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Can you please tel me what could i plant in my garden this time of the year August for the Spring? I have grown Sweet Peas in my conservatory is it ok to plant them outside they are beginning to flower?
have two trailing begonias in a container one orange and one white the orange is perfectly healthy but the blooms on the white one are discoloured and very unhealthy looking they are also falling of before fully formed,the foliage is healthy.
now that the lilies are more or less finished for the year, whats the best way to propogate them? are the scales pulled off and put into a bag of moss peat and allowed to sprout shoots?
About 2 years ago we constructed a new garden bedIn Autumn and Spring over the last 2 years we have saturated the bed with all kinds of perennial bulbs mostly purchased at Lidyl and Dunnes Stores.Now I am suspicious but not 100% sure that a significant number of the summer perennials that came out last year havent appeared this summer (even though it has been a slightly sunnier summer). I am thinking that only the additional summer perennials that were planted this spring are only appearing with last years summer perennial bulbs not appearing at all!All we did with last years summer flowers that grewwas cut back the stems in the autumn as they rotted.Can you advise or help me with why last years perennials bulb flowers may not reappear this summer yet?I am also wondering what are the best multicoloured,durable summer and spring perennial flowers recommended to last through the spring and summer and come out every year.We find that the perennials (with exception of gladolias) dont last too long and are not multicoloured with lovely blues, purples etc like the bedded plants. Can you advise here also?Finally finally whats the best spray in big quantityfor rose attack and flower attack and the best killerfor dogleaves, weeds etc in lawns? We tried A d50substance spray in the lawn, half killed the dogleaves but not fully.
I have lots of lillies in pots and in the ground. They have largely stopped flowering by now and I am wondering if I should let the stalks die back naturally or cut the stalks. Would appreciate your advice
there is someting making a hole in the ground the size of golfball.Its eating the inside of the tulip bulbs but leaving the outside cover.I dont know what it is or what to do?
Very new to gardening and dont know what i am doing ,i have very tall tulips in pots and dont know what to do with them now .they kinda look as if they are coming to the end of their time .do i just throw them out and fill pots with somehing else , i hate to do that as i got such joy from growing them....please help gerry as i am so new to working in the garden but would love to make a go of it .
I bought these bulbs last minute long after they should have been planted..not sure if they are golden ducat- I think golden ducat is all the same colour.
Hi Gerry, I would like to know what are the best flowers to plants in a housing estate (general area) whcih look good, are inexpensive and need minimum care (if such a perfect plants exists!!). I love the spring bulbs of daffs and tulips but is there an equivalent for summer? Many Thanks
Help this wild garlic is taking over my front garden and I spotted some in my back garden.Many Thanks, Carol Richardson.
I have Anemone seeds that I bought for AWARE's Daisy days campaign at least a year of not two years ago. Would they still be okay to plant now, and if so how do I go about it? I have very very little gardening experience but I am setting about changing this!.
Hi Gerry, At least ten, maybe more years ago I planted some alliums in a bed in my garden. A year or so later I decided to get rid of them. However they will not go away and have spread all over the garden. Every year since then, at this time of the year I remove hundreds of them, being very careful to remove the little bulbs as well, and am always always on the lookout for any bulbs I might have left behind Is there anything I can do to get rid of them once and for all? Many thanks Regards Kay
Hi Gerry, My garden is very overgrown but I need to do some work which involves using a mini-digger and (unfortunately) weedkiller. The problem is that lots of old bulbs-daffodils, crocuses and clumps of the most beautiful bluebells have survived the years of neglect. The crocuses and daffs are now in flower and the bluebells will be soon, but I really need to get the work done. Can I transplant the bulbs and the bluebells into pots and replant them after the groundworks are done? I would hate to lose the bluebells, as the garden was once on the edge of woodland and I would like to return it to what it once was. I am a complete novice. Thanks a million.
Hi Gerry, at the moment I am preping bed for dahlia bulbs.I have weeds with very long roots and runners. Can you recomment a weed killer that I can use AND will still be safe to plant dahlia bulbs in mid March ? Thanks .
Gerry, I want to move daffodils which are in the wrong place but not now as I d'ont want to damage any other plants which I can't see yet(Dahlia,Hosta, etc.)Can I transplant just before they die down in late spring?
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