yes i am kate,[on the tuesday] i do go each year but im really looking forward this year as ive saved loads to spend there this time and im gonna have great fun spending it 'cant wait'....
happymarion....sorry got my days wrong i did manage to watch that programme last night and i thought it was very interesting its also on next week... your garden/and yourselve really does sound lovely. will you be showing your master piece when completed?
Sarah's pondlife - I'll be at Gardeners' World Live for three days next week though, so if you're there it would be great if you came and said hi (although I don't really look like my photo...)
How lucky you all are ato be able to visit all these lovely garden shows. Here the only one worthy of mention is in a small village called Milis and ten miles from where I live and it's held in March, but being so early in the year the weather is a problem - last year it was cold and half the exhibitors from mainland Italy didn't comeasa their plants were still all asleep; this year it rained like hell and we couldn't enjoy it to the full, though I did get a couple of interesting Heucheras to add to my original one, found growing on the thatched roof of a derelict cottage, now pulled down in a tiny hamlet 1000 metres up in the Portuguese mountains (my daughter lives there) - now for those with a garden in the shade heucheras are great
Hi, does anyone know why leaves on plants go yellow? I've planted some livingstone daisies...{sorry, can't spell the latin name! lol!} and I have noticed that some of the leaves are going yellow! {I usually pick them off!} I was wondering if I should be feeding them...and if so, with what?
Millie, your livingstone daisies should be fine if they are planted in full sun in sandy soil. They do not need feeding. Pick off any dead flowers and yellow leaves and you should have flowers right through the summer whenever the sun is out - they shut up when it is cloudy. As for the Latin name, that is one of the best. If you have a friend named Dorothea or Dorothy you should be able to remember it - Dorotheanthus bellidiformis. The second word means it has a beautiful form and I must admit it has. I prefer this name to the "mesembryanthemum" it used to be called which was too much like chrysanthemum.
Thanks once again "Happymaron" 4 the advise! The daisies have been lovely when the sun has been out...such beautiful colours...tho shame it is raining 2 day! {oh well, there is always 2moro! lol!}
hi could someone give me some advice please; my 1st question is, what can i plant in a very very dark shade area [very small area],under a pergola thats covered in wisteria,i just want to pretty up a dark corner. 2nd question is, i am thinking of planting a green hedge up again a wooden fence, the only thing i can think of that grows fast is .....leylandi....and is everygreen. but really i wanted something that the birds can feed on in winter time and its fast growing low maintanace and pos everygreen plus doesnt need loads of water !!!!!!!!!!!! any ideas people.x
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happymarion....sorry got my days wrong i did manage to watch that programme last night and i thought it was very interesting its also on next week...
your garden/and yourselve really does sound lovely.
will you be showing your master piece when completed?
my 1st question is,
what can i plant in a very very dark shade area [very small area],under a pergola thats covered in wisteria,i just want to pretty up a dark corner.
2nd question is,
i am thinking of planting a green hedge up again a wooden fence,
the only thing i can think of that grows fast is .....leylandi....and is everygreen.
but really i wanted something that the birds can feed on in winter time and its fast growing low maintanace and pos everygreen plus doesnt need loads of water !!!!!!!!!!!!
any ideas people.x
happymarion does laurel grow quick and is it easy to buy from garden centres?? plus will wildlife like it in winter and does it need clipping a lot?