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'But they said anyone can grow this plant!'

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  • Mark56Mark56 Posts: 1,653

    Clematis really hate me and leaves always brown or the earwigs/slugs/snails get to them first. 

  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291

    I dream of a cottage-style border of Lupins, Delphiniums and Sweet-peas... but it's slug-Nirvana in my garden so anything like those has be grown in pots. 

    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • Alina WAlina W Posts: 1,445

    Aspidistras. Mother and friend have magnificent plants and always give me lovely chunks of it. They just curl up and die.

  • BloodRoseBloodRose Posts: 69

    Well I haven't killed anything yet but I don't think the pansy I grew  from seed turned out quite right. A tad leggy and currently held up with stringimage  If I cut it down by half will it survive?

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  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541

    image MY NAMES WONKY WOMBLE AND I KILLED A PERFECTLY HEALTHY PYRACANTHA image

    (No evidence! image)

  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    Verdict ...............Guilty!image

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Poppiesimage

    Never see one -   everimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    Just read on another thread about someone weeding Welsh poppies. Can't grow 'em! image

    Hello B3. You too huh?

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    It's not the  soil it's me because my neighbours can grow them

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SparklesJDSparklesJD Posts: 344

    Aym - that's what I'm talking about - I've heard people bemoaning them as out-of-control weeds! I can't grow them either!

    Or poppies, B3 and PP.

    Rach - I have the same problem, I've given up on cottage garden borders now :( I had packs of petunias that were sticks overnight.

    Verbana's another one for me. I got two full grown plants in June (my seeds just didn't do anything). They've got so unhappy (i.e. dead-looking) that I'm debating just cutting them down to see if they grow back. I see them everywhere round here.

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