I live in S Yorkshire and grow a Fremontodendron californicum against a west facing fence.The shrub is now c 12' high and has flowered for the last few years.
Is it necessary to prune it and,if so, when and how,please?
I have just recently caught the gardening bug, after lots of research and reading over the winter it was time to put my new gained knowledge to good practical gardening use, but while at my local garden center looking for various growing mediums including peat i discoverd i could not find any peat and that it was more or less being phased out of composts, i must have been reading old books and using old sites as most of them included peat in there advice, i know the reason why peat is being phased out, but what i dont know is a good alternative..
We have a holiday home in South Wales i grow bananas(musa)and palms Pheonix ,Windmill and New Zealand Flax.Yucca's.I have very moist clay soil.What else can i plant please.
Hi. I have just purchased 6 lost label roses. They are all barerooted. I have potted them all and they all seem quite healthy. Is there any way to tell what type these roses are before they flower. Many Thanks.
Sorry, filtering your water will not help as all that does is remove the particulate (bits), not change the pH of the water (its acidity or alkalinity)
Your Blueberries need Rainwater ideally, but of course you know that. More critical is that your Blueberries must not be kept short of water. So compromise time, keep watering your Blueberries until you get some rainwater in your container, but you can acidify your compost by adding flowers of Sulphate at the dose on the packet. I'm in the South East with exactly the same problem. Good luck.
Thanks for that, we have had some rain since I posted but I have found that I have a split in my water butt, so I siphend off the water before i lost it all and have reserved it for my blueberry. A new water butt is now in place and I am awaiting another down pour. I am new to the gardeners world forum and am so chuffed that I got an answer, I can see that I am going to make a lot of new gardening friends. Hope you get some rain soon too, best wishes.
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Is it necessary to prune it and,if so, when and how,please?
Hello Adam
I have just recently caught the gardening bug, after lots of research and reading over the winter it was time to put my new gained knowledge to good practical gardening use, but while at my local garden center looking for various growing mediums including peat i discoverd i could not find any peat and that it was more or less being phased out of composts, i must have been reading old books and using old sites as most of them included peat in there advice, i know the reason why peat is being phased out, but what i dont know is a good alternative..
Thanks
Davie-S
We have a holiday home in South Wales i grow bananas(musa)and palms Pheonix ,Windmill and New Zealand Flax.Yucca's.I have very moist clay soil.What else can i plant please.
Elephant Ears
To Ecobaby,
Sorry, filtering your water will not help as all that does is remove the particulate (bits), not change the pH of the water (its acidity or alkalinity)
Your Blueberries need Rainwater ideally, but of course you know that. More critical is that your Blueberries must not be kept short of water. So compromise time, keep watering your Blueberries until you get some rainwater in your container, but you can acidify your compost by adding flowers of Sulphate at the dose on the packet. I'm in the South East with exactly the same problem. Good luck.
Hi whitevanwoman
Thanks for that, we have had some rain since I posted but I have found that I have a split in my water butt, so I siphend off the water before i lost it all and have reserved it for my blueberry. A new water butt is now in place and I am awaiting another down pour. I am new to the gardeners world forum and am so chuffed that I got an answer, I can see that I am going to make a lot of new gardening friends. Hope you get some rain soon too, best wishes.