Does anyone know anything about gardening?

And me!

good source of cheap large pots:

https://www.plasticboxshop.co.uk/home-storage-c1/pack-of-2-50cm-vista-large-round-plastic-plant-pot-p1355

I bought a couple for two apple trees I'm going to get this autumn to grow on the patio.

How do they look irl?

Thanks!

Don’t suppose anyone in SE can lend me a hedge trimmer please? I have inherited one, but it’ll be months till I can get it and I need to do something fairly soon!

TIA.

Any idea what these are? They’ve sprung up in our front garden. I now need more

Invisibilis Nopictura?

Have wanted a Peony for a while so finally took delivery of one this week. Karl Rosenfield. One of the OG varieties. Question is, keep in pot till spring or get in now?

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Bring it in.

If it’s a full on tuber I’d take the tuber out wrap it in news paper or put it in a tub with saw dust.

If it’s just a new plant I’ve no idea

Why this advice? I presume they meant 'get it planted in the ground' not 'get it inside'. Peonies are fully hardy and don't need to be dug up and stored like dahlias.

My bad. I’m thinking of dahlias

Don't think the soil is too cold to plant out. If memory serves they are a bit picky about how deep you plant them and what you plant them in.

Plant out, just don't plant too deep.

Finally went to Balham to collect the Climbing Hydrangea from my landscape Gardner mate who had it left over from a job.
Took the tube down with a large blue IKEA bag expecting to be able to go back the same way however it was twice as large as the bag so need to get a car back!
Hydrangea anomala Petiolaris. Should have some nice white flowers.

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Do they do one with pink flowers?

Anyone want some free bamboo? It's in a tub to stop it spreading - I cut it down and dug the tub up as we didn't want it where it was, but it's sprouting again! So could be dropped in place and will grow (it's pretty vigorous)

Seems to be a few that do!

My 26 plants have arrived! Quite surprised how small 26 bare root plants could be. I’ve got the majority in already with a scoop of mycorrhyzal on the roots. Just the alder buckthorn to go.

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I believe that the colour of a hydrangea's flowers is down to the ph value of the soil it's growing in, so to get pink you need a more alkaline soil.

I'm pretty sure the ph value of the soil only changes a blue plant pink and vice versa. White Hydrangeas always gonna be white.

Racists.

I deign to your superior knowledge.

Lolz :)

Yep, bare rooted trees/whips have hardly any volume. Let's hope the myco helps them swiftly establish.

Are you meant to cut the tops off after planting?

On hydrangea I've cuttings growing that are of the old school colour change type, can post barerooted if anyone wants one :)