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Managed to put together 8 large tubs, so fingers crossed now. Also, it will be an interesting spring as I just planted 7 small pots of assorted bulbs that have lost thier labels. Most were dug up yesterday afternoon as I cleaned a border of unknown content. This should be good. I sorted them out into 'look alikes', so hopefully there isn't too much of a mixture in the pots and have popped in a label ready for use when they do identify themselves.
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There are plenty of inexpensive bulbs, like daffodils, snowdrops, muscari, crocus, etc. If cost is a consideration, do you have a nearby garden centre who might sponsor the bulbs? Doesn't hurt to ask. What about winter flowering pansies? Is this an outdoor or indoor project? Hyacinths and other fragrant bulbs are great for children to do ready for Christmas presents.
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With a plethora of computer problems to keep me away, I have not been able to post this until now. I'd welcome any advice on planting daffodils (newly bought bulbs) in pots. I simply cannot spare any space to them in the ground because they take so long to die back and look messy and in a small space it stops me getting on with other things. I really need to know the spacing, most of my pots are around 14" round or square, plenty deep, and I've got fresh compost ready and waiting. I'm
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Me again. See my post on daffodils, well I just tipped the Stargazer lilies out of the pots so I can plant up the daffodils. Trouble is, I don't know how to go on with the lily bulbs. They are over, and when I tipped them out they came out in one huge root ball that is holding the dirt all around them. Should I get in there and break them apart, or leave them for the rain to wash clean? Presumably I dry them off, but I really need to be thinking about putting them in the ground where I want them
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Thanks BB. I did search but couldn't find that article. Anyway I've now done what I should have done a long time ago and that is Bookmarked the Advice Home Page! I never seem to be able to find it when I want it, resulting in a lot of unnecessary questions. Bulbs will be planted up this afternoon!
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Thanks, both for your help. Well, they are pretty pot bound. They'd been in their pots for a couple years, though this is the first year they bloomed. I've decided where I want them, but I'm not ready to put them there yet. The earth around the roots when I tipped them out is solidly held together with the roots so I guess that is how I will leave them now and plant them in wholesale in the three clumps rather than try to split them. There seem to be a fair few new leaves springing up
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I have always left lupins and aquiligia in the ground over the winter with no special treatment and they survive just fine. We don't get a lot of frost where I live, so I don't know what you'd do with these if you do get frost. Not a lot of help I know, sorry, but I think a lot depends on where you live and the sort of weather conditions you get as to what you can leave outside and what you need to bring in.
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I have many different poppies in my garden, and I kinda give them the freedom of the place, but this week I found this one which looks like a cross between the wild field poppies that proliferate and a double one that came from a neighbour's patch. Anyway, I haven't seen one like this before and am hoping someone can identify it for me, please. It is the size and colour of the wild ones, but has this lovely flouncy layering, not as blousy as the full double pink or red ones. I've only
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For the most part I use old rubber gloves that can no longer be used for washing up with. When they do need a good scrub, I use a Japanese nail brush, with whatever soap is to hand, as it gets into the knuckles and around and under the nails much better than an ordinary nail brush.
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