Other Plants

To rapidly increase stock. I used to grow selected plants to a reasonable size and then literally chop them up. Yes, tip cuttings are mentioned as a general means of taking cuttings. As we all know, some cuttings are taken from just below a leaf joint, others can be from any point of the...

Yeah, I chop them right off but always leave one or two seed heads to develop just in case they take offence and don't reappear - they always have, though they seem to move around a bit. They'll produce a small and much tidier clump of foliage, should look OK then.

yes transplant now as you are running out of time to move ,,, if you move august they will die !! ... reduce the size of the plant by a quarter and then once potted up keep in the shade and out of strong winds , try and get a large root ball water the night before ..... no need to feed just...

Mine have been in bloom for a fortnight too. Even the tiny cutting that I took in May has a tiny bud on it.

I dont see why not, but personally I wouldn't do it now.

HiI would say yes to the Stachys Lanata., and a bit of touch and go with the Nepeta , but hey for 50 pence each well worth itJust keep in a sheltered part of the garden and give a good water and leave alone and wait and seeor take them back next week and say they died and a get a full...

Get some ready plug plants from Dibleys. www.dibleys.com. While rooting, leaves can be on the table right next to the window. They can do with a bit less light at that point.

If they are the native ones, they are biennial (although they have been known to break the rules), so almost certainly its game over now for your ones. However, they produce a lot of seeds, and if you leave them to shed their seed naturally, some will come back. Give them a hand by ensuring that...

Hmmm. The growth looks "watery" in a way that the plant is just pushing out new growth rapidly without bothering to grow fully formed mature leaves. Usually that would indicate too much fertiliser, water and warmth, but the position looks bright enough to support it. I would take a cutting and...

Thanks Pete( and Dai)

Thanks Perki! Well, that RHS page says they even tolerate shade, but I'm not sure if "tolerating" is the same as thriving, I would plant some in an extremely shady part of my garden next to a 6ft fence if I knew they would flower well, they would look nice with the pulmonaria which is already...

This is a young lilac bonsai I got last year and which is currently flowering well, but I spotted that the leaves don't seem to look great. Not overly visible on the photo but basically the central part of the leaf is a normal shade of green or at least the shade I sort of expect tho perhaps a...

that's the ones thank you

Grab a drink, this is long...I have a large pot with three stem cuttings of indoor Yucca... I snipped two of them from a huge plant growing in my Doctor's surgery waiting room (don't worry, I had permission!), and the third came from a plant my daughter has. Hers is a variegated form. Very...

I got some 3ft high appeared this year - buds are starting to show up

Thank you

I've just bought a Pennisetum Herbstzauber, at the moment its in a 9cm pot and is quite small, would it be ok in a pot that is H50 x D30 cm?

I would just keep the compost slightly moist otherwise the bulbs may dry out too much , frost free over winter will help for the 1st year , keep a eye out for slugs lurking at the bottom of the pot.Spruce

Thaks for the advice.i think i will hold back a bit.

Thanks both - I'll see if they have any honeysuckle for sale when we visit the Tatton Park flower show in July Really looking forward to it.