Not read the scientific stuff yet but old habits die hard! Hope your setup works!
Wish I could transfer my IPad pics onto site as now amazing (sorry to be so big-headed) I'm particularly fond of Amethyst Lips, about three or...
Planted French marigolds next to tomatoes, with some lettuce seedlings. White fly having a laugh and a slug got in somehow and had lettuce and...
Big plants both inside and out but inside too long, suggesting poor light?, some fruit on outside plants but small as are the one or two inside!...
Well folks they've started germinating! One, the brassica, up in just a few days and look normal. Another , I thought was a digitalis by the size,...
Re: Chinese seedlings. Read article in the Guardian today. Seems lots of unsolicited packets of seeds arriving USA and Canada labelled 'ear studs'...
To the above add : Royal Bumble (don't know how hardy here yet as original still in pot with half dozen cuttings - all flowering!) Buchanii. Most...
Those were the days! Lots of local painters these days and still wonderful in the memory. Our van was on the Forestry Commission site now...
Thanks! Wow what a great plant, will buy some today - but not from China! Curiously digitalis are my favourites, long before salvias. Being from...
Thanks for your quick responses! Having re-read my thread, I should have said that I searched 'my orders' on my Amazon account and discovered that...
Thought I'd tell you of my splendid mistake this season (well one anyway!) Had bought lots of seeds from various firms (Thompson and Morgan,...
My wife has really taken over the garden following years of simply going into the garden to hang out washing, oh .... and cutting the lawn! So...
This year seems exceptional regarding setting seed. My Patens always produce a lot' so much so that I've got two dozen seedlings to plant out this...
A wonderful plant and tall! Never had any seed ….. yet! Seems to be a good year so far as we have about four varieties so far with contributions...
I'm a newcomer here but have grown pots for years. This year I had some raised beds positioned and planted two early varieties. Then the 'little'...
Amazing plant, and what a harvest! I've decided to plant my 'Jenny' outside on a trellis under a pollarded hawthorn. Here's hoping it survives!
Interesting stuff, thanks. I never plant stuff in the ground (to stay) in their first year. Somehow I consider they're not big enough! OK I've got...
Have been looking to photograph my little flowers as seen above! Today with April-like showers they are just sparkling. It'll be the IPad I...
What a great selection! Have few of them and odd seedlings but presume your un named ones are seedlings? In terms of seedlings I get variety of...
Thanks for your response. Notice you live in Kent, I in West Midlands/Shropshire - a little colder perhaps? Usually hardy salvias (-10) are ok...
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