Other Plants

Spot on! I met the great man once, at Dixter, and found him much more accessible, friendly and welcoming than say, for instance, Beth Chatto.

I'll be getting a reputation as 'chemical happy' but for non-edibles, systemics can be a quick and effective solution. Where possible, I'd use them as a soil drench.

That is a great looking plant. I bought mine , a tiny one, a year ago and its growing slow. Hope it looks as good as yours in time.

I would say Clematis Armandii and Winter Beauty are about the same in hardiness, JWK. I lost the very first Armandii I bought due to cold and that started my curiosity of clematis and learn how to get them to survive. I found it was better to disregard what was quoted on the hardiness scale and...

Ah,OK. Spathiphyllum then, rather than Arum / Zantedeschia. Same Aroid family though. Don't know much about them, but I don't think they will tolerate sitting in water, so keep the water level below the top of the gravel.

Hmmmmmmmm, Phil, it looks like the fickle finger of fate has not been kind to your plants and they've faded away.

That really is rather splendid!

It is naturally a cliff dweller, so can tolerate high rainfall by the fact it grows in a well drained place & just sends lots of roots down.

I do have a little garden and have 2 of them , it`s a crime not try one

Yes, but use sparingly...it's strong stuff!

Lovely I have a few flowering too - so colourful.

We have a number of Lucifer but I'm pretty sure they won't be "Late" as we've had them for some time. Our established crocosmia have only just started to recover from the winter. Nothing last week and about 12" high today

Maybe totally irrelevant to Intersectional Peonies, but Peonies in general tend to take a long time to flower I brought a small herbaceous root stock about 6 years ago and I might have planted it a bit deeper then it should have been.........anyway this took 3 - 4 years to flower but when it...

I presume in our PC world that GCs don't refer to Sans as 'Mother in Laws Tongues' any more.

Fatsia "Red Spider's Web" then, eh ?!!

Hoping its not to late to grow them.......brought a packet of T&M Thunbergia Salmon Shades and sowing tomorrow after soaking in water overnight............never grown these before and was thinking of planting them in a 4" soil pipe (horizontal) about 6 feet long and letting them cascade down...

yes, Carpobrotus spp also known as Hottentot Fig.

Cracking find Sal!

I have grown the Echinacea Purpurea - very prone to snails - and they got eaten the first year and never returned - but then I do have a lot of snails that live in the overgrown next door garden and visit mine nightly to munch what they can S

Mine stay out all winter