Hi Gerry, I am starting to put together a few ideas for our roofgarden/balcony area and hope to start as soon as possible. I read somewhere that it is best to use an extra special lightweight soil. I have tried to find it in some garden centres or on the internet and no such luck. Any idea where I might be able to source this product or what do you recommend for this situation.
I lifted a mature Choisya 'Sundance' last November (to facilitate garden work) in a hurry and put it in a container in a loose soil conditioner type compost - all I had. I pruned it severely to move it, and although it hasn't died entirely, it's not doing anything either. Is there any hope of recovery?
Hi. We planted an Escallonia hedge about four years ago and its growing well. Last year during the summer the leaves got black spots and turned yellow and the hedge seemed to die. So in the autumn we cut it back to see if it would come back this year. Once we had cleaned around the bottom of the hedging this year as the summer came in the hedging took off and had lovely green healthy leaves and new growth and pink flowers started to appear. Then last night it rained and this evening we noticed that the black spots were coming back on the leaves and some of the leaves had started to turn yellow. So we are wondering should we have had sprayed it for any particular disease or bug?
Gerry, I'm a new member. Name of a deep blue creeper found early summer growing over old walls etc.?
we have builders in at the moment extending our patio it will be lovely but they have made the garden a mess in a few words no more grass its all lumpy and humpy how do we get it back into shape we are only garden novices weve a lot too learn