David 25

advice regarding strawberries for newbie

sorry mmp. never saw your post. My strawberry plants outside the front dont appear to have grown at all. is this usual? i thought i may have seen a little growth by now?

advice for newbie

Hi all, thanks for all the suggestions. I have put a clemitis in place of the escolina red carpet and i have moved the plant to the right of the olive tree(i did suggest repotting to my fiancee who was not keen) and made room for another climber in the middle.

I will post pictures hopefully in the summer with the results.

p.s it has just started snowing where i am. will the clemitis in the ground be ok?

thanks

advice for newbie

Lavender query

ok that sounds fine, i thought it may have been something bad. There starting to poke there heads through so i look forward to posting some updates soon.

thanks for the tip.

Lavender query

Hi all

Im growing lavender for my garden, im raising them from seed. Im pleased to say quite a few are starting to germinate. I read somewhere that lavender doesnt grow true from seed. what does this mean?

any tips too to make my lavender sucessful

ta

advice for newbie

Thanks both for your replies.

I believe the cyclamen is an outdoor variety as it was outside in the garden centre when i bought it. If that is true about the winter flowering only I will remove them out of that planter so i can put some summer flowers in there and perhaps move it into another pot waiting for winter again. Is this a good idea and anything i'd need to do look after during this time.

disco dave, I didnt realise that male puppies had sufficent levels of nitrogen to damage plants/grass(thats what this website told me) he likes going out the front garden on my rhoderdendron plant which is a lot more resilient and needs cutting back anyway so im going to encourage him to do that more.

with regards to the red escalonia, I foresee a change, i dont think its right for my border, I want something that grows up generally rather than across the floor like that. any ideas.

the bottom pics are the plants i have in my border already

advice for newbie

 Hi All,

can you please help me with the above.

first pic is a escalonia red carpet, i made the mistake of not planting it dead centre. the branches grow towards the light making my error more obvious as it leaves a large gap between the next plant. also i pruned in autumn and made a right mess. can i salvage this plant?

2nd plant is a hebe, i noticed today the leaves are dying a bit. I can only think perhaps its my pup(male) weeing on it. could it be this and anything I can do to protect my plant?

3rd plant is some flowers(i think a winter one) the plant still seems to be alive but the flowers are dead. is this normal or can i do anything to salvage it?

thanks

basil, chives and parsley

thanks for the advice, i have taken it action on it and will give updates some time soon hoepfully

basil, chives and parsley

 hi all, these are my herbs. what do you think? any tips?

Petunias growing faster than expected

the straw seedlings all have one true leaf each which seem to be getting bigger every day( albeit still very small) the strawb plants outside dont seem to have got any bigger but i dont check them every day.

just a lil' update

good deal on cold frame???

attaching a trellis

Lavender query

advice for newbie

basil, chives and parsley

Growing Lillies in containers

Petunias growing faster than expected

bare patch

how many petunia seeds into a cell insert?

Snow on my new shrubs

advice regarding strawberries for newbie