artjak

Wormery

I did a course recently on composting so I will try to find out for you; it could be that the wormery became too cold and they died, or you did not feed them enough so the simply left,

Saint or sinner?.....don't like annuals

Leggi, I love your writing

Verdun, I have only just dicovered this thread; it is too late at night to discuss this, but it may be bamboo sticks at dawn

MORNING FORKERS

Dove, I would love to but you are Norwich and I am 55 miles away at the nether end of Norfolk, on the cusp of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire - even my postal address is Cambs, which annoys me, but we are all at the mercy of the Royal Mail - they keep changing my post code too.

Today I feel so happy....

Woodgreen, what joy, tree peonies can take up to 2 years to germinate, well done!

Spring sweethearts

The bench is made from woody roots as far as I understand, have had it for 9/10 years and treat it with oil. The rose is interesting; bought it for £1 from Morrisons in January, 'House Plant' guaranteed to flower for 3 weeks. I could not bear to bin it after that and the flowers were a bit of a mess frankly. So, potted it on (there are really about 5 tiny rose plants there), hardened it off for several weeks in March and hey presto - the flowers are now really healthy and maintaing their structure, which they weren't doing as MISERABLE OUT OF SEASON HOUSE PLANTS. Sorry to shout, but really how could they do this to roses? Stuff several into a tiny pot and force them to flower in January?

MORNING FORKERS

Dove, have a fab holiday

The daftest thing you've done in your garden

Not quite a gardening story, was getting dressed one morning in hideous very synthetic elastic waist trousers to do some gardening, pulled them on and found I couldn't walk! OMG I thought, am I paralysed? Then realised I had put them on back to front.

Morning Glory

They have been out every day and in at night; I think I treat them the same as tomatoes - it is going to have to be pretty warm before I let either go 'clubbing' i.e. staying out all night.

Verdun, I will do serious research with pinching out some but not others

Spring sweethearts

happy marion, it all looks wonderful.

Her are a few of my pics

 The first rose of summer

 A broom that always looks like fireworks when it is in flower

 Veg bed, starting to look as if there will be vegetables!

Morning Glory

I read somewhere that Cosmos should be pinched out; I didn't last year and they were tall and spindly. Am hoping they will be bushier this time.

Morning Glory

Make do and mend

Chelsea 'Bud' Show?

Compost course

Aaargh! the design of seed packets!

2 plants for large pot

emails about threads

Flowers we don't like?

Cheap seeds

Sick gardenia

What we are doing this week

The Year of the Slug

All I want for Christmas is...

I simply don't believe it

Wallflowers and roses