Propagation This Month

Please wanted for the walled garden restoration project of Glamis Castle. Is there anyone who would like to donate. Pm if you would .

Hold on, Val...........why not grow them as Sheal is. Sowing them as plugs could cure that impatience of yours!!

Tipped out the bags of lily scales in order to pot them up yesterday. Should have done it a while back as the roots were a bit matted ... I bought 5 lilies of each variety, and from each I took a couple of scales (could perhaps have taken more ...). I've potted up between 7 and 15 pots for...

Sounds about right to me, they should be 4 to 6" long. Lavatera are good confidence builders, they root quite easily. You could try salvia and sambucus too.

Aha! This thread reminds me .... I need to send a certain someone a PM!

Yes, I think they will germinate better if left "cool". I sow mine in the Winter, leave them in the unheated conservatory so they get plenty of cool / cold, and then as Winter draws to a close they germinate. I have had a couple of packets that have not germinated at all, but as all had...

Right, I need to get round to sorting this passiflora today - its not looking happy at all in the kitchen now, with a load of leaves having dropped off leaving only bare stem; what is best for this - sink it as deep as possible in the bigger pot and hope that it spurs on some growth, or cut it...

I think your memory isn't too bad ... the major part of that fencing was done a few years ago. Four panels were not too bad and were covered in ivy, so were left alone at that time. Their time has now come

Many thanks Silver Surfer and everyone else, I'm planning it out and sourcing the plants I'll post a piccy when it's done.

Hi Eric thick gloves is a must and long handled lopers before you even start If me I would take out all the dead wood and 50% of the OLD growth and leave all the new growth from last year if you can this type of rose grows denser by suckering so its doing what it should if growing where you...

Don't let them dry out in there..!!

Thank you!It's a nice afternoon so I'll get onto it!!

Hi goosegog I have put some parsnip seeds in the ground but germinated them indoors so I hope that helps, at least the cold easterly wind has gone. I will sow courgette squash tomato and cucumber after the weekend Good luck Dave

I use MP compost from Leroy Merlin, mixed with a bit of sharp sand. They have different prices, so not the cheapest, but not the most expensive either. I did have some last year which was well dodgy - after watering, the stuff which came out of the bottom of the pots looked like tea! All the...

I have grown them from seed but it was a long time ago. I dont think you need to wait before planting, think I planted edge way on, in the pots. It is a long process until flowering. Might be a good idea to buy up loads of those bulbs you often see after christmas in garden centres being...

I've grown B.variegata from seed and they germinate easily. The problem that I've had is getting them beyond the seedling stage. I have just one left and that seems to have stalled. That said, I moved house when they were very young last spring so it may romp away this summer.

Seedlings tend not to worry too much about the exact potting compost, or even the exact watering. But I think the cold gets to everything.

...and sow them on their "edge", not flat. Steve...

A bit late now I know but it's well worth while bringing potting compost and water up to temperature before sowing any seed, you get a much better germination rate!

The garden gnome, could you place them on corrugated cardboard box laid flat and extra light from cooking foil selotaped to a piece of card behind the plants?