Slash and burn to clean the ground if you can but diggin in will be fine. Remember that heavy weed coverage traps a lot of seed that will be...
Hi and Welcome!Rhodes are evergreen so you should always have the dark gren foliage which you can use as a backdrop for brightly coloured...
Re-looked at your pics and can now see they are growing on the wood or old roots. The fungi hyphae (sort of roots) will have been feeding on the...
I wish I could stop smoking! Think of all that lovely money I would save :DUnfortunately (or fortunately) I haven't smoked for over 30...
Some links:Wikipedia: Death Cap MushroomExpert: Destroying AngelArkive: Fly agaric
Identification of fungi over the web is fraught with difficulties as there are so many look-a-likes. Sometimes you need to section a mushroom, do...
If they are unsightly then I just tease them out of the froth with a stick, bit of straw, penknife or whatever comes to hand and squish 'em....
Thanks everyone [img]mims:I've been wondering whether to secure it or not. The garden is reasonably sheltered and the split larch...
Well done Liz! Mesembryanthemums seem to be out of fashion at the moment. Very few for sale a GCs etc. I love them though. Mixed in with other...
Hi and welcome!My understanding is that seedless fruit are propagated vegatatively from sports of normally seeded varieties. Could be wrong...
Hi Honey Bee. I've recently been looking at greenhouses and I eventually bought a small second hand one and spent what I saved on a decent base....
I wouldn't fancy trying to keep one as a house plant. They need space and cool moist conditions with part sun to dappled shade to really thrive....
My friend's little greenhouse.It's a 6' x6' (seems to be the type sold by Focus) and I got the last pane of glass fitted yesterday. The...
Wait until you hear the first seed pods open with a crack! Be wary though, species don't normally produce seed that runs true. To be certain of...
Yep it's the flower spikes that are begining to show colour. Probably about 5" tall just now. When I planted them in spring last year they took...
Aggghhhh! Weedkiller :mad: Idiots who overspray other's property are a pest. At one time I lived on a cornersite and the council would pray all...
I've grown both white (Liatris pycnostachya 'Alba') and the purple variety (spicta). Don't know about bog or drought but I do know they are hardy....
Thanks for the sympathy guys. Sounds daft but It really affected me earlier today. I took the stump down to ground level and the heartwood was...
Honeycomb is the one I've come up with too.Spring Meadow Nursery: B. x weyeriana 'Honeycomb' Scroll down the page a bit.
A laburnam in a garden I care for, in full flower, has succumbed to weight, wind, rain and honey fungus. It was dosed last year with amillatox but...
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