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Can't garden so reading the books

I get muddled if I have more than one novel on the go.

Talkback: Growing hellebores from seed

Not now Bunny, I let them do it themselves. Once I realised they were so willing I just let them get on with it.

Talkback: Growing hellebores from seed

Lots of pricking out to do soon Woo.

Knowledge will come with experience, I've still got a long way to go. 

There's a lot of experience on this site. I took lessons in taking cuttings when I first came.  Never had a lot of luck there. I shall soon know if the lessons worked. All the cuttings are lined up out there, in and out of the cold greenhouse according to the weather. 

Enthusiasm will get you a long way

Pruning a beech hedge

I think this would be more like winter pruning of deciduous shrubs than hedging. I'd do it after this cold snap has finished

Spring Bulbs

Let the leaves die back naturally Emma. Some people take the dead flower heads off to stop them wasting energy making seeds but I don't. 

Growing Lavender from seed

I could have planted them last year but didn't get round to it. They're about 4" high and quite bushy. Glad I didn't plant them, they wouldn't have liked all that wet then cold. I've put the pots in the cold greenhouse through the worst of the wet and cold. They've been in and out several times since October.

change soil?

Hi

Cat poo is unpleasant for us but won't hurt the soil, there's always something sh...ing in the garden, that's nature. Weeds need digging out if they're invasive perennials or digging in otherwise. 

What are you going to grow?

Growing Lavender from seed

Hi Ryan, welcome

Just had a look at my records and I sowed Lavandula angustifolia in March last year. But that was a different sort of March. I'd wait til it gets warmer. Sow them in seed compost with a bit of extra grit mixed in and some grit over the seeds. water them, not a flood. I use those unheated propagators. They keep the moisture in. The grit on top keeps the moisture in as well. I don't use any extra heat, all seeds are in a cold frame or the cold greenhouse.

Hope this helps. I have failed with lavender seeds sometimes without knowing why. Last year's were successful though.

Seeds are up

I've been saying 'it can't stay this cold much longer' for weeks now Dove. I haven't done any of my spring sowing yet

Californian Lilac

They go pretty well in alkaline soil as well.

The map

Toms in the cold GH

wild cherry, what's up with it

deep pink epimedium

moderator

Aquilegia discolor

When will I learn?

Does anyone recognise this

What have I got here?

iris unguicularis

seed swap mark 2

good effect of a wet summer

Aldi garden stuff

daffs gone blind

Can't garden so reading the books