Other Plants

Thanks @Verdun!

Yes, jazzy. Perfect

Ah I get you...to encourage roots to grow from the length of the stem. I think I may have done this accidentally with other plants in the past.

Hi Mike, your reply just popped up-TY. We are Londoners,the water is groaning with limescale and the inside of the pot IS coated! Propbably not helping!! Can`t see her going to the trouble of catching rainwater and watering with that somehow. But a cleaned pot and a bit of peat based compost...

Awww my backside!

Hello Tam, long time no chat mate ...cold spell we've got bad weather coming yet with it

We've large number of worm casts on our lawn. This is always evidence of a heathy lawn and they provide a lot of aeration.

I was forever repotting mine. I brought it home from work where it was really struggling. It had been left by an ex-colleague. I put it on a south-facing windowsill and it went nuts!

Christmas Cactus

Oh, I agree, "me old pal, me old beauty" But many gardeners, in the early years buy shrubs that are on display in Garden Nurseries, on impulse and "ignorance" and Kerria is one of those shrubs. Me?, Garrya eliptica James Roof and Osmanthus Delavayi are two of my favourites, the first for...

It must be very relaxing for you, sitting looking out on to your garden. It looks stunning. I only have a floodlight on the wall of my house. It is just used when my dogs go into the garden in the dark.

Azaleas can be deciduous or evergreen. I have both here. An important factor in growing azaleas in pots is not to mulch too heavily. A soil based ericaceous compost too is important.

Hi,A general guide to watering is when the roots look white/creamish colour then they need watering with a weak fertilizer, just plain tepid water every 5th or 6th time to wash away old salts etc.Normally you just pour the water on the top and let it drain straight though the pot for a few...

Snorky It will grow well enough either way but I would trim back the thin lanky stems...not for "shape" because weigelas are shapeless shrubs anyway but to produce thicker growth from which more shoots will be produced next year. You could plant it out but, again, I would prefer to keep it in...

How about pernettya, gaultheria or ruscus to give low plants with different berry colours that last quite well over winter

Hi @Tetters , many thanks for the reply. That's great news that they are easy to care for, I'll make sure to keep it well watered then, and I'm glad they don't need feeding too much.We do have a cat, and so I did a bit of research which said that whilst other types of lilies can be fatal to...

I was way out on scale then.

Thanks Loofah

I can only speak for Ruellia brittoniana, but that took two years to flower from seed, despite developing into a big, healthy plant in year one.

Hiya loublelouy. Nice to see you again