Archive | January, 2009

Pleiones Easy Orchids from Bulbs

By on January 4, 2009 in Flowers and Plants, House & Greenhouse plants

Pleiones are charming orchids grown in pots from a pseudobulb that splits into two or more after flowering which helps to increase your stock. The flowers arrive first on 6-8 inch stems in spring followed by 6 inch long 2 inch wide leaves. Five Top Tips for Pleiones Also known as the Windowsill Orchid or [...]

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Perennials for Poor Soil

By on January 4, 2009 in Flowers and Plants, Gardening

Many gardens have soil that is too poor to be worth improving particularly when some perennials would thrive there anyway. Here is a top 14 selection of perennial plants that are tolerant of poor conditions. Spring Flowering Alyssum – yellow flowering Aquilegia – mixed colours likes light  shade Digitalis – Foxgloves with purple or white [...]

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Simple Compost

By on January 3, 2009 in Flowers and Plants, Green Gardening

I promised a simple approach to thinking about your compost.  Compostable materials are either Green or Brown and you need a good mix of both. If you want the full scientific monte then you need a book. Green Compostables include grass clippings, tea bags, old flowers, nettles, weeds, comfrey or rhubarb leaves, pond algae, spent [...]

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January Garden Tips

By on January 2, 2009 in Flowers and Plants

You can start your 2009 gardening on New Years Day or as soon as your hangover is cured. Do not have too many resolutions or you won’t keep any of them. I find it is a good idea to know roughly what you want to achieve in the year without being too specific as to [...]

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Fertilizers for Growth

By on January 2, 2009 in Flowers and Plants

Feed Your Plants Plants need food at the right time and in roughly the right quantities to deliver the best results for you in terms of flowers, leaves or fruit. Fertilizer is a concentrated form of food as opposed to bulky conditioners and organic manures. On bottles or boxes of fertilizer you will often see [...]

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Funny Potatoes

By on January 2, 2009 in Fruit, Vegetables & Herbs

Grow comical potatoes I want to be amongst the First Earlies with one or two comments about spuds you like. When I talk about comical potatoes I am not thinking of those funny shapes you can grow in a stony garden. Nor am I thinking about the ones that look like someone’s anatomy and cause [...]

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