Recent Posts

Hello Kevin, The photo is of Iris Ensata. I grow them but mine are white with a yellow throat. No problem to lift them when you get back into the garden and replant about 5cms ( 2 ins ) deep. They like a fair bit of moisture to grow at their best. Hmm well mine should be extremely happy...

You are going to struggle its just the nature of climbing plants to be bare at the base while their heads are in the sun . Try and keep them more on a more diagonal angle 45 degrees to try and stimulate buds lower down, this will slow down the plant growing up , its not something I've done with...

When I lived in Oz, I grew gardinarium (?) in full sun, but with a cool root run. They did get sun scortched in summer, but flowered profusely. My current garden changes continually, as I chuck plants that don't 'fit', and I'm quite ruthless about it. I do apologise to the plant before I bin...

I have seeds for Mesembryanthemum crystallinum to try this year.I usually do hanging pots for a friend and wondered if anyone here has grown them. If they work well on hanging pots and any tips you can offer to help me get some success.Many thanks. Lori

The hole is for excess water to drain away, if it's blocked or if you use a pot with no hole it will fill with water and that is bad for the plant. I usually put a stone or a bit of broken crock over the hole, this will stop the compost being washed away, but let the water drain out. Sometimes I...

The other stem on the Amarylis over 2 ft tall...

@Andrew Funnell are you coming back?

yep, that’s why I was saying it depends on the market you are in, it’s a big world out there with lots of different factors influencing different countries/customers buying habits. I saw the drop in Norways sales that you mention but a lot of that drop in January (and for a good while after I...

Some of my neighbours employ a dodgy looking window cleaner with a fancy van and fancy prices. Strangely he always seems to appear when it’s raining .

Jurassic Plants do a number of Sechuan pepper relatives (Zanthoxphyllum) including Lemon pepper, Japanese pepper. Note a number of species are called Sechuan pepper. This is a link to their edible list Plants Dahlias are both decorative and edible. Don't bother with Wonderberry (Solanum...

I remember from when I was a kid, in the videogame minecraft, if you right click with the bonemeal on a small tree it will instantly become a mature 10m tree. So use it carefully!!!

Another good place to get unusual plants used to be the old traditional town market or annual fair where you might get the hobby growers with just a small table of surplus whatever. The annual Seed Fair (26th March) and Honey Fair (13th September) in Conwy are still pretty good for this. (The...