Gardening: Hints and Help!
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Good Idea Motorhomer, I did a similar thing with peas for the pea shoots tasted good. Left some to grow on and I got quite a few pea pods that tasted like peas used to..
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Was given an Orchid last year, flowered well, died off in autumn and was chucked outside into the garden, in a tub of compost.
We never watered it, fed it, but to our amazement it has now flowered again and has a few more buds that look viable. Must be the current heat wave, I guess.
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Well done that orchid! 😁
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Had a nice afternoon outside yesterday, mainly tidying, dead heading, cutting back. Things are on the turn a bit now, at that “blowsy” stage, some things finished for the year, others doing well. We have enjoyed lots of crocosmia and montbretia this year, and lovely Japanese anemones, both these still going strong, and some lovely dahlias adding late colour. Roses still doing their thing, although over that huge first flush.
I am thinking about bulbs now. Got lots of daffodils in, many varieties, shades and shapes, plus tulips and alliums. Fancy something a bit different, so any ideas welcome. I don’t like muscari, too much leaf for me, but other suggestions very welcome. We have been adding to our crocus numbers as well.........😁
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Agree about the Crocosmia ours have been a pleasure also, But now the green stalks of Lucifer have suddenly gone brown and seem to have died off. Never known this happen as early, could be the hot temperatures we have had. .Unfortunately the Montbretia have not flowered plenty of leaf though.
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Yes, my Lucifer has gone brown very quickly. The Montbretia might need lifting and thinning HH, I did this with some of mine in the Spring, and where I have it’s flowered lovely. Blinking heavy rain downpours yesterday battered one of two things flat yesterday though☹️
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We've got lots of little cyclamen coming up just now, white and shades of pink. They're nice easy little things to plant in the bulb/corm line of thought. My favourite bulbs have been the Dog's Tooth Violet bulbs that OH planted (amongst others
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Planted a few Spring flowering Leucojum in a clump a couple of years back which are doing OK so far. Flowers are a bit like Lily of the Valley but much taller.
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Ordered a few spring plants today and then went outside to see how autumn is progressing. We have a Cornelian Cherry (cornus mas) and it's covered in "cherries" this year, decided to try one putting my faith in the book details that they are edible. Strange taste, slightly tomato like, I haven't gone wobbly yet...🐰
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Nice👍🏻, with variegated foliage you get a bonus, I try to buy a variegated type whenever I can. You can see they’ve had the elements required over the growing season in their health👏🏻👏🏻
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Yes beautiful cherry brue. I was hoping to put in a variegated holly this year, grow it as a topiaried bush.
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My Bathsheba climbing rose has been beautiful , but its not sending any strong trainable climbing shoots only thin rose bearing ones. More like a Floribunda . Any ideas ?
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Yes will try that in the spring brue, It needs stronger support due to the size and weight of the flowers.
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It took my climbers quite a few years to settle & become happy enough to climb & spread likewise my ramblers, other than ‘Seagull’ that was just like the Birds. . .A menace🤷🏻♂️😊
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Agree, a good prune will help. Some roses can be a bit spindly first couple of years. I took one out of a pot this year, and it’s struggled, but will be better next year👍
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Not putting away childish things...
Decided to grow an Avocado stone, it's taken over three months to grow first in water then a pot. It grew just like a broad bean, splitting and sending down a leg root. 🌱
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Interesting project brue. Looks to be doing great as well. I am going to plant some acorns, see if I can grow some Oaks. I meant to fetch some back from Norfolk (walking in Nelson’s footsteps) but never did a walk to find any. I do have a Pomegranate tree, but it’s never shown any signs of fruit, probably way too cold.🥶
My main task this coming year is to try and persuade my very reluctant fig to fruit. It’s a stubborn little beastie so far, so I need to do some reading up.🤨
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I like the avocado, mine is still in water in a 'bulb' glass. Might pot it up and bring indoors for winter.
Have been fed up with gardening services weeding and feeding the lawn with their chemicals on a regular basis. Have now gone for a total moss lawn which is slower growing than grass and therefore needs less cutting.
More time in the deckchair with a beer in my hand.
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Took quite a few cuttings a week or so ago, along with Hosta's. All seem to be doing well . Also started trimming some perennial's and general tidying, getting ready for Winter.
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I was disappointed not to have any Evening Primroses in the garden this year, usually get one or two drifting in from other gardens. I looked out of a bedroom window this morning and saw a five foot yellow flowered plant struggling above some bindweed...an Evening Primrose! So I went out and took some seed heads from it. (Don't know how I missed it but we've had a lot of "lost" plants springing up this year.)
Hope your cuttings do well Hostahousey!
And Redface, our lawns never get any treatments except cutting, the moss got a bit out of hand in shady spot this year but the grass came back later. Anyway, you could always tell people it's a Japanese garden.
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Geez that is a shocker, I was out with the Dogs pre sunrise & it was +3, very nippy but only a suggestion of frost in the deep hollows. That’s odd that you were 6dgs lower than here🤷🏻♂️
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Friends of ours live in Doncaster, parts of which are very low lying. They have had a couple of heavy frosts already, had their treasures inside or well fleeced for a few weeks now. We seem fine here at moment, grass still slightly growing, roses still blooming, and a few other things. But it was a lot colder last night, I have put plenty in greenhouse now.
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Last trip to Abbotsbury Gardens before they close for the month. We had a good distant view of the cruise ships in Weymouth Bay as we descended the hill towards the gardens, unusually clear air and skies. Lots to see as we walked around, they're good to visit all year. 🌴🌳
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Just cut the last two rose buds , and taken them indoors to enjoy. Whilst next year, fingers crossed
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Hosta H. The roses have lasted well this year.
I ordered a few raspberry canes which arrived today, autumn ones to replace some that aren't so good. I think that's it for the year now, hedges cut, a few early daffs just starting to poke through the earth and buds on the winter cherries coming out. I've got a nice little Camellia in flower, all two feet of it!
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Still got roses blooming here at the moment, but we haven’t had anything close to a frost yet. Spotted some tips of daffodils poking through, silly things, they are being optimistic😁
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Cut down some of the perennials , and laid some farmyard manure along the borders. Getting ready for winter. The ground is very wet and still raining.
Merry Christmas To Everyone
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One plant has surprised me this winter, it always gets going late September but it's still flowering now. So here's a photo of the mighty Pineapple Sage! A tall plant and during warmer summer days it's leaves really do smell of pineapple (something I dislike to eat, but there you go, it has other uses!)
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