Many thanks for the excellent advice and highlighting where it should be cut.
Thank you. I have already read it and it is good information. However some others say cut back to a bud? As you can see from the picture the...
Thanks for the reply. We are in Worcestershire and we do have a conservatory. Some winters are mild and others can be harsh with lots of snow.
We don't really want to spend a fortune buying plants again next year so need advice on how to preserve our plants until spring. I think the...
Unfortunately due to illness we never pruned our rose bushes last Oct or again in March. We can get around the others but our "Austin" rose bush...
Here you go. Our African daises.[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Sorry we bought it a few years ago so no idea of its name. I am referring to the rose bush in the foreground.Can you please recommend a...
We have two rose bushes that droop. We always thought that perhaps we had been sold climbing roses instead of bush roses. We also thought that...
My fault as too excited about posting that I forgot to check properly. LOL.
With help of grandsons we managed to break up the soil, add top soil and do a border using deck planking. Now need to find plants and flowers...
In amongst the other flowers are the African daises. They are the rather large daises.[ATTACH]
At that time we did very little gardening and then sort of lost interest with work commitments etc, but now well retired so time on our hands.:smile:
We have the 500l of soil compost arriving on Friday just in time for grandsons to spread it for us. LOL!
As you gather at present we are amateurs at this gardening lark so every day is a learning day.
We were thinking of donating them to a botanical gardens somewhere along the Devon or Dorset coast where it may be slightly warmer, but I guess...
That is correct. Coming from Africa we have always called them African daises. Anyway we cannot pronounce their Latin name. LOL!
Just an update on the hard soil. We got our grandson to use the mallard on the soil initially to break it up and then used a small electric...
We have two avocado trees that are 5 - 7 years old and stand about 1.5m high. They are both in large pots which has allowed us to bring them into...
We saw these at the market the other day and purchased 3 of them that were in bloom. We have well drained soil and sunny area for them. We are...
We have two avocado trees in large pots and every winter we have brought them into the conservatory, but now as they are about 7 years old and...
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