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Hi All! Like many others I stored spring and summer bulbs in a container in the garden and they've nearly all bolted including tulip, hyacinths, fritillaria rubra - I got them out yesterday to start planting and although they smell pretty bad

you Lyon I wouldn't for the summer months when the tree needs water-but would grow spring flowering bulbs to come up from now onwards-these take little from the soil and die back by June. Yes Geoff did consider bulbs, thanks sotongeoff wrote (see

Winter prune wisteria Vigorous wisteria needs pruning twice a year if it is to flower well. Cut back all the long whippy growth that has been made during the summer and prune again in July to encourage the development of flowering spurs.Tidy up

please can any body tell me me about this little plant i was given these little bulbs and what loverly flowers they were but they have come to the end now and SLUGS have just finished them off but i dont no what to do with them now ,do i leave them

with bulbs that'll be coming up late Summer/Autumn. Can I plant these now, before I sow my meadow seed, or is it too early? Other than autumn flowering, self-naturaling cyclamens, I have no clue about other autumn flowering bulbs, so any input is very welcome

. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Sorry -it means when planting you plant them as bulbs with leaves attached after they have flowered -you will see them as advertised as "in the green" from February onwards They do better than dried bulbs panted in September But the best way

Did a bit of tidying up today as it had finally stopped raining enough for me to get in and clear the beds. Noticed that a summer flowering clematis has already started to sprout new growth, my Japanese irises are starting to throw up green shoots

gardeners, or buy them cheaply from open gardens. Japanese anemones are an example. There are bulbs that flower in summer, as well as spring bulbs, and these will usually increase every yeat, such as crocosmias. I grew buddleia from seed, too. They root

, the green stuff that grows on top of the bulb Hi all, the scape is the curly shoot of the galic plant that is thicker than the leaves and if not cut off forms a flower.when you cut the scape off you send the energy to the bulb and get bigger garlic.Ta debra

, which you can then add to for Summer interest too? You could try some of these http://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/fritillaria-meleagris/3583.html Snake head fritillary bulbs, maybe mixed with a cyclamen or 2...to add some staggered height, then perhaps