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-3m during the summer.I still love patio favourites like petunia, verbena, pelargonium and fuchsia, but am always on the lookout for something new. New Guinea impatiens have become a favourite for shade, and I always choose a selection of foliage

Shade can be a nightmare if your heart is set on growing summer bedding, fruit and veg, or Mediterranean plants, which need direct sun to flourish. But there are plenty of beautiful plants which thrive in shady conditions.Many people imagine

to pin the b'wrap to. I use an elect. fan heater with thermostat and the cost is is kept to a bearable level. My greenhouse if full to bursting with cacti, pelargoniums - both zonal and regal - fuchsias and other frost tender plants, plus quite a lot

Answer to Penny,My students absolutely love growing vegetables, but they like to take responsibility for their own plants (ie, these broad beans were planted by William and Jacob and so they are the ones to tie them in and pick them). Ownership

. It is not the plants that are at fault but how we grow them and, as you say, how environmentally unfriendly we are in producing them. Happymarion - I actually have a real soft spot for pelargoniums as my granny used to grow them in large pots in the porch where she

what I was driving at, however if you are set on it, how about pieces on the names behind Paeonia "Scarlet O'Hara", Papaver "Miss Piggy", Clematis "Wee Willie Winkie", Dahlia "Spartacus" and Pelargonium "Ipswich Town".Come on the Tractor Boys

good idea for you at the moment, but what about some windowsill gardening?  You could  buy a pelargonium and take some  cuttings, or cultivate an enthusiasm for cacti, or sow some coleus seeds and pot them on and grow loads and loads of them

is aphids and have had very littel success in controlling them, would be grateful for any help on this matter I've been growing many chilies for the last five years or so, only last year I tried overwintering them (I wanted to experiment). I brought them

and I am not too sure about it. My soil is clay and during the summer months we can have droughts. Would I be best to grow this in a pot? And would it flourish there? Hello, Roly. Ceanothus (Californian Lilac) love sun and well-drained soil