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« Reply #105 on: 23:16:01, 18-04-2008 » |
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That middle row of pix looks as though you have a very interestingly shaped garden!
Long and thin (about 10 yards wide and 100 yards long). I've divided it into 4 (patio, lawn, flower garden and work area) with the flower garden having paths and beds and hillocks and a pond and..... I'll try to get better pictures when its not so much of a mess (and I'll avoid photos of fences.  ) Tommo |
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« Reply #106 on: 11:51:46, 22-04-2008 » |
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Let's talk geraniums if we may. I'm not mad keen on them but I took two window boxes of them from my mother's last year, mainly because they were white. They performed wonderfully and looked lovely, but they now look very woebegone indeed. There's a little bit of new growth but otherwise they're all sad looking stalks  Should I have cut them back after flowering and is it too late to salvage them? This time last year they were romping away. |
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« Reply #107 on: 15:02:36, 22-04-2008 » |
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True geraniums (cranesbill) or pelargoniums - which aren't particularly hardy? They may have got a bit frosted with the recent chilly weather.
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« Reply #108 on: 15:10:18, 22-04-2008 » |
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True geraniums are very tough. My garden is full of them, useful ground cover to suppress the weeds. I've just been spraying Benjamin Britten with soapy water, hoping to suppress his greenfly. I hope he doesn't mind . |
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« Reply #109 on: 15:13:06, 22-04-2008 » |
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Thanks David. They're pelargoniums. The cranesbill come back year after year. I far prefer them but I'd like to keep these pelargoniums going if I can.
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« Reply #110 on: 16:18:51, 22-04-2008 » |
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I've just been spraying Benjamin Britten with soapy water, hoping to suppress his greenfly. I hope he doesn't mind .  Only the very best ...  ... I hope? |
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« Reply #112 on: 21:20:44, 24-04-2008 » |
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Thanks David. They're pelargoniums. The cranesbill come back year after year. I far prefer them but I'd like to keep these pelargoniums going if I can.
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« Reply #113 on: 22:34:21, 24-04-2008 » |
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« Reply #114 on: 22:49:48, 24-04-2008 » |
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Bloomin' marvelous, Tommo! A riot of colour and shape and texture. Wow! BTW the "odd shaped garden" comment I made was meant to be a joke since the fences in your joined together photos created a zigzag effect... |
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« Reply #115 on: 09:22:35, 25-04-2008 » |
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Re the pelargoniums, I usually find it better to buy fresh each season as they never seem to come through the Winter intact. Sometimes I remember to take cuttings and these do over-winter more successfully and produce reasonable plants the following year, but for the normal run of plants there are a couple of nurseries in Suffolk (where I live) that produce plants of such breathtaking quality that I always succumb and buy new each year. For something a little more unusual in the pelargonium/geranium line Woottens are well worth a (web) visit, they really are the tops. If you can get to the nursery, so much the better - its quite close to Aldeburgh/Snape.
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« Reply #116 on: 19:44:28, 07-05-2008 » |
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I bought 20 potted primroses (and the odd polyanthus in amongst them) already in flower in mid-Jan and planted them into 7-8" pots. They're still going strong, flowering their pretty little heads off! Despite having been flattened several times by hail (they soon bounced back up again) they look fantastic. I've dead-headed them now and again but have more or less neglected them.
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« Reply #117 on: 20:05:56, 07-05-2008 » |
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I've dead-headed them now and again but have more or less neglected them.
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« Reply #118 on: 20:14:30, 07-05-2008 » |
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I've dead-headed them now and again but have more or less neglected them.
Oh, are you meant to? I didn't know that. That might explain it ... Well, they do carry on producing new buds even if you don't but they become buried under the mat of decaying petals and can't push their way through - which is what happened at first as I forgot to dead-head for a while. I've never known primroses to flower for so long so my variety might be exceptionally long-lasting - don't blame yourself, George! One thing I did wrong was to use shrub potting compost in their pots, which may have given them added oomph. |
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« Reply #119 on: 21:41:12, 07-05-2008 » |
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Just the thread I need. Who knows about garden ponds? As I've been saying elsewhere, I moved into my current abode a year ago. Last summer there was an enormous crop of tadpoles, lilypads everywhere etc., whereas this year the water seems to have turned dark, very few lilypads have come out, and not a tadpole in sight, though plenty of newts and dead frogs, a variety I don't much like to meet. What have I done wrong? How can I put it right? Bear in mind, good members, that this is the first garden I've ever had and you can't assume any knowledge of gardening lore on my part. Help! |
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