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Many thanks for the information. Now I know where to look in my little book of trees I can see that it is, indeed, an elder.
I’d never even heard of choisya, but again I can see from checking internet images that that is what I have. Rather nicely arranged groups of leaves (rather than the ‘haphazard’ arrangement on many plants).
I will now resist the temptation to hack down what is apparently a very established clematis (I shall just try to work out how to train it). There is another climber going up the elder, but with variegated leaves. I now suspect this is also a clematis.
I shall try to get some better pictures this evening, before going out, but my plant photographs tend to be either close-ups of leaves, with no indication of shape or size, or overall pictures of plants, which don’t show leaf detail (and in any case are something green against a green background, which doesn’t help).
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There is another climber going up the elder, but with variegated leaves. I now suspect this is also a clematis.
I can't think of a clematis with variegated leaves. Can you manage a picture?
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Originally posted by Roseofsharon:
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Originally posted by Chapelhead:
There is another climber going up the elder, but with variegated leaves. I now suspect this is also a clematis.
I can't think of a clematis with variegated leaves. Can you manage a picture?
The other climber, going up what I now know is an elder, has leaves that look like this and this. I think the leaves are variegated - perhaps they are just a bitt 'off'.
A fuller picture of the tree that is plant 2 is this image. It's quite a pleasant tree, that I would estimate to be 15 feet (5m) tall, perhaps a bit more, but a bit shapeless.
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Depending on where you are, Chapelhead, could it be an olive tree?
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I'm in central southern England. You can work out almost exactly where I am if I say that the trees in the background of my last photo are part of the woods where Baden-Powell first learned the woodcraft that he would later use in the Scout movement, while bunking off lessons at school and hiding from masters searching for errant schoolboys.
I don't think it's an olive - I wold recognise one of those, and its leaves are to rounded and lightish green (rather than grey-green).
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Originally posted by Chapelhead:
A fuller picture of the tree that is plant 2 is this image. It's quite a pleasant tree, that I would estimate to be 15 feet (5m) tall, perhaps a bit more, but a bit shapeless.
My first thought was a katsura, or maybe a judas tree, but the leaves of your tree seem to be more oval, and glossier than either of those.
I don't recognise your variegated climber, either. I think I'll go look look at a book.
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That tree looks a bit like a spindle tree to me - but that's a wild tree, not necessarily a garden plant, although they were planted in hedgerows for a purpose. Are the branches very straight?
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Help!! - my lawn is full of clover. How do I get rid of it?
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Help!! - my lawn is full of clover. How do I get rid of it?
Why get rid of it?
Apart from it being good for the bees, didn't you have a green lawn last month when all the grassy ones had shriveled up and turned brown?
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Help!! - my lawn is full of clover. How do I get rid of it?
Ha! Some of us dream of having clover in our lawns! Bloody sight better than moss, chickweed and creeping buttercup.
I am actually going to sew clover in my veggie patch for the winter. It acts as green manure when you dig it in in the spring apparently.
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Our little greengage plum tree bore a single little plum this year, and with some trepidation I plucked it the other day. My husband, son, and I divided it into thirds---you have to understand, my son would never touch a plum from the store, but because this was from our tree, he was interested. All I can say is, WOW. Even just that tiny sliver---wow. I had no idea greengages were so delicious! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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I am one step further to having raspberry bushes, my son has cleared the plot and dug it out today.
I think they need to be planted in October? (NW England)
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I dug up some yellow rain lilies across from D-U's and S-i-L's home and planted them this week. This morning, there were four brilliant yellow lilies in my front garden! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Originally posted by Boogie:
I am one step further to having raspberry bushes, my son has cleared the plot and dug it out today.
I think they need to be planted in October? (NW England)
IME they can be planted at most times of the year - in June I moved some that had wandered out of line, and they look like they'll be fruiting next year. Which reminds me that one of my (many) current "to do" jobs is to put in wires for the 2 sets of raspberries (ealry and late summer) to help make harvesting a bit easier.
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I have a small indoor rose bush, which somehow I have kept alive for two years. Two questions, if I may:
1) When should I prune it? Now, or wait till spring?
2) When I first had it it was in flower. Since then I've had lots of leaves but no blooms. Any ideas on how to get them back?
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If it's indoors, it won't mind being pruned now. Outdoor ones may be damaged by early frosts so later pruning can be a problem (thought dead and diseased bits need to come off anyway).
It might need not only a pruning, but a decent rose feed next spring and meantime some new compost round its roots? Might be worth taking it out of the container, teasing out some of the knotted roots very gently and repotting it in a slightly bigger pot with some fresh slightly warmed rose compost round the edges for it to sink its roots into.
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I have bought a great selection of bulbs from Lidl, really cheap - all pink but different flowers. Now I need a nice warm day to plant them.
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Robert Armin
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Amber, that's exactly the sort of advice I was looking for. Many thanks. My assumption is that, when I prune, I don't only cut off dead bits, but healthy stuff too (just above a shoot). Is that right?
As for repotting, that sounds very sensible. Sadly the flowerpot fits neatly into a pretty china pot. So now I need to but a new dispaly pot, a new flowerpot and some rose manure AND then work out how to heat the last! 30 secs in the microwave?
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It may also be that your rose is getting enough sunlight to make leaves, but not enough extra to make flowers. I have to say I've never heard of anyone keeping a rose alive indoors for two years, so even if it isn't blooming, ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) .
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How much sun would it need to produce flowers? It is on the window ledge in my bedroom, facing south, so it gets all the sun that is going round here! (That is the same ledge where my Bible and icons rest, so that I can kneel and look out to sea when I pray. Maybe the energy released from the hours of fervent prayer - if only - are keeping the rose going?)
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That is the same ledge where my Bible and icons rest, so that I can kneel and look out to sea when I pray.
What a lovely picture this paints - and what a wonderful place to pray!
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I've been spraying my brassicas with a soapy solution (1 part washing up liquid to 4 parts water) and today discovered that it is a Good Idea to rinse them before cooking - thankfully I was rinsing the cauliflower to make sure all passengers were disembarked when I saw all the bubbles and began to wonder where they were coming from.... then the penny dropped
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I've been spraying my brassicas with a soapy solution (1 part washing up liquid to 4 parts water) and today discovered that it is a Good Idea to rinse them before cooking - thankfully I was rinsing the cauliflower to make sure all passengers were disembarked when I saw all the bubbles and began to wonder where they were coming from.... then the penny dropped
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) I often put a small amount of salt in the rinsing water of green vegetables and salad stuff. It encourages all the passengers to disembark quickly. I was reminded by your mention of bubbles of an unpleasant experience last year. I was away for the weekend. Grabbed a tube from my toiletry bag, squeezed onto toothbrush and started to brush. ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif) What I thought was toothpaste was actually a tube of shampoo, bought for its convenience in the bag.
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A friend gave me cauliflower and broccoli seedlings way back in May. I planted them in and, despite the very dry June & July we had, they have been growing and growing and growing.
What I don't have however is any signs of any cauliflower or broccoli. Just huge leaves in ever increasing quantities.
Shall I keep waiting? Or cut my losses and dig them up (they really are very big and I only have raised beds so they're kinda taking over.) Could the dry weather have stopped them wanting to "fruit"?
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Here I'm doing a kind of summer-garden postmortem...our huge disappointment was in our squash plants, which produced a sum total of four edible squash; not even the zucchini set fruit. The plants looked healthy, though, well into August, with plenty of blossoms; and I saw honeybees and other pollinators busy in the garden. I'm scratching my head as to what went wrong here. I want to blame the fact that we have tall trees on that side of the yard, that shade the far part of the garden (not the squash patch that much though) in the morning, on the lack of fruiting, but in the meantime I've seen neighbors with cucurbits in actual partial shade happily forming pumpkins and other fruits.
Is there some mineral deficiency that would specifically result in a lack of fruit set and embryonic fruit rotting on the vine? (We've had rain on and off all summer but nothing to actually rot an otherwise healthy plant.)
Meanwhile, I discovered the fecundity of pole beans even as I also discovered that the Native American trick of running beans up cornstalks didn't work for me. (The vines pulled down the corn.) I've been harvesting some really outstanding scarlet runner beans, and am definitely planting them on proper poles next year.
Anyway...very sad about the squash and related veg. I don't know what to do. Wouldn't plants not getting enough sunlight be puny and sickly? My squash and cucumbers were beautiful up until the latter part of August, when they began fading.
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LC, I know we are on different continents, and different latitudes, but oddly, I had the same cropping pattern. One or two early courgettes, then lots of flowers and leaves and nothing. Meanwhile the scarlet runners are cropping like mad things.
I tell you what I want to grow next year though - the variety of onion you get in the south of France. They are so sweet, it's transformative.
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We love sweet onions. The Amish folk around here grow something called a "candy onion" -- it's a white onion, like a Bermuda, absolutely sweet. Unfortunately it's not a wonderful keeper, so we run out around Christmastime. I'll have to check out the French sweet onions, although I know there's an issue with long-day versus short-day onions -- the Southern Hemisphere ones don't do
well in the North, and vice versa.
Maybe we need to collect recipes for squash blossoms rather than the squashes themselves.;-)
Re clover: Yes, send US the clover! Project Bee is on for 2011, and we want more clover in our lawn and surrounds! (DP now has a mentor, a delightful older man we met while visiting his/his wife's apple orchard/cider mill/apiary, right in the suburbs of Bay City, MI.)
Meanwhile...had a wonderful little visit with an older lady in the area who had signs out on the road advertising daffodil bulbs. She divides hers every couple of years...she had pounds and pounds of them. She also has a garden path lined with old Mrs. Butterworth syrup bottles (they're shaped like a kindly older lady), and a kind of garden shrine to WWF wrestling out back. I can't make things like this up; they just happen!
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Courgette flowers not becoming fruit seems to have been a common problem - sounds like the bees might not be pollenating, so I'm already planning lots of flowers around the whole vegetable/fruit plot. I'm going for different ones to cover the whole season that are known to be loved by bees, especially ones with nice wide open faces.
Yangtze, I've had a similar problem with my cauliflower, although I did get a really cute tiny one.
I thought my reduced cropping of everything was due to planting most things a couple of weeks later than I wanted to, but after talking to my neighbours at the allotments it seems like we've all had a "funny year" and we're trying again (of course!) next year - I know we had a hard winter, but I do wonder how much of an effect the volcano had.
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I put in a small strawberry bed this spring -- everbearers. And it was a particularly bad year for berries this year in these parts. But, like gardeners everywhere, I'm hoping for a better year next year.
Do I need to do anything this fall to put the berry plants to bed for the winter?
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...I've been harvesting some really outstanding scarlet runner beans, and am definitely planting them on proper poles next year...
We still have more than we can pick, though the flavour isn't as good as earlier in the season.
We use a length of "re-mesh", a wire grid material designed for reinforcing concrete. Laying on the long edge and secured to some T-posts (with bamboo extensions) it provides an excellent and sturdy frame for climbing plants such as beans, peas and cucumbers. You might be able to scrounge a piece as construction scrap. We've also used "cattle panels", which are sold in individual sections and may be more convenient. Check with your farm supply store.
Years ago when our garden was at its peak we used two old swing-set frames with re-mesh leaning against them. That allowed us to walk inside and pick the beans hanging down from the sloping sides.
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I'm still picking runner (and french) beans, and courgettes. They are still flowering, too, but with frost a strong possibility for tonight I may have reached the end of those crops.
I grow my beans up pairs of bamboo poles, tied together at the top, (usually about 5 pairs) and then two canes running along the top in the intersections, tying all the pairs of canes together. I then try to tie the ends of the row to something more substantial, like a nearby tree, or fence post, having had fierce autumn winds take the whole row down in the past
I'm still trying to find a way to keep the bean crop within my reach, as I'm quite short and often end up breaking the vines while trying to pull down the best beans, which always grow above the tops of the poles. A tunnel would be good, but difficult to move in a crop rotation system.
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We always pollenate courgettes (zucchini) by hand, it's a job every morning when they are flowering. We've noticed that you tend to get more male flowers when it's a bit cool and more females when it's warmer.
Years ago, my mother heard something on the radio about courgettes liking being planted on upturned turves. We've tried it for the last few years and had really good results.
But just about everything was really late this year, I don't think we got one tomato until September and barely any runner beans either.
Still, we've only just finished picking them and seem to have plenty in the freezer for winter.
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Inspired by all the fallen apples in neighbouring allotments I thought I'd see how I get on making cider. So yesterday I collected a few big buckets full of windfalls of 4 or 5 varieties - with approval so I wasn't scrump(y)ing . According to John Seymour's Self Sufficient Gardener I don't need loads of expensive equipment - as long as the apples are mashed up it is possible to replace the apple press with boiling water and time. I'll try out the garden shredder for the mashing up process, once I've worked out how to clean it first. According to the book I could be sampling my first cider in 4 weeks - hic.
I also found a couple of small buckets of decent quality apples so I'll be working my way through those in the kitchen - I found a nice Apple Streusel recipe that is nice with or without the streusel topping.
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Does anyone know if there's such a thing as a fine-leaved ivy with golden yellow flowers? I'm translating a book which describes this plant, but the author isn't always too hot on the details, and I'm wondering if she just means a climber. It's supposed to be in full bloom in mid August. Thanks! It doesn't matter really, as it's not essential to the text, but I like to check these things out.
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We're moving back down south at the beginning of December. Will it be too late to plant cheerful bulbs for spring?
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Any poinsettia experts around here? I transplanted my largest one to a covered raised flower bed in the spring, as I always do. It flourished, as always, and is as big as a bush now. The brackets are starting to turn red, so I'd love to reuse it this year, something that I haven't ever done before.
Can I repot it? Do I need to get it in before it gets too cold (which is apparently going to be tonight -- high 20s)? Should I keep it in the workshop a few more weeks before I bring it in the house? Has anyone ever "recycled" a poinsettia before?
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Are houseplants aloowed on this thread - because I would like to show off my orchids.
They are all over three years old and flower regularly - they are allowed on to this windowsill once they get new buds.
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Oooh, pretty, Boogie!
Grits, I don't think your poinsettia will survive too cold weather. I'm not sure about digging it back up, but it surely would be better than leaving it to its fate in the cold?
Of course, you could do the old Christmas light trick. Cover it with strings of mini lights and the heat will keep frost off, especially if you can make a tent for it.
Have you tried rooting some cuttings from it for new plants? (Root grow can help.)
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Grits, GET IT IN THE HOUSE NOW! That sucker is native to Mexico, it really doesn't like frost. Get it inside, but put it in a bedroom where it will get the natural day and night schedule and not be surprised by artificial light at night. That apparently puts it off turning red.
How awesome, to have one with a chance of going again!
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Any poinsettia experts around here? I transplanted my largest one to a covered raised flower bed in the spring, as I always do. It flourished, as always, and is as big as a bush now. The brackets are starting to turn red, so I'd love to reuse it this year, something that I haven't ever done before.
Can I repot it? Do I need to get it in before it gets too cold (which is apparently going to be tonight -- high 20s)? Should I keep it in the workshop a few more weeks before I bring it in the house? Has anyone ever "recycled" a poinsettia before?
Hello Grits,
Not sure that I'm a poinsettia expert, and in England I have never had any luck recycling them, BUT when we lived in Tanzania, more or less on the equator, we had poinsettias the size of small trees flourishing in the garden with no problem. The secret was said there to be 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness (though I'm sure the high heat and humidity helped as well). Could you manage to rig up some kind of lighting system that would give equal days and nights?
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Beautiful orchids Boogie. We bought my mother-in-law an orchid a couple of years ago, and she it has recently had 40 flowers on it.
She treats all her houseplants in exactly the same way (same position in the house, watered once a week whether it's wet or dry, dead flowers/leaves removed immediately), so I think we have just hit on the plant that suits the treatment it is going to get at her hands!
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daisymay
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Are houseplants aloowed on this thread - because I would like to show off my orchids.
They are all over three years old and flower regularly - they are allowed on to this windowsill once they get new buds.
Lovely pictures, and it's good to hear that you've managed to keep them blossoming for several years; I've just been given a present of one and I'm worried about helping it to continue to survive!
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Roseofsharon
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Originally posted by Emma Louise:
We're moving back down south at the beginning of December. Will it be too late to plant cheerful bulbs for spring?
Emma Louise, I think you should be able to get away with that, but won't you be a bit too busy with other things for the first week or two?
In your position I would get the bulbs now, and plant them in largish pots (ordinary flower pots with drainage, not bulb bowls for indoors). keep them outside, but protect them from freezing, and when you have moved house dig holes in your new garden and bury them, pot and all.
You can dig them up again after they have flowered, and replant, minus the pots, next year when you will have a better idea where you want them.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Emma Louise:
We're moving back down south at the beginning of December. Will it be too late to plant cheerful bulbs for spring?
I'm just in from putting in some more daffodils for the Spring. My earthly reward was to find a spray of good-looking buds on one of the roses. Ergo, it is still (just) growing season.
If there haven't been any really hard frosts by the time you move, I'd go for it.
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Emma Louise
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Excellent. I love daffs and am aware I won't have time to really think about the garden but if I could just pop some bulbs in it would cheer me up in spring!
We don't have a garden at all in the flat we're in now hence the excitement to get "something" in the new one!
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Boogie
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Originally posted by daisymay:
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Originally posted by Boogie:
Are houseplants aloowed on this thread - because I would like to show off my orchids.
Lovely pictures, and it's good to hear that you've managed to keep them blossoming for several years; I've just been given a present of one and I'm worried about helping it to continue to survive!
They thrive on neglect. Too much water and all the flowers drop off.
They like a bright (not sunny) warm windowledge. I 'tickle' their aeriel roots with a little water every other day, and give them a good watering once a fortnight with a little orchid food added (letting the water drain through)
Never re-pot unless they have babies - which some of mine have done
When they are not in bloom I put them on the spare room windowledge - thier reward for producing new buds is a place the windowsill shown in the photo.
They know this of course - and compete to be first there.
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