (which isnt on btw I think it is normally outside but i am not 100% on that

Hello and welcome to the forum. If barley could defeat dock leaves and other weeds, I don't think there'd be much of a herbicide industry because it wouldn't be commercially viable for companies like Monsanto to just develop for the casual home gardener. If you want to grow a competitive...

Rpdiy, if it`s Begonia sempervirens pinching out is not neccessary.

Cheers Verdun, I'll do that as soon as all the bulbs show

I like my garland super 7 as I have 7 diffrent pots so can grow different things in the same propogator and control them all individually

Thanks, just done it using a wood saw.

Hi Snowflake I think foxgloves are biennials, so they don't flower until the year after they were sown - is it possible that although the non-flowering one is bigger, it's a first year plant and the other two are second year ones (but maybe a smaller growing variety?) other than that i'd have...