If there is lawn around the pear tree, or thick thatched grass, it could be worthwhile to remove a large circle of that underneath the canopy of...
As an aside, assuming it was raised by a Dutch nursery, 'Mokum' is likely the common nickname (of yiddish origin; mokum/maqom meaning place) used...
Chatto and plantsforshade (Long Acre plants) are both good.
The ears I could easily do in a similar way ... it's tempting to let the back grow higher!
[ATTACH]The hedge always reminds me of the catbus in Totoro (or maybe a caterpillar), this brought it to life a bit more. (The border to the...
@CarolineL I had a quick look at raddianum - maybe Adiantum venustum is what you are after? It looks dainty and elfin yet is tough and has a...
@ClematisDbee I've ordered plants from Long Acre Plants / Plants for Shade and was happy with the quality/service. Chatto is a good nursery in...
I find they really like crevices and rock-adjacency; they will self seed into such places. This leads me to think that rich soil is not the best...
I have had three young specimens in a ceramic pot for a number of years now, they are doing fine - I never move it inside. I cannot exclude the...
Pollarding is similar to coppicing.- As with coppicing, only species with vigorous epicormic growth may be pollarded. - As in coppicing,...
The weeping willow looks beautiful. For the other pollarded tree in the first message - I'm more used to seeing trees like that pollarded at a...
Highly uninformed and underwhelming guess .. Kalanchoe of some sort maybe?
With one neighbour we have an ivy and jasmine-clad fence for the first 15 meter, then the rest is basically a shared mixed hedge of all sorts...
Very pretty!
That explains it. I've had it as an unexpected arrival (in Cambridgeshire) but in an inconvenient (to the plant) place, where it flowered and...
Small correction - Verbascum chaixii is a perennial - Verbascum chaixii | nettle-leaved mullein Herbaceous Perennial/RHS, Dry Areas | Verbascum...
For the putative Kojo No Mai, the new growth (those small sub-leaves or whatever it is called) looks more (deep) reddish than what I am used to,...
Agree with @infradig; those logs don't look suitable for burning and by that I mean entirely unsuitable.
A first for me; I often do a round of the garden in the evening, this time I found two newts conducting some sort of business on a fern (I think...
I have five seedlings from giant sweet chestnuts at Westonbirt and wondering what to do with them. Perhaps a local woodland might take them, but...
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