try this fun virtual garden design website from the bbc. its quite good for designing a garden...just click on "virtual garden" add your...
Hi, The first thing i'd be tempted to do is measure the garden and do a scaled drawing....photo copy it a few times and then transfer a few of...
Windy, i carefully pulled the seedlings up and put them straight into a pot of compost....i'd say 6 out of 12 survived....50%
Hi honey....my dad has his own building company... There is really no need to stop building in a drizzle.....but who knows if it will stay a...
worms with sunburn !!!
They really are wicked plants......excellent foliage in year 1 and boy,.... the flower spike in year two....fantastic.....Windy i aquired some...
Hi windy i once had some echiums and i think i over watered them... You live in echium capital down there in cornwall....try planting it out...see...
Cheers BM. I have always had mine in full sun and 2 years it never left the greenhouse...its been outside since may this year
hi lady of leisure in portugal...( i wish for your lifestyle) kandyfloss hit the nail on the head i think when she said it was "Hottentot Fig" but...
BM as we speak i have a few branches starting to get poorly looking any ideas what is causing this?????? [img] [img]
BM. the shape of mine has been made better by a few branches drying up and dying in the past a bit worrying but it seems to pull through each year!!!
Hi Kandyfloss. here are the pics i promised you....i (so far) have over wintered them in an unheated greenhouse, but i have a few planted out...
V. nice shape to it BM. I agree it does look like mine. Did you train/prune it to get the good shape?. mine's just done what it wanted
hi kandy. The Lizard is where i saw them first too......and in fact all mine are from just over the bay at Mosehole!!!!! I cannot believe how...
thought you'd be drinking SCRUMPY down there in cornwall Windy????...surely scrumpy pee would be better for the compost than the chemicals in...
Hi all. these are the pictures of mine( a bit leggy but i love it)!!! no idea at all what kind it is though...its about 4 years old from seed...
with poppies i guess you just sprinkle them where you want them and let nature do the rest....should be that simple with poppies???
Hi, I have this clump of grass next to my compost bin.It grows yearly after chopping right down to the ground in late autumn. It is starting to...
if they have "nice green grass" whatever is underneath must suit their lawns
Yes BM Cornwall is the only answer....I go there a lot and i am so jelous of the warm winters...up here in Derbyshire i cannot go too tropical...
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