I have been given a bonsai kit for Christmas ! I have just soaked the compost pellet and am soaking a few red maple seeds for 48 hrs to soften the...
We shall see !
In the picture, I just stood the old un-holey pots in the white ones with holes, they are now potted up properly in the holey ones. I was so...
I have recently spent an afternoon repotting all my orchids. So many dead roots and now they luxuriate in new white holey pots. I had to destroy...
I would just like to draw the attention of you orchid lovers to some YouTube videos I have been finding very useful recently.They are called...
I also have an orchid that has never flowered, doesn’t worry me though.
I’m chuffed to see the flower spike, so whatever you are doing, keep doing it !
Hi Pete I have all my orchids in the kitchen window, which is north east facing, so in summer, when the sun rises early, I guess there’s sun on...
Not very well I don’t think ! Granted, I’m not very diligent in the dry/wet sequence, so tend to change over, when it catches my eye. Naughty !I...
Hi I have a Monstera adansonii houseplant, which for some months hasn’t been happy, with the lower leaves going yellow. I have looked the problem...
Try stuffing some growth into a plastic bag (while it’s still growing that is), then spray it in the bag with round up, secure the bag and wait...
Might your ‘pink things’ be Hollyhocks????
I have an invasion of bindweed. It stems from a four inch gap between mine and the neighbour’s fence, so I can’t get to the roots system....
Could I ‘plant ‘ a few bamboo poles among them and secure the leggy legumes to them with my soft twisty stuff?
Hi Pete Thanks for your reply! Do I just let them sprawl on the ground, or should I encourage them to grow upright? I don’t think they have any...
Hi! I was at my garden centre and came across a display of very leggy, very messy trays of broad beans, ‘Dreadnaught’ by name. It said they were...
Phew ! Almost lost the will to live, but she did have a lot to share! Interesting stuff.
Sure !
Well, here goes nothing ! This spotted fellow has never flowered to my knowledge, so I’ve given him a root trim, all the dried up ones gone, and I...
Wow! Isn’t it top heavy?
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