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What' growing on your windowsill?

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yogagran Tue 05-Jun-12 13:20:05

nanaej just pull off the brown leaves, the flowers should flourish. They do better if there are not too many leaves anyway, you want the goodness to go I to the flowers not the leaves. I keep pulling off the larger outside leaves of mine and they seem to flower for ages

Anagram Tue 05-Jun-12 12:33:41

Slugs?

j04 Tue 05-Jun-12 12:27:43

My Cosmos have now gone into my garden. And mostly disappeared.

Ella46 Tue 05-Jun-12 12:23:47

Well done Butty that must have made you very happy. You worked so hard to make it a success, and I'm sure the guests will remember it with a smile on their faces smile
Congratulations to you and your son and his new wife. sunshine

Butternut Tue 05-Jun-12 11:47:51

Jess - leggy courgettes need to get planted out now. I've grown some in a growbag in Uk very successfully. Not more than two to a bag , water, water, water and feed regularly. Cut off the larger leaves once the plant matures. They can go a bit mouldy otherwise.

The wedding was brilliant! Great party of all ages, the sun shone from a blue sky, my son and his wife looked fab. and the food was good, too. (Importantly, NO FLIES, which was something that was concerning me - it being all so rural here). It has gone a long way in providing roots for me in this foreign land, and for my son in America, too. He said it 'smelt' like home. smile

crimson Tue 05-Jun-12 11:35:54

Lots of little Aloe Vera plants [I think they're called 'pups' ]that have, unfortunately died. I bought a job lot of aloe vera's at a village fete last year and thought I'd set up a little cottage industry [they're not cheap to buy from garden centres]. Drawing board back to, methinks. Never did have green fingers sad....

Ella46 Tue 05-Jun-12 11:15:47

Basil, Christmas cactus just finished flowering, three miniature cacti and a kalanchoe (sp?).
Oh, and dust! blush

glammanana Tue 05-Jun-12 11:03:24

Christmas cactus still in bud it keeps promising to flower but then has second thoughts it still looks good and healthy though,mr.g. has a strawberry plant bought for his birthday at beginning of May and it needs to be replanted at the end of June,a mixed pot of herbs that give out a nice fragrance to the kitchen.

absentgrana Tue 05-Jun-12 10:40:55

Basil. The other herbs are outside.

nanaej Tue 05-Jun-12 10:37:29

African Violet in flower but with several brown leaves! A lily of some sort my aunt gave me ..she says it will flower next year! A M&S orchid..no flowers and a small succulent with oval 'leaves'..growing well not sure if/when it will flower!

JessM Tue 05-Jun-12 09:57:01

I've got a rather nice succulent from Ikea that looks like a mass of little trumpets.
Some basil seedlings. Growing very slowly. They like sun.
A pot of easy to grow salad leaves (an experiment)
Six leggy courgette seedlings - when should I plant them out? Any advice re growing courgettes in grow bags?
What's on yours?