Yellow can be a difficult colour in the garden and I know of one keen gardener that tries to avoid all Yellow flowers. However this Potentilla or cinqufoil grabbed my attention hence the yowser headline. No wonder the Potentilla is also known as the Buttercup shrub as the strong yellow is reminiscent of the field [...]
Archive | July, 2009
Ornamental Vegetable Gardening
Runner Beans offer a great combination of delicate flowers and tasty runner beans Runner Bean
Build Your Regal Geranium Collection
If you want to be a collector and build a Geranium or Regal Pelargonium collection to be proud off then start now for next year. First Thoughts Join the new Pelargonium and Geranium Society formed by the merging of the British Pelargonium and Geranium Society and the British and European Geranium Society on 1st January [...]
Top Tomato Tips
Watering is key to growing a successful Tomato. If a Tomato dries out the skin quickly thickens. If you water inconsitantly the skin splits. Irregular watering can stop the uptake of Calcium which causes Blossom-end rot making the bottom of the fruit brown and inedible. Feeding Tomatoes will increase the yield. All that rapid growth [...]
Pruning Flowering Shrubs the Easy Way
Spring Flowering Shrubs that have finished flowering can be pruned in early summer. My Spirea were trimmed of flower heads and pruned of about one third of the old wood down to the ground this weekend. Hopefully also taking out weak growth and crossing branches will provide space for strong new stems to flower next [...]
You Can Grow Three Bean Types
Broad Beans are ready to pick from early sowings in March. These flowers on the later sowing of Witkiem Manita variety will soon be podding up and be ready to pick. Runner Beans are now 4 -5 feet up the support canes and the lower flower trusses are in bloom. Roll on the first picking [...]
Avoid too Much Water and Wet Gardens
You can have too much of a good thing in the garden and this also applies to water. After prolonged rain some rose buds fail to open and the outer petals start to rot, creating a soggy mess (prune them off if it happens). Water Excess It is no accident that many if not most [...]
Growing Courgettes
Growing Courgettes is easy if you follow a few simple tips. Keep Courgettes well watered and fed, they grow quickly and are the main constituent is water. Feed twice a week with a liquid feed such as Tomorite or Phostrogen Keep them slug free or the fruit will be eaten first. The spiny leaves will [...]
Architectural Plants Grow Yucca
For architectural plants we seem to think of spiky leaves like Cordylines, Phormiums and Yuccas. If you are keen to understand the differences and a bit of history of each species try ‘Architectural Plants What to Grow and How to Grow it’ If you just want shape and form in your garden try some Yuccas [...]
Growing Phormium or New Zealand Flax
Spiky perennial plants sold as Phormium are available in variegated or self colours but all have striking sword shaped leaves. Phormium Tenax is the larger more commonly available variety but there are now approaching 100 varieties to choose from. Growing Phormium Phormiums are best growing in a sunny position although they will tolerate a fair [...]
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