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Blackberry harvest
How are everyone's blackberry harvests going? I live in east england and it was exceptionally dry in spring. I kept up watering my mature blackberry (approx 12 years) but there wasn't as much new growth as I usually get. Usually I take all the dead leaves and wood out late winter and it goes from bare bones to an explosion…
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Geum
I am at last starting to get the alkanet under control. The garden is now being colonised by what the plant identifier app says is geum macrophyllum, but which I suspect is native wood avens. Either way there is a fair bit of it. Invasive and worrying or nothing to bother about?
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What is wrong with my roses?
Can anyone please tell me what is wrong with my roses? As the new foliage comes through there is a distinct lack of chlorophyll. The leaves are blotchy and pale yellow , some are patchy red. They are not burned by chemical overspray/ drift nor watered in bright sunlight so I think the problem is systemic and not a…
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Pruning a Hebe
Experience has taught me that you can't beat other people's experience when it comes to pruning. I live in Fife and my Hebe has become a bit overgrown due to not pruning it last year, how far back can I cut it this year so that it will still come again next year? I am worried that if I take it back too far I will not get…
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Chiggers Outdoors mites
How do you get rid of Chiggers in a new vegatable bed? It is driving me mad. They bite and you don't reaslise untill next day. Thank You
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Raised Vegetable Planter help
HiJust before lockdown we built two raised vegetable patches with decking boards and we are mighty pleased with it.Now we plan to make 5 more of them and would need at least 40 decking boards.Which is the best place to buy them cheap.B&Q is asking for £30 for delivery.Wickes hasnt got an stock.We live in Berkshire.Many…
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Grape vines..?
A big ask, I realise, but does anyone have any experience with dessert grape vines? I have a pergola/trellis situation and the thought struck me that it might be possible to grow a vine over it, maybe in combination with clematis/wisteria. Apart from the minor point that they aren't available from the garden centres and…
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Bug problem! Help needed
Hi, 2 days ago we noticed on our window sill and back door (both at the back of the house) they were covered in tiny black bugs (they are very small so I apologise if the image is no good!) Does anyone have any ideas on what they are/how to get rid of them? We keep washing them away even used bleech but they come back with…
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Pruning Silver Birch and Bay Leaf Tree
HI I looking to see how much it would cost to have a silver birch and a bay leaf tree trimmed and shaped. I liver in Bedford and looking for quotes
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Japanese Barberry Question?
I have a couple of these Japanese Barberry plants in the front garden however, every time i google for Information about them i get news about them being banned in the United States for harbouring ticks and being a Lyme Disease risk etc. With recent news about deadly Chinese ticks i'm getting a bit worried if they could…
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Mushrooms
Can anyone identify this mushroom that I found growing in a pot of Salvias? They must've come up overnight as I didn't see them yesterday when I watered the pot.
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Plant identification please
Hi everyone, ive been given this plant can anyone identify it for me. Big thanks in advance for your help.
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Hydrangea advice please
Almost on impulse I've bought a couple of very nice, 2ft high hydrangea plants in pots. Deep blue 'mophead' variety. I need some colour in my garden to extend beyond August so they certainly fit the bill. Now comes the difficult bit! I'm now floundering, trying to decide whether to put them straight into the borders or…
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Link a board
Hi, This may have an old thread but I want to get a high raised bed to grow vegetables without breaking my back 50/60cm high. I was thinking of treated wood or decking but then saw link a board. Has anyone tried them? What are the pros and cons?
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Salix Helvetica
Do any experienced gardeners grow this in their gardens ? I have a question regarding its habit once pruned - i've had mine in the ground for 4 years, it's under a metre tall and i want to keep it that way, it grows perfectly, is a prized specimen and on the 2 occasions i've pruned it the same stem has died entirely back.…
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Aronia berries
Can't figure out the reason for the fact that my aronia bush produced loads of berries last year and literally every single one vanished just as they got ripe and I couldnt get any for myself to eat. This year - same bush/same garden - and loads of berries again and they're ripe again - and literally not one single one…
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Blackberry leaves
I have a recently planted Merton thornless blackberry which has settled well except there is some mottling of the leaves. Having googled this I'm quite worried as some diseases would necessitate the destruction of the plant. I'll see if I can post a close up of a couple of stems that I've removed. Thanks
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Portuguese Laurel experts needed.
Hi, Bought a new house. The landscapers planted some Portuguese Laurel at the front of my house which are now about 2 to 3 feet high, but didn't plant anything to hedge off my rear garden.....They have planted the Portuguese Laurel about 30cm apart. I have a small 2 or 3 metre section of garden where I'd like to put a row…
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Pest, disease, too dry or just one of those things
3 years ago I brought some Gaillardia Arizona as tray plants - Used in various beds they have been excellent, flowering March to October ( when I cut them back ) they seem to be pest free, the bees love them and there is usually over a bucket a week in deadheads - But every year, usually from July onward, bits of some…
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Another Leylandii problem!!
Have had to get the tree people in to deal with a neighbour's line of Leylandii hedging whose branches were overshadowing the back of my garden. Have had the thing cut right back to the boundary but this has left me with a multitude of quite large cut branch surfaces which looks unappealing. Very starkly white against the…
