Other Plants

I like and use Growmore occasionally but granulated feed takes more time to break down and release nutrients to the plants so I tend to use a soluble feed as I think the plants can make use of it more quickly.

Gorgeous shrubs: especially like your hydrangea

I only really concern myself with blackfly on veg. I'll let the ladybirds eat mine if they're there

Hi, I am growing the above plant in containers and the foliage is doing very well; large, healthy leaves. However, there is no sign of any flower stems or buds. This variety is supposed to start flowering in June and as we move into August flowering is not going to happen yet! I have six...

OOh , even more plants. Thanks Spruce, I'll try that in the morning. Jenny

Hi Longk , the colours are pretty much spot on for both SPs . I know the Matacuna on the T and M site is a lot darker than this.

Thanks Loofah, but that reads nothing like my plant and mine isn't deciduous. My brother sent me a copy of the label. I'll have a look around on the web, but the sites don't seem to say whether it will be okay in an exposed position with most plants.

Remember years ago taking cuttings from what was a pink Hydrangea from a friend. It then turned blue after I added some Aluminum sulphate. I think Hydrangeas are very variable when given different growing conditions, and watering with tap water will probably affect the ph of erecacious ...

I will buy "cheap" Clematis if the plant is a good one and of a variety I like whatever the source. I will also pay a good price for something I haven't seen before and think will be a nice addition to the garden. I think we should look past the illusion of some thing being better because it's...

Good evening all. Three years ago I purchased some very small Laurel hedge plants and Red Robin, though these were much larger. The laurel hedge plants have caught up in size and both are a good size. Last year I trimmed the Laurel hedge plants with the aim of getting them to become bushy....

Thank you Sal, both for the advise and for the smashing photos! I'll definitely make room for a hardy Passiflora next summer, they are just so gorgeous and quirky plants. I saw one in Italy which had actually bent the cast iron fence rods to suit its growing preferences- the stems were thumb...

Hi Monsclara, I hope you don't mind me saying that you're perhaps being a bit hasty in expecting a change in the Clematis so quickly. It might take more than a month for the plant to recover and make use of the nutrients and water.......not a few days. Clematis, depending on the variety,...

I have only two Geraniums in my garden at the moment GG as I'm limited for space (still under development) and I don't know the names of either. As time progresses I will have more no doubt.

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...

Hiya Sally,you should just be able to pull the Galls off...no need for cuttingif you've no rain water just get a can of tap water and leave it to stand for 24hrs....that will be fine..also you could give it a feed with some eric feed for a boost

If you can find petunias for sale (should still be able to), then I'd say go for it. They're good right up til at least the end of summer and possibly right through autumn in my experience.

Oh goody a buck up chat..... The neighbours won't think I'm mad at all! Worth ago thanks jenny

More of the same, I hope.

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.