General Gardening Discussion

All seeds now 50% off at Dobbies Garden Centres. Not an absolutely amazing bargain, but I bought 2 pkts of Red Alert F1 tomatoes for next year, or later as use by 2014, and Wilkos don't sell that variety. My main reason for calling in was because Dobbies own brand tools are still full price...

Hampton Court Palace Flower Show on BBC2 at 9pm for an hour.Another one on tomorrow night at the same time. Thanks to Monty Don on Twitter for the heads up

All this week. Need to get double desktop switcher on my pc so i can watch at work.

I have been saving seed when I dead head the baskets. I am drying them on some kitchen towel in the kitchen. Will these be viable if I sow these in order to prick out and pot on for the autumn baskets? Sally

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Hi, I'm quite glad with the 'crocus' roses I bought. This is on a sunnier day ! Flowers are drooping now with the weight of the deluge. gazania

Today was spent removing Ivy from fence panels and generally clearing the left side ready to dig the beds that side. Before:After:

Hi Armandii, I've just tried to send you a mammoth PM but the servers not co-operating, I'll try again tomorrow, sorry! What's more annoying is I'll have to write it all again. GC's not very user friendly this evening, but I'm sure it'll be sorted.

Hi Armandii, I've just tried to send you a mammoth PM but the servers not co-operating, I'll try again tomorrow, sorry! What's more annoying is I'll have to write it all again. GC's not very user friendly this evening, but I'm sure it'll be sorted.

If so, then add a few drops of washing up liquid to your water before watering. The soap acts as a wetting agent and stops the water from just draining straight through the soil.

Hi everyone - I need advice on three questions so if anyone can help, much appreciated.1. I (successfully) took cuttings of rose bushes last year so I now have some in the garden, plus some others I moved around. Question is this: some of my rose bushes have quite spindly, thin stems now. Am i...

Hi everyone - I need advice on three questions so if anyone can help, much appreciated. 1. I (successfully) took cuttings of rose bushes last year so I now have some in the garden, plus some others I moved around. Question is this: some of my rose bushes have quite spindly, thin stems now. Am...

Hello all, well the sun has finally decided to show up and I have a few small cuttings in bloom, and a couple of bigger plants too.Hope you enjoy them! Madam Bovarie..nice pinky red YellowAurea x DDR ( Double dark Rosetta) Charles Grimaldi Salmon Perfe ktion

I wondered if anyone may know what has happened to my Amelanchier, it has not long flowered and looked fine but know is looking terrible. I do keep it watered well, (rain not tap water) and it has been fed with some standard slow release pellets every few months or so. Hope someone way know...

Well i spent 6 whole hours in the garden,doesn't time fly lol!! Spray painted the fencing (including myself!! ), put up 3 wall troughs & 4 wall planters, emptied all pots of dead plants, made up 5 hanging baskets & 5 pots, repotted growing bedding plants etc etc etc.... And theres still loads...

Two nice sunny days this weekend at last! I've not been indoors long;there's been so much garden activity (ohh err, missus) Everythings growing and I've been supporting it all with canes (sweetpeas/peas/broadies,even one foot high runners) Its made me remember why I like to grow...

After two unsuccessful attempts to germinate aubretia - I have them germinating on a plate on the window sill. How far into germination should I leave them before transplanting them into compost - and more importantly to me, how do I transplant such small plants islayhawk

Hi Does anyone know of any gardening groups in the area or want to start one? Moved back to the area and would love to meet somelike minded people for tips/swaps etc Cheers

I was wandering around my garden today as for once it WASN'T raining and noticed a clump of Phlox was keeling over. On closer inspection many of the stems of the Phlox had split open and gone "woodie". Would I be right in thinking that this has been caused by irregular water supply? We had a...