Other Plants

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.

Ah! I did similar but lifted mine into a big pot of ericaceous compost and feed lightly with miracle grow for acid loving plants. Leaves came back on what looked like dead branches. My plant though is a different type to yours though.

My young variegated one planted last March is showing a bud, it has lost most of it's variegation though.

Hi - Madahhlia. I too had read that D. excelsa was just a varient of imperialis. Excelsa had several flowers for me and they do seem to be very similar to pictures I have seen of the imperialis flower. But otherwise I would have said they were very different plants. Imperialis has very...

I'll let you know when I collect the seed Kristen, its nearly ready

Me too!! (Must be catching )

Doesn't sound a very promising site for heathers to be honest. If it's an old wall, and has naturally been colonised by ferns, mosses & lichens as you say, then it's probably already providing a good habitat for those species (and possibly specialist invertebrates as well). Trying to plant...

They have a very good delivery,will use them again

Steep in hot water and sip

Thank you to all for the great suggestions. I'm not sure what I'm going to go for but I'm now armed with a good list and am about to head off to the garden centre. I'll let you know what I found/purchased. Many thanks again.

Whatever you do Nikki, don't copy Thor Heyerdahl with your cuttings. I never believed they floated.

Leylandii is a real problem. As Kirsten said many Leylandii are being hit with disease now and then they look horrible. It is a "scary" plant for any neighbour to see. It's. Growth rate is phenomenal. Carlh2269 why dont you surprise your unpleasant neighbour by cutting your hedge just below...

I cut my Cornus plants down (to stool them) in the Spring and use them as "pea sticks" in the vegetable patch ... and most of them root!

stephanotis doesn't seem to like the dry air in heated rooms, had the same problem, put it in less heated room and problem disappeared tricky is to find a less heated room which is not too cold, though the other way is to do sth to increase the humidity in the air, but occasional spraying is...

I feel a bit of fence-sitting coming on! If you're taking cuttings from existing plants in your garden, then yes, you don't need to moly-coddle them too much. Snip, re-home, and walk away, quite happy in the knowledge that you almost certainly have a new addition to your family. :-) However,...

Love reading Christopher Lloyd

Hi Verdun, I'm envious of other members gardens believe me!!! Some of the gardens displayed in the pics are tremendous and show a lot of devotion and passion. I'm afraid I just bumble along and keep packing plants in the borders and try to grow anything I see and like: I...

I'll keep an eye out next Spring and see what emerges...then get dividing. Thanks for the advice

I agree with you Harry they are touch tender - best treated as an annual as the new plants are always better than the saved thunbergia plants. However if grown in a pot they do need to be overwintered indoors. A friend grew them up a trellis and did cut them back, covered them overwinter and...

I have loads of Dahlias. I went to Crews Hill Gardeners Club in April, and they were flogging them - £1 a tuber. Needless to say I went overboard!