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Post by Cherry on Mar 24, 2011 8:12:51 GMT
Just catching up with all the gardening news. Poly, Jerusalem Artichokes might not be the right choice for someone who is running out of space. That sounds a ridiculous price for Clematis Armandii. I have a cutting coming on, but although rooted, it is slow to get going.
Grindle, your aunty must enjoy your garden and she knows the plants are in a safe pair of hands.
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Post by Geranium on Mar 24, 2011 8:48:03 GMT
Would anyone actually pay such a huge sum for that Clematis? Crazy.
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Post by SueA on Mar 24, 2011 15:34:26 GMT
I got a free (well for just p&p £5.50) David Austin 'Harlow Carr' rose in the post this morning via an offer in G.N. mag. so I soaked it in a bucket of water & have now planted it out giving it a mixture of bought & homemade compost, blood, fish & bone & 'Root grow' fungus (do you think that's enough to get it started! ;D). I've put it in the large container that had my cordyline in for years. The cordyline all but died last year in the bad winter but sprouted from the base but this year the 'sprout' has died too & when I managed to get it all out of the pot it had rotted completely straight down the tap root too. Never mind, hopefully I'll have a lovely new rose flowering there soon!
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Post by SueA on Mar 24, 2011 15:41:36 GMT
and a tree (right at the back by the fence so it gets maximum light there). It's a fastigiate Prunus - 'Amanogawa'. I had to drive home from the Nursery with the car roof off and the tree wavng about in the breeze! ;D I bought a prunus 'Amanogawa' about 25 years ago Geranium, it's still going strong ( now I've said that it'll pop it's clogs!) & is about 25ft tall as well, it does send up odd suckers though, there's one now which is the only thing on it with blossom on at the moment so I'm sure it must be from the rootstock but it looks pretty so I've left it. It's a great tree, used to suffer from blackfly a lot but I think the birds pick most of them off now.
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Post by floydie on Mar 24, 2011 17:48:38 GMT
I moved a climbing rose that was trying to climb into the hedge, planted a few sweet peas, chopped back yet more dead shrubs.
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Post by Geranium on Mar 24, 2011 19:02:07 GMT
and a tree (right at the back by the fence so it gets maximum light there). It's a fastigiate Prunus - 'Amanogawa'. I had to drive home from the Nursery with the car roof off and the tree wavng about in the breeze! ;D I bought a prunus 'Amanogawa' about 25 years ago Geranium, it's still going strong ( now I've said that it'll pop it's clogs!) & is about 25ft tall as well, it does send up odd suckers though, there's one now which is the only thing on it with blossom on at the moment so I'm sure it must be from the rootstock but it looks pretty so I've left it. It's a great tree, used to suffer from blackfly a lot but I think the birds pick most of them off now. When our children were born, we planted a tree for each of them. Our son had a magnolia and our daughter's tree was P. 'Amanogawa', Sue. We left them behind when we moved here, and I don't know if they're still in the garden in Kent. I don't suppose they are, though. I was very fond of this tree, so when I had a suitable space, that was the reason for planting it.
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Post by Geranium on Mar 24, 2011 19:11:03 GMT
I've been crawling around under the weeping pear tree, weeding and clearing dead leaves. The brambles have come over from the farm field and some had rooted, so I had a really difficult task digging them out, chopping them off and back as far as possible. I also traced back bindweed roots as carefully as I could - in the hope that it won't be so bad up there this year. Needless to say - more Lamium g. got dug up!
I potted up some plug plants that came from Dobies - three Verbascums and three of the new garvinea Gerberas.
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Post by esther on Mar 24, 2011 19:21:30 GMT
All I managed to do today was to pot up 54 Illumination Begonias 'Apricot Shades ' that arrivede this morning
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Post by Geranium on Mar 24, 2011 19:48:21 GMT
I should think that was enough anyway!
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Post by poly on Mar 24, 2011 22:37:16 GMT
Running out of space in Green house Cherry the artichokes are for the allotment theres plenty of space there at least for now. wanted to do more in the GH today but had to take my dad for a hosp appointment, he was supposed to go in at 3.15pm finally saw the Dr at 4.40pm for 5 mins only to be discharged. So I missed most of the afternoon as I had to make sure he was ready and get him there on time! did buy 6 strawberry plants for £2.99 and a Blue berry bush for £3.99 from aldi and had a conversation with a lady about strawberries who also has an allotment but not at my site (what a socialable bunch we gardeners are )
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Post by grindle on Mar 25, 2011 5:24:37 GMT
was working in the morning but got my mums begonias potted up and watered the greenhouse,
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Post by Cherry on Mar 25, 2011 8:24:05 GMT
I see Poly. In that case you will know that artichokes are hard to get rid of, but are quite a pretty crop. I am not very fond of them, yet I love all other vegetables.
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Post by Rosie on Mar 25, 2011 10:11:39 GMT
I got the rest of the turf off the island bed, which wasn't being very sensible, today it will be all easy light jobs
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Post by esther on Mar 25, 2011 12:26:32 GMT
Take care Rosie I thoroughly watered everything this morning and pricked out 30 Schizanthus Then I did the shift and move everything around in the greenhouses shuffle ;D
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Post by peony on Mar 25, 2011 15:24:19 GMT
Finished scarifying the lawn this afternoon, started reorganising the greenhouse ready for when the plug plants arrive. Watered all my recently planted perennials and shrubs. We haven't had any rain for 3 weeks now, one water butt completely empty already.
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