Aym, yes, it'd be nice to garden close to a fellow fruit enthusiast! Sorry to hear of your disappointment with your citrus seedlings! If it's any consolation, two years ago I bought a hideously expensive new variety of camellia (paying so much for a plant is a mistake I'll never make again) and it just died. I have no clue why. The more "common" camellia next to it is growing happily.
Aster: Wish you lived near me! I so wanted a nectarine tree too. I have been trying to plant the doughnut peach seeds, but they have come to nothing. Very disheartening! My collection of dove tree seeds have also drawn a blank. I was so fed up, I used a brick to crack them open, only to see some green and alive and kicking chamber content! I was so mad with myself. I have about 10 citrus seedlings raised from seeds. I gave one to the lady in the cafe up the road. She told me hers had fragrant flowers. I nearly burst into tears. I couldn't even keep mine alive. They all went funny. Perhaps, some citrus fertilisers are required. I should have asked her how she looked after it as she's from Turkey.
Very nice that they allow you to grow fruit trees in an allotment. They can become HUGE!
Jenny: I forgot to tell you that I even have plants in the bathroom. They are everywhere!
Aym I can't put plants on all my window ledges as I've got 7 cats and they like knocking them off. I have plants in the kitchen because they aren't allowed on the counters so no window ledges.
Aster I think your old camellia was jelous of the new prima Donna and bumped it off when you weren't looking. I like small plants to grow into a space as I think they produce a better plant in the end. I don't tend to spend out on pricey ones but every now and then one gets to you and it's a must have. I want a clematis called super nova and I like a clematis to be a sizeable one when I plant it so I'll spend a bit more on this one.
Just received and potted up my new snowdrop cultivars. My guilty pleasure! I am planning a small area in which to grow 'Scottish' snowdrops. Those bred or found in Scotland.
I've got my eye on clematis Etoile Violete, but I would have to grow it in a pot.
How do you keep your cats off the kitchen counters? I haven't seen a cat that could be kept off these. I think they realise they are closer to food on the counters...
I have hoards of plants in plant pots wondering what to do with them, I usually give them to neighbours and everybody else, the gas man went away with a monarda scorpion last time because he mentioned he like it.
Went GC the other day to look at aquarium deco and seed compost but I pick up a holly golden king and eucomis bulb, I wasn't really intending of buying any plants but you know what happens
Ordered Canna Durban and Australias from hart canna, bit pricey but well recommended by some forum members and i know they will be virus free and excellent plants.
Aster I just kept putting them back on the floor until they got the message but because Savannahs can jump so high it doesn't always work. As you can see they aren't on the counter so what can I shout about. ?
Perki I think we all go to GCs to look at other things but plants crawl into our baskets when we aren't looking. ?
I got the camellias for a north-facing, fairly exposed site - I wanted something that would flower, even if not for long, and would be OK in containers. As I'm not keen on most of shade-loving plants, it was a bit difficult to find something suitable.
Camellias not flowering for long aym? Ours flower for approx. 2 months each, maybe even longer. We have four well established camellia bushes/trees in the front garden and between them they flower from late November until May - look fabulous, get people stopping to look at them and then there is the mess - petals everywhere that look like confetti! We must try to photograph them some time soon.
However our daughter bought a camellia a couple of years ago, they do take a few years to establish and become shrubby, and I noticed it has just one open flower on it now.
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Jenny, I'm happy to be a fruit cracker!
Aym, yes, it'd be nice to garden close to a fellow fruit enthusiast! Sorry to hear of your disappointment with your citrus seedlings! If it's any consolation, two years ago I bought a hideously expensive new variety of camellia (paying so much for a plant is a mistake I'll never make again) and it just died. I have no clue why. The more "common" camellia next to it is growing happily.
Aym I can't put plants on all my window ledges as I've got 7 cats and they like knocking them off. I have plants in the kitchen because they aren't allowed on the counters so no window ledges.
Aster I think your old camellia was jelous of the new prima Donna and bumped it off when you weren't looking. I like small plants to grow into a space as I think they produce a better plant in the end. I don't tend to spend out on pricey ones but every now and then one gets to you and it's a must have. I want a clematis called super nova and I like a clematis to be a sizeable one when I plant it so I'll spend a bit more on this one.
Just received and potted up my new snowdrop cultivars. My guilty pleasure! I am planning a small area in which to grow 'Scottish' snowdrops. Those bred or found in Scotland.
Jenny, that may well be!
I've got my eye on clematis Etoile Violete, but I would have to grow it in a pot.
How do you keep your cats off the kitchen counters? I haven't seen a cat that could be kept off these. I think they realise they are closer to food on the counters...
I have hoards of plants in plant pots wondering what to do with them, I usually give them to neighbours and everybody else, the gas man went away with a monarda scorpion last time because he mentioned he like it.
Went GC the other day to look at aquarium deco and seed compost but I pick up a holly golden king and eucomis bulb, I wasn't really intending of buying any plants but you know what happens
Ordered Canna Durban and Australias from hart canna, bit pricey but well recommended by some forum members and i know they will be virus free and excellent plants.
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Aster I just kept putting them back on the floor until they got the message but because Savannahs can jump so high it doesn't always work. As you can see they aren't on the counter so what can I shout about. ?
Perki I think we all go to GCs to look at other things but plants crawl into our baskets when we aren't looking. ?
Jenny,
. They don't need to be on the counter when they have a better place! They're wonderful!
I got the camellias for a north-facing, fairly exposed site - I wanted something that would flower, even if not for long, and would be OK in containers. As I'm not keen on most of shade-loving plants, it was a bit difficult to find something suitable.
Camellias not flowering for long aym? Ours flower for approx. 2 months each, maybe even longer. We have four well established camellia bushes/trees in the front garden and between them they flower from late November until May - look fabulous, get people stopping to look at them and then there is the mess - petals everywhere that look like confetti! We must try to photograph them some time soon.
However our daughter bought a camellia a couple of years ago, they do take a few years to establish and become shrubby, and I noticed it has just one open flower on it now.