OMG I have joined this miserable club! today for the 1st time ever I have found a b Lily Beetle. I 1st thought "oh a Ladybird", then looked...
This makes me feel a shed load better not @HarryS :). I've pampered mine in the past in a heated propagator and then greenhouse, talked to nicely,...
You think you have problems @HarryS :). I can't grow the damn things at all really. Any I have tried never get past the green stage come September...
I grow it but it is quite tender/weak I think? The latest growth prior to winter on mine is always blackened come Spring and needs to be pruned...
As @Sheal has said this May up here in Scotland has been totally fantastic. So glad her introduction to living in Scotland has been pretty kind on...
Patience is a definite requirement which I am somewhat lacking in. Hands up who hasn't had a rootle about to see if a cutting has rooted or seeds...
Thanks all for your input. Have no intention or for that matter hope! of removing the Ivy atm or ever . All that has been done is to saw through...
Thanks @Jiffy Pete and Zigs. I really will find it odd if I've done the wrong thing. I have a feeling as Pete mentioned it could be a wildlife...
Oh many thanks @Marley Farley. I have never heard of it being a bad idea before either. Yes ok i think some Blackbirds use the tree for nesting...
I have glorious Copper Beech trees, 1 of which had ...accent on the had a heavy burden of Ivy growing up it. I asked my Daughter about a week...
What a difference a few miles make. Because it was so cold until May everything is late but then good weather with no frosts. Our apple trees are...
I had forgotten about my Camassia @longk , thanks for the reminder:thumbsup:. Mine won't be flowering yet I doubt but will go and see. Like it...
Like @Sian in Belgium I have Clematis in mine and Tulips followed by Lilies. I didn't expect the Tulips to keep going for as long as they have but...
No Verdun I don't think so, the soil in the East Neuk of Fife is renowned for being really good. His soil was quite sandy but almost black, his...
Gosh @Scrungee I am surprised that you are still having frosts where you are. We have had the most fabulous spell of weather over the last 2 to 3...
The hybrid Rhododendrons and Azaleas are just getting going post the species ones I have, being finished, The last photo is of a Fothergilla....
I grow many Camellias, in flowerbeds not pots admittedly. All survived the winter of 2010/11 when we were down around the -18 oC mark (see avatar...
I live in Scotland and started my huge Dahlia tubers into growth in my unheated greenhouse about 3 weeks ago. With the gorgeous spell of weather...
These were sent to me by @noisette. I decided to let them "down" gently by keeping them in my unheated greenhouse over winter as they had been...
Hi and welcome to Gardeners Corner. My parents had a row of Leylandii felled and treated with weedkiller applied into drilled holes in the...
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