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yea the petunias were really nice but its a lot of deadheading all the time lol,any winter flowers that are yearly blooms?

:question: Thought something was up with them!!

You dont say how big but I would pot them up and then plant out in a few weeks when bigger and recovered from being in transit One important thing to do is to remove any flowers and buds. This will enable the plants to concentrate on root growth. They will flower all the better for it albeit...

good idea

Your situation and vision sound amazing. The upright plants in the photo seem to be bamboo. I have no experience with them at all. The search function on the site will probably bring up useful topics regarding suitable bamboos for containers. There are so many people with hands-on experience...

@Feets Begonias are tubers and need to be taken out of the compost when the stems are dead in autumn, cut the stems off and then store the tubers in a protective place like in a shed or garage for winter and then in spring, pot them up until it's warm enough to plant out. They are an easy...

Plan C , AKA compost bin

its the worse on line UK company I am not surprised now you have told us ...

That's excellent news, thanks for the feedback @JWK @"M" and @Ian Taylor. @Spruce oh yes that never occurred to me, thanks Now all I need to worry about is having the trellis drilled to the wall before the whole thing gets stolen!

There are a couple ways with Pelargoniums, as you have rightly mentioned, personally speaking I'm unsuccessful with the dry method...don't know why as my Mum always adopted that method with perfect results.I trim mine all back by half, repot as all mine are in the borders, and place in my...

Oh, thanks pete, will give them a very good water every day as we've got a good few dry, sunny days coming up!

Give your shrubs a good drink, keep the soil moist, a little feed will go a long way as well. Cut back all dried and dead foliage, but be careful not to cut too deep. You'll be wanting to keep whats green! Hope this helps.

Don't worry as one of my shallow trays looked like there wasn't anything in it but then the other day they started to shows the first leaf.The seeds are coated with a substance that can delay germination hence the washing of the seeds and also I found out the seeds don't like to be exposed to...

It is usually mostly used as the common name for wild blackberries and comes from Middle English from about 1,000 years ago. It tends to be mainly used for wild blackberries but it is also used for unwanted vigorous plants with thorns such as wild roses (also called briar) and many others.

Fleabane self seeds here very readily and loads of it is growing on the driveway outside the house. I saw some plants in the clearance section of the local garden centre a few years back and potted them up with some other bedding plants for some big pots at the front of the house hoping they...

I sprayed the nettles off in the field last year, as they only grow just either side of the fence, only one clump came back

I don't even have a mower anymore, I ended up employing a gardener to cut the grass!

Ok, that's sounds like a great life lesson. Annoyingly, when I pointed out that the plant was dying, my girlfriend immediately blamed me for watering it too much, in lieu of anyone else to blame. Seems like she was right. Thanks for the advice. I'll move toward reactionary watering now

Hi Cheryl Felix, You are doing everything right and have also spotted the weak point i.e. being too impatient. Fruit trees need a decade or so to show their true colours, just keep on nurturing them and wait. Unless you are a professional growing them for fruit to sell or feed your family it's...

If you know it's acidic there, make use of that and pick a plant which likes those conditions. Heather, witch hazel, magnolia or camellia will love it.