General Gardening Discussion

Still great flowers.

Seeds could also be blown in or dropped by birds.

Thanks @Sheal and @pete I'll get them staked. I think I may have to do something more permanent too as it is a windy spot and didn't realise they were so susceptible. You're right Pete. They do look like a herd of cows have trampled them

Get out your Library card @Perki !!I can get without charge and often even before they're out in the shops.Gardeners World Modern Garden The English Garden Small Space Garden Garden Illustrated Amateur Garden + a few others that I don't bother with.With some Libraries you get to keep them,...

I have butts in various places but this was a particular location needing a 'pretty' one. In theory it would be great but cost wise it's not going to make sense. Annoyingly, when doing the building works a few years ago we installed a soakaway about the size of a swimming pool. I feel that with...

Sorry for the late reply been really poorly. I did more scraping and its dead :(

I took the plunge and chopped one stem of 'The Twig'. There were two trunks but the leaves on one were much smaller and it just didn't seem to be thriving like the other one. I mixed up some very gritty topsoil with 30% MPC and stuck the 5 cuttings in that, after letting the ends dry for a...

And this is Cranesbill " Ann Folkard " which I love. She just turns up year after year and spreads wherever she feels like it. She's developing climbing skills this season and has her eye on the Dublin Bay rose that spans the kitchen window.... Jenny namaste

Thanks for the updates folks, much appreciated.

Hi, thanks for the replies Thankfully, i tried again by taking te lid off and loosesning most of the rest of it and was able to bend the side walls as well as the base, i managed eventually to get the doors to go in I have built one of these before as well but i was maybe over confident this...

Do Tropaeolum majus, long trailing and climbing nasturtiums, and Tropaeolum minus, short nasturtiums, hybridise/interbreed?I ask for two main reasons. The first is it might be interesting to get the colours and forms of the short nasturtiums in a big seven foot climbing nasturtium. The...

Yes, having finally vanquished the couch grass that had taken over 1500m2 of 'lawn', and in the process left that area bare for 2 1/2 years, the Poa has had a field (ha!) day. Luckily, it is more seasonal here and burns off by June, but not before it's seeded copiously. Still, it'll give me...

@Selleri that looks beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Prune after flowering then leave it be until it has bloomed the following year!

@noisette47 I might put some drain holes in it if that would help? I googled the other plants you suggested, they all fit within my vision for it.For the crocosmia, if it won't thrive in the old pond, I could put it around it. The area around is currently bare, as when I built it years ago my...

A couple of images of my problematic Vitis coingnetiae, in case anyone has any ideas about what’s going on. As you can see, from one side of the trellis it looks as though it’s gone into its normal autumnal behaviour early, and on the other side it looks more poorly.It’s been fed and...

My wife called me out to take a look at the Clematis this afternoon and I believe it is starting to flower. Better late than never.

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Maybe Silene dioica would do the job. It grows well here( maybe a bit too well at times) good flowering season. Another with a long season is Geranium rozanne

They is possibly something dead near it ? Can't say I've seen blue bottles comigrating near laburnum before