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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...

Hello jeannie it's in bud at the moment, so shouldn't be long before leaves are showing, you can by them in small, standard or large ...there also the very large ones that put in parks etc

Do you know what sort of pink Cordyline it is? They appear to have variable hardiness. Charlie Boy appears to be more hardy than the pink passion / sensation variants, although it doesn't look like Charlie Boy from the picture.

Thanks Marley Farley for the Pheasant Berry suggestion, which I will look into.

You're most welcome, Kevin.

Hi @Victoria yes we only want ours around 3ft and I'm really lucky to have the time to maintain.

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 think there are 2 king of water chestnut sold in supermarket...... the one I grown was Trapa natans ....got it from an asian store and it`s a floting plant ......then you got the american Eleocharis dulcis that actually grow in soil ......they are different shape. about the water hyacyinth , I...

You plant them in year one and they will flower in year two, I started some a few years ago in about July and plated them out in October and they flowered the following spring,,,,,once they have flowered cut them back hard.

May be a little shallow, I'd try it and add some of those water retaining crystals to a good john Innes based compost to improve your chances of success:

We will have to wait and see.

The usual one doesn't need sun to change colour, but the one you have needs more sun. I expect that's the problem. When it's very mild, many plants take longer to change and colour up too. It's been very mild here and all the trees have been very slow to do that, and are holding their leaves...

Let us know in a couple of months time how it took; personally, I think you'll be alright.

I've been growing this for a couple of years now with no success yet. One plant in the garden and one in the greenhouse. It forms tubers rather like a Dahlia so it may just be too immature at the moment.

That is why I asked the question in the first place. I have never grown Viburnum, in any form, before and I was worried about this one. The bodnantense flowered at the beginning of March and the opulus about three weeks later.

This looks like Algal leaf spot, its common in wet years, and can be transfered to Camelias, Rhoddos and others, like what Armandii said, then add a copper drench or other drench fungicide, it it does come back or transfer to other plants, you can treat with rose clear spay, if you catch it...

I'd use a cloche or a plastic bottle cut in half. I believe they are half-hardy but I've never been able to overwinter them, I think it's too wet here and they just rot away.

"Vervain" is also the common name for the genus AFAIK, family name is Verbenaceae. Verbena officinalis is our only native Verbena, but it's common name is Vervain.This is why I try to stick to latin binomials whenever possible @mazambo, common names are confusing and it's very easy to get...