Gardening

Do any of you guys ever do any? I quite like and I just wondered who else on here did.

I love it!!........ ...I do lots of it when I can!!..........

Really?

Yes really!!........ ....I want a hot tub in my garden as well actually!!.....I like being close to nature!!........

You do surprise me Tell me about your garden then.

What...like... how does my garden grow...with silver bells.....blah blah.and all that!!.......

Well...it's quite big and I like hardy shrubs!!....I have lotsa hydrangeas....and magnolias!....I have hanging baskets with ivy......fern..and yellow sunflowers!!...........I also have potted cordylines.......and yukka tips!!..... ....enuff??

I have a very large balcony... but it's like a minature garden.. I love it !!

Hi Poca.......... ....What do you grow!!......

Hi Jez... I have shrubs and palms in tubs mainly... all evergreens, so looks nice all year round !

It looks a bit like a jungle tbh

Still manage to fit 2 sunloungers, table, patio heater and BBQ on it too tho' ...

Can't do gardening anymore..... well, not after the police had a look round

Seriously, I'm not green fingered really. I'm all for a BBQ or pool party but the most actual gardening I would do is picking up the phone & calling someone to do it for me.

Hey that's lovely Poca...I love shrubs too......coz they stay green...mostly!!... .........it must be huge!!........ ...I got a nice patio area........but it's got little pebbles and the cats think it's a giant litter tray!!.........grr

Hi NR... .....that sound cool to me dude!!......

Hi Ty..... ....Cordylines stay nice in winter...and you can get them in a nice purple........or green with red lines through the middle!!.............

Not bad but what’s with the Hydrangeas and Magnolias?? You’re not an old lady are you? Hydrangeas are for old biddies and Magnolias only flowers for ten minutes every year. The baskets sound good though, are your sunflowers still going?

Tytonidae wrote:Is there anything colourful for the winter, that will do well in some large pots?

Yes Ty, I would go with something like Japanese anenomes and Tricyrtis (just coming into flower now) and fill out with bedding plants like miniature cyclamen, pansies, dianthus, violas, even late flowering Chrysants. There is also a variety of Antirhinum that will flower through til Christmas called ‘La Bella’ which will be available around about now.

No I'm not an old lady Lily.... ......we get them free from work after a big ......event.....at work...and they are so colourful...coz I got pink ones...blue ones...purple!!.........and the magnolias have wonderful flowers..but look nice without flowers too!!.....

I've got a secret about my sunflowers!!.....a-hem!!......

Ty....yes they are easy to get!!....and can look quite ...tropical!!.......

They can also look a bit tacky when shoved into a graveled garden! Of course that's only usually the Australis variety.

Mine are purple...and I keep them on my Patio Area in pots...with very green Yukka tips!!............ ....they look lovely!!..............

I only dislike them in the way that are used near my house. It’s a new development area and all the gardens have been designed to be low maintenance. Gravel and Cordylines, real class

That's ok Lily!!............ ........so you like mine then!!...... .....

Only if you tell me what you've done to the sunflowers

...I thought you'd forgotton about them!!

They're plastci aren't they?

Loooooooooooooooser

Look......I didn't have any planting room in the soil!!.. ..and there was too much green!!...... ...and no-body knows!!............ ..not even the bees!!.........

You are soooo busted!