First I put a large cardboard down on patio so nothing is wasted and I can collect everything at the end.
@kate.james58 I do the same but with an old kids’ plastic splash mat. It always annoys me when bits of compost inevitably fall around everywhere. I use a large trug — nice idea with the two-trug method @Emptyheadtime!
Some horticultural grit mixed in with the compost to help with drainage is also useful. Enjoy!
Everyone has their own favourite potting mixes don’t they? Mine is different (and probably inferior) because they don’t sell JI3 here. It’s a heaped spadeful of manure, some clay garden soil and a small bag of worm compost mixed into a 50L bag of ericaceous compost. I don’t use grit, my challenge is keeping pots moist enough - I need the opposite of fast drainage! Ericaceous happens to be is the best compost available locally, but it also helps buffer the alkalinity of my soil and hard well water.
I’m still getting a few blooms popping up..
William Shakespeare 2000:
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Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I have just ordered my roses from Lens to be sent to my French home after I get back from England. The last four and one of the Blush Noisette are for my daughter for Christmas. Lens have been so friendly and helpful and most of the website was in English - unless that was because the computer translated it. I was able to talk on the phone in English too. I would have liked Guirlande d'Amour too but in all the photos I saw of it it looked huge and bushy. Gone for Iceberg instead, which we have at OH's cottage in Norfolk. They call it Schneewittchen. No Darcey Bussell left so I chose Alfred Colomb instead, which I don't know at all, I hope it's a good red one. Four are for a gazebo, one for a rose arch and Narrow Water is for a shady fence. Hermannn Schmidt and Blush Noisette are impulse buys, I'll have to find somewhere!
SUMMARY OF THE ORDER
Products
Quantity
VAT Incl.
Strawberry Hill
1.0
16.29 €
Open Arms
1.0
15.15 €
Hermann Schmidt
1.0
15.15 €
Chevy Chase
1.0
15.15 €
Schneewittchen, clg.
1.0
12.97 €
Alfred Colomb
1.0
15.15 €
Narrow Water
1.0
15.15 €
Blush Noisette
2.0
12.56 €
The Albrighton Rambler
1.0
16.29 €
Alister Stella Gray
1.0
15.15 €
Super Dorothy
1.0
15.15 €
Seagull
1.0
12.97 €
Gabriel Oak
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Some horticultural grit mixed in with the compost to help with drainage is also useful. Enjoy!
William Shakespeare 2000:
Stormy Weather:
SUMMARY OF THE ORDER
o/t I've just potted up my Tulips.. just 4 varieties this year..
'White Triumphator'.. 'Chansonette'.. 'Schiedam'.. and 'Miskodeed'..
..some 'Thalia' daffs in the larger brown pots, which are already poking through..