Wallflowers.

Excellent idea, will try and buy some on our trip to UK later on this month- hope I can find some.

That is the only thing puzzling me Granjura , I have made a few phone calls and no-one seems to have them in stock yet.

Perhaps Monty has a secret supplier !!! laugh !!

I thought he was just splitting them and moving them around? I sprinkled some wallflower seed [along with foxgloves in the shady area]around my garden earlier this year in the hope that they would grow next year, I used to have lots of them in the front garden years ago so am hoping they'll take off again. The sedums I planted last year are just started to colour up and the monbretia is coming through. Can't believe that, come Octobe,r I can devote whole days to the garden instead of rushing to get everything done at the weekend .

They're bennials though, Tegan, so they won't flower until the spring after next.

You may well be right Tegan , maybe that is what he was doing and my friend didn't notice !

Perhaps she had been on the Champers !!!!!!!!!!!!& didn't tell me ---little scamp !!!

I did think that, Ana, but thought Monty said something about next year which confused me . Oh well, I'll have forgotten in two years [probably forget in the next two seconds my memory being what it is] so it'll be a pleasant surprise if/when they flower! Watch out for me coming on here saying 'guess what, guys, have got wallflowers all over me garden..blow me if I know where they came from' and you'll all be saying 'poor Tegan, we could see it coming'...

(Although we'll have forgotten by then, too, so will be able to share your mystification!)

Has anyone tried Monty's stinging nettle fertiliser recipe? Going to cut some down this afternoon and give it a go [although it's supposed to smell foul; but maybe I could then pour it into the compost bin to get rid of the rats ].

You might end up with super-huge rats!

Super huge rats that stink!

Heavy rain has killed off the flowers on my heliotrope plants so I thought I'd try dead heading them [have never bothered in the past as they seem to grow quite happily with no intervention right through till the heavy frosts]. Found my skin itching a bit so googled it and read that it's exteremely toxic to livestock and dogs [if they ingest a lot of it]. I know a lot of plants are poisonous to pets but it was a bit of a shock to read this as I have some just outside the front door and my dog has a habit of grabbing leaves off any passing plants. I had bamboo there before but moved it as I read it was poisonous to dogs . My doctor told me they have no end of people turning up at the surgery because of cutting back ivy [I always wear gloves for that] but never thought of dead heading flowers causing a problem.

Crikey Tegan, I do know though I have a habit of just nipping the heads off various flowers with my nails .

About 3-4 years ago I developed a fungal infection for which the Doc. prescribed Caneston , so stopped doing that now and use scissors .

I do the comfrey in a bucket fertiliser every year. Smells terrible but works well on tomatoes. Free as well.

Hells bells Tegan I didn't know that bamboo was poisonous to pets. I have some in a large pot at the moment, greyhound height argghh I must move it.

I have tried to grow wallflowers but I buy from a nursery who plants them in a blue basket but has now closed The ones you buy in bunches are sometimes dried out

It's only the berries that are poisonous, Sook and they don't appear very often. If you look up poisonous plants nearly everything we grow in our gardens seem to be poisonous to our pets. The problem with whippety things is they seem prone to taking a mouthfull of anything they pass [while turning their noses up at the dog food in their food bowls].

davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/499

davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/499

Darn; can't get it to work. Worth a read if possible, though [quite funny as well].

An interesting and amusing article Tegan. He hasn't got your average British garden though has he?
Soon after we moved abroad I was banned from having a bougainvillaea after DH had been attacked by one when pruning it for a friend.(they've got vicious spikes.) I've always known dogs haven't got much sense. A friend's labs regularly hoover up all her dropped figs in the autumn with dire consequences.
It does explain why passing sheep make a beeline for my morning glory though.