Gran/Grandads Gardening Corner

Thanks Jalima Shysal I will check out Jasmines

I bought one of these Jasmines the other day, pink flowers. It arrived today, only a small plant but it is sprouting and should grow 4ft and flower this year.
Pink Jasmine Stepanense

A Jasmine? ninathenana (summer flowering which are the ones that are more perfumed I think).

We took down an old summer house yesterday. It was hard work and sadly it is not reusable so we will be getting a new shed. In the space left by the summer house I'm having a greenhouse! Not a glass one but a walk-in plastic one and I'm keen to grow flowers to cut for the house. So far I've bought pot marigold seeds, dwarf sunflower seeds, sweet peas and something called Sultan Mix, a sort of fluffy daisy which is said to be good for cutting. I don't have much garden space (we're mostly grass and bushes as our soil is terrible because it used to be a farmyard) so I'd better limit myself to that but those seed packets are so tempting.

Any suggestions please other than a clematis (much as I love them) for a flowering climbing container plant for a sunny patio. The container has a 3'x2' trellis attached.

No, not Prime customers! strange isn't it?

Mine is coming from Longacres too! Perhaps you are a Prime customer, which I am not. I think we live in roughly the same area, so would have expected delivery on the same run.

Ordered through Amazon, supplier was Longacres Garden Centre, they certainly were speedy!

My moss killer is due on Monday 20th. Perhaps we chose different suppliers. The spreader came yesterday so have assembled it. It has several flow rates but doesn't tell me how much per square metre. There is a chart on the body of it with German brands only. I shall have to choose a medium setting and hope for the best.

Ordered another plant today, a pink Jasmine to grow against a new fence put up by next door, beside the patio. Had to chop down the Euonymus and ornamental Ivy which were probably what pulled the old fence over!

What a lovely garden Shysal I see you have all kinds of shrubs in there.

The moss killer you recommended has arrived Shysal so will be spreading that around pretty soon.

Gorgeous, roses, and not a weed in sight, unlike mine!

J52, what a good idea. I hate my neighbour's partially brown Leylandii. It already has plants growing through it, but they are brambles and ivy! She doesn't do anything to it at all. I trim my side, but can't reach the top even with my extending hedge cutter, and can't manage a ladder on my steep sloping garden.

Leylandii*

Lovely photo, encapsulates spring.

I'm wondering whether to plant a honeysuckle to climb through Lleylandi hedge. It belongs to our neighbour!
I could always claim that a bird must have dropped it!

Some of our crocus bulbs came up better than others, but nice colour anyway.

Just checked 12.59 on 16th March.

Chicken ban not lifted yet. Think it's midnight on March 15th or 16th.

Giving my garden a tidy up, sown my first tomatao and lettuce seeds along with some annuals - pot marigolds (I make moisturising cream with the flower heads) - in the greenhouse. I think I've run out of cucumber seeds - must check.

I love growing for the pleasure of seeing those first tiny seed leaves appear.

I need to go through two boxes heaving with packets of seeds - maybe I'll do that today!

Otherwise we will get black patches. I will ask the main gardener ( him indoors) to measure it out carefully.

Thanks for the chicken info J52.
Lucky you getting a greenhouse! I wish I had room for one. The only levelish part of my garden has a clause in the deeds forbidding an 'erection'.

roses, I ordered 20Kg of the lawn stuff too. Let us hope it does the trick. I think the secret is not to be over generous with it.

Thanks shysal I have just ordered the 20k pack after looking at this on Amazon, crossing fingers that it works. although it's pricey, if it does work well it will be money well spent.

Lovely hydrangea shysal and I will say that hydrangeas, either in the garden or pots seem very easy to grow and do well, so worth the expense.

Bird flu, all poultry was to be kept indoors for 30 days, that's over, but some areas must still adhere. It makes free range chickens turn into barn chickens!

Lovely spring day today. I did some more planting of the poor herbaceous plants that were moved in pots. I felt I was letting them out of jail!

Then greenhouse viewing in the afternoon! So excited I've not had one before!

Chicken ban? What's that all about?

Thank you for your reassurances Roses -,kept going outside and peering at it!!

Just spent all morning clearing up the garden after the winter. Can't wait for the chicken ban to be lifted in a couple of days as they're great at scrattinh up the weeds.