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Random Musings => Miscellany => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Mrs Pingu on 22 October, 2023, 05:44:42 pm

Title: The Grow Your Own thread for random stuff that doesn't need it's own thread
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 October, 2023, 05:44:42 pm
Time we had one of these I think.

I've been meaning to buy an ivy, for the wildlife value, one of those that's trapped in the mature phase, Hedera arborescens, but blow me, £35 for a 3L pot?!!  :o
Title: Re: The Grow Your Own thread for random stuff that doesn't need it's own thread
Post by: rafletcher on 23 October, 2023, 12:19:11 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 22 October, 2023, 05:44:42 pm
Time we had one of these I think.

I've been meaning to buy an ivy, for the wildlife value, one of those that's trapped in the mature phase, Hedera arborescens, but blow me, £35 for a 3L pot?!!  :o

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arborescens-Non-Climbing-Green-White-Thompson-Morgan/dp/B0BMB8679B
Title: Re: The Grow Your Own thread for random stuff that doesn't need it's own thread
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 October, 2023, 12:34:56 pm
ooh thanks :)
Title: Re: The Grow Your Own thread for random stuff that doesn't need it's own thread
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2023, 04:47:21 pm
Some of the bulbs I planted last month are coming up already. It's not time yet! Stupid upside down weather... They really all gonna get frosted next weekend.
Title: Re: The Grow Your Own thread for random stuff that doesn't need it's own thread
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 February, 2024, 06:39:23 pm
What's going on with my ceanothus (Californian lilac)?

This one is about 4 feet tall, was here when we moved in in 2021 and is looking decidedly ded, apart from that single green branch you can see there. This bush is against a west facing fence.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53545817003_4d91aca881_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pzEiTr)PXL_20240222_114441119 (https://flic.kr/p/2pzEiTr) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

On the other side of the garden (so east facing) this is a bush which I planted in 2022 (I think) so it's smaller. More of it is green but you can see some of it is dead.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53544758962_7a9f4f8e89_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pzyTnm)PXL_20240222_114519531 (https://flic.kr/p/2pzyTnm) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

I don't understand why. It's not been particularly cold for here, I would say. There's never been weedkiller used anywhere near the top most pic. I had one of these bushes in our north facing postage stamp of a garden at the previous place for years and it was fine.
I'm guessing the top one is going to be a dead loss and I might as well dig it up?

Any wisdom?
Title: Re: The Grow Your Own thread for random stuff that doesn't need it's own thread
Post by: BrianI on 09 March, 2024, 07:48:54 pm
Along with some seed tatties I have chitting on the living room windowsill awaiting planting, I now have a couple of blackcurrant bush cuttings I'll get planted in large containers!  ;D