It’s strange! My daughter in law has an east facing conservatory with orchids, they are flowering their socks off with leaves looking fairly dry...
I’m tempted !!!!!
Oh, now you’re asking ! Just the usual supermarket jobs, Phalaenopsis probably ?
Hi!I have several orchids in my north east facing kitchen window sill. Some have flowered, some haven’t, ever ! The only time they are in direct...
it’s definitely dead! Haven’t the heart to pull it up, so now it has a couple of pattern lights hanging off it, looks pretty at night! It’s also...
Is that in or out of the pot?
Hi Janet, good to hear! I have now got two fairly large specimens, they are waiting to be planted, as my garden help has damaged his hamstring !...
This is Caree Rouge, more like Crackling Red ![ATTACH]
Yes, I do have Paramount Plants on my iPad, I find them very expensive though, and I want to see what I buy! The picture doesn’t do Crackling Red...
Don’t lose heart ! My late husband used to say, that 1 cu m, 1000litres is a hell of a lot of water and is relatively cheap. It’s the other things...
In spring ‘21, when I didn’t have a garden, I saw a fantastic display of a Photinia called Crackling Red in my local Dobbies. The colour was...
First bit of colour![ATTACH]
Hi! I have two ‘recumbent pots’ with blue nemesias. They have survived the -7.9° we had recently, and look quite splendid with still the odd...
I thought of Mare’s tail too. In the coal mines of the midlands, the miners used to say, they pulled it down by the roots !!!
My lovely boy, who left me last August.❤️[ATTACH]
Yes, I have no doubt, that my disaster is caused new fertile top soil in my newly built beds! I’m hoping, that after a winter of hopefully rain,...
Hi Bill Have a look at my post in Identification Area about my cosmos this year. I have had exactly the same problem, shy high coarse plants with...
Bye bye Cosmos ! What a disaster, took me ages and had to get the heavy duty cutters out, as some of the stems were too much for hands and...
Well, as this is as far as my planned ‘riot of cosmos colour’ goes, they are coming out ! They were supposed to fill the gaps this summer between...
Interesting possible explanation. I have myself suspected the new spunky topsoil being too rich for cosmos, that is happier in poor soil. Whether...
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