General Gardening Discussion

Hi All,I am having to isolate for 2 weeks and am looking to see where you all get you gardening podcasts from and any suggestions for good ones to listen to.Rusty

Perennial wallflowers, such as Bowles Mauve, do very well in gravel and can flower for a very long time. I had a bed of Bowles Mauve once, which flowered for 48 months continually until I changed my layout. Wallflowers and mini-boulders can look very well and easy to do.

Don't we all.......

Or surviving and not.

Evening all...I see that Peter Nyssen are having an end-of-season sale. Has anyone on here had experience of growing Fritillaria persica? Did it come back in following years? I'd be very grateful for some pointers, 'cos even at 50% off they're not cheap. TIA

thank you for the reply .... I do prefer to ask on here more fun ... otherwise why have this forum and I dont mean to sound rude its not said in that contextSpruce

Id go with the spring idwa too. We have them in the garden and in the village.Sounds like your water table has risen due to all this ran lately.Probably gone by spring and hosepipe ban by summer.

Merry Christmas @Spruce and all at GC. I hope you all are well and all the best

Also lots of wildflowers still around, must look down next time I take a camera out, rather than up for birds.But there must have been some funny weather a short while ago as some of the local Horse Chestnuts had their sticky buds (due to open next spring) burst open and flower spikes appear,...

Another year of colour.

Let's hope it's a good year.

Hello allThanks for the replies, it is appreciated.At the moment, my aim is to tidy up the Shrubs as they have a lot of stems with branches growing inwards, rubbing on other branches etc.I will wait until the aforementioned Shrubs have flowered and then I will remove the branches that are...

The 'cutting' can be chucked into a gritty compost....or just grit/pea shingle or sand. A lot of the time I've had them send out roots where they fell(were kicked off after having stabbed me)

I cleaned mine just prior to putting up the bubble wrap in Oct/Nov. I use both Jeyes fluid and bleach. I have to pick a fine day when I can shift all the plants out and hope that it all dries before putting them back again. Everything is in pots at this stage so little chance of the jeyes...

As your garden is going to develop over time, ( no one gets such a layout right first time) think we would go for a more rustic approach that can be readily repositioned, be it a bark mulch, gravel or steppping stones rather than a concreted in affair, like blocks or paving. Also going to take...

Hello again Ash, for absolute basics, written in a clear, concise way, these are your best bet...