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Hello I was working in a customer's garden yesterday and walked past a shrub, which to me looks like an Elaeagnus, but not quite sure, as looking it up on google all the photos there the leaves are green with yellow edges, however the one I have here is green with white edges. It sort of looks like a Cornus alba, except that the leaf is smaller and thick and tough. Do you think it is an Elaeagnus at all, or am i totally wrong?
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Thanks Bogweevil! That picture is more or less what mine looks like (sorry, haven't got time a.t.m.to work out how to upload pictures) , what confuses me is that it is supposed to flower in autumn, but the one I have here already has little white/pinkish berries on it! As to my boss, he's more into the new-builds so spends a lot of time on his mini digger, whereas I am more interested (and responsible) in the maintenance of gardens. I asked him yesterday whether he knew what it is and he
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Hi Steve I'm just in the middle of lesson 4 (I'm doing the HCC level 3 course by correspondance), and was just looking around here to see whether there is anybody else signed up for the level 3... I have done the level 2 already, and found it good to review the whole course once I had worked through all the lessons, and then also writing a summary, also adding a few notes about things I had read about in other books or on the internet. And plan to do the same for level 3, before taking the
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So is this where everybody is hanging out nowadays =) Well, it's good to see some familiar names here! Does Obelix still exist? And what about miranda? Don't really know why I stopped checking out the bulletin, I think it was the email which RHS sent with the new password which reminded me of the lot of you. For those who remember me, I finished my training in ornamental horticulture in 06, also passing the RHS 2 in that summer. After that I was abroad for half a year, three months in England
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Hello there, haven't been on here in a long while, but it's good to be here again!! I have studied for the RHS 2 by correspondance course with the HCC and passed the RHS exam in 06. I so much enjoyed it that I have now just started up with the Advanced, also doing it by correspondance with HCC. I do know what you mean with the course books not exactly being very reader-friendly, but I think you just have to "get into it" and then you'll do ok. And I was very much pleased to
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Hi JG I did the exam in March 2005, but you couldn't know =) =) I actually did the whole course by correspondance with HCC. 12 (or was it 10?! can't quite remember!) different units to work through, at the end of which there are always 4 questions to answer like in the exam. I had a good "correspondance" tutor, whom I could ask anything about anything and he'd know it! It was quite a lot of work, since at the same time I had school and work still going on (apprenticeship as gardener), but I enjoyed
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Snowdrops are out at last! No digging needed... =) Also some crocuses showing up. Hamamelis are in full bloom, otherwise everything is still looking rather brown. This morning it was snowing, but it was very slushy... Hope we'll get some more sun sometime soon, spring doesn't feel like spring without any sunshine!
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Hello Stevew I looked up Senecio in a book of mine and actually found it. In future I think I'll first check my books before looking on the internet!!! Internet does have the disadvantage that you find too much information, doesn't it?! Well, thankyou anyway for your help. Here a picture of Senecio leucostachys or Senecio viravira: [img]http://www.avantgardensne.com/images/products/senvir.jpg[/img]
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I am trying to find out what kind of ragwort we are propagating at the nursery where I work. My boss doesn't know, so I'll try it here! =) I have searched the internet in vain... it is not quite like the common silver ragwort or Senecio bicolor. The leaves are slightly longer and cut in more. The shoots tend to grow faster and longer than S. bicolor. The leaves actually look very similar to those of Centaurea dealbata. Hope somebody can help me... =)
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If you want to get to see some snow and wear warm snow boots instead of wellingtons, you'd all better come over and visit me =) It is beginning of March and we are just having the hugest amount of snow we ever had this winter!! Actually we haven't had so much snow for quite a while! Just was out for a walk in about 40cm of snow, shaking off all the snow from any bushes I could get at easily enough. The snow is quite heavy and I'm afraid quite a few shrubs and some trees will snap since lots of people
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