The problem with doing by the book is that I'm not aware of any plant which can read. I've put plants in supposedly their ideal location and they have failed and I've put plants in places they are supposed to hate and they've thrived.
It doesn't help when some " older " TV gardeners give out information which is about 20 years or more out of date.
Not just older ones on TV, in the magazines too, they still trot out the old mis information. The one that gets me most is you can only cut or prune Acers in the dead of winter. Try telling that to the Japanese.
I'm not doubting you, just wondering what gems you've heard lately.
The one about agapanthus needing to be in overcrowded pots to flower never seems to go away
and only recently plants were being shoved straight into holes without any root teasing.
" plant your reoses with the graft slightly above the soil level" was still being said up to a couple of years back. I started work in a garden centre in 1979 and that was " old hat " even back then.
I can't believe it's September already. I haven't started on some of my New Year resolutions yet.
Many of the shops here have Halloween stuff in. That's bad enough, but some also have shelves full of stuff which aren't relevant until almost 2 months after that.
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I'm not doubting you, just wondering what gems you've heard lately.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
" plant your reoses with the graft slightly above the soil level" was still being said up to a couple of years back. I started work in a garden centre in 1979 and that was " old hat " even back then.
Many of the shops here have Halloween stuff in. That's bad enough, but some also have shelves full of stuff which aren't relevant until almost 2 months after that.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.