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Greenhouse query

On 15/05/2013 in forum

. If they are half hardy annuals you should be able to put them in the greenhouse to keep the frost off, but what temperatures are you getting at night? Is it below zero? Shazzy , please tell us what perennials they are.  The plugs should be potted up.   The large


Seed Club - early seed sowing

On 26/02/2013 in Gardeners' musings

. I adore its natural-looking, delicate flowers. They appear to dance and flutter in the breeze like little white butterflies. The half-hardy perennials from the Fast Flowers collection, including nicotiana, clarkia and antirrhinum, all appreciate a


Growing seeds

On 08/02/2013 in forum

lot of hardy perennials from seed they do not need heat-but will probably take 12/18 months to flower The biennials -like wallflower sweet williams etc can be sown outside in April-will flower in 12 months It is the half /hardies that are trickier


Pots of summer colour in partial shade

On 23/02/2013 in forum

I haven't got around to the planned big tree chop this autumn/winter AGAIN so was hoping for some help with getting some summer colour in the shady bit of my garden - it needs to flower for ages - perhaps something tender or half-hardy


Identify plant

On 26/06/2012 in forum

  ever flowering wallflower. or as it is orange and scented more likely siberian wallfower.. they are gorgeous and very scented..  and half hardy.. keep protected ove rwinter and it will survive.. you can get seeds from that but all otehr erysimum


Exotic colour in April

On 27/04/2009 in Plants

it is. These bold golden bells have an exotic feel, developing in tight clumps close to shoot tips, and flowering for 4-6 weeks through the second half of April into May.S. 'Sun King' is a reasonably hardy evergreen shrub, and mine has reached about 3m


Novice Gardener needs help

On 23/03/2012 in forum

Hi, there are so many plants out there that I am getting very very confused .............perennial - hardy -half-hardy etc etc etc.........I just need plants that will come year after year - look nice and stay healthy without much maintenence as I


greenhouse vs coldframe

On 11/08/2012 in forum

goes or the plastic joints break. I won't be growing anything that needs to spend its whole life inside like fussy tomatoes, I'll grow outside types, but I would like to grow some half hardy annuals and hardy annuals and perennials that like a cosy


Mini Greenhouse - door open or closed?

On 29/04/2013 in forum

(ok, rolling it up!)   Thanks for the replies, very much appreciated. The plants are all hardy perennials, 5 each of  - Geum, Delphinium, Foxglove, Echinacea, 2 types Lavender, Penstemon, Scabiosa, Silene, Poppy, Gaillarda and Heuchera - not bad


Snap dragons

On 02/12/2012 in forum

I grew loads of snapdragons from seed this year and they have been one of the star performers of my garden, the bumble bees loved them. I know that most people grow them as annuals but on the packet they are described as half hardy perennials


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