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of the following would be a good choice -:Cactus Joe-Windflower, Kell-ColumbineJules, jewel-Creeping PhloxConnie_W-Ruby GrassKovatis-Silky Thread GrassStevenova-Feather GrassGabriella-Northern Sea, OatsLadyanne-HeliotropeQCHammy-Kangaroo PawGrowin-Zebra Grass

the end of the 2012 growing season. The reason I’m flustered is that there’s so much still to do, and the most urgent job is to bring any tender plants that are still outside under cover before they’re damaged.I have a lovely selection of tender succulents

and nectarines also stay in the ground year after year without any harm coming to them. Yes,gaslest, many alpines are succulents. They have evolved that way to conserve moisture which is unavailable to them when it is frozen as ice or snow, but they do contain

turn black (as in peace lilies) or plants may turn soft and rot (cacti, succulents, orchids). If you suspect you’ve been too generous, stop watering completely until the compost dries out. Badly affected plants may not survive so take cuttings from any

20 different varieties in assorted colours, with single, semi double and cactus flowers, some grown from seed, my latest love being Twyning's After Eight another dark leaved beauty with white flowers. I'm sorry James, but I just don't like the big

how to look after the half dozen I've kept. Anyone grown these in the UK and with what success? Hi. Well done.  A couple of years ago I managed to germinate 4.  The strongest one I potted into cactus compost.  After a few months it was obviously

. Pyracantha instead of honeysuckle, cactus instead of Busy Lizzies.  Do not make it easy for them.  There are lots of beautiful plants that have to be handled with care and planted wearing gardening gloves.  The odd label with "Poisonous in all parts " might

again.     I also have seven pieces of trunk stuck in pots of compost/cactus compost, which I am hoping will also root and make new plants.    Has anyone had any success with doing this?     Any idea how long it will take before I see green?  Thanks

to feed on Fallopia. The hope is that it will have the same effect here, controlling Fallopia, as the Mexican moth Cactoblastis had when it was deliberately introduced to Australia to combat the insidious weed spread of prickly pear cactus, originally from

instead of a lovely succulent crop. I know that this isn't quite the same thing but this Summer I'd some small (fingernail size and smaller), white.....looked like cotton wool, on the joints of branches and knotches of our 'Japanese acer', which is in a