Auntiemand

tulips losing their heads

Do you have any cats in the garden?   One of my neighbours cats has a penchant for tulips.   She doesn't eat them, just chews the stems, about two inches under the flower.   Not always does she chew right through so I often come home to pots of tulips with heads hanging by a thread.   Other times the blooms are in the bottom of a pot.  Both my neighbour and I have caught the minx a it.

I'm warned every year and neighbour raises her puts so they are pretty much out of reach.   I try to cover adjacent pots so the cat can't sit and nibble but she will sit in mt night phlox, alyssium or even campanulas to reach.   

She's had red, white, pink angelique and yellow so far this year.

Not sure it's a common problem but if it's not birds?

Senetti

Sorry I've not repied before.

Hi Stoorty

At the end of the season I simply took cuttings of shoots with no flowers / buds.   Deleafed and shortened.   Stuck them round the edge of a pot and popped them in my utility room.   Last year i managed to take two into the summer, this year 4 have survived over winter.   The ones I lost were either because they just didn't root or got some mildew.   They were actually in the same pots as my geranium and lobelia cuttings.   I try all sorts (I have about 30 ox eye daisies that I didnt thing would take, but they have), some work some don't but you never know til you give it a go.

Sorry my reply wasn't cleverer!

Scent in summer

artjak wrote (see)

nutcutlet, the scent I don't like is box; it smell like tom cats! Am not too keen on choisyia(?) either. But the scents I really can't stand tend to be some rather expensive perfumes, which just smell like noxious chemicals to me. I better not name the worst, I might get sued!

There is a flower scent that bowled me over as a child, I have been searching for it ever since; it looked a bit like a Japanese Anemone as far as I can remember, the scent was: cucumbers and lemon with a hint of nostalgia and slight melancholy.

Might the plant you are searching for be Romneya?

I adore the scent tho only have flowers for a few weeks a year; still a favourite.

Senetti

I took cuttings of mine last year and managed to keep two plants.  They are doing really well.   Watch out for mildew though, I lost 4 plants to that.

crispy black edges to some of my plants' new leaves

Sorry to have disrupted the thread.

crispy black edges to some of my plants' new leaves

I haven't got crispy black edges but my bay tree (bush) has the worse case of sooty mould I've ever seen.   It was fine last year, bit of scale insect but not a major problem.   This year, looks like it's been down the pit!   So I chopped the tops off yesterday, left the three main stems with two sprouting leaf nodes each.   So now it has two chances!

Triffid identification please!

Cardoon possibly.

Poorly Rose

Might be blackspot.   Is the mottling dark?

My patio rose suffers terribly from it but with a good feed, and always picking affected leaves off, survives and flowers well every year.

seeds not germinated

Where are you Debbie?

If anywhere near Kent, cheltenham, Norwich, I have morning glory seedlings and aquilegia coming out of my ears.   Happy to pass on.

Is there a PM facility on here?

Autumn sown sweet peas

I planted seeds outdoors in October and have my first picking this week.   Plants are very vigorous and healthy.

Spring sown are still way behind.

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At wits end with carrots and slugs