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the weather. I've already had their  first show and they are really bushy.   yes Kate I did the same thing in the end - which sort of cancelled out the economising of the seed growing! My garden centre were selling things like begonias usually $3.99 for £1

-found some !! http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/the-potting-shed/garden-gallery/2650-12.html about half-way down Thank you. What a treat that link is, especially at this time of year. I love dahlias too and those red begonias are a superb colour. I like

Begonia semperfloruns - red,white pink and readily available as plugs to grow on Verbena - many colours readily available as plugs Ageratum - blue dwarf varieties available as plugs  small flowered Petunias - all sorts of colours available as plugs

friend tried ordering the Begonia pack for baskets and was told they were out of stock! In March? When are they going to be in stock-June.The mind boggles, as long as we keep ordering them ,they will keep on coning us. Busy-Lizzie wrote (see) I've never

for a long time. I ordered some trailing begonias from T&M in April. The order confirmation told me they would be dispatched by end of May. It's now 8 June and their latest dispatch estimate is "a couple of weeks due to weather". I had always believed

to relive the pain on this blog! Kate I was carrying a too heavy tub down the garden path, tripped hitting my ribs on the pot and cracking bone in my wrist.Dropped a log on my toe and broke it.Deadheading a begonia-did not see wasp on it-it stung my hand

weather keep thinking they are 'water lillies', my begonias that always give great display of summer colour and would normally be pushing up flower buds now are looking drowned and new bulbs put into pots over a month ago are just starting to push through

desecrating....with a clear conscious....sort of!!  ps guess what ive just caught sight o Mice have eaten the sweetpea seedlings and begonias tips in the greenhouse plus the peas and beans in the raised beds. I have baited several traps but the woodmice are so

/shrubs but in the gloom of the current recession there is nothing nicer than the brashness the annuals promise to provide...gladenning even the hardest of hearts. I love annuals, I regularly have Sweetpeas, poppy's, begonia's, Busy Lizzies, this year I am even trying

the idea of a paving slab dinner plate. Kate I decided it was time to take in my potted begonias and when I did this I found there were no corms on the stems as they were been demolished by vine weevel grubs. I binned the plants and poured two kettles