This is my tatty cobaea taken today. I grew the plants form seed but they didn't start flowering until late autumn. They are still making lots of growth and have sprawled all over the border. There were never many flowers. I've kept one plant in the greenhouse so if it survives the winter I'll plant it out down the bottom of the garden.
Morning, or should it be afternoon?? I'm going to ask my mum if we can go the 'scenic' route to crawley, as there's a gorgeous nursery that I've only been to once and loved it, obviously I won't tell her that until we stumble across it
Star and Panda, where I work at Borde Hill Gardens, they have quite a few champion Magnolias, although I just can't seem to be taken back by them,don't get me wrong, they're lovely plants, but they're a bit boring once their flowers have gone. However, I am partial to a Rowan! Love the cashmeriana one especially.
Clarington - How bigs your pond, i got one of mine through the post a few months ago and it already has equisetum, nymphaea, iris pseudacorus and one other, I forget it's name, but it's looks lovely, just sorting out the marginals as I speak!
2516 litres (2.6 metre x 1.8 metres x .61 metres deep) Ryan, so more than ample for the two little goldfish I'll have in it! I already have plans to source some stones to make a shallower area for wildlife to access / climb out and hopefully a bit of variety in height of the plants to break it up. How long did your pond take to become established? I'm hoping getting it into the ground (even though we've had to hire a JCB digger) now will give us the best chances of it settling down nicely.
Wow! That's huge! Mines only a few hundred, puts mine to shame Luckily mine has built in shelves so I didn't have to fuss with rocks, because me and heavy items really don't mix. I had a pond in my last house and accidently dropped instead of 'placing' the rocks in and needless to say there wasn't a pond any ore and the fish had to be temporarily housed in a bucket! I was quite lucky with my nymphaea, I bought it on a holiday in Wales, they were large specimens in I'd say a 5 litre basket, and they were all in the sale, the one I picked up was reduced from £28.99 to £12.99, but being the cheapskate I am, I may have rubbed the 1 off the label and got it for £2.99! Plonked it in a bin outside our caravan and gave it a feed, them as soon as I got home plonked it in and it took off! I had 2 bricks underneath and around early November I took it down to 1 and it's looking like I need to take the next one off, but am a bit skeptical at this time. The equisetum is so prolific, that's created a good clump on the lowest shelf in the pond and the iris is also prolific, so I've put some in a corner of the pond and some at the edge of the pond, on the opposite side. There's not too much space left now, just enough for a few frogsBourne and newts, but no room for fish anymore, they eat frogsbourne anyway. Woah, sorry for the huge reply, always seem to get carried away
What made you buy the bigger one if you don't mind me asking? And yes it is a bit oops! I don't see why you won't get frogs, but do beware that fish are greedy and frogsbourne will be a tasty meal! I found that out from experience haha
I do indeed Star, we've just come out of Rushfields, we took a long detour But my mums good to me, and has the patients of a saint! Which is lucky when living with me, just spent an hour looking at plants!
The perils of buying something online and not triple checking your measurements Ryan!
(After realising our mistake we found out the one half the size cost more than the larger pond so decided not to try and get it refunded but to keep the bargain and redesign the garden to suit).
We found some hibernating common frogs under the shed though I can't for the life of me work out where the nearest pond would be so hopefully they will come and visit the pond. We used to put the frog spawn into a wire mesh to keep the fish out until the tadpoles had hatched and then fed the fish plenty to try and keep them from snacking too much. It seemed to work as we always had many many frogs come spring. Fortunately for such a large pond I'll only have the two fish (at least for a year or so) so the frogs stand a good chance!
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This is my tatty cobaea taken today. I grew the plants form seed but they didn't start flowering until late autumn. They are still making lots of growth and have sprawled all over the border. There were never many flowers. I've kept one plant in the greenhouse so if it survives the winter I'll plant it out down the bottom of the garden.
A pond, Clarington. Really exciting. Maybe just in time to encourage frogs this year.
Morning, or should it be afternoon?? I'm going to ask my mum if we can go the 'scenic' route to crawley, as there's a gorgeous nursery that I've only been to once and loved it, obviously I won't tell her that until we stumble across it
Star and Panda, where I work at Borde Hill Gardens, they have quite a few champion Magnolias, although I just can't seem to be taken back by them,don't get me wrong, they're lovely plants, but they're a bit boring once their flowers have gone. However, I am partial to a Rowan! Love the cashmeriana one especially.
Clarington - How bigs your pond, i got one of mine through the post a few months ago and it already has equisetum, nymphaea, iris pseudacorus and one other, I forget it's name, but it's looks lovely, just sorting out the marginals as I speak!
2516 litres (2.6 metre x 1.8 metres x .61 metres deep) Ryan, so more than ample for the two little goldfish I'll have in it! I already have plans to source some stones to make a shallower area for wildlife to access / climb out and hopefully a bit of variety in height of the plants to break it up. How long did your pond take to become established? I'm hoping getting it into the ground (even though we've had to hire a JCB digger) now will give us the best chances of it settling down nicely.
Wow! That's huge! Mines only a few hundred, puts mine to shame
Luckily mine has built in shelves so I didn't have to fuss with rocks, because me and heavy items really don't mix. I had a pond in my last house and accidently dropped instead of 'placing' the rocks in and needless to say there wasn't a pond any ore and the fish had to be temporarily housed in a bucket! I was quite lucky with my nymphaea, I bought it on a holiday in Wales, they were large specimens in I'd say a 5 litre basket, and they were all in the sale, the one I picked up was reduced from £28.99 to £12.99, but being the cheapskate I am, I may have rubbed the 1 off the label and got it for £2.99! Plonked it in a bin outside our caravan and gave it a feed, them as soon as I got home plonked it in and it took off! I had 2 bricks underneath and around early November I took it down to 1 and it's looking like I need to take the next one off, but am a bit skeptical at this time. The equisetum is so prolific, that's created a good clump on the lowest shelf in the pond and the iris is also prolific, so I've put some in a corner of the pond and some at the edge of the pond, on the opposite side. There's not too much space left now, just enough for a few frogsBourne and newts, but no room for fish anymore, they eat frogsbourne anyway. Woah, sorry for the huge reply, always seem to get carried away 
What made you buy the bigger one if you don't mind me asking? And yes it is a bit oops! I don't see why you won't get frogs, but do beware that fish are greedy and frogsbourne will be a tasty meal! I found that out from experience haha
Afternoon, had a very lazy morning, just about to have a bit of lunch. Maybe go for a walk as its stopped raining!
Ryan, do you mean Crawley in West Sussex? If so which gc do you mean?
Pottie, whats the name of your honeysuckle, didn't know there was a winter one.
I do indeed Star, we've just come out of Rushfields, we took a long detour
But my mums good to me, and has the patients of a saint! Which is lucky when living with me, just spent an hour looking at plants!
The perils of buying something online and not triple checking your measurements Ryan!
(After realising our mistake we found out the one half the size cost more than the larger pond so decided not to try and get it refunded but to keep the bargain and redesign the garden to suit).
We found some hibernating common frogs under the shed though I can't for the life of me work out where the nearest pond would be so hopefully they will come and visit the pond. We used to put the frog spawn into a wire mesh to keep the fish out until the tadpoles had hatched and then fed the fish plenty to try and keep them from snacking too much. It seemed to work as we always had many many frogs come spring. Fortunately for such a large pond I'll only have the two fish (at least for a year or so) so the frogs stand a good chance!