General Gardening Discussion

It is very rewarding growing lilies from the little bulbils and from seed. I have tiger lilies, lilium regale and various others flowering now - all took 3 years to make good flowering size bulbs. Galtonia Candicans is another good one to try.

Hi, I agree they do seem to thrive on a bit of neglect. I have some in pots & two that were planted out years ago & have now kind of incorporated thenselves with a small hedge & they get clipped with the shears the same as rest fo hedge & they probably put out more flowers than the ones in...

I use the middle out of toilet rolls but more usually for broad beans and such!!

Hi greenfingers, not many people grow gladiolus from seed, they take a few years to flower that way. Leave them to grow on, and you can lift the corms in the autumn and dry them off, or you may get away with leaving them in the ground overwinter, if its well drained.

oo my favorite :D

Thank you Steve a very helpful link.

If it's a plastic pipette you're using, can you slice it further up to make the hole bigger?

Thankyou Those links where helpful I did at one time mulch with a load of fertilizer it could possibly have been at the same time ,it was a long time ago,but its worth a thoughtT

Hi Rich, thanks for the offer I will keep it in mind. Yes she did mention about the amount of suckers they send out. Do you have problems with them?

Thanks JJordie - Got in a mess trying to do it, had to ask my son for help. love yours.

I know that if you cut off the first flower stalks after they have finished flowering, you get a second crop of flowers, not quite so good as the first.

http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000696 Have a look here angeleyes, does it look the same.

I've managed to root cuttings of the large hybrid types, but they seem to take all summer to root, and make a good root system by autumn. The problem is they make very little or no growth in that year and tend to rot or not have any dormant buds to grow away from the following year.

I got one of those bulbs in early spring....then got waterlogged by accident...when I dicovered it... I put it in greenhoyuse to dry and has recovered at last and making lots of leaves now, no flower yet lol will check again in a day or 2..Ladybird

Thanks Pete2255

Just fround this thread. We have just planted wallflower seeds for next spring.

Glad one of them was some help, sorry to here, we may be too late. Never mind you can prune it into shape for next year & get a good shape for flowering. You should end up with a lovely plant, that will be a lovly dark green foliage plant in the mean time.

Bayleaf - what gorgeous HH! The colour is stunning!

Hi Peter, I do have a digital camera and have been recording the different stages of my garden. It gives me great pleasure to look back on how things were in early spring compared to how they are now. I am currently trying to learn how to load a picture on to this site of a very special fuschia...

Hi Larburnum, Lovely pic of our garden, very nice plants too. I see what you are saying about the one in front of the conservatory. In my bible it says that sometimes older plants can benifit from a prune, but it looks like it is also growing to the light, if that the problem them you would...