well gee thanks Norma. There you go giving us permission to get out a thick book and settle down with our backs to the garden views, and then you go giving us...
In mid-summer, I was given three cuttings from a long-coveted rose. A mad time to take cuttings of roses, I know, but I never turn down an opportunity. Well,...
for slaving monthly over a hot key-board for us all. You deserve a big round of applause.......##########. (Now you can get out and attend to those pesky piles...
Well, three cuttings have florished. I put them in a pot in a warm, sunny place and they quite quickly sent out nice, healthy shoots. Roses can be like weeds...
OK, Pip, I will try this. I know what you mean by "roses are jolly hard to kill" I have one of those rampant roses that covers everything for miles and am...
Not Roses Lime juice. Hope everyone has pruned their roses like me. Don't I feel so good. I have also moved ALL the roses I have to a more suitable site where ...
Well I too am feeling very virtuous after pruning 300 roses and spraying them. I have another 50 to do tomorrow for a client but am putting off doing my own....
Bit early down here to prune the roses, I usually do mine later in August, when hopefully the heaviest frosts have been and gone. But don't remind me, tis a...
Bit early down here to prune the roses, I usually do mine later in August, Yes, do mine August here...still need to cut down my perenials..hope to have it done...
In yesterdays Christchurch Star, it says that the Botanical Gardens have just pruned all their roses, and it is time to do it now. But I am sure I usually do...
Hi all. Usually I prune early to mid August, just before I calulate the buds are going to break, but this year, the weather is so odd that the buds are...
Hi Mutzi, I did mine earlier than usual here, usually they're done during the 3rd week of July. But I am trying to encourage them to be flowering, not just in...
My neighbour are saying my plants should adapt wheels as I move them around every year. Olwen have finaly planted the gooseberry you sent me, it was not an...
Hi, y'all. I'm a new person here (in every sense; I'm also a recent transplant to NZ). I'm starting a garden at my new house in the Palmerston North area, and...
LOLOL Andrew....can't wait to see him?/her? in the flesh...so to speak. And that rain; while it is nice to have moist soil, the Garden Gods aren't allowing us...
Hi Fran, wecome to the club. It's nice to see a new face posting here. Where are you "up-rooted" from? Figs will grow to about 10 metres eventually, but they...
Hi, and thanks for the welcome. I was "uprooted" (grin) from the US a few months ago, and am greatly enjoying the NZ soil. Thanks for the fig info. I'll...
Fran wrote... ... Welcome to the Manawatu. I'm also in Palmerston North as are one or two other regulars here. Let me know if there is anything I can help...
... Thanks! We're in Opiki, and I'm working at Massey; we came from Indiana (the midwest, i.e. the boring bit of the US). ... We've also got some camellias to...
Fran said... ... I know the area. I grew up i n Longburn. ... I work across the road at FONTERRA RESEARCH, previously known as the NZDRI. ... Ah. Never been...
... wrote: Hi there, a good variety of fig is Brown Turkey, we have it and it has produced lovely fruit at two years. There are a range of other varieties...
Hi Fran. I tried growing a lavender hedge and planted heaps of different lavenders ... Oh what a disaster. some grew tall some grew wide and some sprawled. I...
Hey Norma its here all you got to do is find it rofl. Easy she said, just follow instructions will 4 hours later and its in here somewhere lolol. Were getting...
Does anyone have a few seeds of this to spare. I don't want to buy a whole packet and last year I didn't find any decent plants for sale. I have most other...
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