General Gardening Discussion

sorry you miss understood me the brook is out front the ground i am looking at is round back, where i lived before although the water was further away we still got frogs and dragonflys in the garden oh and a bat so i was hoping to attacted same wild life my garden there was more formal

Best thing to do is to spray with water and then mulch the roots, keep spraying leaves till you either win , or you are sure they wont recover, they will take hard pruning so don t worry too much

:eek: How I wish I had such a feature in my plot. Don't think I would be too concerned with the planting :D Like I said ...shoot the goose!

I would wait til the second leaves show on all of them - give them the best start. I usually have to thin my seedlings to stop them getting overcrowded, well before I start pricking out and potting up

Boring is not a term I would use to describe fuchsia However until they start into growth, bare twigs, are bare twigs, are bare twigs :D

agreed! :D

it is not happy, are the leaves pale at all, does it bud and then they drop off? is it in the same pot and if so change the compost,[and move to bigger pot if needbe] using ericaceous compost, give it a feed of ericaceous liquid feed, including foliar spray The most likely explanation is aspect...

Thanks Denrobium for the links.My Abelia x grandiflora is on the way.

Thanks again. They were back again today. We decided to try an experiment putting some of the basket filler they like into an 'empty' hanging basket so that they could help themselves without wrecking my plants. We then had to go out. When we returned, the whole 'lump' had gone; so we'll never...

ah - ha!!!! perhaps thats why my Sweet Peas are always thin and patheticaaly straggy compared to the neighbour's whose are always bushy and thick and soooooooooooo much better than mine......hopefully now, I may have some decent ones.....(well, we live in hope..)

the first thing i noted is two colours of the fence, i think they should all be the same, secondly i think in the lower area, the soil is below the path, and it should be level, it looks a bit poor, but really difficult to say from a piccy, anyway i suggest you need to build up fertility and get...

1)Senecio Greyii [metre high] is a salt and wind tolerant species, its grown for foliage rather than flower, and can be used to act as a wind barrier, it will need trimmed annually or it grows rather straggly,, 2)Escalonia is a good all year round hedging type shrub which is evergreen and has...

Photinia Red Robin..... Very often if you lightly prune when the red is fading it will reward you with another another flush of red foliage,moreso with larger plants.

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the seed i mean

That's not very nice Orchid man, no flaming on here please!

apologies for pic quallity (jack of all trades, master of none.) :D

all types and i heard you need to infect them with symbotic fingus. were can i optain this from?

Hi there,Thanks and happy to be guided by the consensus although grateful to Pete2255 for confirming that there was some substance, albeit outdated, to my incorrect assertion.Many Thanks.