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, scented, white-flowered daffs with dark red, jagged centres. I planted them in a large terracotta pot, next to a few pots of 'Minnow' - a dwarf, creamy-flowered variety with contrasting yellow centres.Both varieties are quite late flowering in April

? Pots need regular watering as rain is not enough to water them. keeping the soil moist  but still no sign of flowers and the leaves are still turning yellow

Over the last couple of months I've bought a few perennials geraniums ( I think). They are doing well, and have flowers. I have noticed though that that some of their leaves are turning a yellow/red colour. The first one I bought, a Geranium

The v   erges and middle of the roads in Btistol are full of daffodils but the Bot. Garden offers something different.  Here is a beautiful red Passion Flower and the flower on one of their species of banana..  Happy Easter everyone. They look fab

Summer prune apple trees To give yourself the biggest apple crops from established trees, it's time to tackle summer pruning of spur-fruiting varieties. This encourages the development of short flowering shoots or 'spurs' that go on to bear clusters

flowers. Bunny, I prune now varieties like Gold flame, Anthony waterer etc......the small shrubby ones....right down to the ground now. Actually mine are always done in autumn. Then again after flowering. However, on the yellow/orange foliage ones I do

, wallflowers, some forms of achillea,  alstroemaria, hemerocallis, kniphofia, euphorbia................ I recently bought a beautiful scented orange flowered azalea, to go with the yellow one I already have. My small garden will be full of scent in May when

Hello there, I am planning on getting married this September and would like to grow my own flowers particularly the table flowers and possibly my bouqet. I have a flower bed which is 4 foot by 10 foot which I need to start planning in. Has anyone

it is unlucky in that its flowering coincides with the flowering of daffodils and by that time I have had enough of yellow.I adore tulips. The photograph above, by the way, is of a species of tulip called tarda and is there, not because it is ugly but because

and their exuberance. By 'big' I mean something that dwarfs its neighbours and reaches at least 2m high. I have five such plants in my garden.The first is Inula magnifica. I can see the cheerful, shaggy yellow flowers from my office and they never cease to amuse me